Surrey Homes | SH22 | August 2016 | Wedding supplement inside

Above: Jane’s stunning mirrored dressing table set the tone for the decoration for the whole of the master bedroom, which combines
cool simplicity with golden era Hollywood-style glamour. This was Nathan’s inspiration for the bedside tables seen on the previous page
lights from a Czech factory. The cosy dining area sits
beneath a pretty arched window, a contemporary B&B
Italia table surrounded by antique rosewood chairs.
On the way down the hallway to the former littleused
dining room is what was, when Jane and Chris first
moved in, the kitchen. Today it’s a little womb of a media
room with American black walnut shelving, a big TV
screen and a wonderfully comfy fuchsia chenille sofa.
The former dining room has become a new genre that
until now has not really existed in the lexicon of domestic
rooms. The only way to describe it is as the Whatever Room,
in that it becomes whatever Jane or Chris want it to be at
any given moment in time. It might be a room where one
curls up quietly with book or iPad, the sunshine pouring
through French windows. It might be a Chris’ gym, Jane’s
yoga space, a formal dining room, an informal party room.
Jane and Chris are passionate and accomplished cyclists
and so rather than hide away their really rather special bikes
in some dank shed, they have hung them on the Whatever
Room walls, displaying them like pieces of mechanical art,
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