Surrey Homes | SH31 | May 2017 |Restoration & New Build supplement inside

style is very much the minimal, crafted wooden kitchen
one sees today, with dark-coloured panels and polished slate
surfaces contrasting with lighter wooden frames. “I suppose
I’d call the panels ‘tobacco’,” says Trudi. Either way, it’s
effortlessly stylish. Water for tea is boiled in a spectacular
kettle – the likes of which I’ve never seen before. “It was
Guy’s grandmother’s, so it’s really old. God help us if it ever
blows up! ” It resembles a classic, metal hob-top kettle which,
apparently, is exactly what it is – or what it once was.
On a shelf, above potted herbs and large, pretty jars
containing pasta and other ingredients, is a huge egg under
a Victorian-style glass dome. “That’s from travels in South
Africa. We first went there when Guy and I got married
and then we went back again the next year, we loved it so
much.” Other ‘finds’ from their travels include the ornate
and varied handles – including leaves and pebbles – on
each of the kitchen cupboards: “The handles all came
from different trips down to Cornwall. We spend a lot
of time down in Padstow as Guy’s mother Penny used to
live there. You just pick things up when you see them,
don’t you?” Trudi clearly has a natural ability to spot
This page: In the bathroom, Trudi has hung glass fragments
in the window and created a mock aquarium using salvaged
glass, crystal and a little hand-made wire and pebble fish. The
off-white tiles are from Fired Earth – a more classic version of
Metro tiles, but crackle glazed
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