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Above: Ben sourced the Mushroom House’s quirky windows from salvage fairs. He found the stained glass window at a car boot sale to use,” Ben explains. “I used four big oak sleepers to make the frame and keep it steady and strong, then I constructed an oak frame for the top floor with treated softwood and cedar too. The roof and walls are clad in cedar tiles.” The Mushroom House couldn’t be built all in one go, so had to be completed in stages, when time and resources allowed. Ben remembers: “Elsie would come home from school each time with a smile on her face asking to help.” They got a bit carried away with some of the ideas, so the original £500 didn’t go very far. The building extends out over a small river and so Ben has installed a window in the floor, so that you can look down into the water. It is Elsie’s continued inspiration and interest that not only got the project off the ground, but launched into the stratosphere. “We were watching George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces one day,” says Ben. “Elsie said; ‘Dad, do you think we could get the Mushroom House on? We had to send designs and plans – not that I had any!” He laughs, “So we sent pictures. They said, ‘we love it! It’s perfect for Shed of the Year’. And then the pressure was really on.” “In the end they gave us some more time,” Ben says, “and we were the last to be photographed, which helped.” Last, but patently not the least. Since winning, the mushroom shed has had lots of media attention. “It’s been all over the place, national newspapers, BBC Radio 2, even on the ITV news. Who knows where it will lead… Last year’s winner now makes sheds for other people and has brought out a book. You just don’t know what will happen from this.” Ben is hoping that winning the title will help to launch a business making bespoke garden buildings. “It would be great,” he says, “I’ve really enjoyed making the Mushroom House and I’d love to do some other projects.” Although not trained in design, Ben’s creative flair must have something to do with the fact his great uncle was Thomas Cooper Gotch, an English Pre-Raphaelite painter and book illustrator. Elsie and her older brother Sebastian are also good at art. “I’ve definitely inherited the ‘quirky junk shop finds’ side of things from my mother. I love going round junk yards, looking on Ebay, finding things.” The vintage inspired, quirky look is not just confined to Ben’s award-winning shed, however. It turns out that the interior of their house in the pretty village of Chiddingfold is just as unique. surrey-homes.co.uk 56
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