Surrey Homes | SH37 | November 2017 | Gift supplement inside

This page: When Ben and Sammy moved in, they removed the
carpets and sanded the floorboards
like old toys, as much for the colours as for the objects in
themselves.” On one wall is a vintage chocolate dispensing
machine. “We bought that – together with a soap and towel
machine – at a pop up antique shop in a Turkish night
club. It was great, we went a few times, and then one day
it had all vanished.” This all sounds rather Harry Potter.
The Mushroom House itself sits in a corner at the bottom
of the garden, slightly overhanging a little stream. “Initially
there was just a little door downstairs, but we realised
that no adult would want to come in this way, so I put in
another entrance straight into the upstairs section,” says Ben.
“I’ve had the little gothic door for ages that came from an
Arthur Swallows fair at Loseley Park and I guess it’s inspired
part of the Mushroom House. It fits the theme well.”
In the ‘stalk’ of the mushroom there’s an ingenious
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