Surrey Homes | SH41 | March 2018 | Fashion supplement inside

Above: The dining area, just off the kitchen, is surrounded by windows. They bench is vintage Swedish, the metal chairs are vintage
French café ones and the table is a classic French farmhouse gem. Such unique items in Atlanta and Dave’s signature style are available
from their shop
“We like to repair broken things,” says furniture designer
Dave. “When you repair something, you become a part
of the story, the history that lives on in the piece.”
Together they design new pieces, such as the two
chairs in the front window which are part of the Coast
Collection at Pale & Interesting, and also made a little
table next to the chairs with a mirror for a top.
Many more mirrors can be found on the cabin
walls. Mirrors, it appears, are important in their
styling, but not for traditional reasons.
“Someone once said to me you must be extremely
vain,” laughs Atlanta, “because I have so many mirrors
at home, but I never look in them. Mirrors do other
things. They reflect light back, they can double the size
of a room and set up vistas and other view points, so
that there’s always something different to look at.”
Another misconception about Atlanta and Dave’s
style is that white is hard to live with.
“It’s something we get asked but white is easy. It wipes
down or washes. The linen throws go straight in the
washing machine.”
Atlanta has lots of such tips that can be applied to all
interiors and ought really to become mantras for
modern living.
“I never put a cushion on a sofa that can’t go in the
washing machine.”
It turns out that cushion covers can be made from the most
unlikely materials too. Those in the cabin are made from an
assortment of things, from mattress ticking and linen sheets,
through to Turkish carpets and hessian sacking. All the
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