Surrey Homes | SH46 | August 2018 | Wedding supplement inside

This page: A change of colour scheme
in the work room, with green painted
furniture from Sasha’s Utility collection
about making something as I want it. But if something
is of superior quality the way it is, I will leave it as is.”
She points, laughing, to a second ornate mirror – this one
antique brass – as proof.
The living room is packed full of books and intriguing
ornaments including a 1930s Viennese sculpture, Swedish
miniature furniture, little display boxes (made by Sasha),
antique Dutch Maastricht dishes (which Sasha found
in Sri Lanka) and some exquisite blue and white china
bowls which she explains are Spanish monk’s bowls.
“I found hundreds of them in a shop in the US, and I
bought them all. I sold some in my shop and kept the rest.”
What’s interesting is that although the look is simple, it isn’t
minimalist. Sasha isn’t afraid to show the decorative or the
personal, for example a framed birthday card and hats made
by her milliner friend Brian Harris (who used to design hats
for fashion designer Zandra Rhodes), displayed on the wall.
The same juxtaposition of clean white and interesting
objects is visible in the kitchen where three rows of
chunky shelving set against plain white brick tiles are
used to display more brightly coloured collections of
antique pottery gleaned from her global travels.
Sasha’s designer’s eye is clear again in how the different
collections are artfully grouped together in little mini displays.
A cluster of fruit bowls sits on a small table, covered with a
gorgeous blue and white paisley tablecloth by Room 100.
Doors open onto a little suntrap courtyard garden, with
a painted chair and table covered with another paisley
tablecloth, this one a zesty lime green, perfectly set against the
greenery of lavender in vintage pots. Even the storage shed
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