Surrey Homes | SH60 | October 2019 | Kitchen & Bathroom supplement inside

Left: A family bathroom features a roll-top bath and Fired
Earth encaustic floor tiles Below: In the master bedroom
en suite, lengths of oak worktop have been used to support
two basins, each with its own circular gold mirror above
hallways and landings all converse with one another,
allowing the house to open up and flow from one zone to
the next. The sitting room, the entrance hall, the open plan
kitchen, the downstairs loo, the utility and office space all
make the most of the available space. Anna Marie has also
used clever techniques she learnt developing properties back
in Perth: stripping back the floorboards, using light coloured
linens and airy fabrics, keeping pattern to a minimum and
instead opting for texture across jute and cotton rugs and
accessories. Throughout the house Anna Marie has featured
both clear glass and woven light fittings, allowing light
where possible. One of the most impressive features within
the new extension is, of course, the large sliding glass doors
by Maxlight that throw the south facing light of the garden
straight back into the house, drenching the kitchen, dining
and living area with a huge dose of sunshine and air.
We are standing in Anna Marie’s kitchen, of which she
is rightly very proud. As I am quickly discovering, she is
the queen of secondhand! “I found this kitchen on eBay.
It’s Mark Wilkinson, worth £100k. We had to drive to
Maidenhead and take it apart to move it, I then had to
reconfigure it to fit our house,” she says proudly. And
she has every right to be as the effect is magnificent: a
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