Surrey Homes | SH61 | November 2019 | Gift supplement inside

Above: At the top of the house one of the bedrooms was updated with an African theme. Walls are painted in
Farrow & Ball’s warm fawn Mouse’s Back, the padded headboard is in an Andrew Martin striped fabric, and
mismatching chests of drawers on either side of the bed provide storage and essential bedside table space
that’s lying across the bed.
“My brief is to create a bedroom you dream of
coming home to so I will start with the floor plan,
moving some of the furniture around…”
A door from the bedroom takes us through to the
bathroom, which Ally has already completed in a lovely
pale blue, with double basins and a claw-foot bath
right in front of the window. From here another door
leads through to the dressing room/study belonging
to the man of the house, with yet another door
taking us out onto the landing where we started.
Proceeding down the next flight of this staircase we arrive
in the hall of the Georgian wing, which would have been the
formal entrance in times gone by. To our left is the panelled
dining room painted a simply stunning bright orange.
The square room is brilliantly set off by an octagonal
dining table, around which are dining chairs upholstered
with bright Peruvian rugs. Ally found them and ordered
them for the house without even showing the owners
first – she knew they would love them and they do.
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