Surrey Homes | SH62 | December 2019 | Guide to Christmas supplement inside

With their lifelong love of design
and architecture, Toby and Megan
Osborne have restored a down-at-heel
guest house to its stately elegance
This page: A contemporary dining table jostles comfortably
with an eclectic mix of secondhand dining chairs, all
Ebay finds. A sideboard was sourced from Oka
After enjoying an early morning coffee in the
picturesque country town of Cranbrook, I
can wholeheartedly understand why creative
couple, Toby and Megan, were attracted down
to this beautiful area. For any young family, the
heady cocktail of rolling scenery, wide skies, fresh
air and gorgeous villages is difficult to resist.
However, having been used to the generous Victorian
proportions of South London, their challenge was to
find a home that not only provided all the benefits of
the countryside, but also accommodated their desire
for spacious rooms, high ceilings and large windows.
When an unusually tall building came onto the market,
they were ready to pounce. This imposing Edwardian
house had originally been built as a pub after an
Elizabethan coaching inn on the site had burned down in
the early 1900s. Set comfortably in a generous courtyard
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