Surrey Homes | SH63 | January 2020 | Travel & Wellbeing supplement inside

This page: The decor in the master bedroom takes full
advantage of the natural sunlight. The dressing table has
been repurposed from a desk using Annie Sloane paint
books, stacked with their paper edges, not the spines, outwards.
This room has the same Scandinavian feel as the drawing
room with Edwardian dining chairs painted to great effect.
The wooden bench by the window could also have come
from a Danish country house, but is actually Hungarian,
bought from an antiques dealer in Whitstable.
It was on another trip to the coast, where they first saw the
work of British ‘plein air’ painter Michael Richardson, whose
evocative scenes of Marrakesh – all painted on the spot, as the
Impressionists did – hang on the dining room walls. “He has a
gallery in Margate. We love the mood and light in his paintings.”
Once I can tear myself away from these, we head upstairs
arriving first at son Tom’s room, which is papered in Jane
Churchill delightful alphabet wallpaper and has a wall of
lovely vintage prints. Like all the pictures in the house,
this perfect ‘French hang’ was achieved by a professional
picture hanger – another of Alex’s top decorating tips.
The bathroom next door will still be cool well
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