Surrey Homes | SH74 | March 2021 | Interiors supplement inside

Above: Susan transformed one of the original bedrooms into a bathroom, retaining the fireplace. Fearing the weight
implications of a stand-alone cast iron bath, she found this claw-foot version for £10 on eBay. “It’s resin. Cast iron would have
gone through the floor.”
where Susan has created a mirrored wardrobe area,
while still leaving plenty of thoroughfare space.
This generous sense of ease continues into
the bedroom at the front of the house, where
light pours in through the bay window,
enhancing the space and high ceilings with
their original decorative square pattern.
Susan has not held back in here with a splendid
bed, with gold trim, from eBay, a Venetian glass
chandelier from one of her Belgian missions and a
wardrobe of particular magnificence, a weathered sage
green, with more gilt decoration, from Pete Grant,
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