Surrey Homes | SH76 | May 2021 | Restoration & New Build supplement inside

This page: The guest bedrooms are wallpapered in designs by Colefax & Fowler – a wisteria design called Seraphina (above), which
Eve was tempted to use again in the second bedroom before deciding on another lovely floral featuring birds and peonies (top)
craftsmanship, in his Tulips and Honeysuckle design.
Behind the master suite is a dressing room and good
sized bathroom, also vaulted. One wall and the splashback
above the basin are clad in gleaming copper, strikingly
contrasted with the rich bright green of the walls. Eve
points out the washstand; once a babies’ changing
station, it has been cleverly repurposed and has a whole
new lease of life as a stylishly crafted basin unit.
We climb up another flight of stairs into the attic; which
manages to be an airy, dreamy, yet geometric space, tucked
under the eaves, papered in stars in the colours of twilight
(or dawn) and designed for the couple’s grandchildren. It
was a complicated room to wallpaper. “The decorator said
that it would be quicker to stencil on the stars,” laughs Eve.
There is one area left unpapered – where the wooden frame
of the extension is again on view. This has become a reading
nook for the children in defiance of the suggestion that it be
made into a storage cupboard. “We don’t want storage,”
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