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

This page: The master bedroom’s vibrantly green and spacious ensuite features a copper splashback and wall below its soaring vaulted ceiling.
The washstand once served as a babies’ changing station
Out in the hall and landing the wall colour
is Farrow & Ball’s Eating Room Red – the ideal
colour for the consumption of books.
Tantalising glimpses of Tim and Eve’s extensive book
collection are on view at every level. Eve collects children’s
literature and Terry Pratchett novels, while Tim is a collector
of GA Henty, and among other things, Wisdens cricketing
almanac. The generous bookshelves are peppered with
whimsical objects too – from mischievous artworks by Marie
Prett to the cute, functional and semi-obedient mice lamps.
Art is the couple’s other passion and is in glorious
evidence throughout the house. There are many paintings
by favourite artists Richard Adams, the late Anne-Catherine
Phillips and Ros Lyons. “We have hung one hundred
and twenty seven pictures in the house,” Tim says, as if
remembering the positioning of every one of them. What
better way to invest than in the things you love and then
be able to see and enjoy them every day. “Pictures are
far more satisfying than share certificates,” he adds.
In Tim’s study artwork and wallpaper combine in the
form of a huge mural that stretches across one wall. “It
came from Rockett St. George,” says Eve. “They send it to
a company in Spain – you give them the dimensions and
the image and they print it to fit.” The result is seamless
and looks just like a painted mural. The rest of the study
is painted in contrasting Farrow & Ball Hague Blue.
The sitting room exudes warmth and comfort.
Contemporary sofas sit happily in front of a wood
burner, and there is a hint of the simple Arts &
Crafts style in the fireplace surround and bookshelves,
mixed in with a hint of the high Victorian in the
richly coloured Classic Silks wallpaper by Galerie.
Even the smallest room has not been forgotten and is aptly
celebrated. The downstairs cloakroom is papered in Eve’s
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