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And I’m particularly pleased that it has
become the perfect home for my treasured
oversized urns. A rather grand Andrew
Martin wooden table with silver legs takes
centre stage.
Added to the back of the house there is a
beautiful large wooden conservatory off
the kitchen that was basically a graveyard
for flies and spiders and didn’t have any
form of heating which naturally wiped out
using this room in the winter. This wasn’t
ideal for us as we wanted to turn it into our
large dining area for when we entertain. So
this room had a total overhaul. We added
three high output beautiful traditional style
column radiators in there with brass valves
so we could use it all year round and then
replaced the floor with a tumbled pitted
marble. We then repainting the brick and
woodwork in Zoffany colours and it made
the whole room come to life. It looks so
good now that we have renamed it ‘The
Orangery’.
Although the kitchen was lovely it could
very easily have become a walkthrough
with only a small amount of space in the
corner for a table. I quickly realised that
a table with space for chairs either side
may eat into the space too much to be
workable so we came up with the concept
of a window seat with upholstered seat
pads and cushions could be a great way of
saving space and look very in keeping with
The New England style of the house. It also
gave it the air of a relaxed quintessential
kitchen table flooded with sunlight that
invites you to sit and read the papers over
a long breakfast. We then painted this
seat the same colour as some of the floors
downstairs and the same colour as the
woodwork in the boot room and drawing
room. It has worked beautifully in creating
a through line as you walk from room to
room. We also added three glass pendants
above the island and added in three white
New England style stools to the island with
gorgeous linen seat pads.