Surrey Homes | SH30 | April 2017 |Gardens supplement inside

This page: The bathroom features an amazing bright blue 1920s
washbasin – not actually plumbed in, but too beautiful to leave
in the second-hand yard in Hastings Old Town. Its vibrant
colour is matched by a pair of pale blue grosgrain mule slippers
Adrian couldn’t resist from Fortnum & Mason
blocks, feathers, rolls of special textiles. These are works in
progress which he brings down from London to work on.
“I thought about arranging it ready for the photographer,”
says Adrian, “then decided to just leave them…”
He was right, that tablescape couldn’t have looked more
enticing if a stylist had laboured over the arrangement for
hours. I try on a Jackie O style pillbox and immediately feel
I could mingle convincingly at a royal wedding. “That style
is very good for ladies who travel,” says Adrian, adjusting
it to fit perfectly on my head, “because they can put it in
a cake tin in their luggage and it won’t get squashed…”
Tearing ourselves away from that bounty, we head
upstairs, my head swivelling to look at all the interesting
things – not least their many collections, of egg cups,
cruet sets, German bottle stoppers and the biggest,
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