Surrey Homes | SH111 | April 2024 | Garden Supplement inside

This page: With stunning panoramic views, the main bedroom features a beautiful en suite tiled with Mandarin Stone’s Hoxton range
the windows in half so that they opened
with a central divide.” They also chose
sliding doors, rather than bi-folds for
the same reason – and when you have
a magnificent vista in front of you, the
fewer interruptions to it the better – and
after all, we spend more time looking
out of the windows than looking in.
Every window offers vantage
points over the vast natural landscape
– it is in an AONB, the views are
spectacular – the most intimate being
from the kitchen out to an adjacent
pond. “The view of the bullrushes
and the pond is my favourite,” says
Eve. This is also where the resident
owl has found a new home, in a
bespoke owl box on a nearby tree.
Beyond the terrace outside the garden
is informal, merging into the landscape.
“I call it an infinity garden,” smiles
Dominic, “the modern equivalent of
a ha-ha. Although it’s north facing to
the back of the house it’s open too, so
you can have the best of both worlds
– sun and shade – without having
to have a canopy and inside, despite
facing north, is not cold or gloomy.
We head up the cool and sculptural
floating staircase with lighting
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