The door into the study is painted in Farrow & Ball\u2019s \u2018Hopper Head.\u2019 A mock fa\u00e7ade of a Georgian house leans against one wall, while at the back of the room is a banquette surrounded by bookshelves (and a cocktail bar).<\/p>\n
Christopher Horwood<\/p>\n
The doll\u2019s house metaphor particularly comes to life downstairs in Jane\u2019s study, where a Georgian fa\u00e7ade leans against the wall. On the adjacent wall, a reading nook with a squishy banquette has been built into a wall of shelves. Jane\u2019s desk is a writer\u2019s dream, overlooking the garden, its ancient oak tree, and that essential swing. \u2018It feels like the garden is in constant conversation with the house,\u2019 explains Jane.<\/p>\n
Jane’s desk overlooks the front garden.<\/p>\n
Christopher Horwood<\/p>\n
\u2018When you walk down the path to the garden and the house, you\u2019re totally in another world,\u2019 says Butter. It really feels like the countryside in the middle of west London.\u2019 Butter explains that lots of the \u2018country garden feel\u2019 comes from the \u2018magnificent brick wall\u2019, which she worked to soften: \u2018it already had a jasmine growing up it, but we softened it further with climbing roses and wisteria,\u2019 she explains. \u2018We also wanted to lean into the circularity of the garden, with curved beds creating a flow between the front and back gardens<\/a>, which are so neatly joined by a side passage,\u2019 says Butter. They removed an existing pond, which broke up the continuity of the garden, and instead added stepping stones, which move you through the immersive planting.<\/p>\n \u2018Really, it\u2019s hard to convey the specialness of it all,\u2019 Butter muses. \u2018It\u2019s wild and overgrown and fun, but with moments of structure amongst all the wildness.\u2019 As Jane puts it, the garden has \u2018some structure for Stephen, and some bee-loving wildness for me.\u2019 It’s an analogy well suited to their whole magical home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The door into the study is painted in Farrow & Ball\u2019s \u2018Hopper Head.\u2019 A mock fa\u00e7ade of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,2737,87365,110576,12327,4022,77,87364,87366,87367,16,15,122890],"class_list":{"0":"post-346324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-city","11":"tag-city-houses","12":"tag-city-houses-with-contemporary-interiors","13":"tag-cottages","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-london-houses","17":"tag-modern-houses","18":"tag-quiet-interiors","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-victorian-houses"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115032376213439189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}