House and Garden July 2015

House & Garden unlocks the door to an array of unique homes and outdoor features, ranging from town houses and converted barns to fabulous modern apartments and island retreats. Outdoor features are equally varied, including cottage gardens, water gardens and chic, city courtyards. House & Garden provides an invaluable sourcebook of ideas, from design and decoration to the best of travel, delicious recipes and fine wine. Britain’s most glamorous, inspiring and influential design and decoration magazine.

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CONTRIBUTORS

IAN ADAMSMITH Architect Q What were your influences early in your career? ‘The Lutyens exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in 1981 was pivotal, as I recognised so many houses from Surrey, the area I grew up in. Homey Colefax and Fowler interiors were also influential.’ Ian Adam-Smith is one of those architects who thrives on the minuscule details of a property, which is clear when he is asked about his design pet peeve: ‘I absolutely cannot stand nasty toffee-stained windows.’ When he decided to move his family to a neglected Sussex farmhouse, his biggest challenge was to convince everyone else of what it could become. ‘No one wants to go from a high-ceilinged Georgian house to a rat-infested, low, beamy farmhouse.’ See the results from page 150. KRISTIN PERERS Photographer Q Did you face…

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EDITOR’ S L ETTER

A year or so ago, while holidaying in Marrakech, my husband and I stumbled upon an Aladdin’s cave of furniture and textiles. Who should we meet inside but one of the country’s most esteemed interior designers, David Mlinaric, with his friend and fellow designer, Ana Zenic. David had flown out for the weekend to do a recce before meeting a client the following day to buy rugs for their house in England. An hour or so later, having scoured every nook and cranny – and with plenty of encouragement from David and Ana – we emerged having bought a rug. There is no doubt that had David not been there, we probably wouldn’t have parted with our money. Although we both love rootling out things for our house, buying a…

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shades OF GRAIN

added insight RECLAIMED BOARDS The Reclaimed Flooring Company sells solid or engineered boards with a bespoke weathered, chipped or splattered effect. Pictured from top are ‘Chipped Effect Painted Wood’, from £126 a square metre, and ‘Bespoke Weathered Painted Wood’, from £132 a square metre. reclaimedflooringco.com If you like the feeling of wooden floors, but want an injection of colour, consider a kaleidoscope of paints and stains GOING GREEN Wood stain doesn’t have to be brown. For a different look, try ‘Somerset Green’ from Cuprinol’s Garden Shades collection, £22 for 2.5 litres, from B&Q. cuprinol.co.ukdiy.com HERRINGBONE STRIPES Paint parquet blocks to create a bespoke pattern. This Missoniesque design was made using engineered-oak blocks from McKay Flooring, £95.99 a square metre. They were painted with shades by Mylands – ‘Mews Blue’, ‘Beaufort Gardens’, ‘Bridge Blue’, ‘Eaton Square’, ‘Mayfair Dark’…

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