"Inspired by Margot's post last week on the stellar, nontraditional kitchens she spotted on the websites of European real estate firms, I found myself perusing the listings of my favorite U.K. agency, The Modern House, and there, I came across an especially dreamy offering: a rambling two-acre, multi-building property purchased by a pair of artists, Leila El-Kayem and Sophie Mayer, who lovingly transformed the dilapidated Victorian walled garden into a stylish retreat that's appealingly rough around the edges."
"The two creatives (Leila is a conceptual artist and poet; Sophie is a painter) enlisted architecture firm McClean Quinlan to help them transform the garden into a two-bedroom home that taps into the "feral" landscape of the area. "There's something about walking into an untamed space that gives you permission to become untamed yourself," Sophie told The Modern House's Journal. "It reduced us back to an instinctive way of living, and that became very humbling and formative for both of us.""
Leila El-Kayem and Sophie Mayer purchased a rambling two-acre, multi-building property and converted a dilapidated Victorian walled garden into a stylish, lived-in retreat. They enlisted architecture firm McClean Quinlan to create a two-bedroom home that engages the area's feral landscape and preserves the romanticism of the ruin. The pair retained existing materials, repaired rather than demolished, and emphasized an instinctive, humbled way of living. The grounds include a converted bothy as the main living space, a greenhouse, and a painting studio that once served as a squash court. Interiors feature a long open kitchen and dining room that flows from the entrance.
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