“Looking out of the window, it’s all buttercups and blossom. This house has brought out the romantic in me”
There can’t be many women who would take a hammer to their staircase on little more than a whim, but after watching the period drama, Sophie Conran had an inkling that her home might boast a stone staircase like the one in the film. “I started thinking, do I have one of those?” she says. “I pulled back the carpet and peeled off the white gloss paint and there it was.” It was the great surprise discovery of the house.
Having rented out the London flat she’s owned for 30 years, Conran is now here full-time, as are her children, Coco and Felix, 25 and 24, who have been here since lockdown. “I think it’s the longest we’ve spent anywhere, to be honest,” she says, laughing. “It’s been a lovely place to be at this time. Watching the seasons change has been like one of those time-lapse films of buds opening. Now we’ve got blossom filling the house, and all the roses are coming into bloom.
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