乡村现代谷仓生活

Our ‘Open House’ series takes us behind the front doors of some of the homes we sell for a look at how the lives of their owners have been enriched by living in the space. Here, we take a look at Matthew and Suzy’s contemporary barn conversion in Somerset, currently for sale – check out the listing here.

“The outside space was hard-paving and turf – on top of what

was a dairy yard so, although we are in the country, there was no deep earth

for us to dig into. I excavated garden beds mostly by hand and, in effect, the

garden is mostly a series of large containers. It was important to me that

these were at ground level, rather than putting in raised beds as creating a

connection between the living space and the earth was the main aim.

“The plants we’ve chosen are mainly rosemary, lavender,

roses, alliums and umbellifers of various types: fennel, achilleas, ammi, cow

parsley, which the lanes by the house are full of, so it was nice to bring this

into the garden.”

“We’re moving on to give Suzy more space to create an even

nicer, bigger garden. We probably won’t go very far – we love Bruton and Frome

so still being orientated around these would be great.”