{"id":107061,"date":"2019-05-11T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-house-that-dares-to-be-different\/"},"modified":"2019-05-11T22:03:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T15:03:02","slug":"the-house-that-dares-to-be-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-house-that-dares-to-be-different\/","title":{"rendered":"The house that dares to be different"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThere\u2019s nothing fusty about this colourful and quirky old rectoryWe\u2019ve had 35 years to make this place our own,\u201d says Lucy Abel Smith, ushering me inside her Cotswolds rectory. It\u2019s a rambling, comfortable place stamped with the art historian\u2019s bohemian seal. When Lucy and her husband David, an engineer, moved here, the interior was \u201cquite plain\u201d. Now the opposite is true. Every wall is crowded with paintings. Sculptures on windowsills jostle for space with shapely ceramics, while triffid-like glass lights spread their tentacles across ceilings. \u201cWe like things to be different,\u201d she says, her turquoise-streaked hair glinting in the spring sunshine.Set in a peaceful valley in Quenington, near Cirencester, the house, which has been in her family since 1928, has grown \u201chaphazardly\u201d over the centuries. The kitchen sits in the 17th-century wing while the south front was added in the 18th century. A priest blessed with 10 children extended the house in the 1800s, and later, in the 1930s, the sister of Lucy\u2019s mother-in-law bolted on the Arts and Crafts annexe. \u201cIt gave her something to do,\u201d she remarks. Another relative left their mark by commissioning the influential interior designer Godfrey Bonsack to design the 1970s bathrooms with pink and amethyst baths. \u201cBonsack was the first to believe bathrooms should be comfortable and sexy, rather than just functional. Continue reading…
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