I bought this four hundred year old stone townhouse in 2013 and restored it gradually exposing as much of the original stone, timber and plaster as was salvageable. The heavy brown varnish was replaced by an off white Farrow & Ball eggshell and new double glazed windows made and designed to replicate the originals.

The furniture is either mine, inherited or designed by me with local makers. The enormous sofa was made by Ryan Saxon to make sense of the platform in the sitting room which is a flying freehold over the Chinese next door! Rob Barnby made the circular table to enable two to sit in the window. The window seats were designed once the openings had been enlarged and there was evidence they had already existed. Soft furnishings were sourced locally: Hungarian grain sacks and linen blinds from The End, Ukrainian rug from Natalya and Welsh tapestry and flannel cushions from my friend Julie aka The Welsh Girl.

The kingsize bateau lit upstairs was too troublesome to move so it has stayed along with my mahogany chest of drawers and I definitely wasn’t changing the old French stone trough which I’d used as my basin as it had caused Gordon and four posties enough trouble to get it up the two flights of stairs in the first place!

There is artwork everywhere more or less as I had had it when I lived here. These are mostly paintings by artists I know and whose work I exhibit downstairs in my art gallery The Table.