The inside story
Having relocated to the UK from South Africa five years ago, it took a couple of years of house-hunting before Sylvie and Ed Petersen found this large Tudor-style house in leafy Surrey. ‘We wanted a country location and a house with a comfortable, family friendly vibe,’ says Sylvie. ‘And with three teenagers, it needed to be big enough for us all to have bedrooms with en-suites, but without the house then feeling too big for Ed and I when the children head off to university.’
Set close to the centre of the village of Cobham in Surrey, the house) to oversee the renovation.
