The English Home

Colour & VISION

A tale that begins with a handsome horseman catching a glimpse of an intriguing house almost hidden behind a thicket of overgrowth might have been conjured up from folklore, but for interior designer Sophie Grattan Bellew this sighting was the opening of a new chapter of her life.

Sophie, who co-founded the premium paint and wallpaper specialist Paint & Paper Library with David Oliver, had been living and working in London, but a change in her personal circumstances drew her back to Suffolk, a place she had loved since childhood. “I grew

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