‘Fabrics, from Peruvian textiles to colourful English designs, have given our home texture, tactility and a sense of scale and dimension’
Though Caroline Echecopar describes the Berkshire home she shares with husband Carlos as “an overgrown cottage”, the appraisal is perhaps a modest one. It does indeed have its roots in a simple 17th-century dwelling, but multiple additions, including a significant Victorian extension, have turned this former farmhouse into a rather more imposing residence.
Nonetheless, the house, which is reported to have been in existence since around the time of the English Civil
