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By Katie Pike\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 14 September 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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There\u2019s no getting around it. Joanne and Nick Burgess\u2019s home is charmingly boho. Furniture and fabrics are mismatched, colours are bold and the stone floors look as if they have been in situ for centuries \u2013 like all the best outfits, it looks effortless. In reality though, the interior of the Georgian red-brick house<\/a> in Henley is the result of a year-long renovation project that involved gutting everything and starting completely from scratch \u2013 all that remained were the walls. What makes the project so special is that Joanne was committed to seeking out salvaged materials and wasn\u2019t afraid to use them creatively \u2013 reclaimed roof tiles cover the kitchen floor and gramophone horns are repurposed as pendant lights<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Joanne describes the house as Tardis-like and indeed, its neat Georgian frontage belies the spacious interior \u2013 complete with two living rooms and a kitchen that\u2019s large enough to accommodate an extra sitting area. \u2018The character drew us to the house when we viewed it in January last year,\u2019 says Joanne. \u2018While we were living in London, we fell in love with the idyllic flint and timber houses of Oxfordshire, but found that these chocolate-box cottages were often small and dark on the inside. This place was unusual in that it had a 16th-century barn moulded to the back of the house \u2013 because of this, it has a lovely flow and is much larger than you anticipate. The master bedroom, with its high ceiling and balcony, feels quite decadent.\u2019<\/p>\n

The fact that rats were jumping out of the walls didn\u2019t put the couple off and, despite their nine-year-old son Archie\u2019s initial reservations (on seeing the stairlift he quipped, \u2018Of all the houses you could have bought you choose this dump!\u2019), they knew that they could transform it into something lovely.<\/p>\n

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Inspired in part by the interiors she\u2019d seen in New York\u2019s East Village 20 years ago, which combined antique furniture<\/a> with exposed pipework and industrial lighting, Joanne began to trawl salvage specialists. The existing floorboards were all rotten, so she sourced Georgian designs; reclaimed sanitary-ware was found at Mongers; and lights were fashioned from unexpected vessels, such as vintage milk churns. \u2018I love unusual things, pieces that make me think, \u201cWhat can I do with that?\u201d I bought a 1950s fridge unit from an antiques shop<\/a> and didn\u2019t know what to do with it, I just loved the look of it. Eventually I realised that I could turn it into a shelving unit in the kitchen.\u2019<\/p>\n

The house is a celebration of good design where, as much as possible, its bones are exposed. It\u2019s listed, so there was only so much structural work they could do, but they did make the winning decision to make the barn ceiling visible \u2013 as well as more of its original beams.<\/p>\n

What also sets the home apart is its standout fabrics, which cover everything from the 18th-century chaise longue in the master bedroom to the cupboards in the utility room<\/a>. \u2018I\u2019ve always sought out old Liberty print textiles from eBay and I also like Morris & Co and Sanderson classics,\u2019 says Joanne.<\/p>\n

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