The English Home

Eclectic AESTHETIC

Set in remote Norfolk countryside, Emma and Nicholas Deterding’s captivating fifteenth-century Grade II listed farmhouse nestles in undulating fields dotted with sheep and ponies. The house’s interior is full of visual surprises and invigorating splashes of colour – a startling contrast to the traditional, well-weathered flint stone exterior and the tranquil walled Victorian garden.

Emma, an interior designer and owner of Kelling Designs, describes her home as “quirky, mad and not at all grand”. Nicholas applies the brakes from time to time on some of her wilder, more colourful and theatrical

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