Saratoga

The front door opens into an open-plan drawing-room/dining-room/kitchen. In the drawing-room, colours are light, with thick creamy-white cotton damask curtains, and soft pinks, blues and beiges. The blue-and-beige striped sofa stands to the right of the antique carved oak mantelpiece, facing an elegant rosy buttoned Victorian chair. Between them a low coffee table, and French chair in blue stamped velvet. Over the fireplace is a gilt mirror and to the left there’s a built-in pine display cabinet whose shelves gleam with pink lustre china. There’s also a writing table.

The kitchen has wood units, painted French Grey to set off the blue-and-white Delft wall tiles, and Carrara marble surfaces, a Belfast sink and fridge freezer. You can either eat in the kitchen or wander through the glazed door to feast outside on the flagged terrace, surrounded by cream and white roses, lilies, ceanothus, honeysuckle and euphorbia. Colours in the garden are cool blue and white with a dash of lime green and orange.

Up the steep white painted stairs – too steep, perhaps, for the very young or the elderly – is the galleried bedroom, with a blue-and-white painted faux bamboo four-poster bed. There are more faux bamboo effects on the blue-and-white bedside tables. In the en suite bathroom, is a handsome bateau bath and a marble-topped washstand with inset basin.