LIVE24SEVEN // Property & Interiors
When Maria Wrinch started house hunting in Herefordshire with her teenage daughter Millie, she has visions of a completely different style of property to the one she ended up buying.
So does she regret the change of heart which lead to her living in a striking, larch-clad new-build on the outskirts of the county’s cathedral city? Absolutely not! “Millie spotted it when we were looking for a little cottage in the country but actually I love this house! It is in a fabulous location and we have been able to put our own vintage twist on it.”
For Maria, who has a hectic schedule running her own business, Wye Nursery in Hereford, Bloomsbury House is conveniently located for her work and ideal, too, for Millie who attends Hereford Sixth Form College. “It is an ideal location. The only drawback is that we are quite close to the road, but we have got used to that.
“When I bought the house in July last year it was still being finished off. We could have specified the kitchen and bathrooms but I was so busy I didn’t – I just let the builders, JDW Building and Conservation, do the lot,” says Maria, who is clearly delighted with the outcome. “The kitchen is really easy to work in – there are no wall units and no cupboards, everything is in base unit drawers which makes it simple to find everything. I live in the kitchen and this is the kitchen I always dreamed of – it makes a great space for cooking and for socialising.”
It’s a clean-lined, modern kitchen with tiled flooring and silestone worktops but Maria has introduced some retro chic with her imaginative choice of breakfast bar stools. “I got the wooden tops for £9 from Wye Valley Auctions in Rotherwas. They were from stools used in an old school laboratory and they still had chewing gum stuck to the bottom. They had lost their legs so I designed some metal ones and got them made up at Caple Forge.” A careful pile of vintage leather
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