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Guest bedroom
Wooden door knobs are
a stylish and low-cost way
to hang mirrors or wall art.
Similar knobs, Wickes.
Bed, Feather & Black

well-designed holiday homes. So in 2014, following
the purchase of their first cottage in the Cotswolds, LIVING THE DREAM
Zara and Lex founded The Little Cottage Company. Zara has made the most of the quirky
They also run another property business, Golden features that make her holiday home
Ticket London, which finds houses for actors to live in unique, and added extra character
while they’re on a movie shoot. The business is named with unusual finds
after the golden ticket in Lex’s favourite film, Charlie

and the Chocolate Factory. ‘It all began when Lex’s What attracted you
friend was working on the film Hugo and he called to to the cottage?
‘The rounded front really sold it to us.
say he needed to find a house for Martin Scorsese to
I love the flint stone walls and that
live in and did Lex know of anywhere?' Lex took the job every room is an unusual shape.’
on and built a business on the back of that call. ‘We
Was it challenging
grew the business from our dining table and now have furnishing unusually
offices in London, Barcelona and Los Angeles,’ he says. shaped rooms?
Since completing the renovation works, the cottage ‘The most awkward rooms are always
the most interesting. Our tilers
has flourished. ‘Dad does all the maintenance and my
commented on how refreshing it was
mum and aunty tend to the garden,’ says Zara. ‘One
working in a triangle-shaped room!’
of the joys about being here is that everyone knows
Any standout design
everyone. We spent our first night here on Christmas features or special items?
Eve, lit the fire and ate fish and chips. I love watching ‘I’d seen a beer-pull lever cistern in a
Jax learn to ride his bike in the country lanes and play Jamie Oliver restaurant and loved it
on the beach, just as I did. And it’s great to share so much that I hunted one down. I’m
not sure how you can be in love with
our enthusiasm for the cottage with guests, too.’
a toilet cistern but I am with mine!’
To book a stay at Little Norfolk Cottage, visit
littlenorfolkcottage.co.uk

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