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who lives here Mouse Martin, a ceramist who heads Made by Hands studio and his dogs, Sid and Maisi
Location South Cerney near Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Size 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, in a space of about 32ft x 10ft

'The house is called Draycott, said Mouse. 'Dray meant horse and cart cott meant, so originally it was a cart shed next to the mill. The mill no longer exists, but since the cart shed was built in the 1750s, he s been an apple store and garage until, in the mid-1970s, it was converted to a house. Mouse bought in early June 2014. "I had always coveted this small island, she said. "As soon as I found out the house was for sale, I put in an offer. Two hours later, it was mine. "

An old bridge spans the river at Island Filly. "It is so peaceful here, said the mouse. "Ducks waddle up on the grass and there are two otters in the river - Squeak and Whistle!

When the mouse took home last summer, he was tired and cluttered, with a configuration that has made improper use of the tighter space. "I knew I had to just pull everything and start over, she said. "I found myself with four walls and a roof!

Part of the original stone wall is visible, beautifully exposed up into the apex. "The house had ceilings that we have taken on, said the mouse. "We did not know what we were getting on top, but in fact there are lots of beams and all without woodworm!

The chest below the TV is an old cheese safely with a mesh door, found at a car-boot sale.

"I spend a lot of time in Australia, 'said Mouse', and most homes are insulated with corrugated steel. I love it and saw working there, so I thought, why not! "This wall is actually a fire wall that had the mouse to install for security, and it also hides a useful insulation. "The corrugated steel backsplash is a fabulous, too, she said.

Mouse manufacturer Weeks worked with Colin and his team of Devon. "They were great," said the mouse. "They raised eyebrows a bit to some of my ideas, but we were all happy with the results.

The floor was posed with basic pine boards that have been painted white. They help bounce light around and maximize the feeling of space.

a mouse neighbors belong to an old barn that she emptied. "His father was a hoarder and had absolutely everything from here to Timbuktu in it, she said. That really started the ball rolling on this house. Until then, I had not had a vision of how it could look beyond hitting everything. "

All the doors on the kitchen cabinets came from the barn and were in the greatest original interior doors. "We shot them to fit the closet doors and I sanded to a point where I could not be bothered to more sand!" She said. "That's what they look like when you reach this point!

The work plan kitchen is made from scaffold boards, sanded smooth and sealed.

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This partition is a fire wall, so it is quite thick. To create a door through it to the room, equipped mouse door and part of an old wooden cupboard. "It worked with the wall a little deeper, she said. "It's a little The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe when you walk through it."

the river flows right to property and the mill race runs to his left. Mouse worked with local architect Matthew Edwards Cotswold Architects to create a new porch. Although plans for this were approved, and permission to install windows in the wooden hand to replace UPVC was awarded a mouse used walling specialist dry stone James Harris Contractor, to build the land alongside the rivers to protect against flooding.

There space for a car at one end of the house, and the mouse has moved the front door. "It was configured very differently when I bought, she said. "There was a door where you park your car and now you immediately walked into the bathroom! A corridor then leads into the kitchen. "I took the corridor outside the room to double the size," said the mouse.

"Once I 'd found the doors of the barn that became my kitchen, all seemed to find me, "said the mouse. "I walked into a store and see just what I needed." The fire buckets were stacked inside a second-hand shop mouse visited. "I thought, wow, they could do great grades, she said. "Everyone said do not be silly, but now they are in place, people love them and they have become a major feature of the property.

cups, teapots and jugs are some mice ceramics made for her by the studio's hand. She also designed a selection of ceramic bearing its distinctive name in animal form!

mouse collected these pieces of Tala Ware over the years. "The tin cake at three levels was my mother, she said. "The rest, I find here and there."

'the bath was the first thing to do when we were working on the house, said the mouse. "Once we saw how long it was, we could build the rest around it."

She is bathing in a bush in a salvage yard. "He was covered with brambles and the owner of the yard just wanted £ 100 for it, she said. Once the mice had got home, she discovered she had beautiful brass faucets. "I re-glazed and painted red below.

The walls here are covered with pine boards painted white base. Mouse found the branch hooks in Australia - they are made from wood wattle

the front door used to be in the wall, but now a simple window lets in light, rather than the visitors in the bathroom.

The basin came from a salvage yard and mouse carpenter created a stand for it.

old bottles milk hold essential bathroom. Mouse made ceramic stars dangling from their necks to identify content :. Shampoo, bubble bath and conditioner

Certainly it was a bold move to take a medieval imposing building and turn it into a glamorous home friendly festival by adding on a huge expansion full of cutting the -edge technology. But Eltham Palace, now under the guardianship of English Heritage, has long been hailed as a triumph of design the "modern."

the lobby, a triangular room with curved walls, is where celebrity clients, Colombia Gracie Fields movie star composer Igor Stravinsky at Queen Mary, was welcomed by their hosts.

striking, knotted carpets hand is a replica of the original, which is in the Victoria and Albert Museum and was designed by renowned textile designer of the time Marion Dorn. The chairs and walnut curved sofas are equipped with practical covers, perfect for a party-loving household.

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the glass and a light concrete roof dominates this glamorous piece, and was the idea of ​​Stephen Courtauld. It was designed by Rolf Engströmer.

the walls are in walnut and Blackbean veneer. Inlaid drawings depict scenes of Scandinavia and to reflect the cultural roots of Virginia - it was part-Italian - Florence, Rome and Venice, as well as a symbolic Viking as a Roman soldier. The couple was ahead of their time in their penchant for Scandinavian design, and this room was created by the Swedish designer interior Rolf Engströmer.

dining room and elegant furnishings, all originally designed by Peter Malacrida, is a wonderful example of modernist design, particularly in the clean lines and the use of color to pale paint, contrast with strong hues favored by, Edwardian previous generation.

The room also features maple veneered walls and a ceiling panel of the aluminum foil, surrounded by a concealed lighting to make it sparkle at night. A dining table seats 10 takes center stage and is associated with leather chairs dressed in pink, who chose Virginia because she thought they had better show the dresses of the female guests.

the Courtaulds were extremely sociable and threw a lot of dinner parties, but clients apparently had to be ready to share the table with Mahjong lemur, which was allowed to roam freely around the room.

a gallery with armchairs overlooking the medieval Great hall, the oldest part of the house. It is the perfect place for a summer evening cocktail at the sun streams through the magnificent high windows

The glass in windows are not original, though - Stephen he added in 1936 . design represents Edward IV badges.

Grand hall view of the ground floor. Edward IV, who had the hall built in the 15th century, known once held a Christmas party in this room for about 2,000 guests, and Courtaulds also loved socializing in this huge space. They even added a whole inauthentic - the minstrels gallery for entertainment

The oak ceiling beams is an example of the third largest beam construction hammer wooden roof in the country (one of Westminster Hall -. but fun in the Houses of Parliament, is the largest).

hammer beams, common in larger churches and cathedrals are short horizontal and vertical beams fixed on the walls to support the roof.

Stephen and Virginia were separate but adjoining rooms connected by a back door, you might be able to spot.

This room was Stephen and characteristics US aspen wood walls and furniture, including modern, built-in dresser and an electric fire advanced. Decorative wall is covered with paper representing Kew Gardens, to take account of Stephen's interest in horticulture.

Stephen and Virginia not only had separate rooms, but their own bathrooms, too.

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This turquoise vibrantly tiled bathroom was Stephen. Do not you just love the green and white botanical print curtains against the blue walls and picked up in the green border along the bottom, as well as how the curtains are perfectly embedded in the ceiling?

Virginia's room was luxurious than her husband: the walls are lined with sycamore veneer and resisted flexwood maple and include pillars that hide soft lighting.

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The room also has a glamorous circular ceiling.

Virginia had a modern electric fireplace in his room.

halls bath does not get much more glamorous than the original Virginia onyx suite lined with gold mosaic tiles and gold taps. The statue of the Greek goddess of the soul, Psyche

The bathroom also has a top-dressing.

Stephen and Virginia is not their own children but had attended their nephews, Peter and Paul Peirano as they were between eight and 10 respectively. This room is one of a pair reserved for nephews and adjacent spaces share a central bathroom. Peter slept in this room.

This room belonged Paul, who was in the Royal Navy. Unfortunately, he was killed serving in World War II in 1942.

A classic, sleek Art Deco tap in the toilet of Peirano boys.

Although the house was a lot of comfort, including hot water, the shower - the only one in the house - just had a cold feed. Brr!