A PASTORAL PLAYGROUND

Out of an ancestral millhouse, designer MARY GRAHAM raises a new family home in the country, alive with checks, florals, and ruffles.

INTERIOR DESIGN BY SALVESEN GRAHAM

CRUNCHING OVER GRAVEL toward a gray, pebble dash millhouse on an exposed slope above the River Ure, set in traditional farmland in the north of England, Mary Graham prepared to see her soon-to-be home. She and her husband, Sam, had known the house at a distance for years—Sam’s parents have a farmhouse half a mile away, and his uncle Sir James Graham lives at Norton Conyers, a nearby estate with Dutch-style gables that might have inspired Thornfield Hall in Jane Eyre. “There are cousins and other Grahams tucked everywhere and have been since 1624. It would have been a great surprise if we’d gone anywhere else,” says Mary, cofounder of the London-based interior design firm Salvesen Graham with partner Nicole Salvesen. The house had been let to tenants by Sam’s…

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Veranda (Digital) - 1 Issue, September/October 2023

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