PROPERTY Liz Earle
MY PROPERTY LIFE
LIVE LIKE LIZ...
LIZ EARLE The wellbeing expert puts light at the heart of her home Where was your first home? A tiny flat on the Chelsea/Fulham border.
Best thing about it? It was at the top of a Victorian terrace so had high ceilings and pretty arched windows with lots of light. Where do you live now? In the glorious West Country with uninterrupted views. What do you love most about it? The chance to make the most of family time at home – particularly outdoors. Picnics, farm walks, hedgerow foraging – very simple, yet very special.
THE STARTER HOME
Favourite room in the house? The kitchen.
Liz has planted oak trees for future generations
I love to cook and I am at my happiest when I have all of my five children home together round our kitchen table.
sits in the middle of the fields with 360° views. I thrive on light – even in small spaces, so will always look for high ceilings and big windows.
Do you have a second home? Yes, I have
Where do you see yourself living in the future? I intend to live
Liz loves using grey paint
What do you look for when you’re house hunting?
on my West Country farm forever. I’ve taken the long view and planted oak trees knowing I won’t enjoy the benefit for another 20 years or so, but that my children will see them grow.
THE FOREVER HOME Wiltshire, £2.75m Ford Farm is a very pretty, manageable Grade II listed, five bedroom country house with farreaching views over its 25 acres of farmland. There’s also a barn conversion with a home office, two bedroom flat, plus a three bedroom cottage and stables and outbuildings. 01225 325999. knightfrank.com
If money was no object, where would you live in London? The world? On my
Location is the key. Everything else you can change.
What inspired you to buy your farm? I love the way the farm house
farm with my children. I’d build them all cottages in the fields.
Do you have any favourite paint colours? I’m surrounded by
Liz owns a second home in Kenya
Nicholas Haslam
so much green, so I chose paint colours that coordinate with the landscape – cream, greys and muted shades of green, highlighted with splashes of pale and hot pinks.
Whose house would you most like to see inside? I’m sure the style gurus Nicky Haslam and Jasper Conran have completely beautiful interiors. Liz Earle is editor in chief of Liz Earle Wellbeing magazine (lizearlewellbeing.com)
THE DREAM HOME South Africa, £12m Plettenberg Bay Game Reserve is the biggest game reserve in the Southern Cape, spread out across the hills above the scenic Garden Route coastline with four of Africa’s Big Five – buffalo, lion, leopard and rhino. The lodge has 10 suites and a pool. 020 7495 9580. sothebysrealty.com
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a home on a game conservancy in Kenya, overlooking the mountains. I go there in the winter months to run my East African charity work and to take time out to write for Liz Earle Wellbeing.
Parsons Green, SW6, £525,000 A stunning one-bedroom apartment off the Fulham Road, with a double bedroom, reception room, eat-in kitchen and a new bathroom. The Tube station is close by as are all the many restaurants, bars and shops of Fulham. 020 7731 9400. savills.com
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