After an epic search, landscape designer Miranda Brooks and architect Bastien Halard found the English country house of their dreams. All they had to fix was...everything.
When her eldest daughter, Poppy, was a baby, then Brooklyn-based landscape architect Miranda Brooks would stay in London with her friend India Jane Birley at Thurloe Lodge.
The couple eventually found a superb example in a remote northern county, nestled in its own great estate. They were poised to acquire it when Brooks realized that with Halard traveling so much for ongoing projects in America and elsewhere, she would be alone in this isolated beauty for much of the time—and Halard realized that for all its elegance the possibilities for creative transformation in the house’s rigorously ordered spaces were decidedly limited.
Brooks did, however, feel that she should return and see the interior, a visit that was arranged for another day. “Inside was pretty terrifying,” she recalls. “All the downstairs windows were fogged and steamed up because it was so, so, so damp. It was just horrible. But I just felt Bastien would figure it out.”
For Brooks, lockdown meant that every day she could see the unfurling possibilities of her biodynamic gardens Miraculously, this structure was just finished when COVID struck and Britain went into lockdown. For Brooks, this meant that every day she could see the unfurling possibilities of her biodynamic gardens and could focus on transforming them. Fearful of food shortages in those early days of the pandemic, she dug for Britain, remaking a stinking slurry pit into a magnificent vegetable and cutting garden, and planting the path below it with blackberries and raspberries.
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