This former cider barn has been transformed into a stunning colour-drenched family home

Kitchen with large farmhouse table and yellow painted floor units and open shelf in barn conversion with brick paver floor.

The plan for Gem Boner, her partner Thom Scherdel and their two children was quite simple – they wanted to move out of East London and settle in the English countryside.

‘We had dreamed of setting up a business but we didn’t know exactly what we wanted or where to do it, so one weekend we drew a two hours’ circle around London and started to look for places with lots of land,’ Gem explains.