Inside Sarah Beeny’s incredible home library with secret booze panel in bookcase
TV PRESENTER Sarah Beeny has given fans of her Channel 4 show - Sarah Beeny's New Life in the Country - an insight into how the property is shaping up.
Sarah, 51, and her family, husband Graham Swift and children Rafferty, Billy, Charlie and Laurie, left London almost four years ago to build their own grand home in Somerset.
It’s been a long process as they’ve worked tirelessly to make the £3 million property their own, most recently facing uproar in the community after building a lake outside.
The third instalment of the show began on Channel 4 on Monday, April 17, and started with Sarah revealing how they had transformed one of the rooms into an astonishing library.
Sarah revealed her aim for the room was to create a traditional country house library, inspired by an 18th-century stately home she previously worked on.
Once finished, every wall in the room was covered bedecked with bespoke bookcases made from sustainable timber and coloured to give it an aged, antique appearance.
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In keeping with the olde-worlde feel of the room, Sarah included a secret whisky cupboard to store Graham’s favourite tipple.
Discussing why she wanted a library in the house, Sarah said: “What is amazing about this library is that it will be here for hundreds of years...I love books, I love having lots of books.”
The mum-of-four also admitted that she hoped the reading room, which contains a cosy snug to curl up in with a book, might encourage her kids to read more.
Unveiling the space to her sons, Sarah was delighted to hear them describe the space as "awesome" and "very cool".
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Watching them get stuck in and browsing the shelves, Sarah said: “This is sort of all my dreams come true. I'd really hoped we would use the library a bit like this, I'm very lucky.”
In addition to walls of books, the room also now contains several big comfy leather sofas, a white fireplace, a reading, an antique chandelier and even a moving stair rail.
Earlier this month Sarah revealed she had been given the all-clear after a terrifying cancer battle in an emotional TV appearance.
Fans were thrilled as the property renovation expert, 51, told Christine Lampard, 44, the huge news on the Lorraine show - just months after her chemotherapy sessions ended.
Sarah discovered she had the disease last year.
Opening up on the "rollercoaster" few months and the "weird ride" in her breast cancer journey, she praised the "amazing" NHS services for her treatment.
Christine said: "Just a few days ago you were given the all clear.
"I know it's going to be there [in your head], and you're always going to be aware of your body, but to hear those words at this point is a beautiful thing."
