Small bedroom in a converted barn

Were you to read that, when designing a house of the Seven Dwarves in the animated film version of Snow White, Disneys artists had taken their inspiration from early photographs of this very eighteenth century barn, you might well believe it.

However, youd be off by several decades, for although the main footprint of this fairytale Oxfordshire barn is original, much of its glorious eccentricity and atmosphere is totally fake. Lincoln and Tish Seligmans home designed by the artist Paul Nicholls who was the former occupant has been divided cleverly using beams, ladders, platforms and mezzanines.