English Garden Designer Constructs Mushroom-Shaped Home for His Daughter—Explore the Interior
A garden designer from England built a mushroom-shaped house for his daughter, bringing her imaginary world to life.
“I think she was always a bit away with the fairies and always drawing, and she knew that I could build things,” Ben Swansborough, 53, who owns Swansborough Gardens in Surrey, England, said of his 20-year-old daughter, Elsie Swansborough.
That’s why it likely didn’t surprise him when, in 2015, his daughter, then 11, asked, “Dad, can you build me a house the shape of a mushroom?”
Mr. Swansborough replied, “Of course! I will one day.”
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