Nine rooms, six shown here
Every room at Maren House is named for the pigment on its walls and furnished around one good idea: a copper bath, a canopy, a door onto the courtyard. All include breakfast until midday, use of the plunge pool, and the roof at any hour.
Chapter I · Room 01
The green room at the top of the painted stair.
Deep viridian walls, a canopied king bed and a pair of arched windows over the courtyard fig. The quietest green in the house and the first room we ever finished, which is why it still gets the best chair.
Chapter II · Room 02
Rose-pink suite with a sitting room and sea light.
Our largest room, washed floor to ceiling in madder rose. A proper sitting room, a bed you have to climb slightly to get into, and the pale gold light that only the sea end of Kemptown gets in the afternoon.
Chapter III · Room 03
Ochre double above the courtyard lanterns.
Warm ochre plaster, brass lamps and a low arched alcove that swallows an armchair whole. At night the courtyard lanterns come on below the window and the whole room turns the colour of its own name.
Chapter IV · Room 04
Blue-black hideaway made for late risers.
The darkest room in the house, on purpose. Indigo walls, heavy curtains, a bed dressed in linen the colour of midnight and nothing to wake you but the gulls, and we have had words with the gulls.
Chapter V · Room 05
Burgundy double with the best bath in Brighton.
Burgundy lacquer, a green marble washstand, and a copper bath set squarely in the room where a wardrobe ought to be. The bath takes eleven minutes to fill and we consider that part of the experience.
Chapter VI · Room 06
Garden-level room opening straight onto the courtyard.
Soft olive green with its own arched door onto the courtyard, so you can pad from bed to plunge pool in eleven steps. We counted. Best for anyone who thinks a hotel room should have a garden attached.
The remaining three rooms, Chalk, Cinnabar and Weld, open this autumn.
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