Four rooms at a time

We said we'd do the rooms properly. Slowly, without rushing toward something we didn't believe in yet. That's still the plan, and it's why we're doing them four at a time.

There'll be thirty rooms in all. Rather than close the doors and disappear for a year, we're working through them in fours, which is how sixteen of them are already open and taking guests while we get on with the rest.

We've spent more time arguing about paint than any sensible person should. Warm greens that catch the Downs through the window. Plaster that looks like it's always been there. Fabric you actually want to reach out and touch. Beds you won't want to leave in the morning, which is rather the point of the whole thing.

None of them are trying to be hotel rooms. We wanted rooms that feel like the best version of a room in a good friend's house, if that friend happened to have very good taste and a view of the South Downs.

Here's the part that's surprised me. The sixteen that are open are booking better than we'd have guessed. People are staying, and telling us they'll be back, while the next lot are still under dust sheets. I don't take that lightly. It tells me people want what we're building here.

So we'll keep going. Four rooms at a time, properly, until all thirty are right.

Sixteen are open now. If you'd like to hear the moment the next four are ready, put your name down and we'll tell you.

Jack & Danny