Wealden Times | WT163 | September 2015 | Education supplement inside

This page: On the first floor, the family bathroom and loo are painted a mossy green and nautical blue, lined with off-white wood panelling
splashback for the cooker, which works very well as a
replacement for tiles, especially as there’s never much
wall space in a kitchen. The lockers in the dining part
of the kitchen were originally destined for one of the
bedrooms upstairs, “but they were so heavy and hard to
move that they just had to stay there,” Annette says.
Annette is a curtain maker and ideas for colour schemes
have often come from bits of fabric – scraps left over from
jobs. She is very sensitive to colour. “I think I’m OCD
about it!” she laughs, “I don’t like it if the colour scheme
doesn’t work.” This extends throughout the house. Grey is
a predominant backdrop, blending into all the individual
schemes within each room and seamlessly uniting the whole
house together. “When you look at the house, and the
garden, you’ll see that I actually use very few colours. Lesson
Two: Use one predominant colour in different shades
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