Wealden Times | WT163 | September 2015 | Education supplement inside

This page: Complete with a marble fireplace, one of the spare bedrooms is painted a pale, creamy gold which complements the honeyed floorboards and furniture
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.”
to unite spaces. “Grey works well because it offsets all
other colours, so you can use it to mix and match with
and then use different colours as accents.” This sounds so
simple, but it takes an experienced eye – and one that people
would happily pay for. When I suggest to Annette that
she could be an interior designer she laughs and says she’s
happy just making curtains. “I’m not bossy enough and
wouldn’t want to impose my ideas on people.” From where I
sit, making curtains is a terrifyingly clever thing to do by itself
anyway. I once made a Roman blind (this isn’t the start of a
bad taste joke by the way) – a window blind that went wonky
in many directions. I know that curtain making of all kinds
(unless it’s just wedging a tea towel up against the window)
is a huge skill and one to be in awe of. Nevertheless it
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