Wealden Times | WT164 | October 2015 | Food supplement inside
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Previous pages & this page: The downstairs space is now a living room and<br />
kitchen with a small bathroom off the kitchen<br />
Someone once said that one can never be too<br />
rich, too thin – or have too much space in<br />
which to express oneself. It may have been<br />
me but no matter – it still has a certain element of<br />
truth about it. When it comes to interior design,<br />
the available space between any collection of walls<br />
is critical, dictating both concept and execution.<br />
If you’ve space by the barrel-load, you’re laughing.<br />
Big spaces are not only generous in that they offer the<br />
greatest possibilities, they are also forgiving – a near<br />
miss here or a little indulgence there really doesn’t<br />
matter, the grand design still triumphs. Smaller<br />
spaces are a whole different ball game. They hoover<br />
creativity and are about as forgiving as a rattlesnake.<br />
So faced with a fisherman’s cottage in Hastings<br />
offering what was effectively a grand total of four<br />
modest rooms Linda had her work cut out. Her<br />
treatment of her family’s main home, under an hour<br />
away, had already been a serious success and the<br />
property had featured in a previous issue of <strong>Wealden</strong><br />
<strong>Times</strong> (www.wealdentimes.co.uk/house/wt136a) but<br />
this was an entirely different animal and called for<br />
a completely different approach and skill set.<br />
Linda is one of the Three French Hens, three<br />
Francophile old school friends who have set up a<br />
business sourcing brocante home and garden<br />
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