Wealden Times | WT166 | December 2015 | Interiors supplement inside

Above: A vintage ‘Make do and Mend’ poster decorates the spare bedroom,
and sits above the homemade quilt and alongside Claire’s much-used sewing
area. Left: Flowers from the garden complement the ‘mood board’
The bedrooms are simply decorated,
highlighting Claire’s sense of colour in
accessories and soft furnishings. There are jars
of buttons and ribbons where you might have
seen face cream and hairbrushes and, by the
window is a desk, or rather, a sewing station
shape of the dresses, the spirit of the times, the mucking in
together” a spirit epitomised by the Land Girl organisation.
Upstairs, the spare room and the larger of the bedrooms
— where I try to imagine the serried ranks of bunks for
strapping land girls — doubles as a workspace for Claire.
She has been resourceful in furnishing the bedrooms, even
managing to find almost identical bedside tables for her
bedroom from two completely different places, and restoring
them, so that they now look as if they came as a pair. The
bedrooms are simply decorated, highlighting Claire’s sense
of colour in accessories and soft furnishings. There are jars
of buttons and ribbons where you might have seen face
cream and hairbrushes and, by the window is a desk,
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