Wealden Times | WT166 | December 2015 | Interiors supplement inside

Above: the guest bedroom looks out across parkland and has
panelling painted in Farrow & Ball’s Light Blue for a tranquil
feel. Right: a nearby bathroom is similarly serene
It must be a real treat for town-dwelling
guests to lie in such a beautiful room gazing
out over the East Sussex countryside
‘Heating Chamber’, ‘Kitchen’, ‘Dairy’ etc – you might
expect Mrs Patmore to appear at any moment!
The other room that leads directly off the main hall is
the drawing room – a very elegant room whose Georgian
proportions are superb. It still has all the original plaster
moulding although, when the Gunnings first saw the
house it was covered by rather shocking pink and white
wallpaper. Now the room is painted in a soft grey, Slaked
Lime by Little Greene, which really opens it up to create
a lovely light and spacious room. Having moved from a
fairly small cottage to a house with large and grand rooms,
more furniture was required in a fairly short time which
has been sourced from all manner of places. Some has been
given and some found – Becky is especially fond of an
old card index chest, now used as a side table, which they
came across on a pavement in Rye with a ‘please take me’
sign on it. Becky has stylishly mixed junk shop finds with
contemporary pieces such as silver lamps from Georgia
Lacey, some great finds from the Wealden Times Fairs
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