Wealden Times | WT166 | December 2015 | Interiors supplement inside

Above: a rustic farmhouse table overlooking the kitchen garden is the perfect
place to sit down and enjoy a meal made from home-grown vegetables Left:
Bloomsbury-inspired wallpaper in the living room
Claire has used considerable ingenuity to
personalise the cottage, and perhaps this is
made more evident because changes can only
be decorative. “I have to be more imaginative
and I try not to spend any money. I like to
‘make do and mend”
day. Much of the paint comes from Little Greene. “I
like colour,” Claire says, “but not on the walls. I like to
use it in different pieces, and change things around.” A
useful tip to follow if you’re decorating on a budget.
Claire has used considerable ingenuity to personalise the
cottage, and perhaps this is made more evident because
changes can only be decorative. “I have to be more
imaginative and I try not to spend any money. I like to
‘make do and mend’ and if I do buy things they tend to
be from junk shops – rather than antique shops. The most
money I’ve spent is on a chest of drawers in my bedroom
and that was £200. I did see a Jasper Conran bookcase in
John Lewis that I really liked, but it was over £600, which
was far too much, so I surreptitiously measured it, then
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