Surrey Homes | SH16 | February 2016 | Wedding supplement inside

Above: The master bedroom is painted in Bone China by Little Greene with
a striking light fitting from Gong Lighting – who specialise in vintage ideas
with a twist Left: An original fireplace makes the perfect focal point for the
room and a collection of ‘objets trouvés’
house. She’s wisely decided there’s no point trying
to inflict her own design ideas on the children and
they should have what they want. But obviously this
little girl – the other one is a baby – has as much
style as her mum; if you think it will be an explosion
of bubble gum pink and sparkles, think again.
She wants to be a teacher, so top of her wish list was
to have a blackboard and more recently, keeping up
with the times, a white board. The walls and ceiling are
all painted in a coral – Justine thinks by using just one
‘up and over’ colour you draw more attention to the
hero products in the room such as the amazing IKEA
Mascros light fitting which she spray-painted to create
a unique piece – she refers to it as ‘Ikea hacking’.
She tips me off that companies like IKEA and French
Connection employ teams of young, talented designers
to create their original and affordable collections and
as she wisely points out you never know, one of them
might just turn out to be the next Eames or Wegner. It
has been a very educational visit, so many generously
shared ideas and contacts, though I rather suspect we
only scratched the surface of this very original and
inspiring interior designer’s Little Black Book.
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