Wealden Times | WT170 | April 2016 | Garden supplement inside

Above: Using subtle greys as a background colour, Perrine uses bright pops of pink to liven up the third ‘grown-up’ bedroom. The bed is by Loaf and the rest of
the decor is a family affair – Perrine found and distressed the side table, chest of drawers and mirror to match while her mother provided the abstract painting.
Original fireplaces throughout the house, and in the bedrooms, create the perfect focal point
bedroom. The white armchair is Graham & Green
and the chest of drawers and its matching mirror are
Feather & Black. En suite there is an equally chic
bathroom. Through the window there is a lovely
view of the pond and a neighbouring oast. The
third grown-ups’ bedroom has a Loaf bed and the
rest is a Perrine and French family production; she
found and distressed the side table, chest of drawers
and mirror to match while her mother – a talented
artist whose work is displayed around the house –
provided the strong red and black abstract painting.
“We renovated the first two floors of the house first
and then had to wait while we got planning permission
for our plans for the top floor,” she says. These plans
were for three children’s rooms and a bathroom. All
went well and the required approval was granted.
The result is an enchanted vaulted and beamed
eyrie for eight-year-old Amelie, six-year-old
Charles and two-and-a-half-year-old Clemence.
“The theme for Charles’ bedroom was a forest
camp with natural wood bunk beds designed
by me and made by Jason,” says Perrine.
However, children being what they are, the
finished article was met with less than overwhelming
enthusiasm on the part of Charles and a third,
more conventional bed had to be acquired. The
girls’ bedrooms are suitably pink and girly and
were, all things considered, judged up to scratch.
Perrine is still not convinced that her future
lies totally in arcadia but standing back now and
Home is not only about people, however essential they may be. Home
is also about landscape, rural or urban. Home is skies and hills, streets
and shorelines – the places we are or have been our happiest
www.wealdentimes.co.uk
82
02WT170House1.indd 82 22/03/2016 17:17