Surrey Homes | SH26 | December 2016 | Interiors supplement inside

Previous page: The wall sconce is from Butlers Emporium in
Hastings Old Town, rewired by Philip Oakley Above: The dining
chairs are from various junk shops Left: The lampshades in the
sitting room are from the range Louise used to sell at Liberty, in
her designs Autumn Leaves and Erotica, which was inspired by
the work of Aubrey Beardsley
West Hill in Hastings, but quickly outgrew it,” says Louise,
who now shares the house, not only with her husband Jonny
but also with their two children, Isaac, 10, and Marney, 7.
Louise grew up with her two siblings in a huge Victorian
house in Surrey (the house was split between five families)
so feels very at home with high ceilings and big windows.
But it does make for a very large blank canvas. “We’ve
worked on it gradually, over ten years,” says Louise, as we
head into the open-plan living room-cum-dining room.
The couple knocked through to create one huge room, as
opposed to two, with complementary decor linking the two
areas. A large dining table occupies the rear of the room,
next to a modest fireplace and overlooking the garden.
“The wallpaper is from my new Murals collection and is
called ‘Still Lake’,” says Louise, when prompted, “and the
walls are painted in Pale Powder by Farrow & Ball.”
45 wealdentimes.co.uk