Wealden Times | WT179 | January 2017 | Health & Beauty supplement inside

This page: The cool and calm en suite and tiled fireplace in the
master bedroom
original fireplace and built in a window seat to match. On
the walls there are more of Geoff’s pictures collected from
his time working on magazines like Vogue, Elle, Red and
Glamour. And set against the back wall is a 1950s dresser from
Annie’s parents upon which is a wonderful collection of white
ceramics, from hand thrown precious items to Ikea. It works.
Upstairs, thanks to triple aspect windows the master
bedroom is wonderfully light. With off white walls on three
sides and a lovely shade of indigo patterned wallpaper on the
fourth – which picks up the blue tiles of the fireplace – it is a
very calm room. A wonderful feature is the light fitting, which
apart from new shades is completely original. It is somewhat
of a mystery as to why all the light fittings in the bedrooms
are by the windows rather than in the centre of the ceiling but
the most likely explanation is that it was a modesty thing. By
placing the lights in the windows, the Edwardians living in
these houses could move around inside their bedroom when
the lights were on without casting a shadow on the curtains.
The Warings knocked through one of the five
bedrooms of the original house to make a sunny en suite
bathroom decorated in neutral tones, with pale woodwork
shutters. Cleverly they made sure that all the basins,
baths, taps etc. were of the Edwardian period so you
really wouldn’t know this was a modern addition.
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