Wealden Times | WT182 | April 2017 | Gardens supplement inside

The wall colours
throughout the house are
beautifully subtle, but
unlike the litany of Farrow
& Ball paint names most of
us spout, Adrian and Sven
can’t remember what any of
them are. “Our decorator
came with some paint
charts and we chose them
all in twenty minutes,”
says Adrian. “I think they
were mostly Dulux. Then
I added a bit of extra
white here and there…”
Left: Adrian and Sven bought the light
fitting in the sitting room from an
antiques shop in Bruges. Below left:
Adrian embellished the vintage wig
stand with hundreds of crystals, sequins
and buttons. He had the trumpet as
a boy Below: A vintage school map
of Germany hangs over a sofa that
used to belong to Adrian’s parents
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