Wealden Times | WT184 | June 2017 | Kitchen & Bathroom supplement inside

Right: Susie found the antique kilim in one bedroom in an
antiques centre near her home in Crystal Palace
Below: The twin bedroom features a fern theme, inspired
by the vegetation in the garden it overlooks
and feminine, with a white fireplace and over mantle
mirror, a lovely old brass bed and a temptingly squashy
armchair. As in its equivalent directly below, there’s
a shell table, this one filled with beach treasures
picked up by their mother ‘all over the world’.
The bedroom behind it has a complementary
masculine feel, with the air of a gentleman’s
club in the leather chair, velvet curtains, horse
painting and the ‘New Antique Books’ wallpaper
by St Leonard-based wallpaper designer Deborah
Bowness. Most of the furniture and objects in
this room are from their father’s house.
The final bedroom is very much a child’s sanctuary,
featuring a dolls’ house made for the daughter of their
sister Jen. Susie found the lovely wooden shutters in a
skip – and deliberately didn’t have them renovated.
Let out together the flats sleep twelve and it’s
impossible not to imagine excited children running
up and down between the two – perhaps taking
turns to hop up the steps into the princess and
the pea bed – in a spirit of close family fun
very much in keeping with the owners.
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