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

Top: An amazing captain’s window is the stand out feature of the sitting room in the upstairs flat Above right The kitchen tucks neatly into a room
at the rear of the flat Above left: An armchair upholstered in a patchwork of Ikat provides the perfect place to sink into after a day at the seaside
Susie, “I began to think it would be lovely to have somewhere
by the sea to go to at weekends. Me and my three sisters spent
our childhood holidays with our grandparents in Lyme Regis,
but that was too far to go from London for a weekend.
“One day I just had this inspiration that I should look
in Hastings. That very afternoon I opened the Evening
Standard and in the homes section there was a picture
of a flat in Hastings with a lovely window, for sale.”
The next morning she was standing in it and thinking
it was even better than it had looked in the paper.
“But I thought, ‘I can’t buy the first place I look at…’
so I dragged my four-year-old round five more flats
– and then came back and bought the first one.”
Adding to the luck of that chance sighting was that
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