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

Above left: A long corridor passes from the front to the back of the upstairs flat, between the sitting
room to the rear bedroom Above right: The compact bathroom has a cool nautical feel
in Highgate and the standard lamp from Angelo’s Lighting
– an iconic north London source. And if they couldn’t find
what they wanted, near home or online, they had it made.
“The dining table was too high,” says Susie, “or perhaps the
chairs we had were too low… Either way, it wasn’t working
so we had Patrick Seaman from Werewolves of London make
us some chairs specially, with a bench to go opposite.”
Heading on to look at the nearest bedroom we pass by the
kitchen, which is lovely and light from a large aperture they
had put through the wall to the sitting room. On the other
side, a utility area leads out onto a delightful balustraded
balcony, one end panelled with tongue and groove painted
a very marine shade of blue. It’s the perfect place to sit
and enjoy the view and the sea air. “It gets afternoon sun,”
says Caroline, “and the house next door provides perfect
shelter from the prevailing south westerly wind.”
While it wouldn’t be right to call the bedroom behind
the terrace the ‘master bedroom’ because all three of them
are special in both flats, it does have a very specific and
thrilling feature: a raised ‘princess and the pea’ bed.
They commissioned this from Mike and Kerry of
Woodworks 1066 - a business so local, it’s a four-minute
drive from the flats - to be high enough for guests to able
to sit and look out of the window at the sea from it. There
is storage underneath and steps up, which would make you
feel very special getting in to it. Woodworks 1066 also made
the mirror mounted on the chimney breast beside the bed.
The bedside tables were customised by their builder
John Gair, who did all the work on both apartments,
stripping them and adding shells to the top, to reflect
the octagonal table with shells under glass, by the
window, which Susie found in a rummage-about
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