Wealden Times | WT186 | August 2017 | Wedding supplement inside

Left: The suspended lamps in one of the two spare bedrooms
are from Wickle in Lewes Below: Lucinda covered the laminate
floor in Sienna’s room with a large cowhide rug from Homesense
character, including lamps from Wickle in Lewes and bulbs
from Dunelm Mill. “Dunelm do the best-value squirrelcage
bulbs – everyone else charges double,” says Lucinda.
The other spare room is to the front of the house,
and filled with afternoon sunlight as well as an array of
stylish, mostly monochrome prints. “I tend to switch
things round a bit in here, the artworks and stuff. The
yellow throw and bedding is from Homesense, the
geometric cushion is from Made.com and these cushions
are from IKEA to match the rug on the floor.”
Over the bedstead is a branch with fairy lights wrapped
around it. Lucinda collected the branch from the school
woods when she was a teenager and it’s a design motif she’s
repeated in the living room. “I went to boarding school
and my dorm was always spotless,” says Lucinda with a
smile. “I’d win the weekly prize for tidiest room and I was
always meticulous about posters and how they lined up!”
Last but not least it’s time to peek into Sienna’s room, after
her afternoon nap. “I wanted Sienna’s room to have a pared
back, calm Scandi feel to it, but I wasn’t a fan of the laminate
floor,” says Lucinda. “I painted the laminate floor in the guest
bedroom and toyed with painting the floor in here too,