Wealden Times | WT186 | August 2017 | Wedding supplement inside

This page: Just about everything in the kitchen is from
SHOP. This includes the rack of wooden shelves by Garden
Trading and everything in them: enamel bowls and jugs of
various sizes, vintage cups and saucers and cook books
frames – with orange pine doors and floors. There was a
nightmare 1980s gas fire which occupied a space in the
newly-exposed sandstone wall, and the kitchen was dark
brown wood and orange. The outside was pebble dash…”
But with her designer’s eye, Helen could see
beyond the dark brown and ginger pine to the simple
elegance of the house beneath – starting with that
pebble dash, which had to be chipped off by hand.
“I had a vision for it – I wanted it as light and
white as possible and open – the whole Greek
light thing. It was a massive amount of work and
I’d never done it before. But if I want to do
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