Wealden Times | WT200 | October 2018 | Kitchen & Bathroom supplement inside

Above: Looking from the hall into the kitchen. The antique settle (client purchase) cushion is covered in Colefax &
Fowler grey and natural check fabric, the glass lamp Porta Romana. The ceiling pendant in the kitchen Olive & Fox,
Tunbridge Wells
The bookshelves have been painted in a very
dark blue/almost black. “We took the plunge and
painted the shelves in this very dark palette. It’s
fab, exactly the effect we wanted,” says Belinda.
An oak-framed, leaded window – in what was
once an exterior wall – allows light to flood in
through the study and into the kitchen. “Cox’s
took out the leaded window, restored it and
put it back, replicating the style on either side,
and framing it with oak,” says Belinda.
The oak shelf under the leaded window holds
a collection of medieval artifacts while the blind
overhead, featuring block-printed stags, has a medieval
look. “Our client spotted that fabric which, given her
husband’s love of the medieval period and the colour
red, was spot on.” The fabric is a design by Lindsay
Alker, who is based in Hastings. A staircase leads up to
the ‘gentleman’s suite’ of dressing room and bedroom.
Our tour continues into the next room – now the
snug and formerly the kitchen. “You could say that
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