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

Previous page: In the dining room, the chairs are by Koket and Lauren found the dining table in a shop on the King’s
Road. The sculpture is by her friend Maria Bassett and is made out of concrete Top: The sofas are by Two is Company.
Lauren designed the ottoman Above: Lauren buys some artworks from The Affordable Art Fair
depicting ice lollies in various states of being eaten.
“Big pieces work in here,” says Lauren: “I really want a giant
balloon sculpture going right up to the roof by the stairs.”
It is certainly the perfect space for a statement.
Lauren follows my gaze up towards the soaring double
height ceiling in the entrance hall. “It was the height,
the space, the light, that I liked,” she explains.
This sounds like a fair comment – but takes on greater
significance when you know she was imagining the
height and space when she made that decision, because
she bought the house off plan – before it was built
two and a half years ago. A brave step for most, but as
a property developer of some standing, Lauren has a
special gift for visualizing spaces from floor plans.
Property development was not something that she had
originally intended to do. Lauren’s training and background
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