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

Above: The very light and spacious bedrooms are all furnished with calming
neutrals. The oversized headboard is designed and made by Lauren and the
lamps are Flos Left: A lamp by Julian Chichester in a corner of the bedroom
is launched – and sold – as early as possible. “We do the show flat just
before the launch and it’s amazing how it looks identical to the CGIs.”
When it came to purchasing her own home two and a half
years ago, Lauren was very well placed to put her experience and
talents into practice and collaborated closely with the developers
to ensure that she got the look and feel exactly right.
“I worked with them to choose the flooring, the carpets, the doors – I
wanted a high gloss finish, not wooden doors and I knew just which
carpets I wanted because we had used them in one of our developments.”
The interior finishes were just as she wanted prior to moving
in – except that she had nothing to move in with. Looking
around, it is hard to imagine that she arrived with only a few
sticks of furniture and some bags of clothes. Lauren smiles: “I’ve
never had a modern house before. I had come from a Georgian
property. It was so different I decided to start from scratch.”
For Lauren, furnishing the house has been an evolutionary process
and one that is still in progress. “I did three phases of furnishing
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