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

Below left: The bedside tables are Graham & Green and the lamps are Vaughan Designs Right: A quiet seating area on the very
spacious landing Bottom: In the second guest bedroom a sideboard by MFUK, the ‘photobooth’ photos were found in Camden
and tackled it in stages,” she explains. “You get interior
fatigue if you try to do it all at once. I think it’s important
to have a break and then come back in with fresh
ideas once you’ve lived in the space for a while.”
The walls in all the rooms are white, or pale neutrals,
which emphasises the airy spaciousness of the house.
There’s just one wall in the kitchen that has been
wallpapered. “In my last house I used a ton of wallpaper,
but it was a very different house, the rooms were much
smaller and more detailed. Smaller spaces suit wallpaper.
In a bigger space it’s easier to just do feature walls.
Phase one was the kitchen and the main bedrooms:
“The lived in spaces that we use every day.” The kitchen
was installed by the developer, so Lauren’s scope was
more limited in here, but she has plans to update it. “At
some point I’ll have the kitchen cupboards wrapped in
a mix of concrete and then accessorise with something
metal – a burnt gold colour would work.”
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