Surrey Homes | SH49 | November 2018 | Gift supplement inside

This page: The beach hut in St Leonards that Annemarie shares
with her friends Lulu Cousin and Tiff McGinnis
Revival (every September). Where does she buy her antiques?
“Oh all over the place, in Hastings I love Up the Garden
Path, I go to the big boot sale in Icklesham and all over
in Bexhill-on-Sea. In Lewes I go to May’s Antiques.”
Annemarie tells me with delight about the beach hut
that she has just started renting with a friend. We drive
down to the nearby beach and despite it being the first
day of heavy rain in weeks, a bolt of sunshine leaps out
as soon as Annemarie opens the hut’s wooden door.
Pink, blue and red walls and floors are decorated
with bunting, trimmings, rugs and throws, all of which
shout of a good time to be had by the seaside.
Loulou Cousin, the maker of the furniture both at the
hut and at the house, arrives. I ask her about the little
animals that line the hut’s ceiling joists and shelves. Are
they voodoo dolls? No, they are psychedelic acid bunny
rabbits she says, offering me a chocolate Hob Nob as the
kettle gently bubbles away on the gas camping stove.
The beach house has been a fun new project and now, for
personal reasons, it is time for Annemarie to move on
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