Wealden Times | WT202 | December 2018 | Health & Beauty supplement inside
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This page: The upstairs bathroom. The<br />
walls are made of Ardex and the floor is<br />
poured concrete. The brass fish is from<br />
CB2 cb2.com<br />
bathroom shop you have to get all<br />
the plumbing accessories and make<br />
sure they fit, find the legs to get it to<br />
the right height, design the taps.”<br />
These are useful tips for a trigger<br />
happy eBay-er. “Luckily we have a<br />
great plumber to make it all work.”<br />
Outside in the hall it is all faintly<br />
‘school cloakroom’. A lengthy coat<br />
rack, sourced in Rye, but originally<br />
from a school changing room, exactly<br />
fits along the wall opposite the<br />
bathroom, affording plenty of space<br />
for hanging coats, hats and, in the<br />
summer, a long row of beach towels.<br />
The floor at ground level is polished<br />
concrete, liberally scattered with<br />
cowhide rugs. This finish makes<br />
cleaning fairly straightforward.<br />
“It’s a beach house, we want to<br />
keep the industrial Scandinavian<br />
style,” she says, “but we get a lot<br />
of sand. It gets in all the cracks, so<br />
you need easy zones that are easy to<br />
sweep. It suits a minimalist style.”<br />
A kitchen is not an easy place to be<br />
minimalist, but this one is of such a<br />
generous size, with a chunky old work<br />
bench, found in the original garage,<br />
up-cycled into a kitchen counter, a<br />
huge table made from scaffolding<br />
planks and giant metal racking for all<br />
the cooking and dining equipment.<br />
It all looks purposeful and able to<br />
generously cater. Much of the time,<br />
however, the cooking is done out<br />
on the deck in the pizza oven.<br />
The couple firmly believe in<br />
repurposing and renewing. “We<br />
try to be eco-friendly,” Gigi says.<br />
“It’s a respectful way to live.<br />
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