Wealden Times | WT213 | November 2019 | Gift supplement inside
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Above: Kate pulled out a wrought iron spiral staircase in one corner of the kitchen to create enough room for a banquette, with a<br />
round table and three Windsor chairs that she bought online<br />
mastery of proportions – is to show with great effect<br />
in her dressing room, built upstairs in the equivalent<br />
corridor area as the utility room, and leading on to<br />
her bedroom, which sits over the kitchen. This creates<br />
a kind of ‘Kate Wing’ that she can disappear into,<br />
closing the door, when she has weekend visitors.<br />
The dressing room is a joy of girlie chic, with velvety<br />
cream carpet, two slipper chairs and the sublime cupboards,<br />
with their lower panels at exactly the right height. They<br />
are finished with cast iron ‘twig’ handles by Ashley<br />
Hicks, providing the perfect place for everything.<br />
With a lovely double aspect, one window looking out onto<br />
the garden, both are finished with curtains in a Christopher<br />
Farr fabric, which are double lined with blackout and<br />
thermal bump, which gives that rich blankety effect and<br />
maximum warmth, as are all the curtains in the house.<br />
“I went to town on the curtains,” says Kate, who has<br />
all the details and samples of the decorative scheme<br />
properly filed, room by room, like the professional she is.<br />
“This is my forever house, so I wanted to do it once, in<br />
timeless style, not trend driven, which isn’t me anyway.<br />
My style is more eclectic. I’ve had all my furniture for<br />
years, I didn’t buy anything new for the house.”<br />
The calm collected style of the dressing room is the<br />
perfect foil for the drama of the wallpaper in the master<br />
bedroom, a wonderful huge scale jungle design by Lewis<br />
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