Surrey Homes | SH71 | Sept & Oct 2020 | Kitchen & Bathroom supplement inside

A stunning etched glass light fitting, comprising five glass baubles hangs over
the dining table. “I wanted a light like this for ages. Then one day I popped
into a local shop and there it was!” says Sadie. “I had to get the wiring re-done
to make the drops longer, but it was exactly what I had imagined.”
then paint all the walls and the stairs white. She could then
move her young family in and begin to add colour and
personality without any pressure. Pregnant with her third
child, moving into the new house was a priority for the
family, but a new baby meant that Sadie’s interior design
ideas had to be put on hold for a few years whilst she
focused on being a mum. “I had been very sick in South
Africa, and had to stop work having contracted bacterial
meningitis when my second child was very young. I wanted
to focus on family life after moving back from South Africa.”
Slowly taking her time, Sadie eventually began to add her
unique style and eye for design to the house. “The kitchen
and garden renovation was finished three years ago,” says
Sadie. “At the back of the house was a loo, a utility room
and the kitchen. It all felt very removed from the rest of
the house as well as from the garden. It was that very old
fashioned sort of layout where everything was hidden away.
Also the house is on a hill so we had to have the garden
terraced, to push it back from the house and give us more
light and space at the back and a better working garden. We
then opened up the whole area around the old kitchen,
knocking it all through and added the large window
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