Wealden Times | WT226 | March 2021 | Interiors supplement inside

Previous pages & above: The sitting room has a real parlour feeling, with a splendid chandelier and wall sconces and a glass-fronted bureau
Taking me through to the kitchen, Susan explained
the changes she made. “There was a galley kitchen in a
flat-roofed extension,” she says. “It was very dark.”
Susan replaced that dreary corner with a bright
new extension with a pitched roof and a tongue-andgroove
ceiling, which she uses as a dining area. Gazing
down through that vista of fresh white from the
kitchen and you have a blueprint for the whole house.
A mix of clever new ideas, with lovely old things.
The three pendant lights over the table have shades
made from old metal jelly moulds. The seating
round the dining table is made up of a church pew
and church chairs and at the end of the space, by a
picture window looking over the back garden – also
accessorised with vintage finds – is a lovely Victorian
slipper chair, a £40 find in Hastings Old Town.
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