Wealden Times | WT226 | March 2021 | Interiors supplement inside

This page: The dining room is in the extension that Susan
added. Metal jelly mould pendant lights hang over the table
which is flanked by a church pew and church chairs
An old watering can sits under a marble-topped console
table and there are vintage floral prints on the walls, all
setting the scene for the segue to the outside space.
Looking through the window I see there is a lovely summer
house at the end of the garden and I’m start to imagine the
very pleasant afternoons that could be spent in it, but Susan
explains – it’s used as storage for her fabric collection.
This is a lifelong passion, which led her to study for a
BA(Hons) in textile design, specialising in prints for interiors
fabrics, at Winchester Art College, training she uses now
for projects around her own home – and plans to get back
to, ere long, in a more serious way (of which more, later).
Stepping back into the kitchen, which is arranged around
a central island, Susan explains how she reorganised the
space when she bought the house 13 years ago. “The hall
corridor led to a downstairs loo and a huge cupboard, so I
made it into a laundry cupboard on one side and a pantry
on the other, with blackboard paint on the doors.”
The whole kitchen is on a monochrome theme, with
charcoal grey cabinets – from Howdens – below and a variety
of fittings on the walls, from various interesting sources.
The white wall cupboards with glass doors are the
upper parts of two dressers, which Susan bifurcated,
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