Wealden Times | WT230 | July 2021 | Education supplement inside

Above left: Shelves, units and walls throughout the house are
filled with collections of objects, artworks and conversationprompting
objects Above right: The downstairs loo is an eyepleasing
combination of raspberry red panelling and soft peach
walls Right: Weaving up between the three floors of the house,
the staircase is flanked by a continually evolving gallery of pictures
that Victoria has collected from boot fairs and charity shops
collections of objects, instantly filling the room with character.
The stuffed seagull – an eBay find – gives it a seaside
context and shares the top row with a classic Victorian
china dog, 1970s ceramics, a brightly patterned tin
tray and some plants. And that’s just one shelf.
This pretty much sets the tone for the house. There
is a lot going on in every corner, but because it has
such generous proportions – and because one very
specific eye is behind all the choices – it never feels
cluttered. Rather, it feels rich and rewarding.
Indeed, at times, I had to stop and let myself
have a moment to take it all in, there are so many
lovely things to look at wherever your gaze falls.
The sitting room brought me to a halt, initially, for
another reason – it is so properly big. But what could be
an almost dauntingly large room has been cleverly broken
up with colour, into two more manageable spaces.
The original square room is painted a very matt
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