Wealden Times | WT248 | January 2023 | Health & Beauty Supplement inside

My vision was
that from the
sitting room
you wouldn’t be
able to tell there
was a kitchen
there. It seems
to work, because
often people are
very surprised to
find a kitchen
just behind
the bookcase
and when friends came over I was
stuck in the kitchen on the lower
ground floor, feeling like Cinderella,
hearing peels of laughter from the
drawing room, one flight up.
The only way to get with the
modern lifestyle was to move, so the
Victorian terrace house just round
the corner – so still in the Old Town
conservation area we love, but not
Listed – was the perfect solution.
My plan was very simple. As with
most Victorian terraces, it has a small
one-storey extension at the back for
the kitchen (which was to avoid fires
spreading). In many of the houses
in the street, these have already been
extended across the back to double
the kitchen space and that’s what I
wanted to do. A tiny little extension,
half the size of the back of the house.
Simples, right?
After three months in a rental, round
the corner, we had two lovely new
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