Wealden Times | WT256 | September 2023 | Education & Kitchen Supplement inside

Top: In another guest room, a sumptuous red
velvet bed is from Sofa.com Left: The entrance
hall offers ample storage for coats and bags
drawers finishes this most charming
of bedrooms. In the third guest room
Nicki has chosen calmer and more
muted tones and patterns, letting the
blue headboard in a Nina Campbell
fabric, pillows by Zara, a blue throw and
a blue velvet Ottoman sing along with
the two blue glass lamps on bedside
tables by Porta Romana. Curtain fabric
Pasha Original by Penny Morrison in
blue and ochre floral block print allows
the light to gently bathe the room.
At the end of a corridor painted
in Farrow & Ball Mouse’s Back with
an Etsy Turkish kilim on the floor, is
the master bedroom, which offers a
fabulous double aspect view over Giles’s
amazing green-fingered handiwork
in the gardens below. An awkward
room with essentially no flat walls, the
previous owner had helpfully added a
stage wall to the far end of the room
on which Nicki has placed a Kit Kemp
inspired headboard upholstered in
Caroline Inchyra fabric from Scotland,
with lights by Porta Romana and a
Cole & Son wallpaper. An ample sized
bed is covered with a Birdie Fortescue
cover. “It was quite an investment,”
says Nicki, “but it was literally the only
bed cover I could find that would fit
the bed and cover the sides properly.”
The curtain fabric is by Nile & York
and trimmed with Samuel & Sons
brush fringe, made for Nicki by local
curtain maker Christine Makin in
Beckley. Nicki has made the most of
the ceiling height by adding a pretty
French glass droplet chandelier bought
from a brocante buyer on Instagram.
An existing stone fireplace, mirroring
the new fireplace downstairs, makes
a wonderful statement atop of which
sits a tapered gold mirror from Etsy.
A grass-framed mirror from Graham
& Green gives character to the wall
above a chest of drawers with new
handles also sourced from Etsy. As
with the rest of the house, Nicki has
49
priceless-magazines.com