Wealden Times | WT259 | December 2023 | Christmas Supplement inside

Previous pages & above: “My kitchen was inspired by the kitchen in the TV show, Dr Foster,” says Charlotte. The units are from Ikea and
Charlotte and Sam added a quartz worktop to give it a feeling of luxury
To have one creative string
to your bow is all well and
good. To have two is a major
achievement. Mother of one, lawyer,
dancer, singer and actor Charlotte
Fisher can now add interior designer
and TV personality to the everexpanding
list of her talents.
For anyone who, like me, is an
avid fan of Interior Design Masters,
Charlotte will be instantly recognisable.
Making it to episode three in this year’s
series, it was her controversial placement
of a bed in the luxury hotel project
that was sadly to be her downfall.
“I never really thought I would make
it to the final show when I applied,”
says Charlotte who is talking to me
with a small bundle of joy sitting
quietly on her lap (since filming
wrapped earlier this year, Charlotte
became mum to baby boy Elton). “I
am a practising lawyer and I had no
experience in interior design, apart
from doing interiors for myself. I was
doing our house in Surrey when I
applied, and we had also converted
a small bungalow in Cornwall, but I
had no professional background and
so finding myself there with so much
talent around me, well it was a bit
of a ‘pinch me’ moment!” she says.
“With so many big characters like the
fellow designers Tom Power, Jack Kinsey
and winner Monika Charchula making
their mark, the experience, whilst
stressful and a complete whirlwind, was
very positive and taught me more about
interior design in a few months than I
could have ever learnt in the real world.
We had to source everything ourselves
during the week, which was really hard
when I was also working full time.
We had to load a van and drive it to
the location and I was pregnant at the
time, so it was a pretty insane schedule.
I really loved working alongside Tom
especially, and to be honest I thought
he would be the eventual winner.”
So just how does a lawyer get to have
so many creative threads in her life? “I
have always been very creative,” says
Charlotte. “I studied arts at school but
at university I studied law, It’s always
been a bit of a seesaw between the
two parts of me, the artistic and the
intellectual. After university I trained
in musical theatre and did some acting
in London but then as the recession
hit, I returned to law and did the
singing and dancing in my spare time.
The design story began when my
husband Sam and I bought our first
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