Surrey Homes | SH110 | March 2024 | Kitchen & Bathroom Supplement inside
The lifestyle magazine for Surrey - Inspirational Interiors, Fabulous Fashion, Delicious Dishes
The lifestyle magazine for Surrey - Inspirational Interiors, Fabulous Fashion, Delicious Dishes
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Previous pages: The sitting room has a broad range of<br />
seating to get comfy on, all of which are generously<br />
be-cushioned and covered in velvet This page: The<br />
kitchen, at the back of the house, had already been<br />
converted when Sarah Jane and Mark bought the<br />
house, with a professional kitchen stainless-steel unit<br />
and range set against a bare-brick wall, with a Crittal<br />
window and door looking out on to the courtyard<br />
In one of the rooms in Sarah Jane Morris and Mark<br />
Pulsford’s house in St Leonards-on-Sea, I counted<br />
no fewer than 14 different patterns and prints,<br />
dancing across wallpaper and fabric, shimmying on<br />
walls and curtains, teasing from furniture, the bed<br />
and cushions. And I might have missed a few.<br />
It takes a lot of confidence to decorate like this<br />
– something SJM has no shortage of. After forty<br />
five years as a singer and recording artist, she has<br />
her own label ‘Fallen Angel Records’ and is about<br />
to release her 16th solo album ‘The Sisterhood’.<br />
You might know her name from her earlier<br />
work when she was one of the singers with The<br />
Communards – her deep-pitched voice a brilliant<br />
foil for Jimmy Somerville’s famous falsetto.<br />
With such an exciting performing career, which still<br />
includes a lot of touring, it’s perhaps not surprising<br />
that Sarah Jane is no stranger to the packing chest.<br />
“I’ve moved 37 times,” she tells me, beaming<br />
her trademark smile, as we sit on the printed <br />
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