Wealden Times | WT264 | May 2024 | Love Your Home Supplement inside

“I like things to feel streamlined.
You can add in colour with
accessories – details like plug
sockets are really important.
You can install a more
reasonably priced kitchen, but
include more expensive taps
and sink and accessories.”
is mainly white, but colourful mood boards and
samples of paint and fabric are spread on walls and
the table; evidence of Emma’s busy design practice.
There is even a comfortable sunny deck outside at
the back, overlooking the garden and the adjacent
communal orchard – “It’s a lovely place to sit
and the sun sets over there,” she gestures towards
the trees to her right. The atmosphere out here is
relaxed, almost Mediterranean when you look across
to the pool, but the neighbouring oast house, apple
orchard and the fresh green of the landscape beyond
makes it charmingly and unmistakably English.
It takes a clear vision, determination and a
sense of place to transform a heritage property.
Left: A very useful utility room is accessed
to the rear of the kitchen
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