Surrey Homes | SH110 | March 2024 | Kitchen & Bathroom Supplement inside

“We looked at 50
properties and then
three months later I
had a call from the
estate agent, saying
this one was back
on the market”
Left: Open shelving and concealed
wall cupboards provide plenty of
storage space for kitchen sundries
Below left & right: A doorway at
the back of the kitchen leads to an
almost labyrinthine twist of storage,
utility room, laundry drying space
and downstairs shower room
velvet covered sofas in the sitting room. “And lived in a lot of
rentals, so I’m very quick at making a place look like home.”
But there is nothing transient about this quirky house
on a quiet corner in St Leonards’ fashionable ‘Mercatoria’
area – perhaps because it was Sarah Jane’s second go at living
in the Hastings locale. “I moved to St Leonards-on-Sea
15 years ago,” she says, “to be near my best friend, Angie,
who I met when I was 20. But just 18 months later she
died. I was heartbroken and couldn’t stay in Hastings.”
But in the way these things do, it all worked out, because
by then Sarah Jane had met and married her husband,
visual artist Mark Pulsford, and with her son Otis at a
good stage in his education to move schools, they shifted
east, to live in Mark’s house, near Canterbury.
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