Wealden Times | WT262 | March 2024 | Kitchen & Bathroom Supplement inside

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