Wealden Times | WT265 | June 2024 | Education Supplement inside

This page, clockwise from top left: Extra
worktop space and cabinetry for wine and
glassware storage runs along one wall of
the kitchen; a Dan Hillier in the open plan
kitchen/dining area; a wine wall was created in
the dining room, and mirrored in the sitting
room next door, using bricks salvaged from
other parts of the house during the build
or form, which I call my ‘yellow brick
road’,” explains Angela. “The concept
is something I learned from my good
friend Sam (an artist, photographer and
designer) who has mentored me over
several years and projects to develop
my own interior design skills. She is
an indispensable source of wisdom on
colour choice and originally suggested the
Slaked Lime which has been a triumph.”
Slaked Lime features in every room
bar one – “that ensures that as you go
around the house, as you move from one
room to the other, it feels harmonious.
It all flows and has a journey.” There
are also one or two pieces in each room
that act as an anchor in terms of colours
and textures. In the living room, the
original Jo Barrett painting and Chinese
rug, both previously owned, served as a
springboard for the colour scheme, not
just in this room, but throughout. “I’m
not just doing each room in isolation. If
I’m choosing a fabric for the sofa it still
needs to harmonise with all the other
tones that I’ve got through the house.”
This sense of flow has also been applied
to layout, and nowhere more so than
the open, light-filled first floor landing,
which was originally dark, pokey and
had several disconnected rooms leading
from it. “Now when you’re standing on
the landing on the first floor, I think it
feels like this is how the house always
should have been. We’ve got a kind
of heart of the house that goes from
top to bottom and everything radiates
and flows around it beautifully.”
It was important to Angela that each
of her three children had decent sized
double bedrooms on the same floor as
her, to create a family space, while the top
floor (converted from loft space) could
be more self-contained for guests. “For
our bedroom we took the two largest
rooms on the first floor and created our
suite,” says Angela. The suite centres
around a main pillar, allowing the
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