Heart Home magazine Issue 12 - June 2014 | Page 24

While the couple still have plans to knock down the 1960s flat roof extension and put in a kitchen and
another bedroom and bathroom upstairs, for the moment much of the structural work is complete,
leaving Louisa to inject her modern country living style on this centuries-old building. “I love mixing
antique and vintage pieces with lots of textured materials and pops of colours,” she says. “There are
always lots of new purchases as it’s a bit of an occupational hazard. My most recent purchase though is a
metal frame coffee table with a grey and white striped top. I designed it and West Egg now stocks them.”
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