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Jewellery designer and founder of Annoushka Jewellery, Annoushka Ducas has lived in this Georgian Sussex home for 27 years, but she says it was love at first sight.
“I do feel houses are kind of meant to be,” she says, “and we literally walked in the front door and I said to my husband, ‘I just know it’s our house’. I knew in every part of me that it was the right house. Having gone as far as the kitchen and talking to the lady that owns it, I found myself doing the washing up. It just felt like home.”
However, Annoushka explains, it’s not ideal for the daytime, which is why they have a second dining space. “It looks out onto the garden and is really light. It’s very much a lunch time, summer room.”
One of her favourite spaces in the house is a wood-panelled snug, where a painting of her four children hangs. “It’s really cosy and has a lovely fire. We use that all the time in the winter.”
While in the summer, a New England-inspired sitting room with views of the garden is an ideal place to relax. “I’ve done it tongue and groove with white sofas. That room used to be a sort of laundry room, but we knocked various walls down and turned it into into a much bigger room. It’s a great place to read the papers and it’s just a good place to be.”