‘Our whole vision was that we wanted to put back things that had been ripped out’
Genevieve Harris’s passion in life is restoring and breathing new life into unloved and overlooked items, from clothes to furniture and fabrics. So, as soon as she and her husband, Guy, stumbled upon a completely dilapidated medieval house outside Rye in East Sussex, they were captivated.
“We fell for it,” says Genevieve. “It was crumbling and run down, almost a squat, but it had a lovely feel and energy, and great bones.” The Wealden hall house – a vernacular
