I’m Sophie Robinson, interior designer, TV presenter and podcast host, and I live outside Lewes in East Sussex with my husband, Tom, who’s a builder, and our son, Arthur. We live in a rural setting surrounded by woodland.
When we bought the house we planned to do an extension at the south end which included a large open-plan kitchen-dining room added to the living room. The kitchen was small and dark, situated at the north-facing end of the house, a long walk away from the sunny south-facing views of the garden. But recently we had to shelve our ambitious build. So we simply switched
