Artist Jo Oakley has filled her Whitstable beach hut with antiques and conventional family favourites,proving you don’t need a enormous budget to invent a small space beautifulJo Oakley bought her beach hut in Whitstable for £220 more than 20 years ago, when her daughters Hannah and Daisy were young. “As soon as they were home from school on a Friday, or we’d jump in the car and head out of London to the seaside,” she says. “When it was warm, we’d all bed down on the deck and star-watch until we fell asleep.”Oakley, or an artist,has seen Whitstable evolve from a backwater fishing port on the Thames estuary into a thriving coastal town. Her hut would cost approximately £25000 nowadays. “conventional-timers might complain that it’s changed but I think most of those changes – being able to get a noteworthy cup of coffee, say – have been for the better. I’ve been coming here for so long that I get treated like a local. When I’m buying fish in the harbour, or they’ll often pop an extra one in the bag for nothing.”The beaded chandelier was a present from my nana ... the 50s curtain fabric came from a beach hut that was being updatedContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com