Nick and Bella run a film and photographic location house in the heart of the Sussex Weald. In a one-day course, they will share their knowledge on how to successfully market
your urban, rural or coastal home.

 

From 10am to 3pm, the course will be held throughout June, July, September and October 2013. The cost is £150 per person and includes a delicious seasonal lunch.

 

* Practical styling and photography tips for your home and garden

* What to expect from shoot days

* Encouraging repeat business

 

There will also be a ‘pop-up shop’ featuring some of our favourite local things including, Brickett Davda tableware, Warp and Weft clothing and accessories, Folk at Home homeware, and Wild Planet as well as bleu de travail and men and women’s workwear, garden accessories, vintage pieces, seasonal home-grown produce, a selection of books and paintings.

 

To find out more and book a place call or email Nick or Bella on 01435 863691 or email bella@walnutsfarm.co.uk.

 

 

 

 

 

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We are keen on a neutral colour palette at Walnuts Farm, and here are a few of Bella’s favourite shades of greys…

Our whippet ‘Blink’ comes in a particularly fashionable tone of smokey ‘blue’ grey. He’s curled up in a tub chair that in the 1970′s was upholstered in an olive green velvet but has now faded to sage grey.

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The library is painted in a tone called ‘Old White’ by Farrow and Ball. We often place beach finds like this old piece of driftwood and a worn granite stone on the mantelpiece.

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A few Cotswold Cream Legbars run amongst our mixed flock of hens, and they reward us with a clutch of pale blue and olive grey eggs.

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I like to gather ‘reindeer moss’ that grows on the branches of a fallen oak tree at the bottom of our field. I love its texture and colour and have bowls filled with it in my simple kitchen.

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Here are two ‘French’ greys, on one of our kitchen cupboards, and an old tool box that forms a background to a collection of family photos.

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This paint is our version of ‘Dutch Interior Dark’ and comes from Farrow and Ball under the name ‘Downpipe’…

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Again in the library, a long dead Green Woodpecker blends in with his surroundings. And I am always touched by this Edwardian photograph of Nick’s relatives – two angelic young brothers, only one of whom was to survive the Somme.

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A collection of books reflect the colours of their covers onto the ‘Old White’ paint of the library.

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And finally our ‘estate paint’; we call it ‘Middle Class Grey’ but it’s actually ‘Pigeon’ from Farrow & Ball. It looks blue-ish in cool morning light and green-ish in sunlight. We chose it as a good complement to the header bricks in our admittedly rather irregular Flemish bond brickwork.

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The daylight hours are getting longer…

…and the hens are laying again.

All of a sudden it’s a monochrome world…

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Frost at last after lots of rain, and some long awaited early morning sun…

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The kale is growing away from the slugs and snails.

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And then came the snow…

Photographs by Julian Broad.

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Creative and Fashion Director Charlotte-Anne Fidler. Hair by Perrine Rougemont at Caren. Make-up by Kim Brown at Premier. Models Victoria Lee at Ford, and Jesse Burgess at Storm. Photographs by Chris Craymer. Production by productions-inc.com.

The vintage tractor below was hired locally.

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The barn below was shot on a neighbouring property (although we’re happy to order in bales as required for use in our own cart lodge). The horse was hired in.

Big round and small bales are available to order.

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Photographs by Claire Cresswell.

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Darling Clothes shot their Autumn Winter 2012 collection with us at Walnuts Farm…

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We have decked beneath the porch with wide oak boards since this photograph was taken.

Styling by Ben Kendrick. Assisted by Celia Stuart-Menteth. Photographs by Catherine Gratwicke.

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Photography Roger Rich. Styling David St John-James. Grooming Bianca Tuovi at CLM. Model Aaron Vernon at D1. Casting Eddy Martin for File and Parade. Photographic assistant Matt Foxley. Styling assistant Nachum Shonn. Production Jo Matthews. Retouching Chris Roome at Happy Finish.

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Net-A-Porter visited Walnuts Farm for their magazine feature with model Mary Charteris.

Art Direction: Kirsty Butler. Hair: Selena Middleton at Soho. Makeup: Sandra Cooke. Photographs by Tara Darby. Styling by Natalie Brewster.

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On the left is ‘Blink’ our new young blue whippet, with our lurcher ‘Bunny’ on the right. Both are eager to model for you with Bunny being particularly experienced and having featured in shoots for  Country Living, BBC Homes and Antiques, and Annie Bundfuss amongst many others. Blink has featured in print and point of sale for White Stuff, as well as Glamour magazine.

Styling by Ben Kendrick, assisted by Celia Stuart-Menteth. Photographs by Claire Richardson.

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William Yeoward and his crew shot Manton A Country Story By William Yeoward with us at Walnuts Farm.

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Photography by Oliver Pearce.

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