About Pepperbox Interiors

Pepperbox Interiors specialises in beautiful and professionally restored period painted French and English furniture, original artwork, decorative antiques, lighting, soft furnishings and interiors for the home and garden.

After a lifelong fascination with interior design, Pepperbox Interiors was established in 2006 in Cuckfield, West Sussex by Sarah Brehaut. A small but thriving independent interiors business with a real passion for customer service and now based at 59 High Street, Lindfield, West Sussex.

Over the last seventeen years Pepperbox has become renowned for its beautiful and professionally restored hand painted period furniture. To compliment the furniture you will find a carefully curated range of lamps, mirrors, soft furnishings, original artwork and decorative items. 

Please see our Contact page for more information about our location in Sussex and discover how Pepperbox can help you style your home, we are here to help!

About Sarah

For many years I worked in the City at Lloyds of London. I used to wile away the endless hours of commuting by planning my dream home and business. It was only when our children, Georgina and James, were born that I gave up my career in the city and was able to bring this chapter of my life to a close. Whilst the children were growing up I dabbled in buying and selling via local antique markets still longing, one day to open my own shop. When the children were settled at school I decided (with huge support and encouragement from my husband, John) that the time was right to set up Pepperbox Interiors.

I suppose my love for interior design stems from my dear Mother. As a youngster we spent many hours together going to antique fairs sourcing furniture and working together on colour schemes for our family home. She had a wonderful eye but she would not be approving of painted furniture for that I am sure! Our homes here in Sussex and in Guernsey are now filled with a cherished mix of antique mahogany and painted Pepperbox furniture and accessories. Mixing old with new works so well and it is most definitely the way forward.

We sold our beautiful home, a Grade II Listed Farmhouse in 2020, during Covid.  We had sadly lost both of John's parents and the plan was to downsize to a bolthole here in Sussex and renovate John's family home on Guernsey which we hoped would one day become our home and where we would again share our lives with as many four and two legged friends as possible. I am writing this in August 2024 and only now are the builders starting to work on the cottage in Sussex and the house in Guernsey. I post on instagram, when time allows, snippets of our trials and tribulations as we struggle through two simultaneous renovation projects with our beloved Buddy helping us on our way so do pop over there and have a look under the " highlight" tabs. We must be mad! All of this of course would not be possible without my fabulous "Team Pepperbox" behind me.  I know when I am away from Sussex that I am leaving the business in such good hands. It is one positive thing that Covid taught me:  you can run a business remotely, especially when you have a Julie, Jen and Jenny to depend on.