Surrey Homes | SH50 | December 2018 | Health & Beauty supplement inside

Previous page: The fireplace is at the opposite end of the open-plan
living area from the kitchen. Above: Matt made the kitchen table with old
scaffolding planks, so it would be big enough to seat 14 people. The kitchen
island behind is an old carpentry table given to them by the previous owner
of the house – after they had been looking for one for ages; ‘a magical gift’
As you head out across Romney Marsh towards the sea, Rye’s
medieval citadel is the most prominent view on the skyline.
Along the coast is Dungeness, where the nuclear power station
broods over the bleak shingle expanse. Spanning the middle section
is Camber Sands, with its acres of golden beach backed by tufted
dunes - and Camber itself, unremarkable, low-rise and quiet (save
for all the film crews), like a settlement at the edge of the world.
Loma Beach House sits at the end of a sandy lane, its smart,
but coastal, black-clad facade hinting, or rather, broadcasting, that
something has fundamentally changed inside this 1950s house.
Gigi and her partner Matt, having successfully renovated a flat - and
finding that they enjoyed the process - had been thinking about buying
a coastal holiday property, for themselves to use, but also to rent out,
somewhere in Devon or Cornwall. In the end it was (just as the film
crews have found) the proximity to London and to Tunbridge
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