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

Above: A row of pegs from an old school changing room, bought in Rye, is cosy for winter with an array of
shearling and fake fur coats – in summer it’s home to beach towels and sun hats
a basket of pizza ingredients to make pizzas in the pizza oven
outside and a wish lantern, to make their own holiday wish.”
Gigi explains how they are setting up Loma to be a brand
and how the interior styling is echoed by their website,
so that in the end, whatever you can see in the house
you’ll be able to buy online. “Like a concept store - where
you can try it for size first. And see things in situ.”
They would love to expand their idea and incorporate
a yoga studio and a shoot location. “With the dunes and
the light, it’s great for that. It’s always busy down here.
One day in the summer I walked out and all down the
road there was filming - Whistles, Net-a-Porter all in
a small space. The filming helps the local community
and helps village life - the cleaners and fishermen.”
Much of the filming is in the winter, when the
beach and the dunes are empty and Christmas
has an atmosphere all of its own:
“We’ll only be here for New Year this year,” says
Gigi, “but when we are here for Christmas, we have
the traditional thing with turkey etc, but we all
muck in. This is a nice place to cook in, you can see
everything and be part of it in an open plan space.
“Tradition changes down here a bit. The focus is towards
the outdoors and the beach, so that whatever the weather
we’re outside getting that energy and then we can come
back and have a fire and watch an old school movie.”
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