Wealden Times | WT244 | September 2022 | Winter Interiors Supplement inside

Changing
Rooms
The usual set-up for interviewing people about
their beautiful houses for this magazine is
one-on-one, because in the vast majority
of households, there’s one person with the vision
(obsession…) for how the place should look.
So it’s always a nice surprise when you get to do
the tour of the premises with both the owners, as I
did with Berni and Peter, in their early Victorian villa
in the heart of Hastings’ picturesque Old Town.
It was my first visit to the house – although I know
it from many walks past, imagining how amazing
the views must be from its spot on the hill across
the valley which so neatly contains the town.
I’m not disappointed. From the sitting room windows you
look over the whole higgledy-piggledy snaggle of streets, to
the green swathes of the country park on the East Hill.
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