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CURIOUSER & CURIOUSER

‘We can seat 20 people in our kitchen-diner for supper clubs, so others are enjoying the house, too. It’s exactly the sociable home we wanted’

Step into the home of Jackie Walls and her husband, Andrea Chiesa, and you’ll find rooms teeming with curiosities and doused in colour. The couple had never tackled a major renovation project before, but when they found a tired Edwardian cottage in Eastbourne’s quaint and coveted Meads Village they decided to make their

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