“If truth be told we were specifically drawn to the big flat garden; I’ve always wanted a big flat garden. The house is on a hill, but the garden is flat and had been originally flattened in the 1920s for a tennis court. Learning about the 1920s, apparently tennis tournaments were a mark of society. Tennis tournaments often culminated in elegant cocktail soirées for the ladies, whilst gentlemen retired to billiard rooms, it made me think: this house was once special, it can be special once again.”