Ideal Home

‘We made it more practical for family life’

When Anne and Nick first saw this property, they thought the formal rear garden was breathtaking, but utterly unsuitable for their young family. ‘It had a big fountain in the middle of box hedges and 6ft wide beds,’ says Nick. The couple flattened the entire plot to give their three children somewhere to play,

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