Country Homes & Interiors

A FINE BALANCE

Making the move from a two-bedroom cottage in Teddington to a six-bedroom seafront townhouse in Clevedon, Somerset, marked a significant change for Helen and Alex Pett. ‘We both turned 40, we’d started a family and Alex had set up his own leadership consultancy,’ says Helen. No longer wedded to city life, they followed their dream to move to the coast in 2016, with their daughter, then five.

‘As Alex is a

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