Country Homes & Interiors

HISTORY REVEALED

Having several hundred years of history to contend with always makes a house renovation more complicated. For Stephanie and Steven Thorne’s 17th-century farmhouse, its epic age meant a challenging journey as the couple transformed the dated interior into a gracefully refined modern country home, learning plenty about its past along the way.

The farmhouse, set romantically amid acres of Dorset countryside, was never going to be a project for

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