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HIGH HOPES

OUR first attempts at home design start in childhood. We practise room layouts in doll’s houses, DIY on hidden dens and rudimentary structural engineering building houses in the trees. But we seldom get the chance to translate those early lessons to our adult homes in the way Cathy Fagg and her husband, Andrew, have.

The complexities of trying to double the size of the kitchen at the top of a split-level house built on a slope so steep it looks like a bungalow at the front and two-storey

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