Ideal Home

Risen from the ashes

Living and dining area

When the house was rebuilt, the living room was made a metre wider, with a sloping ceiling to make the seating area, which is carpeted, feel cosier.

BUY THE KEY PIECES Townsend four-seater chaise sofa, £2,200, Habitat, is similar. African mud cloth wall hanging, £151, I Heart Norwegian Wood at Etsy, would work

While away at a wedding in 2012, Sarah Woodhouse and Brad Nicholls, owners of furniture business Nicholls Design (), received a call saying a fire had ravaged the home they had built just seven years earlier. ‘The front of the

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