Country Homes & Interiors

A FINE BALANCE

Pure coincidence brought Sarah and Sal Pajwani to this house and garden on the outskirts of Maidenhead. Though they’d talked about looking for a new home, they’d made the sensible decision to wait and see which senior schools their two boys (now grown up) got into before making a move. But that all went out of the window when, having taken the morning off to take their eldest to an admissions interview, they spotted a promising looking property in the local paper, just around the corner from the cafe they were in. ‘We phoned the estate

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