The English Home

Planned PERFECTION

Searching for the perfect house, where family traditions can be forged and memories created, is an emotional time. Often in the quest to find ‘the one’, a promising property is rejected in a ‘heart over head’ decision, but when Natasha Pope and her husband Rory were looking for a home for their family, one less-than-perfect house kept drawing them back.

“We used a search agent as we were living in London with our four young children and knew we didn’t have the time to go on random house

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