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‘We wanted to create a holiday home where our children could have regular adventures, in a kind of Famous Five way,’ says fashion stylist turned interior designer Michelle Kelly. And this house, in a once sleepy English seaside town that is fast becoming a little bit of London-on-sea, has turned out to provide exactly that – for children and grown-ups alike.

Michelle and husband Ian, who works in music management, bought the detached Edwardian house with two

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