Woman & Home

Rural idyll

Emma Rae, an interior designer, and her husband Andrew, a shipbroker, had longed to swap their fast-paced London life for the Cotswolds for several years when, in 2015, their estate agent tipped them off about a house not yet on the market. ‘We wanted somewhere on the edge of a village, in a quiet location but with views – somewhere for the family to come and stay, that was

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