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    Jul 29, 2021 4 minutes

    Cottage dreams

    Having found their perfect village, Tina and Mark Davies were determined to live there at all costs – even if it meant taking on a big project and removing the front of the house. Tina tells us more about this stunning transformation

     We realised that with our children grown up, we could now live anywhere, so we thought we’d move as a research experiment. First we’d find out what it would be like to live in a little village for a year, and then discover what it would be like to live by the sea. The plan was to rent somewhere for a year and then move to the next place, so we rented a cottage in Nun Monkton. Interestingly enough,

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