The English Home

Colour & LIGHT

The allure of the countryside has, perhaps, never been greater than in current times. There is a rural idyll for every dream, from snug cottages to grand estates, so when Marion and Richard Knight embarked on buying their first country home together, they began by stepping back to take a cool-headed look at what was right for them.

‘I wasn’t set on a traditional country house. I would have been happy living somewhere modern, but I walked in and immediately felt something’

“That was the hardest and most intensive part of the process,” says Marion. “We had no county affiliation, but we

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