The English Home

Restoration MASTERCLASS

Life, at times, has a funny way of diverting us off course in unexpected ways. When designer Sophie Hale and her husband had to change their travel plans due to the great Icelandic volcanic ash cloud of 2010, little did they know this would be the catalyst for a bigger adventure.

‘Ptolemy was like a detective, unearthing clues which enabled him to open up spaces and return rooms back to their authentic, original states’

Rather than going on a much-anticipated trip to Istanbul, the couple found themselves holidaying in Cornwall. As luck would have it, this

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