Gentle APPROACH

Having both lived in London for 20 years, it was only after their son George was born that interior designer Anna Pullan and her husband Richard started to yearn for a more rural lifestyle. “It made us see the benefits of a country life and, as a family, we felt like we were paying the premium but no longer making the most of city life,” explains Anna. “With Richard’s mother in Summertown, Oxfordshire and my parents in Painswick, Gloucestershire, it made sense to move to one of the Cotswold villages in between, but we knew very little about the area.”