Country Homes & Interiors

IN THE LONG RUN

Sometimes, if luck happens to be on your side, a dream home can just come and find you. That’s how it was for interior designer and serial renovator Sophie Allsopp. ‘I was looking at properties with my mother who had already sold her house but, the moment we walked through the door here I said, “Sorry mum, I’ve got to have this one”. I quickly put my own house on the market and thankfully everything fell into place,’ says Sophie.

She had been living just a few miles away with her daughter Florence but was at the

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