When a professional property developer falls in love with a project and decides to make it her home, you know it’s a special place. Michelle Sames has renovated numerous period properties throughout the South West of England, and when the chance came to develop a near-derelict country pub and outbuildings on a rural, two-acre plot, she couldn’t resist.
‘It was my most ambitious project to date,’ she says. ‘The building was in poor condition,