Country Homes & Interiors

ESCAPE ROUTE

or 10 years before they bought their house on the north coast of Kent, Skye O’Neill and Jamie Corner regularly escaped to Whitstable for weekends and holidays. From their home in southeast London, with their two young daughters, Eilidh and Esme, and dog Daffy, it was an easy drive of just over an hour. ‘Having grown up in Sydney, I really missed the sea – Whitstable was the nearest bit of coastline we could get to,’ explains Skye, who is co-founder of magazine and a

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