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WHO LIVES HERE?

Kate Andrews, a creative manager at END. clothing, and Jake Willmore, brand director for Lavenham and George Cox, live here with their children Rafferty, nine, and Ferdie, six.

THE PROPERTY

A renovated Georgian semidetached house in North Yorkshire. See more at @richmond_reno_project.

Snug

‘We haven’t changed much in this room yet apart from adding the comfortable pink velvet sofa, which we already owned.’

BUY THE KEY PIECE

The sofa was from Sofa.com but is no longer available; try the Holly small corner sofa, £3,280, Sofa.com, for a similar shape

kate and Jake lived in London for 15 years before moving to North Yorkshire with their growing family. ‘It made sense to move back towards where I grew up. I wanted my children to be able to play outside and to be closer to my family,’ Kate says. ‘This house is much bigger than we needed

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