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Magazine Stardom
The insider take on shooting three houses in ‘summer’ and one at ‘Christmas’ in three days! Naomi Jones contacted me to say that the magazine article was go! She and her Photographer Rob Sanderson had magically transformed my home into a cosy Christmas cottage last year but sadly Dame La Aga was not playing ball, we lost the light in the afternoon and as she was the last to be…
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Buttercup Cottage
Their English Country Cottages I walked into the main bedroom and fell in love – even with its leaky roof, peeling wallpaper and old tatty carpet, my sixth sense told me that this was right. The deeds to this whippersnapper of a cottage (1865!) mention numerous single women living in the cottage over the years and given it’s location, it was thought to have been built for single young females…
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Oak Cottage
Their English Country Cottages There it was: in the bottom corner of the paper, a little cottage covered in Wisteria, in a village just outside Exeter and was exactly what we were looking for. Strap yourself to your chairs if , like me, you adore floral fabrics, mora clocks, wood clad walls and antique mirrors. Yup, this cottage had me at her Kate Forman cushions that I spotted and yelped “ooh…
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Cushion Comforts
My love of my Kate Forman, Cabbages and Roses and Susie Watson cushions is not filed under my poker face folder. Cushions are the heart of the home…oh no, that’s kitchens, ok, cushions are the hug of the home. I almost defy you to find a photo of a country cottage that doesn’t have cushions somewhere in shot. Albeit, perhaps not the bathroom (although that’s a thought… maybe I NEED…
