Living THE DREAM
Moving from a terraced house in South West London to a dream home in the country was a carefully researched adventure by Alexandra Young, who was concerned her husband Simon would happily settle for the London suburbs, within easy reach of his city office. For Alexandra, living in the countryside was etched into her life plan. “In an ideal world we would both have chosen to live in a rambling farmstead in Dorset, where Simon and I both went to school,” she explains, “but it was just too far from London. Hampshire, with its pockets of unspoilt countryside,
