The English Home

Coastal HIDEAWAY

Whilst internationally renowned interior designer Katharine Pooley is a relative newcomer to the North Devon coast, the area has quickly become a relaxing home-from-home for her. “My father was evacuated to Devon as a child during the war and he always told me how wonderful it was,” she says. “I holidayed here for the first time about five years ago and simply fell in love with the place. Although I spend a lot of time in London and my work takes me all over the world, I’m a country girl at heart. Here,

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