Country Homes & Interiors

A CHILDHOOD REDISCOVERED

Setting up home in central London made sense for Claire Bowman and David Drummond while they were juggling busy careers as a journalist and architect respectively. But after their daughter Flora was born, Claire was keen to move back to the Dorset countryside where she had grown up and would be able to enjoy the support of her family. ‘My sister, Vanessa, found this cottage for us,’ she says. ‘We

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