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Simply Number One!

On visiting a home that’s part of a grand mansion in West Dorset, Peter Booton finds that the owners have sympathetically restored it in keeping with its late-Georgian ancestry

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Shifting Perspectives

Spacious and strikingly modern, this 400-year-old cottage serves as both a comfortable home and inspirational studio for its artist owner. Peter Booton steps inside… 

September 2008

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Star Quality

Peter Booton visits a luxurious and tastefully-decorated family home that, unbelievably, took just seven months to complete.

July 2008

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Forging On… With Style!

On a visit to north of the county, Peter Booton finds not only a stylishly renovated home, but an adjoining working forge where the owner, a ‘designer blacksmith’, produces items of quality. 

April 2008

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Naish Farm - Sweet Success

Peter Booton’s appetite for charming homes – and cakes! – was more than satisfied on a visit to a 15th-century house in West Dorset. A couple's dream of being 'far from the madding crowd' hinged around buying an old country house with a history, and a barn which could be converted into a bakery, when they moved their home and business to Dorset.

February 2008

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Home Sweet Home

This month Peter Booton finds that this charming family home in North Dorset has an equally charming history...

August 2008

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Timeless Quality

This month Peter Booton finds elegance and style, together with an ‘eclectic mix of delights’, at the West Dorset home of a talented interior designer. 

May 2008

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Shine On!

This stylish contemporary house is not only highly energy efficient and environmentally friendly, but is awash with wow-factor features, and has a pretty stunning ‘water feature’, too. Peter Booton tells us more…

March 2008

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River House - stylish and contemporary

This month Peter Booton visits a North Dorset house that oozes stylish and contemporary charm both inside and out - a property that is also a Design Award winner for architectural excellence.

January 2008

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