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Ideal Home
Ideal Home
Sara Emslie

A derelict flower shop is now a small but perfect home

Galley kitchen with small island with green metal frame and spiral staircase .

This petite but beautiful home has a unique history. It was previously part of a farm shop complex, so at one point it was a butchery and then it became a flower shop. Its owner, Iona Blackshaw, was renting in London and struggling to see a way onto the property ladder in the city. Then she found this little building for sale in the Cotswolds.

Fortunately for Iona, her brother-in-law, Pip Phillips, is an architect with his own practice in nearby Stroud.

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