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Ideal Home
Ideal Home
Katie Sims

This Kent family home uses a pastel palette to soften the modern new-build

Kitchen diner with breakfast bar, sliding patio doors and pendant lights.

After living in and renovating six period properties over the years, Molly Mills and her husband James decided that they wanted a less disruptive, simpler way of life. Molly, whose mother is Danish, loves the simple pared-back feel of Scandi-style interiors, and when a friend’s modern new-build house came on the market, she could see the potential for recreating this feel here.

Molly is a part-time teacher and interior designer, and together with her husband James, an editor, their three children, (Pia, 20, Freya, 16 and Henry,10) - plus their adorable cockapoo, Bear - they've transformed their modern five-bedroom detached house in Tunbridge Wells, Kent into a calming oasis. We were eager to find out more about their renovation.

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