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Devon CoTTAGe

Kitchen A wood-clad
ceiling and maritime blue
range cooker add coastal
style. Range cooker, Aga.
Blind fabric, Prestigious
Textiles. Similar clock,
The Farthing

nterior designer Georgina Pugh’s project to
do up a holiday home in Devon for herself and
her husband, James, might have seemed like
I a busman’s holiday – but that wasn’t the case.
‘I loved every minute of it,’ says Georgina. ‘I wanted
to create a real home from home for us.’
The couple’s decision to buy a holiday home came

after they had looked for a bigger house where they
live in Hampshire, but couldn’t find anything suitable
on the market. ‘So we chose to buy a holiday home
instead and visit as many weekends as possible,’ says
Georgina. ‘James had always gone to Devon for family
holidays, so we took a trip to the area three years
ago and I fell in love with it, too.’
Georgina and James discovered the former AT HOME WITH...
coastguard’s cottage, nestled in a hamlet just outside
Salcombe, online. The setting couldn’t be more Owners Georgina Pugh is an
idyllic – the property sits within an Area of Outstanding interior designer and founder
of Georgina Murphy Interiors
Natural Beauty and is just a five-minute stroll from
(georginamurphyinteriors.com)
a sandy beach. There’s an enclosed courtyard garden and her husband James is a land
at the front and a south-facing garden with views over and development surveyor.
farmland at the rear. ‘The day we went to view it turned House A three-bedroom former
out to be the hottest day of the year! We loved it at first coastguard’s cottage dating from the
sight and put in an offer that afternoon,’ says Georgina. 1870s. The couple bought it in 2017.
‘We loved the original features – there was an Aga and >

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