For city girl Emma Paton, leaving behind the bright lights of Hackney for the sleepy streets of a Suffolk village was a huge leap of faith. “It didn’t help when, six months after we moved, the pandemic hit and isolation took on a whole new level,” she says, smiling. Having renovated their Victorian house in London, Paton, 42, and her husband, Liam, 44, a music and sound designer/composer, were looking for a lifestyle change with their two young children, Finn and Violet.
“We imagined we would spend months searching for the right property, but this was the only house we viewed. Its grand entrance and sweeping staircase won us over immediately,” Paton says, a fashion blogger and influencer with 53,000 followers on Instagram. Once part
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