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Byline: LOWRI TURNER
There is a phrase estate agents like to use a great deal. 'It'sa blankcanvas,' they say, when what they really mean is it's as dull as ditch water.
In many ways, these sorts of bland homes are the easiest ones to decorate asthey have no personalities of their own to get in the way. The real challengecomes when you buy a home that is the opposite of this.
Coombe Farm in Naphill, Buckinghamshire (for sale at [pounds sterling]1.65 million throughSavills, 01494 731953) is not a blank-canvas home. It is one where every walland beam paints a picture of its own history. Dating from the 18th Century, itnow has six bedrooms and four bathrooms, including an annexe converted from anold dairy barn.
Jonathan Beardsworth, 49, who works in sales and marketing, and his wife Jo,42, a fashion agent, bought the house in the Chiltern Hills between...
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