Country Homes & Interiors

SAFE HARBOUR

rom time to time, an owner and a home just seem to find each other, and for this stone cottage and hairdressing star Phil Smith, it was definitely ‘meant to be’. The traditional fisherman’s cottage is set on the north coast of Cornwall, on a narrow lane overlooking the sea. Phil hadn’t visited the area before and was ‘blown away’ when he did. ‘I didn’t realise anywhere this beautiful existed in England,’ he says. The timing was right, too. It was during the

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