There’s nothing like a budget to quicken the creative pulse, as Speronella Marsh well knows. Faced with the task of restoring her home, a red-brick manor framed by low-forested Shropshire hills, which used to belong to her husband Ben’s parents, one of the first things she did was count the windows. There are 94 – and all of them needed new curtains to replace the sun-scorched chintzes and silks that had been installed by Ben’s grandparents in the 1950s.
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