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Bright & Beautiful

‘For my family, having so much white is no big deal. Slipcovers can be removed and washed, and vintage furniture only gets better with a few knocks and scrapes along the way’

The Sussex cottage that Lois Cox shares with husband Robert and daughters Dulcie, Coco and Beau, lies on the edge of the historic Ashdown Forest. Acres of fields and ancient woodland gently give way to the rolling chalk escarpments of the Downs. It is a landscape of real beauty, only marginally eclipsed by its literary counterpart. ‘Pooh Sticks

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