Homes & Antiques

THE BIG squeeze

Moving house will always be a moment when decision making is unavoidable. Even more so if the move is from a large house to a much smaller one. When Celia Rufey downsized from a five-bedroom Victorian house in Devon, where she had lived for 30 years, to a small cottage in London, there was a need to be ruthless. At the heart of the problem was her years of visiting the local market with its vintage and house-clearance

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