DESIGN ADVICE ‘By limiting the colour palette you can keep the focus on the bones of the property’ Having grown up on the edge of the Peak District, Abi Powell still felt a sense of affinity with the area, despite living 40 miles away in north Nottingham with her husband, Ian, and their children, Toby, 13, and Reuben, 10. Sadly, Abi’s father passed away in 2017, encouraging the couple to reevaluate what was important in their lives.
‘We needed a bolthole and it made sense to look for somewhere in the Peaks as we had friends and family there,’ says Abi. ‘I’d spent my teen years scrambling on rocks, watching solar eclipses, going for dawn walks and still loved the peace and freedom of the moors, which Ian felt, too.’…
