Reporter
Theo Marsh
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A Lowmarsh net loft becomes a home, and keeps its smell of tar
Two architects spent three years turning a fishing family’s net store into a two-bedroom house, without losing the beams, the brick or the smell.
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Twelve plants that will survive a coastal winter
Salt wind kills most gardens by the sea. These are the plants the gardeners at Seawall Nursery swear by.
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The coast road north: three days, one camper van, no plan
From Port Avalon to the lighthouse at Cape Morrow, sleeping wherever the van stopped. The best weekend of the year, mostly.
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The dining table that started a furniture business
Sanne Okoye made one table from a fallen oak in her parents’ garden. Six years later, Fallen Oak Furniture has a two-year waiting list.
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The shop that only sells things made within 50 miles
Coats, prints, paddles and pottery: Nearby, on Dock Road, borrowed the market’s rule and applied it to everything else.