HOMECOMING

‘It was really important to me that the house feels cosy and warm, like a sanctuary, with a sense of flow throughout’

Having lived in Los Angeles for 11 years, Sharland England founder and fashion journalist Louise Roe felt the time was right to move back home to the UK in 2019 with husband Mackenzie and daughter Honor, now four. Falling for a Georgian rectory in the Oxfordshire countryside, the couple set to work on a large-scale renovation, but just six months after completing the project, they felt the pull of London, to be closer to friends. “It was a beautiful house, but we realised it was a little bit too far ahead for us in terms of life,” Louise explains.

Louise really missed period properties while living in LA, so she relished the