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THE PROPERTY Double-fronted Edwardian villa
ROOMS Reception room, sitting room, playroom, kitchen-diner/living area, cinema room, gym/bathroom/sauna, boot room, utility room, cloakroom, five bedrooms, dressing room, three bathrooms, plus swimming pool and pool house
LOCATION Essex
Dream family homes don’t come much dreamier than this Edwardian villa, so vast, you might get lost in it. But it wasn’t always this way. When the current owners bought the unmodernised property it was half its current size. The couple and their three energetic young boys wanted a home to grow into, that was big enough to comfortably accommodate them all, and with ample space to spare for entertaining friends and family. ‘I was asked to take on the interior by my client, who, with a toddler and two boys in tow,…