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WORTH THE WAIT

Whether having breakfast with the children or working on her laptop, there is nowhere in her home that Rhiannon Southwell would rather sit to enjoy the view than at her kitchen table. From here she looks out not just on her gorgeous hand-built Shaker kitchen, but also on a wide-angled vista of garden greenery and sky, seen through the enormous picture window that sits flush with the worktop and fills almost the entire back wall.

The window brings the outside in, flooding the kitchen with light and introducing a sense of

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