Country Homes & Interiors

HOMEWARD BOUND

Ten years ago, investment banker Oli Anderson found himself increasingly fed up with his number-crunching role. ‘I decided to do something completely different,’ he says of the moment he gave up his job and used his savings to set out as a property developer, specialising in designing and building one-off houses in the countryside. ‘It was a chance to do something more creative,’ he explains, ‘and a way of organising my life so that I could join my partner, Annie, on

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