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Restoring a historic house by the sea brought Maria and Markus Lindholm unusual challenges. Transporting building materials by boat and sledge, they revived it with classic Nordic style

I’m awake. Very awake. It’s early on a wind-whipped Sunday morning and I’m neck-deep in the sea off the Isle of Man’s north-east coast. The rain is steady, the swell is heavy and the water is gaspindu

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