The perfect fit
It was a case of the stars aligning after a series of throw-away conversations, coincidences (both good and bad) and a very helpful neighbour led Penny and Michael Young to purchase their plot and subsequently self-build the beautiful oak frame house they now call home.
“We were living a few minutes away in a big Edwardian house at the time,” explains Penny. “We had lived there for 26 years and brought up our two daughters there, but it was freezing cold all the time. The floors were cold, the roof was cold and we just thought: ‘why are we trying to heat a five bedroom house?’ We started looking for smaller period houses but then realised that we would just be exchanging a big problem for a little problem. Then we looked at modern houses, but the character just wasn’t there. I said to Michael, ‘I’ve always fancied building a house’ and it was
