Homebuilding & Renovating

Radical makeover

When it comes to finding your perfect property, location is the first – and arguably the most important – issue to consider. But what happens when you find the ideal place to live but can’t find a property to match? The answer, for Daniel Pelling, was to find a blandly anonymous house for sale, on the edge of an attractive village in the Surrey countryside, and transform it beyond recognition into a home for himself and his partner, Laura.

“I was working on refurbishing another property locally,” he explains, “and

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