Homebuilding & Renovating

Mid-century renovatıon

THE HOMEOWNERS Jason and Sarah Orme

LOCATION Staffordshire

HOUSE BOUGHT 2014

SIZE 380m2

BUILD TIME 2016-2018

HOUSE COST £415,000

BUILD COST circa £200,000

VALUE Unknown

Our project takes the rather tired property mantra ‘You can’t change the location but you can change everything else’ to heart. We bought this house for its site, with lovely views front and back, large garden, its position, the village, local schools, nearby pub and all the rest of it. And we changed everything else.

Having identified a particular part of Staffordshire/Derbyshire, we kept an eye out for plots and houses of

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