Homebuilding & Renovating

REALISING A dream

Having lived in a new house on a development for many years, Ian and Mary Cartwright had a long-held dream of building their own oak frame home in the countryside.

“It was something we had always wanted to do, but it wasn’t until our two daughters, Jodie and Laura, both of whom are now in their twenties, had left home that we began to look for land as we no longer had the constraints of schools,” explains Ian.

The couple spotted a plot for

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