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A MATTER OF TIME

When Helen and Daniel Wallace bought their home at the height of the housing boom in 2006, they’d been living in a two-bed property locally with their twins, Max and Fraser, who were then two years old. ‘I hadn’t worked since the twins had been born and budget was an issue, but we needed more room,’ says Helen. ‘We’d never have been able to afford a house this size if it had been done up, so we decided

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