MAKING LIGHT WORK

ONE of the choices anyone renovating a period property has to make is how far they’re willing to modernise it. Any older home is going to need some work – nobody wants damp problems or draughty single glazing, after all – but families in particular need to think about whether the original layout works for them. The biggest change you’ll probably have to make? The long, narrow galley kitchen at the rear of many a Victorian or Edwardian property.

That was the case for Andrew and Katie, who took on their early-Edwardian