I used interesting wallpapers and colours to link the rooms together

With its quirky fairytale chimneys, wide wooden floorboards and original sash windows, Fenella Falconer and her husband Charlie were immediately drawn in when they first viewed the Grade-II-listed house that would eventually become their home. They held back on snapping it up immediately, though, due to the small courtyard garden and its lack of off-street parking. ‘We had only just started looking at that time, so we decided against it and, of course, the house then went under offer very quickly so we thought it had gone,’ explains Fenella. ‘However, when it came back on the market