Homebuilding & Renovating

“We can’t wait to start our renovation project”

As soon as we saw the garden we knew it was the right place

We renovated a house in Somerset, where we lived for 20 years, but we wanted a place with a bigger garden where we could really settle down. I work in Bristol and Andrew flies

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