Homebuilding & Renovating

A SCHOOL HOUSE REMASTERED

As much as we’d love to believe the glossy homes shown in magazines happen in an instant, the reality is it’s rarely a simple process getting a house up to scratch, especially with a project like Kate and Mike Lawley’s.

Having previously lived in a Victorian terrace, which they’d quickly grown out of, the couple began searching for somewhere to make their own. After spending a year and a half looking for the right opportunity, they eventually found a previously converted four-bed schoolhouse that was slowly falling into disrepair. It

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