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Raising THE ROOF

When we viewed our current house back in 2013, me and my then boyfriend Michael (since upgraded to fiancé) were ideally looking for character for our first home together. However, as we walked around the shell of a new-build, with bare floors, rubble for a garden and plain walls, there

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