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‘We gave it a TOTAL FACELIFT’

As soon as we saw the house online, I immediately started sketching plans for what we could do with it,’ says John. ‘We bought the property on probate from an elderly couple who had passed away, so it hadn’t been touched for a while. The interior needed a total facelift, but this made it easier in some ways. It was just a matter of getting rid of everything and starting again.

‘When we visited, we both loved the width of the plot and the potential that came with it. It’s an end-of-terrace house and, because they were built in the 1950s, all the houses on the street have larger

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