‘We got creative with our budget’
After living in a small 300-year-old cottage in the same street for twelve years, all Frankie and Paul Allen needed when they moved into their new Cotswold home was a friend with a horsebox and couple of trolley trips. ‘Wheeling the children’s garden playhouse up the road was a particularly amusing sight,’ recalls Frankie. Indeed, moving was the easy part, as the Victorian property, which was larger with lots of potential, had been on the market for some time, and was in a poor state of repair.
‘The interior was covered in
