Homebuilding & Renovating

A unique home built for £97k

Clare, how did you come to take on this barn conversion project?

We were looking for a property in Somerset with land so we could live in our vintage caravan and build a workshop. We first found this property a year before we were ready to move from Brighton but it sold to someone else who, luckily for us, put it back on the market a year later having signed off some planning requirements and most importantly, built a big workshop on it — which was perfect timing and just what we needed because I make

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