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‘The house had so much POTENTIAL’

We’d been living in Newcastle before deciding to move to Hexham in search of a renovation project, as Gareth had just got a job in Carlisle and wanted a faster commute,’ says Rachel. ‘We initially searched online for three-bedroom properties and had no luck. But when we changed our criteria to one-bed, that’s when we found this place. We knew there was potential to create more bedrooms because of the various lean-to extensions that looked exploitable.

The house was a blank canvas which hadn’t been lived in for more than 10 years. The main living room was

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