Homebuilding & Renovating

Life on the edge

HOMEOWNERS Nick Purchase and Tim Hubbard

LOCATION West Cornwall

PROJECT Contemporary extension and renovation to a bungalow and conversion of a salt mill

SIZE 150m2

BUILD ROUTE Main contractor

CONSTRUCTION METHOD Steel and timber frame with existing cavity block

BUILD TIME Nov 2017 - Mar 2020

HOUSE COST £400,000

BUILD COST £350,000 plus £50,000 on landscaping

Estimated £1.75million The bungalow was completely overgrown; the only way to get to the back door was with shears,” says Nick Purchase, of the property he bought in December 2016 with his partner, Tim

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