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‘We opened up our cramped kitchen with design tricks’

With the mortgage on their house in York almost paid off, Karen and Adam Griggs decided to move further out and start a holiday let business. In 2013, they bought a Victorian cottage in nearby Sand Hutton, with two outbuildings ripe for conversion. ‘It gave me the freedom to run my own business and spend more time at home while the kids were teenagers,’ says Karen, 50, previously a mental health nurse. ‘The house was

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