Period Living

INSTANT ATTRACTION

Lunchtime shopping took on a whole new meaning when Isobel James stepped out of the office and came back with… an office. ‘I viewed it the week before, during a ten-minute whistle-stop tour with a group of other potential buyers,’ says Isobel. ‘A week later I went out for a sandwich and returned to work with a new home.’

The house had been bought at auction and Isobel went £20,000 over her self-imposed limit in a moment of determination,

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