Homebuilding & Renovating

Stylish and sustainable

HOMEOWNERS Spencer and Emma Guy, with their children James and Olivia

LOCATION Buckinghamshire

SIZE 270m2 (plus 100m2 garage)

BUILD ROUTE DIY

CONSTRUCTION Cross laminated timber

BUILD TIME Five years

PLOT COST £400,000

BUILD COST £450,000

VALUE £1.5million (estimated)

Living on site is not for the faint-hearted, but Spencer and Emma Guy have most certainly proved their mettle by living in a work-in-progress self-build for more than 10 years.

Their journey first started in 2007, when their abstract idea to move out of London, where

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