WELCOME TO THE GARDEN PARTY
Aug 24, 2022
4 minutes
Words Caroline Ednie
Photography
David Barbour
Conventional wisdom suggests that when you retire, you’ll be wanting to downsize and put your feet up. If that’s the case, Nigel and Sue Evans have broken the rules. As their retirement approached, they were looking to relocate from Aberdeen to Edinburgh with the intention of finding a home they could put their stamp on.
That opportunity presented itself in the form of a handsome detached Victorian villa in the Midlothian suburb of Eskbank. “Our daughter had just moved to Eskbank and when we took a look around the area we could see that it was just beautiful,” recalls Sue. “There are so many really nice houses there. It’s a little further out of town than we’d initially imagined but
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