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  • Homebuilding & Renovating

    The renovation game

    Nov 03, 2022 3 minutes
    PHOTOGRAPHY Dave Burton

    REAL PROJECTEXTENSION

    HOMEOWNERS Jane Fordham and Craig Bonner

    LOCATION Woking

    HOUSE TYPE Extended 16th-century cottage

    HOUSE SIZE 353m2

    PURCHASED 2012

    BUILD ROUTE Architect designed, project managed by owners

    CONSTRUCTION Reclaimed brick, timber

    INITIAL COST £960,000

    PROJECT COST £650,000

    CURRENT VALUE £1.6million

    Welcome to the house of fun — a home of secret slides, hidden doors, pop-up screens and wonky dimensions. Nothing is quite what it seems in Jane Fordham and Craig Bonner’s extraordinary home of two halves.

    Their period house welcomes you with its low-slung front windows and blossoming climbers round the door. Head

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