aura Stubbs’ husband’s response was crystal clear when she told him that she had spotted a downtrodden mill house on Rightmove. Until this point, the couple had been serial renovators and, with Mark the MD of the family construction business and Laura an interior designer, it wasn’t unfeasible for them to drag a tired building into the modern age. ‘But Mark wasn’t keen; he thought it could take 10 years to turn the mill into a liveable home,’ recalls Laura. ‘The problem was I had fallen in love with
