With our first baby on the way, we felt it was time to leave our small rented flat in north London and buy a more affordable property near our families,’ says Elise. ‘Our flat in Islington was open plan and we didn’t even have an internal door we could close!
Although my husband Michael and I had met in London, our families only lived a mile away from each other in the North East, so it was the perfect time to move back to be near them.
We’d both lived in period properties before and loved their character, but I was drawn to a more modern and practical type of property. This led us to buy a new-build house off-plan on a Taylor Wimpey estate in Whitley Bay. We loved
