Keen to move back across town to the West Bridgford area of Nottingham where they’d both grown up, Nye and Emma Smith were looking for a project after starting their family – and this detached 1920s house ticked all the boxes. ‘The property was a probate sale and very dated, complete with 1970s faux-brick fireplace, but it was affordable and on the perfect road within the catchment area of good schools,’ explains Nye. ‘What’s more, it stood on a corner plot and had an integral garage on the west side and a detached garage on the east, which we
