Moving out of London and getting a lot more space for our money, plus a sizeable garden, was the aim when we first started looking for a new house six years ago,’ says Jules. ‘We’d identified Tunbridge Wells in Kent as a possibility and went looking around the residential roads at the weekends to nail down the right house.
We didn’t want to be right out in the countryside, so a sizeable town with good transport links was important to us, as Oliver needs to travel with his job.
Potential property
A four-storey Victorian semi on the edge of town ticked all our boxes and was a lot bigger than the three-bedroom terrace with a tiny garden we were leaving behind, so we moved to snap it up. The kids were tiny when we came here – Jemima was only a baby – but we wanted to make
