HOMEOWNERS
Mike and Sue Nicholls
LOCATION Chichester Harbour, Hampshire
SIZE 438m²
BUILD ROUTE Main contractor
CONSTRUCTION Steel frame
BUILD TIME Two years
HOUSE COST £1.5million
BUILD COST £1.6million
VALUE Undisclosed
TIMELINE
A self-build wasn’t on Mike and Sue Nicholls’ agenda when they purchased a 1960s house on Chichester Harbour seafront in 2014. The couple, both watersports enthusiasts, initially used the property as a place to retreat to at weekends, travelling down from their permanent base in Kent, for weekends spent sailing and windsurfing.
In 2017, when Mike started to think about retirement, the pair decided to move to the south coast permanently. “We’d always wanted to live near the water, but we didn’t buy the house with the aim of knocking it down,” says Mike. “Our initial idea was
