An older house was always on the cards for me,’ says Esther. ‘I grew up with my parents renovating homes – my dad was a builder – and when the time came for my boyfriend Lewis and me to buy a property of our own, we knew we wanted a period project we could put our stamp on.
Living at home while we saved up meant we were in a great position to buy a four-bedroom Victorian terraced house just around the corner from my family home. The house was on the market for a competitive price, so we knew it was the property for us.
It had been empty for six months when we bought it, and rented out before, but structurally it was in
