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‘We’ve flexed our DIY skills to create our dream home’

Discovering their 1930s three-bedroom home for sale by pure chance, Ciara Murphy and Daniel Bowen had initially dismissed the area of Cardiff it was situated in when their friend spotted the property online and sent over the details. ‘The house is close to the university with a large student population, and we thought it would be a noisy place to live,’ recalls Ciara. ‘But it’s tucked away on a beautiful tree-lined residential street and close to great places to eat and drink, so as soon as we viewed it, we knew it was the one for us.’

The couple

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