With our first baby on the way, we felt it was time to leave our small rented flat in north London and buy a more affordable property near our families,’ says Elise. ‘Our flat in Islington was open plan and we didn’t even have an internal door we could close!
‘Although my husband Michael and I had met in London, our families only lived a mile away from each other in the North East, so it was the perfect time to move closer to them. We’d