After Jayne moved into her home with her son back in 2013, she immediately set about updating all the nuts and bolts – the boiler, the kitchen, the bathroom and en-suite. But, at the time, she didn’t

Living in an old cottage in the Cotswolds, Vanessa Love wasn’t planning on a move 90 minutes away to Wiltshire, until her elderly mother, Ann, fell ill. ‘She was on her own, so I moved into her flat i

When our new-build estate became increasingly busy with lots of families, we decided to move somewhere a bit quieter with period features. At first, we made an offer on a different apartment, but the

In recent decades, perhaps no room has transformed in look and feel more than the dining room. Once a standalone stalwart of the family home, often formal in feel due to its separation from the cookin

When Mandy and David Ashcroft found themselves craving space during lockdown, they didn’t imagine the search would lead to a new-build. They’d always gravitated towards older properties and their 1920

We’d been living in a Victorian house with high ceilings just a mile away, but we were ready for a change. The house had very little garden, and we wanted to become a lot more self-sufficient by havin