Having a tight budget pushed me to be creative

After outgrowing our three-bedroom house where my eldest son was squashed into the box room, we started looking at new-build homes in the same County Durham village. At the time, I’d never even painte

SARAH JONES HAS CREATED A HOME FILLED WITH COLOUR, CHARACTER AND CLEVER STORAGE SOLUTIONS

When we first bought the house, I kept the decor very neutral. We were busy and the house was ideal for us as a family, with three equal-sized bedrooms for our three girls, and it was in a great neigh

Emma Parnell and her husband Jamie chose to buy this Victorian house to have more space for their growing family. ‘We decided to move purely because we needed to upsize,’ she explains. ‘We loved our o

After meeting at university and renting for a year, Glenn and I bought a two-bedroom 1930s semi on the same street as his parents in Matlock, Derbyshire. It’d stood empty for at least 18 months, but i

When Michelle Lunt and her husband Andy first viewed their 1850s stone cottage, they weren’t entirely convinced. ‘It’s positioned right next to a graveyard, which did give me pause for thought,’ says