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

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

My husband, Graham, and I weren’t sure about this ex-rental when we began searching for our first family home, but my estate agent cousin pointed out the positives in its location, the big garden and

When Sophie and Freddie Naylor-Leyland first spotted this Victorian townhouse online, they were dubious. The existing decor, often a difficult thing to look beyond, and the tricky layout nearly deterr

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