We’d been renting for 16 years and lived in our previous property for 11 of those. It was our dream to own somewhere, but we knew we’d have to save hard, and that we’d probably need to take on somethi

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WHEN BECKY AND IAN SAW THIS ELEGANT PERIOD PROPERTY IN THEIR MUCH-LOVED HOME TOWN OF COLCHESTER THEY KNEW IT WAS ‘THE ONE’

My last place was lovely but very neutral, and I’d always held back a bit with decorating. But this home felt different. Although the interior was stuck in the 1990s, it had great bones. The big rooms

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NEW PARENTS FRANKY AND JACK REWORKED A DATED STUDENT HOUSE INTO A COLOURFUL FAMILY HOME