‘our rental’s gone green!’

When Sharon Foskett and her husband Cobie bought their run-down cottage in Cornwall, it was all systems go. Moving their young family into a caravan in the depths of winter, they worked around the clo

Paula knew what she wanted in her and husband Steve’s hunt for a bigger home: ‘I love a characterful, old house, and coming from a two-bedroom thatched cottage I had high expectations for our next mov

The scariest part about moving into our house was that my first month’s payslip as a teacher went on my first mortgage payment! I was 24 and we’d bought a two-up, two-down house with a stairlift and n

Spray-paint affordable lampshades with texture paint to give them a concrete look for less When I look back, I can’t believe how much we’ve done to this house. We tackled the work in stages over 18 mo

HANNAH’S HOME IS A MASTERCLASS IN OPTIMISING NATURAL LIGHT AND SPACE, WHERE OLD MEETS NEW, AND PRETTY PASTELS POP AGAINST NEUTRAL WALLS. COME ON IN…

Having always opted for period properties in the past, Nicola Daly and partner Nick Savvides were intrigued after driving past a new-build house on the outskirts of Knutsford while on the school run.