‘we had a strict budget for the whole house’

After searching for a year in a heated property market, first-time buyers Lacey Richards and Aaron Coe finally got lucky with an unloved ex-rental house. As the owners were moving to Australia and wan

Amanda Greaney and her husband Paul have lived in their Cambridge home for the past 20 years, and during that time they’ve completely transformed it. They moved in when their elder son, Joseph, was a

BUYING A RUN-DOWN BUNGALOW ON A LARGE PLOT ENABLED KATE AND ROSS TO BUILD THEIR DREAM HOME IN THE GARDEN AND EDGE CLOSER TO BEING MORTGAGE FREE

A lifelong vintage lover, Lizzie Clarke always dreamed of an older home, but was living in a two-bedroom modern house an hour from her then-boyfriend (now husband), Lee, when he started dropping hints

For some people, completing a top-to-toe house renovation means finally saying goodbye to endless tradespeople and builders. But, for Rhian and Tom, it laid the foundations for an even more impressive

Kate Hewitt and husband Tom completely renovated their home when they first moved in, including replacing all the flooring and installing a new kitchen. ‘We chose IKEA carcasses but upgraded the doors