Name just about any colour and you will find it in Jo Glossop’s bright, bold family home in Kelsall, a small village outside Chester. Jo lives here with her husband, James, and their three children, Bella, Annie and Ronnie. The family moved into the 1970s detached property with their first newborn in 2007. “We were looking for a period house with beautiful original features,” Jo recalls, “but we soon realised that we’d get a lot more for our money if we went with this 70s box instead.”
They inherited a disjointed interior that had been heavily influenced by the decorating TV shows of the early 1990s. “There were seahorse stencils everywhere and lots of floral borders – not our taste at all,” says Jo. A few cosmetic updates were made, but the real change came a decade later. “By then, we had three children and were thinking of moving again,” Jo explains. “We put in an offer on a lovely period property in the village, but it fell through. After that, we thought we might as well stay put and extend.”
