What do you do if you can’t find a house you want to buy? For Averil and Michael, the answer was simple: build their dream home themselves.
The couple, now 82 and 86, had married in 1968 and were renting in Dartford, where Michael worked. They were looking for a new home: somewhere within a 20-mile radius of Dartford, within commuting distance of London, which was affordable and big enough to house a future family.
