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Ideal Home
Ideal Home
Lisa Fazzani

‘It actually pains me to buy things new’ - this home was completely transformed with secondhand buys

dining room with wooden table and leather chairs

‘Moving out of London and getting a lot more space for our money, plus a sizeable garden, was the aim when we started looking for a new house six years ago,’ says this home owner. 

‘We’d identified Tunbridge Wells in Kent as a possibility and went looking around the residential roads at the weekends to nail down the right house. We didn’t want to be right out in the countryside, so a sizeable town with good transport links was important to us.’

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