'None of my furniture would fit up the narrow stairs'

Small combined living room and hallway, with panelled walls, patterned wallpaper and curtains and pink sofa.

The day she moved into her three-bedroom Georgian terraced cottage in 2021, Leah Clark wondered if she'd made a big mistake.

‘There’d been some delay handing over the keys, and by the time the removal van had unloaded all my stuff, it was dark,’ she recalls.