Marina Calland, an events organiser, and Tim had lived in their five-bedroom Edwardian terraced house in southwest London home for 11 years before they started renovating in 2021. They had always planned to make changes but when they first moved in, they had a two-year-old plus a baby on the way, so the timing wasn’t right.
‘We had been looking for a house which would work for us for a while,’ explains Marina. ‘This one had the basics, but we wanted to wait for the kids to grow a little before starting.’ But when they got around to sorting their finances and engaging an architect, lockdown happened and the building work had to be put on hold.
