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Ideal Home
Ideal Home
Lindsay Blair

This house hadn’t been touched for over 20 years, but a colourful makeover has brought it perfectly up-do-date

Kitchen extension with island.

When the owners moved into this three-bedroom Mid-century house in Cheshire they waited two years before they did any major work so that they could save up first and then renovate it exactly what they wanted.

‘When we took on the house it hadn’t been touched since the 90s and was severely in need of modernising,’ says the home owner. ‘It had a large living-dining room with a separate kitchen complete with a serving hatch, patterned carpets throughout and an inch of wallpaper on every wall, the remnants of previous owners who ran a wallpaper shop!’

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