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Ideal Home
Ideal Home
Natasha Brinsmead

We’ve been house-hunting for 4 years with no luck — so this is what we’re going to do to make our current home work better for our family

Open plan kitchen diner with rustic butchers block and slate flooring.

In the four years since we first put our house on the market, we've sold it twice, viewed more houses than I can count, considered finding a house to share with our elderly parents, toyed with the idea of renting and even thought about relocating.

Yet, here we still are, living in the same three-bedroom Edwardian semi that we bought back in 2012 as a complete wreck. Granted, it has been totally transformed since then thanks to an extensive extension, renovation and remodelling process that took around five years, but in the years between, our needs have totally changed.

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