
We purchased our house in May 2010 for a very reasonable price but it was in need of a lot of “modernising”. It looked like it hadn’t been touched in 30-40 years. Dated furniture, in-efficient layout and awkward spaces but that’s never stopped a Hallam before. My brilliant Mum and Dad are used to big projects like this and encouraged Rach and I to roll our sleeves up and get dirty. That is definitely what we did and with the help of our friends and family we managed to turn:
into this:

View of our living room mid development. At this point we had bricked up the double doors, added a new single door to allow a different layout, removed the gas fire, installed central heating, and re-plastered every wall and ceiling.
into this: