FLEXIBLE SPACE

bargain accessories. I’m also glad we’ve been able to recycle furniture to make it fit in. If you really don’t like your old furniture, someone else might, so get on Facebook Marketplace to make money that you can put towards something else.

Future plans

The next project that I’d like to tackle is to do more to the garden, including extending the patio, and I might add some colour-block panelling up the stairs. There’s always a space for more gallery walls too.

The only thing I’d like to change about the layout is to make the kitchen more open-plan. Someone living in the same house type on another development has knocked the wall through to the living room next door, so this is something we might consider in future. Ultimately we’d love to build our own home, but I’m sure we’ll be here for a good while longer as there’s plenty of space if we decide to have children.’

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‘We didn’t do anything with this room for a while but then I painted a three-quarter wall and bought a sofa bed. In the future it might be a nursery so we’ve kept it quite neutral’ FRESH START ‘I couldn’t wait to get rid of Michael’s horrible black leather bed and replace it with this burnt copper bed from Made. The feature wall in Farrow & Ball’s Duck Green makes the room feel super-cosy’