Double Your House For Half The Money! | Series 3 Episode 3 - FULL EPISODE

this year the average cost of property in the uk has risen to a jaw dropping 2 000 pounds per square meter the problem is sometimes my eyes are bigger than my wallet that's the only problem pricing millions of us out of the market for more spacious homes it's just really depressing living here we have to open the cupboard like this all of this needs to be dug away and then properly rebuilt that's kind of scary but some people have the vision to see beyond cramped and ugly spaces so that looks like a sauna from the 1970s you come in the front door and have a glorious view of the throne in this series i meet families who are refusing to let a lack of cash deny them their dream home so how much do you have 25 so reaching for the stars you've got to have the dream almost 200 000 households applied for planning permission last year for most of us these builds are a once-in-a-lifetime project we've never extended a property before i have seen some horrendous mistakes [Music] with no guarantee of success probably the worst night's sleep we've had since we started the build everybody i think has just about had enough it's all gonna come crashing down like a hideous earthquake of horror it's chaos but get it right there and the home of your dreams so fantastic all this glass could be right on your doorstep amazing look at this sparkly and shiny and new i'm excited i'm like a kid at christmas did you ever think that you would live in a home like this never wow we've done a good job [Music] in many places house prices are now at a seven year high so for most of us the dream home is out of reach now might be the time to find the perfect plot and turn a less perfect home into something fabulous [Music] this week i'm with two couples who are trying to do just that that look is there to kill me later jim joel and his partner elaine have views to die for but want to build a massive extension on a minuscule budget i think i can get hold of 25k myself and remortgage the house to borrow another 25. once that money's gone that would be it i'm confident that he can do it not really but first i'm off to kent to meet dr tabitha rawlinson and husband i.t consultant paul [Music] they moved from reading three years ago in search of their dream home and an idyllic rural lifestyle and eventually found this 18th century picture perfect cottage the property was just breathtaking so i would really be happy to stay in for the rest of my life i have not had a property do that for me before they found the plot of their dreams for 360 000 pounds but although the magical cottage blew them away the size of it was less than ideal we moved in uh from a four bed to a two bed when we moved here we were a family of three so two beds was fine but we had another baby george so now the children are sharing one room to create their dream home tabitha and paul hope to sympathetically double its size with an extension which will restore the property to its former glory the house used to be much bigger than this unfortunately in the late 70s there was a fire that destroyed probably about half of the property we found an old photograph so we decided that's how we wanted to restore it and that's part of where our anxiety lies it needs to maintain the character of the older part of the property they came in search of countryside and boy did they find it boasting two acres of magical gardens meadowlands and outbuildings galore it's the perfect wilderness for three-year-old william and baby george to have all of the gardens gonna be fabulous for these two growing up with little secret areas and so much space to run around in paul and tabitha's cottage is in the pretty hamlet of sellings just outside folkestone in kent the county is known as the garden of england house sales have been increasing here by a whopping 25 year on year pushing prices up so this is the house that you'd ideally like to be able to buy yeah if money were no object paul and tabitha's dream home would be this 19th century former schoolhouse with its five bedrooms and open planned living space i love the character it's really quirky inside and a lot of original features as well the sort of thing that we really like the open plan so we can keep an eye on the children wherever we are a house like this would be worth somewhere around 850 000. your house is worth about 360 000 so you'd need nearly half a million pounds to come and buy something like this so how much have you got we've got 150 000 okay so you're 350 000 pounds short so the only solution is to get building yeah yes see what you can conjure up tabitha and paul's dream house is worth well over twice as much as their current home their cottage would fetch about 360 000 pounds leaving them short by close to half a million they have less than a third of that to create their perfect rural retreat one thing their money doesn't need to buy them is charm this is the most fantastic garden with quirky little outbuildings which mean really you could do almost anything with this hat but inside the cottage is more on the scale of a doll's house than a growing family there's two beds upstairs and on the ground floor is a dining room and a tiny kitchen in the lounge there's space but you almost need a telescope to see it this is serious stargazing isn't it this is not a little hobby uh i'd like bigger but obviously i'm struggling for space as is the children's toys tend to sort of congregate here we're all cramped into this one room really while paul's hobby takes pride of place in the lounge in the kitchen there's not enough room for the essentials where's the fridge in the dining room what you're hoping for is to end up with a kitchen that's big enough to be able to have people eating it and see where they are exactly yeah and with two small children i'd like to be able to keep a better eye on them than i can at the moment with the individual rooms the dream is a delightful spacious cottage carefully extended to retain its original charm paul and tabitha hope to build out on the ground floor to create a huge open plan kitchen diner and living room upstairs there are two extra bedrooms including a dramatic master suite the main feature of the master bedroom is the vaulted ceiling to have some exposed oak beams put up focal points like this can add thousands to the value of your property but they can have a big effect on the layout of the room i'm a bit worried about their plans to put bathroom into the space there's ways you can fit and ensuite into a square room where you see all the vaulted ceilings without destroying the line of the roof timbers rather than actually building that as solid walls right up to the rafters that would be really good to look at actually because it was an area of concern i mean the success of this extension really is in how well you blend the building you've got already with the building that you're about to build and you just don't want the bit that you add to it to really jar when you've got an older property and it's in a style that you love and you're trying to extend it it opens up lots of questions should you do it to match or do it differently the problem is if you don't get it right it can end up looking a bit of a hot spot over in hertfordshire the charming medieval town of hitchin is one of the top 10 places to live in the uk it has an affluent vibe decent schools good independent shops and restaurants and acres of open space all this makes it a pricey place to buy unless like electrician jim joel and partner elaine you can find a cheaper house with potential we bought it because we loved the area and nice views just needed a bigger house and it's what was in our budget with two daughters and one on the way the family are using every inch of space and jim is crying out for his very own man cave this room's my my hideout that i share with the female dog the female cat he lanes washing he lanes washing machine i actually do feel i've been pushed out out of the house to create space for all the family jim has big plans to extend and a deadline of five months for the whole build because that's when daughter number three arrives the most stress that i get is going to be from her with the dust and the constant cleaning i'm going to have to do once i finish work i'm not a clean freak i like things to have their place like things to be put back and covered doors to be shut when you've opened them and yeah but you do clean or hoover twice or three times a day i have kids if there were an endless pot of money jim and elaine would be buying a bigger house in the same part of this picturesque town why is it this area that you'd want to particularly stay in our parents are all here brothers and sisters and stuff so stay close to the family their ideal home is a great big luxurious new build where everyone in the family can have a room of their own so what is it about this house that you like the kitchen is just a nice size i really like that absolutely love the games room it's a room that you know one can get away from all the girls because he's a little bit outnumbered obviously so i think he needs his own little space as well so this house is worth about 600 000 and your house is worth about 310 000 so how much do you have i think we can stretch to about 50 000 maximum on doing the whole build crikey so the whole build for 50 000. the four bed home gym in a lane would really like cost well over half a million pounds as their three bed semi's worth half of that they'd need almost 300 000 more to afford it but they have an absolute maximum of just 50 grand to spend this semi-detached house is one of a pair but really around it is nothing else it's it's a rural idle really in many ways whilst the location's great the house layout isn't working for elaine the kitchen's too small and situated at the opposite end of the house to the dining room so meal times can be exhausting work upstairs there are two bedrooms a tiny third bedroom and a family bathroom so what is it that doesn't work in the kitchen here for you at the moment well as you can see it's quite a small space and everyone just seems to always want to be around me while i'm while i'm in here it gets a bit stressful so is it partly the fact that you're coming and going and this is a busy place yeah to keep within budget jim hopes to do a lot of the work himself with help from mates on a casual basis [Music] he hopes to build a large wraparound two-story extension on the ground floor he'll demolish the conservatory and build a larger kitchen plus a small playroom for the girls a utility room a third bathroom and a massive garage upstairs they're adding a fourth bedroom at the front of the house with an ensuite bathroom at the back with their tiny budget they can't afford to make any mistakes but i can see a couple of glaring errors right away at the moment you're going to have a bathroom that has this amazing view yeah good point best better switch them around so that the bathroom overlooked the drive and the bedroom made the most of this amazing view yeah you want to open your curtains and see that every morning not just have a bathroom window looking out downstairs they're planning a garage the size of an aircraft hangar leaving a tiny space for the children's playroom i wanted to talk to you about your garage because it comes all the way out to here and that is a vast garage yeah it was planning to be my myspace time for a rethink they could have a bigger playroom and you could just nudge a little bit backwards with it i'm not talking about you only having a cupboard still a nice big man cave but just not quite this big yeah i'm prepared to compromise on now small garage as the size of jim's garage is shrinking so is the budget so your budget at the moment is 50. that would be a worst-case scenario budget i could get my hands on 25. i could do it for that kind of money i will really honestly 50 000 is a very small budget for this so to think maybe we'll get away with doing it for half that it's really optimistic no i think i'll get it watertight for that do you think he can do this do you think you can pull this off really i've got our faith in him haven't i really but someone's got it yeah i'm kind of feeling a little bit worried actually um you know the budget and everything i'm like um i just haven't got no more money in the pot my darling there's nothing i can do about it that is it unfortunately jim and elaine are creating lots of space but i'm not sure yet they know quite what to do with it add to that the mini budget they've got for a major build and i fear it could be a case of if not when they get this job done [Music] the price gap between rural and city properties is wider than ever so there's never been a better time to move to open green spaces but in the idyllic kent countryside the rural piece is being shattered as the extension and restoration work gets underway on dr tabitha and paul rawlinson's two-bed country cottage i can't even hear myself speaking at the moment it's more disruptive than we had thought it might be i guess that's a pitfall of living in a house that's being extended but they're struggling through hoping their 150 grand will bring the cottage back to its former glory after being partially destroyed by fire in the 1970s not try and make the new part of the property look old but bring the old features into the new side and that's part of where our anxiety lies it needs to maintain the character of the older part of the property [Music] but with the family planning to live on site throughout for the project supervisor tabitha blending the old with the new isn't her most pressing concern william's not coping very well with the noise at all and finding a bit difficult i think sitting up over his hands over his ears hiding under the covers he made the point that he didn't want a bigger house anymore this morning [Music] over in hitchen having scraped together a budget of 50 grand electrician jim joel's ambitious wrap-around extension is underway all right no worries calling in favors from mates in the trade may be keeping costs down but it's pushing stress levels up i'm worrying that my um ground worker won't turn up i'm worrying the dumper won't turn up and i'm worried the digger won't turn up cause it's eight o'clock and no one's here but it's not diggers and dumpers that are concerning partner elaine i'm really worried about having a messy house especially as i've got young children sort of running around and i'll be having another one hopefully most of it will be done by then but help eventually shows up and over the next six weeks it's a productive site but as the new extension starts to go up [Applause] the autumn rain begins to pour down and work is rained off [Music] after three and a half months they're still battling the elements and are behind schedule [Applause] good to see you but another battle's ended resulting in man cave nil and girls playroom one you've given up some of your garage which is very good to do is that through gritted teeth you've given me it does make more sense to have this room bigger i think the playroom will be a really nice sized room now how important to both is it to have the go out she doesn't know you see me then well i just like to have things organized and he likes everything out where he can see everything that's the space that can be absolute chaos and then you can have the house really yeah how i want it yeah she wants it yeah it's a great deal hey steve just to confirm the pack and a half of bricks have got to go back yeah all right mate no worries that's lovely with delays piling up the bricklayers are delayed by a day as well there's one non-negotiable deadline looming so how many weeks have you got about five weeks left five weeks left before you have the baby yeah so what would you hope is done in the next five weeks certainly i would have liked to have seen the knock through done watertight knocked through and a bit habitable that was the idea yeah but okay it's not going that way and that's i just have to deal with it [Music] your baby arrives in five weeks assuming it's bang on time how many weeks do you think it'll be until your dry water tight and you're on to second fix if we get a break in the weather sort of four weeks maybe um really realistically though well i reckon six weeks before we're um sort of totally watertight do you think you have a similar expectation as to where the house is going to be when the baby arrives possibly not yeah most probably not so the pressure's on you really yeah it is yeah that's the way i like it you know living on the edge so how does elaine feel about living on the edge elaine's doesn't know that she's going to be living on the edge to be honest with you right there's an awful lot going on here and a lot of it is resting on jim's shoulders now whilst jim and elaine are both terribly laid back i also think they're both rather bearing their heads in the sand so today i sort of clicked in the air that wow we're having a baby and it's coming very soon in the kent countryside six weeks in and the new extension's about to go up it's a key day for the rawlinsons the truck contains our entire house minus some open beams about 30 000 pounds worth of timbers that have been pre-made to keep costs down tabitha and paul have opted for a timber frame for the new extension that's been precision engineered off-site a bit nervous today hoping it goes smoothly obviously we've got the crane behind us to hopefully uh position it where it needs to be on site the timbers come all pre-cut to exact sizes like an enormous flat pack although they do site assessments and stuff like that and they confidently thought they could easily make it up our track but they seem to be stuck if they can't get it up here i don't know what they're gonna do really the timber frames might be measured to spec but the lorries aren't so it's muscle power to get the frames to site all the supplies we've spoken to we've that's the first thing we've highlighted is access um and they all start off by saying no it's not a problem we got into places smaller but then today's a great example of that you know they've brought the wrong size vehicle along to try and get you know try and do a job in a quicker time frame and it's going to end up having taken them much longer because they've had to do it all by hand [Music] frames like these made in a controlled environment often end up being cheaper than carpenters working on sites timber frames can be built throughout the winter months whereas brickwork has to stop if the temperature drops below 2 degrees this kind of system has been used for decades commercially but is now revolutionizing domestic projects as in many cases it's an economic and faster way to build for more information about extending your house or increasing your floor space check out my scrapbook at channel4.com forward slash beanie [Music] true to form the timber frame is up in days and i'm back to check on progress has it all gone according to plan so far we've had one huge great big disaster that we'll show you upstairs in what will be the master suite the pre-manufactured frame is installed but now there's a problem with the oak beam centerpiece why is the ridge not sitting on the oak beam uh it's been cut wrong so it's positioned wrong in the room but more importantly it's supposed to be holding the roof up such an important feature it's the main feature of a vaulted ceiling you know we wanted to buy oak and put oak up there you know and it's got to look right it's a very very expensive mistake 1200 pounds material plus labour plus a crane to put it in into the roof but replacing it that in itself is complicated because you've now got the tiles going on yes when is that happening hopefully within a week i think it's worth doing it right but that is a huge huge setback the biggest question with an expensive mistake like this is who will pay the thousands to rectify it paul and tabitha or the company that supplied the frames setbacks that are really disastrous like the oak beam is just what they don't [Music] need [Music] i'm with two families hoping to create the homes they could never afford especially in today's market where in some areas house prices are rising by up to six percent a year deep in rural kent paul and tabitha rawlinson are trying to double the size of their two-bedroom cottage they chose to have the timber frame for their extension manufactured off-site which in theory should lead to a quick and easy build but it's proving otherwise we've had this beautiful oak window made up looks gorgeous and it was the last window they went to fit and it doesn't fit and the hole isn't the right size shape or anything the windows aren't the only delay they're still waiting to find out when the ill-fitting beams for their vaulted ceiling centerpiece will be replaced and now they're saying next week for the oak it's like well will the oak arrive next week will it all be you know can we finally get them off of the site so that our builders can get on and do what needs doing [Music] in hitching in hertfordshire electrician jim is building an ambitious double-story extension for his growing family for a really tight budget of 50 grand but taking on much of the build himself is taking its toll yeah it is a bit of a challenge that i've set myself but i feel like superman at the minute you know doing the build and trying to create more work so i can repay the money that i'm borrowing what doesn't kill us makes us stronger i have had a lot of help from a lot of friends you know helping me out for a sunday roast rather than payment but it might take more than a few rows spuds to get this build back on track they're four weeks behind the original four to five months schedule and time waited for no man i think in two weeks time he's looking at knocking through two weeks time baby should be here which is gonna be stressful itself whilst the build is running behind schedule someone else arrives ahead as daughter number three olivia comes into the world piling on the pressure for jim to complete daddy needs to hurry and finish work continues and baby olivia is welcomed home to this i'm gonna take some plastic over it's just coming through [Music] and it's much messier than elaine feared no i can't be not with the kids i mean even i'm walking in and i'm like i can just taste it so let alone the kids and a new baby so i want to go i feel like dirty already there's dust in the housing lane and uh if you want to moan at someone it's john that look that look is there to kill me later but before she throttles jim elaine decides it's time to ship out and take the girls to stay with her brother until the place is habitable again you know quite soon that i can wire all this area out and plastered up plumbers in next week so yeah obviously all steaming ahead in kent on the rawlinson's project to extend their two-bed cottage it's been a six-week wait for the replacement oak beam for their statement vaulted ceiling good news is that the yolks arrived bad news is we think there might be a problem i can hear mumblings of wrong sighs and things like that yeah that's it yeah but we need to go and find out what's happening they're supposed to send out a b it gets machined so in some respects it's hard to make a mistake on it but for some reason it's 210 so it's much bigger one side of the original beam was too short and the timber manufacturers agreed to pay now the replacements are centimeter too thick the only place you're going to really notice that is where the wood comes together no it's not what we ordered we ordered for a piece of oak that fits the room in the right position and looks like i'm sick of all this compromising [Music] exposed wooden beams were at the heart of paul and tabitha's vision for their cottage this family can't stomach any further delays so the decisions made to stick with the oversized beam but to cut it down to size we could have sent it back but where does that leave us on the build you know we do actually want to move into this house at some point [Music] the vaulted ceiling will be the master bedroom's central focal point but they still need to work out how to fit the ensuite into the room you've got the space to do it there but i just think that you cut off you cut the room off at that corner i just think it would look like it's like it was an afterthought when it's not this has been in the plan this ensuite has moved around the plan yeah from day one but now we've got the building to look at i don't i'm not happy with either it would be the only master suite in the world that's the i want a toilet the current plan is to build the ensuite in the corner of the room but i think this could compromise the vaulted oak beam ceiling which is such a key feature but there's an alternative solution which will give them the wow factor thereafter this is what you're planning at the moment which is a bathroom chopped out of the corner of the bedroom what i wanted to suggest is that instead of having it chopped out of the corner you actually make a feature of it so it's hidden behind that's very nice if they disguise their bathroom as a freestanding wardrobe they can create an ensuite and walk in storage without disrupting their vaulted ceiling i really like this idea because i always imagined that obviously putting a wall up and segregating an area of the room would mean that you'd have to put the wall to the ceiling in my in my eye you know it looks really good really nice this is great because um you get much more storage in a in a space like that than you would in a couple of individual freestanding wardrobes so from that perspective i think it's it's great and obviously it has that little bit of luxury to to the room absolutely this way i think you can you can really embrace the original character and really bring that through and it'll it'll kind of celebrate the room and then you've got this wardrobe here when we saw sarah suggestion i thought that was just fantastic yeah i mean i've always wanted it to to sort of disappear not having a wall all the way up through the vaulted ceiling will be worth it whatever cost really [Music] in hitching jim joel's huge wrap-around extension is finally up it ain't staying at her brother's house me and my cat are living here making the best of it oh you smudge yeah with a home full of girls jim always felt outnumbered but now he's feeling lonesome i want him back i want the children back i want my dog back i want my life back but you know we're getting there the project may be two months behind schedule but finally it's coming together i love it and at last elaine and the kids are able to come home jim and elaine certainly had it tough they had a new baby a massive build on a minuscule budget i'm dying to see how much they've managed to put off [Music] seven months ago this house was a drab 1960 semi lacking in space which wasn't working for jim elaine and their growing family [Music] now in the location they love they have a spacious family home that they can all enjoy considering that most of what you now see is an extension this is a seriously impressive home hi hello how are you oh look this is the new arrival olivia oh gosh i'm dancing inside let's have a look at it all [Music] previously the small kitchen was at the wrong side of the house now at the heart of the home is the slick modern kitchen dining space they dreamed of and this was your main motivating reason really for doing the build the kitchen i can't believe it's ours this feels like grown-ups kitchen i'm really really pleased with it really pleased with it it's like nice family room which is what we wanted wasn't it standard of life is so much better than what it was you've got your garage [Laughter] which you have to stay in sometimes to use yeah i have a camp bed adjoining the kitchen diner is a bright and colorful playroom that's thankfully big enough for the girls to enjoy it would have been up to this point here so really almost a cupboard it would have been yeah glad we made it a little bit bigger yeah you're gonna have this enormous garage and then a tiny tiny playroom i feel really proud that you know i've done this for the children and they're close as well you know they're not upping their bedrooms out of the way they're with us the disorganized utility room was the hideaway for house clutter the cat the dog and jim in its place is a state-of-the-art garage complete with an adjoining wet room and ample storage for jim's work tools and the family bikes that really is fantastic in the mornings now i can you know come in here at seven and be out of here by quarter past seven with all the gear i need so i don't have to rummage around finding things really good for work really practical and having the wet room off this room is great it's great yeah i don't need to go in the house i don't get moaned at so i can get showered and and then i'll go yeah jim and elaine now have a house they love with jim's hands on approach he's created a home for all of his family's needs but the crucial question has he done it within budget i can't get away from how much it costs you were hoping to do all of this for 50 000 how much did you end up spending i think was just a little bit shy of our budget but we've done it so that is seriously incredible i mean it's a long long days long nights but it has been with a lot of help from a lot of people i'll be working for free now for the next 10 years i'm sure jim and elaine's dream house is worth 600 000 pounds nearly twice as much as the house they were living in but they've created their perfect home for just under 50 grand a staggering 240 000 pounds less than it would have cost them to buy their dream home and i guess the other really good news is that if you did decide to sell this you would be able to get half a million pounds for this so you've created 140 000 pounds of capital in this house wow that is music to my ears i think he's done a really really good job really proud of him [Music] so one happy family and one project wrapped up but for tabitha and paul there's still no end in sight has the insulation arrived no as they're plagued by further supply issues when is anything going to happen it's just it's getting a bit much in kent the finish date on paul and tabitha's extension has been and gone the issue with the oak beams has caused a two-month delay and although sorted now there's a further battle with supply issues it has the insulation arrived no not yet okay i suppose we've still got a couple of hours on that one um but when is anything gonna happen you know it's just it's getting a bit much home builds can be incredibly stressful so if you have to down tools doing a build but still haven't made those final decisions on the finishing touches get out and about and take inspiration from existing homes and buildings throughout this project paul and tabitha have been determined to blend the old with the new and this 16th century local pub shows how it's done oh i like the butcher's block i wonder if there's any way we could incorporate something like that and tabitha's immediately blown away i love these things hanging from the ceiling i like the way they've got like the modern lighting but it's so simple oh i love the i love that actually i'm far more interested on what earth that is before they get too carried away there's one feature i particularly want to draw their attention to [Music] obviously having this through fireplace is a really big fantastic focal point the benefits of the heat you get both sides and there's this lovely peephole into next door you know it just so led to the charm because it gives you a little flavor of what might be there in the sort of style of cottage that you're trying to create it's probably spot on [Music] it's been six challenging months for the rawlinson family with a dream of upsizing in their perfect countryside location they've battled living with a young family on site trucks that couldn't deliver and an unrelenting oak beam saga i'm sick of all this compromising but now the dream of restoring this picturesque cottage to its former glory is almost a reality starting to see the finishing touches now as we wanted them so and there's a real sort of energy on site and the build powers ahead to completion a huge chunk of this house had been destroyed by fire so the extension that they were building really needed to match and blend in with the original building and of course all the surrounding houses before the cottage had oodles of character but it was more the size of a doll's house than a growing family home now this picture-perfect property has been sympathetically doubled in size [Music] jake that is truly seamless you actually couldn't tell where the original house ended and the new house starts [Music] hi hello how are you this looks lab exciting before the cottage was dark and cluttered now on entering the house there's an immediate sense of space bathed in natural light being able to make it quite a grand entrance for such a little cottage has been a bit unique really and having a really beautiful joining me makes a difference as well and as soon as you walk through the door you see it yeah and that carries on throughout i hoped that this is how it was going to end up because i think it's absolutely fantastic and there's a lot of pressure to get it right and boy did they get it right with the kitchen before it was so tiny there wasn't even enough room for the essentials [Music] now this gorgeous open plan kitchen diner is bigger brighter and packed with modern appliances whilst retaining a classic period feel you've done a fantastic job in here of blending the old with the new i just love the traditional look but that we've got everything in the right place we've also managed to hide all of the gadgets when you've got a fridge in the kitchen which is a luxury isn't it because you had to go next door for the fridge because it wasn't big enough for the fridge i haven't had a fridge in a kitchen for three years and now we've got two oh right where's the second one just here all right oh that's great the mod cons are subtle but period charm is everywhere and i'm glad to see they took inspiration from the trip to the pub so this is your dining room fireplace and your kitchen fireplace yeah and and you get the benefit of the heat from both sides when the fire's on and the beauty of it from both sides it's the focal point of both rooms which again is fairly traditional we have a focal point as the fireplace and not the tv it's almost in the heart of the house as well so you know we're really pleased with that i just think it's been great that we've had this opportunity to make it how we want it but still stay true to how it was i'm quite pleased with the outcome but i suppose i would be it's mine upstairs the basic two-bedroom layout is no more and in place are three spacious bedrooms and the master suite with the all-important oak beam ceiling ah such a lovely bedroom but that is the offending beam isn't it that caused so much hassle was that the most stressful moment absolutely yeah you know i'm not in construction and to me that look like a big job to put that right and uh and it was it was definitely worth it it looks absolutely fantastic you had a vision for it and you stopped by it and you said no that's what we want and definitely worth it yeah and they masqueraded their ensuite at the edge of the room that's great what a lovely ensuite i think every option for that ensuite we exhausted would have just impacted on the room or sacrificing part of another room just to get the ensuite in whereas i think what we've ended up with is something that looks really great and is actually a perfect use of the space this project was more than about creating space it was about restoring a cottage to its former glory its dramatic features led to dramatic problems but determinedly paul and tabitha have stuck by their vision and now have a beautiful spacious home which feels as though it's been here for centuries i think we feel like we're borrowing someone else's house at the moment because we're in inside a magazine yeah yeah yeah so is it now your dream house yes absolutely categorically you bought the house for 360 000 didn't you and you were planning on spending 150 000 on it how much did you end up spending about 160 000 so not too bad so that's a total of 520 000 pounds on buying it and refurbishing it their dream house was worth 850 000 pounds 490 000 pounds more than their original property but tabitha and paul have managed to create their ideal home for 160 000 pounds saving them 330 000 and making them a very healthy profit i think it's reasonable to suppose that this would be worth about seven hundred thousand wow so it was worth it so 180 thousand pounds of equity you've made that's nice it's good to know but we're not going anywhere it's not for sale at that price [Music] paul and tabitha have created a beautiful home that's risen out of the ashes and now they have a fabulous home that they can enjoy with their children into the future [Music] you

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Id: oGHn2sZrXTw

Length: 46min 41sec (2801 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 07 2020