Downsizing can be a challenge, but for Linda Park, the move to the cottage she shares with husband Richard and their sons was an opportunity.
‘I loved our previous house, but there were rooms and parts of the garden that we never used or enjoyed,’ she says of the detached Victorian villa that she had painstakingly restored. ‘We were lucky enough to experience such a spacious house, but deep down, my dream was always to live in a proper English cottage with all its charm.’
The couple kept their search local, to avoid the boys having to change schools. Their gamble paid off when they found a centuries-old property they have now updated into a…
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