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‘It used to be SEVEN BEDSITS!’

We’d dreamed of moving to Cheltenham; it’s close to my parents, and not too far from our former home in Birmingham,’ says Emma. ‘However, buying somewhere that needed work was the only way we could afford to live here, and this house certainly needed lots of TLC.

It consisted of seven bedsits, and the original features had been stripped out. Our offer was accepted in May 2011 and we had to move fast to convert the rundown rental into a family home by Christmas. So as soon as we collected the keys, we headed around

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