Homebuilding & Renovating

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HOMEOWNERS Sean and Sophie Toomey and their daughter Murphy

PROJECT Extending a three-bed 1950s detached house

BUILD ROUTE Project managed, subcontractors

BUILD TIME Seven months

LOCATION Swindon

BUILD COST £55-60k

Sean and Sophie Toomey bought their 1950s four-bed terraced house in Swindon ten months ago. And the reason they bought it? They knew as soon as they saw it that it had great renovation potential. By this time, Sophie, 35, was heavily

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