It was a very different world when Matt Smyth and his now wife Emma Rigby bought their first house, a Victorian heritage, in August 2020.
“We bought the house the day we entered the second block. It was around the moment they predicted that prices would be discouraged due to the ‘mortgage cliff’, so he felt quite risky at that time,” says Smyth.
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Brunswick’s three bedroom house was also very different from what it is now.
“The house had touched the bone since the 1950s, but due to the important necessary work, it fell into our price range,” he says.
“With the deep block, we knew that anyway, with a lot of work, it would be a house of heartbreaking,” he adds.
And that is what the couple set out to achieve through their extensive renovations.
Due to planning, pandemic and the shortage of materials, the extension touches considerably more time to complete.
The extension has a large kitchen, dining room and open room open in a polished and heated concrete slab, as well as a double garage and the conversion of the old living room in a private bath and main bathroom.
“The biggest difference of what was before is the fact that it is hot in winter and fresh in summer,” says Smyth.
“Put to adequate isolation, double glazing windows in the extension and provide the option of heating panels, lower floor heating, systems divided into all the main rooms and a firewood fire has changed the enjoy of Lathor. Wathard.”
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