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Spent more time than enough in your living room? Looking for some spruce-up inspiration?
Hayley and partner Gary decided to add a little drama to their living space! We have lived in Maxey for almost six years now, first renting the house and then we were lucky enough to be able to buy it (yes, no moving on moving day – it was fabulous!). The house was built around 1990 and from the outside it looks quite inconspicuous, but actually it’s really quirky! When you enter it’s like a Tardis, with its rooms on different levels and a view right through the house out into the garden. It really did tick all of the boxes for us: log burner, large garage (for carpenter Gary’s workshop), enclosed garden, great dog walks, and the pub is less than 80 metres away – WINNER! It had been a rental for about six years, so whilst in really good order, the walls were magnolia and the carpets were equally as beige, really not our style, so we couldn’t wait to put our stamp on it. Renovations started upstairs, turning a five-
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