Bought with funds from refinancing our residential home, we really did get down and dirty with this one, doing as much of the work ourselves on evenings and weekends, working around our full time jobs. The property required full modernisation and a full rewire. Unfortunately we didn't take any 'before' photos... Little did we know this was going to be the start of our property journey. We moved the kitchen from the small extension and into the dining room. It meant we had to change the window in the dining room to allow room for units underneath and still let plenty of light into the room. 8am Monday morning, we got a call from the flooring fitters. They'd come to fit the flooring in the kitchen... "Your ceilings fallen down" Due to a bad connection made by me in the new bathroom, the water pipe to the toilet had come away, leaking water onto the ceiling below for at least a full day. Thankfully the new kitchen unit and appliances were missed and it was just a clear up operation with a new ceiling to board and plaster. We're super proud of our first project. We aimed to create a home we would love to live in ourselves, and we definitely achieved that and more.