A two-year struggle to turn a dated London house into a contemporary family home drove first-time renovators to the “brink of breakdown”
This couple kept their eyes on the prize as problem after problem scuttled their plans and budget, which brought them to the ‘brink of breakdown’Ruth BloomfieldWhen Sophie and Luke Hakes found a house for sale on their favorite London street, they thought fate meant them to buy it.
But their subsequent two-year struggle to transform the dated house into a contemporary family home—complete with disappearing contractors, shoddy workmanship, , escalating budget, and a pandemic—drove the first-time renovators to the “brink of breakdown,” said Mr. Hakes.
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