Renovating this Victorian sea-side home was not without challenges, but today the owners have no regrets
They started looking for a site but then they discovered Castlerock House. “I walked around it and thought, no way. This will not work. It’s a money pit,” she says. The six-bedroomed house, which has five reception rooms, dates from the mid-1800s and she felt it was too much to take on.
The couple paid more than £600,000 for the property, which came with preliminary plans for two more houses on the land. “The garden is deceptively big, so we have an option to build at a later stage. At the moment we don’t want to see another plan for a while, but that’s there for the future.” Make friends with local suppliers because they will help out and give you that bit more. And we were very lucky to have some great tradespeople
Katriona O’Connor and her partner Jonathan Kennedy bought a three-storey Victorian house minutes from the beach in the village of Castlerock She says it’s also crucial to focus on the things you can control. “I didn’t do this enough. You have to let go of the things that you can’t control. People will stand there and tell you: “That will be done by the end of the week” and it doesn’t happen, again and again. If you don’t learn to focus on the things you can actually control, it is incredibly stressful.”
The couple moved into the house in October and further cut their links with London when they recently put their house on the market.
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