OFFICE TO HOME

Mike and Rebecca Fairhurst have transformed a Grade II-listed collection of run-down offices into a family home, complete with a striking contemporary extension, carefully restoring period features along the way

“This is my favourite of all the houses we have restored over the years” The homeowners Mike and Rebecca Fairhurst Location Macclesfield, Cheshire The project Renovation and extension of a terraced house Build time January 2017 – April 2017 Size 200m Property cost £200,000 Build cost £145,000 “ This was the only exciting thing we had seen since selling our last house,” observes Mike Fairhurst of the listed Victorian terraced house he and wife Rebecca, along with their three children, now call home. “It had been used as offices for the past 52 years — there were literally just offices on all three floors. There was a tiny office kitchen on the first floor and ladies and gents loos on the ground floor — along with a huge old photocopier and green nylon carpet everywhere, plus walls of…

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Homebuilding & Renovating (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2018

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