CLEAR VISION

Katie and Andrew Probert couldn't resist the chance to buy a Victorian doer-upper on a street they'd always wanted to live on

- SOPHIE VENING

You could say the timing was serendipitous when Katie and Andrew Probert began their search for a new home. I used to walk down this road on my way to work in my twenties dreaming of owning a home here,' says Katie, who liked the street's Victorian architecture and the wide, quiet road.

The couple's move was linked to needing more space for their growing family they have three children Poppy, now aged nine, Archie, eight, and Teddy, five. So when a property, which had been split into three flats, came on the market on Katie's desired street at exactly the same time that they began their search, she knew it was fate. We had previously renovated two properties together so we weren't deterred by the size of the project, says Katie, which involved building a loft extension and also transforming the rear of the property to create the perfect family home.