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Ideal Home
Ideal Home
Ruth Corbett

HISTORICAL FACTS: Reuse recycle reclaim is our mantra - The Untold Story

Living dining space with an entrance to a snug room in the background, with a floor-t-ceiling tiled chimney breast with woodburner and dining table and chairs.

Originally two early 19th century workers’ cottages in Yorkshire, now transformed into a single home, Lee Thornley, founder of Bert & May, lives here his partner, Phil Brocklebank and their children, Lyla and Iris.

'Although the cottages had already been joined and extended into one home,' explains Lee, 'it was still a house of two halves, with two staircases, two kitchens and a muddle of small rooms.'

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