'We added £230,000 to the value of our house - and one £400 change made a huge difference'
A pair of first-time buyers have managed to add a huge £230,000 in value to their property after renovating it themselves. Ellie Rimmer, 27, and James Lawrence, 28, bought an 'uninhabitable' two-bed bungalow for £400,000 back in September 2021 with the ambition to turn it into a four-bed house.
Ellie researched and discovered tile paint existed and bought £400 worth to coat their existing brown tiles twice. Ellie, a project manager for the NHS, from Brighton said: “I have done a lot of upcycling in the past. I just thought ‘surely you can paint tiles.' I Googled it, and it did exist. Ellie said: “We had always planned to give them a clean. I saw painting tiles is done quite a lot in Australia."When the tiles went back on the roof had changed size, so we were a few tiles short.”With the roof back on but the scaffolding still up from their builders, Ellie and James worked tirelessly to paint them in April 2022.
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