Satisfaction of a Self-Build ; with Plot Prices Down 20% in the Last Year and a Glut of Tradesmen Looking for Work, More People Are Choosing the Self-Build Route. Karen Wilson Meets a Couple in County Durham Who Have Done Just That.

The Journal › February 28, 2009

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ACHANCE conversation while walking the dog, led former pub landlord Morris Race to his dream home.

The 59-year-old stopped to chat to his neighbour Judith, who had a derelict stone building in her garden in Staindrop village. He immediately saw the potential and agreed to buy the old cottage for pounds 35,000.

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Satisfaction of a Self-Build ; with Plot Prices Down 20% in the Last Year and a Glut of Tradesmen Looking for Work, More People Are Choosing the Self-Build Route. Karen Wilson Meets a Couple in County Durham Who Have Done Just That.

That was in 2004. Now, after knocking it down and rebuilding it with the original stone for pounds 45,000, Morris and his wife Trudi, 52, have a beautiful two-bedroo...

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