‘We realised it was everything we’d hoped for – it would just take a bit of time and forebearance to get it right’
he Georgian townhouse that Melissa Payne and her partner Andrew Griffiths viewed back in the autumn of 2020 was in a sorry state. “It had been in the same family for more than 50 years before being sold to new owners who had literally gutted it, but then decided to sell,” Melissa explains. “It was nothing but an empty shell, and at that point, we were adamant we didn’t want to take such a
