Your Home

‘I doubled my living space with an outdoor room’

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WHO LIVES HERE? I'm Sarah Brooks, 43, and I'm an Instagram influencer (@hearts_at_claremont) and interior stylist. I live with my two children, Charlie, 15, and Daisy, 13, and our dog Betsy. My home is a four-bedroom Edwardian semi by the coast on the Wirral Peninsula.

WHAT WAS UPDATED? I created a fully functioning outdoor room, including a stove, sofa and dining table, and kitchen dresser.

WHY THE CHANGE? The garden was overgrown and had a ramshackle shed that was falling down. Both were unsightly and not making the most of the large outside space.

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