Kerry Jordan swapped the South Downs for the Lake District and bought a fixer-upper so she could focus on her photography business
When Kerry Jordan, 46, got divorced in 2021, she couldn’t afford to stay in West Sussex. For 10 years, she’d lived with her ex-husband in a three-bedroom, “newish” house in Fernhurst, near Haslemere.Instead, she hired a van for a month and travelled around the UK. “I went to the western side of the Lake District and saw that you could get a house for between £70,000 to £75,000, so I started looking around there.”with a garden in Frizington, in Cumbria on sale for £48,000.
There was also woodworm and damp downstairs, and she had to replace the entire staircase. Fortunately, she found somewhere that could build one based on a few measurements: “The staircase was delivered and the carpenter slotted it in so that saved me a lot of money.” “It took two years for me to save up to get new floors. They were concrete or bare wooden floorboards, and I put down rugs over them. I didn’t want to skimp on them, and they took three weeks to be fitted properly, so that was a big expense.”
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