'I spent £100K on derelict home without seeing it… now it looks unrecognisable'
investment"With inflation going up and all of that, having money to invest, it seems sensible to actually do something with it.
“The old owner of the house had been using it to fry her fish. It didn’t smell good," Sarah recalls. “There was also lots of flour and fish scales around.”Sarah says: “When we walk in you can hear the director going, ‘Oh mind, oh god…’ The whole place was moving up and down when we were walking on it.“And it turned out, it was totally rotten, it was just hanging. So we had to stabilise that immediately before any of the builders could go in there and get to work upstairs.
“In Greece there’s not a huge culture of restoration - it’s more demolition and rebuild. But the builders tried really hard to follow the brief," Sarah says. "He also did our gates and made a cupboard out of a window. It’s now the drinks cabinet, which is very important!Sarah hired local women to make cushions out of second hand fabric and was given a traditional Skiathos rug from the family.
Building work took nine months in total and finished in October, with the final result revealed on the show.“We put the last pieces of furniture in place and had a street party on the same night. About 100 people came and joined us and partied into the night. Sarah says: “One of my goals is to sit in the bath with a gin and tonic with a slice of lemon from my lemon tree and just enjoy the moment. That’s what I’m looking forward to.”
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