Full disclosure, this is my house. When we were first looking for a house to make into our family home, we were searching for a proper doer upper - aren’t we all?! After finding these kind of houses seemed to come at a huge premium, we ended up buying a lovely but small house in Stoke Newington, with lots of potential to reconfigure and extend. The original house only had two bedrooms - we needed three - and the kitchen was in the dark basement, completely disconnected from the rest of the living space or garden. We decided we needed to have a complete rethink about where all the spaces sat.