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Mum with no DIY experience revamps house – adding £110,000 to the value


The kitchen has huge doors now that open out onto the extensive garden (Picture: Jam Press)

A mum-of-two has revealed how she transformed a dull property into her dream home – with no training.

Lyndsey Gynane, 42, lives in Halewood, Liverpool with her partner Shaun, 39, where the couple share a three-bed semi detached house.

When they first bought it back in 2018, they paid £170,000 – and just two years and a complete renovation later they have added £110,000 to the value, bringing the total to £280,000.

Lyndsey, who had never taken on a DIY project of this kind before, saw potential in the home, and wanted to make it into somewhere she could relax with her family.

‘We’ve created the perfect family space to enjoy and we wouldn’t change a thing,’ the mum told Jam Press.

‘We had tradesmen do the building work, but we designed it and worked with the architect to do the drawings exactly how we wanted it.

Lyndsey designed the house with help from contractors (Picture: Jam Press)

‘I also made some changes to the design once the building work started as I could visualise it better.’

The home is now unrecognisable with modern features such as an electric fire replacing the old traditional fireplace in the living room, a modern open-plan kitchen and a spa-style bathroom – the result of knocking down the wall between the toilet and the bathroom.

The living room looks much roomier now (Picture: Jam Press)

The living room also has a skylight, while in the hallway the couple have ripped out the old wooden banister to the second floor and replaced it with a contemporary glass one.

The pièce de résistance, however, is the garden with its sun spot and grey tiling, accessible through the kitchen’s new bifold doors.

The bathroom is Lyndsey’s favourite room (Picture: Jam Press)

As for the exterior, the roughcast surface has been replaced with a bright white shade.

Lyndsey’s added that her favourite room is ‘the extension and the bathroom’, which features a huge tub.

The couple decided to document their project on Instagram and have since racked up more than 130,000 followers on their account Home At 242.

The new DIY expert now shares tips with her loyal fans and is loving spending time in her beautiful home.

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