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Green dream

ECO WARRIORS: David and Paulette Benjamin even have a recycled dog called Don

11:42am Tuesday 29th December 2009

Building your own home is quite a challenge. But Paulette and David Benjamin didn’t just stop there, as Jenny Laue finds out.

Grand designs

DREAM PROPERTY: Steve Davis outside the family home

12:36pm Monday 23rd November 2009

WHEN Steve and Emily Davis spotted their dream property in York, there was only one thing on their mind – making it into a comfortable family home.

Contemporary living at Foxhill Lodge

STYLISH: the exclusive development at Great Burdon

1:21pm Monday 27th April 2009

AN exclusive gated development of ten contemporary, open-plan apartments has just been completed by the Thornsett Group at Great Burdon, near Darlington.

From pig farm to bespoke development

UPGRADED: The kitchen

12:44pm Tuesday 24th March 2009

Nine years after a Yorkshire builder transformed a pig farm into a bespoke development, home owner Ian Lamming considers the past, the present and the future.

A rural reinvention

NEW BEGINNINGS: Edward and Rachael Jewson in their farm shop

11:21am Monday 23rd March 2009

The number of stylish homes and businesses springing up in Derwentside bears witness to its ability to shake off its industrial past. Tony Kearney and Gavin Engelbrecht report

At home with the Waltons

LIFE IN THE ROUND: Zoe and Andy Walton and their  unusual home

10:59am Monday 23rd March 2009

The Walton family faced plenty of challenges when they moved into a tumbledown mill, not least persuading the former owner to sell it to them. Jenny Laue reports

Who’d live in a house like this?

TV antiques expert David Harper, pictured  with dog Button, has transformed a former byre into his stylish  family home

1:32pm Tuesday 17th March 2009

The owner of this Teesdale house has already had the TV Through The Keyhole treatment. JENNY LAUE follows in Loyd Grossman’s footsteps to discover more.

New residents at Witton-le-Wear

FROM LEFT: Martin Baldam, Angela Plant with Sandy Scott, on-site sales consultant and Geoff Woods, construction director of Dere Street Homes

2:21pm Tuesday 3rd March 2009

MARTIN Baldam and Angela Plant have become the latest residents at Dere Street Homes’ The Paddock development in Wittonle-Wear.

Striped and ready for action

For ready-made stripes, try Brighton stripe pink wallpaper, £7.99, from Arthouse on 01706-230500, or visit arthouse.com

3:13pm Thursday 5th February 2009

Wield the paintbrush to give your home a new year makeover.

A Wisemove in challenging times

HIPs

2:59pm Thursday 5th February 2009

There was no doubt that 2008 was one of the most difficult years experienced in the property industry, but Graeme Blenkinsopp, managing director of Wisemove Land and Property Consultants, is of the opinion that anybody believing that previous years’ growth would continue indefinitely were deluded.