Mother-of-two transforms 1970s home she bought for £875,000 into 'elegant and timeless' £2.6million Surrey mansion
- Claire Totman, 38 延長するd?the house at the 味方する and 支援する and 追加するd a new roof
A mother-of-two has transformed her 1970s house into a £2.6million mansion.
Claire Totman, 38, bought the three bedroom 所有物／資産／財産 with her mum, Liz, 71, for £875,000.
But the designer has transformed the 淡褐色 house into a luxurious 小型の stately home and?追加するd £1.7m to its value in the 過程.
The designer from Weybridge, Surrey had a 見通し to remodel the outdated 所有物／資産／財産 into an 'elegant' and 'timeless' home.
Ms Totman spent £460,000 on her 抱擁する 事業／計画（する）, spending more than eight months 延長するing the house at the 味方する, 支援する and roof to create four large bedrooms, and an 付加 製図／抽選 room.
Before and after?Claire Totman started on her impressive 革新 事業／計画（する） to transform her 1970s house to an 'elegant and timeless' 小型の mansion?
Ms Totman, 38, (pictured) runs her own design company and bought the house with her Liz for?£875,000
The 支援する of the 所有物／資産／財産 while under construction and the 支援する after large glass doors had been 追加するd 主要な through to the garden
The 1970s house in the middle of refurbishment. Me Totman 取って代わるd the roof and 延長するd the house on all four 味方するs to 追加する extra bedrooms and a '製図／抽選 room;
Now the mum-of-two says the house has been valued at £2.6million.
Ms Totman, who runs her own company, Claire Totman designs, said: 'The 初めの house is still there.
'People think it is a new build.
'Our style is classic, 伝統的な and a modern 新たな展開.
'It elegant and timeless.
'We don't follow the 傾向s, because a 傾向 is a 傾向.'
The mother-of two had been 利益／興味d in design ever since she was young and built her way up to become a design 経営者／支配人.
But when the company she worked for went under, Ms Totman took the 適切な時期 to start her own 商売／仕事 in the summer of 2016.
This is not the first fa mily 事業／計画（する） she's taken on.
Ms Totman helped design three of her mum's previous homes but had a big 見通し when they bought Sandacre house off market in October 2019.
She said: 'The 初めの house is from 1972. It only had one owner. It's on a large 陰謀（を企てる）.
The 支援する of the 小型の stately home has large glass doors that lead into the garden from an open 計画（する） kitchen
The designer, who bought the house with her mother for £875,000 says its now 価値（がある） £2.6million 予定 to redesigns 含むing a large porch and wide 前線 door
The house during the 革新s. Ms Totman said she did a 'gut 職業' on the 所有物／資産／財産 and her work has paid off as she says she's 追加するd?£1.7m to its value
The kitchen before (left) and after (権利). The mother-of-two more than 二塁打d the space to create an open 計画（する） kitchen with an island 部隊 and skylights in the 天井
'I look at it and I have the 見通し in my 長，率いる.
'I look at what needs to be 達成するd.'
The designer started the 革新s in February 2020 and kept the structure of the 初めの house.
She said: 'We 延長するd at the 後部 and 味方する. We 取って代わるd the windows and built a porch.
'We took off the roof structure and 取って代わるd it to 許す habitable space.
'We did a nice gut 職業 inside.'
Ms Totman spent £460,000 on all the 革新s in 2020 - but says she was able to get minimise costs by getting things cheaper through her design 商売／仕事.
She said the 産業 is 完全に different 地位，任命する Covid.
The old kitchen was part of the 初めの 1970s house and was small and outdated with linoleum 床に打ち倒すing and 木造の cupboards
The kitchen now has two ovens, 閣僚 部隊s in dove grey and marble-style worktops
The hall and stairs of the house were 狭くする and 欠如（する）d light but Ms Totman says she has 延長するd the 所有物／資産／財産 to 含む four large bedrooms
The 前線 of the house has a large porch, tall sash windows and even a gravel driveway, 追加するing to the feeling that the 革新 has turned this 正規の／正選手 family house into a stately home
She said: 'I buy everything through the 商売／仕事.
'Now you would be looking a 二塁打.'
Claire says the 事業／計画（する） has become an 'iconic' photo and draws （弁護士の）依頼人s to her.
She said: 'They come to you because this is what they want.'
Claire says her mum 'loves' the house.
She said: 'She loved it.
'There's 負担s of space for us to come around.
'She's one of the lucky baby boomers. She did 井戸／弁護士席 on 所有物／資産／財産. She bought her first for £6k.'
