14/10/2022
Morning everyone, just a quick update for lots of new people who have joined us on this journey over the last week.
This is us, Team Penfold, consisting of Faye, Dave and Winston.
We are accidental renovators, having bought the only house we could afford and didn’t hate in Frome 10 years ago, and being totally naive about the huge amount of work it needed to get it to habitable place. We literally had zero skills, I think the most any of us had done, was put up a shelf.
Somehow we managed to entirely renovate that first house. And we absolutely loved it. Most of the success was down to the help and mentorship of our bonus Dad, Barrie.
Much as we loved the house, it had no parking, and as Winston joined the family that became tricky to manage.
We sold the house and moved to another project, in fact i (Faye) put in an offer on that house without Dave ever having seen it. He’s a trusting man!
The second house was an even bigger renovation, with so much more work, and so much potential.
During the pandemic we lost absolutely everything. We work in events, specifically catering at large-scale events. All work was cancelled.
We had to hustle endlessly to survive, part of that journey involved selling our house in Frome and renting in Bristol whilst doing some charity work for the NHS.
We were left without a home, we started looking much further afield, we were priced out of Frome. We had been casually looking at Wales, specifically this area for five years, in a “one day we’ll move there way”.
We had no idea that our journey during the pandemic would lead us here.
We can’t believe we own this house.
Obviously it needs a lot of work, most of which we will do ourselves, but we are up for the challenge. We can’t wait to share our journey with you 💚💚💚
