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    WOULD YOU LEARN A SKILL FOR YOUR RENO?

    Dec 31, 2019 2 minutes
    WORDS ALISON JONES

    YES

    ‘I didn’t have the budget to get someone in – I learnt purely to save money’

    Emma Dean (@thehouseyouwishyouhad) and Peter Sanders live with their two children in a 1930s semi in Rossendale, Lancashire

    ‘I taught myself to plaster using YouTube videos to do the smallest bedroom. I thought if it goes well, brilliant, if it doesn’t, it’s not the end of the world. We

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