CALM RESTORED

Swirly carpets and woodchip wallpaper couldn’t dampen Jo and Nigel Tutton’s enthusiasm for the task that lay ahead of them when they moved into a rather sad-looking house in Monmouthshire that had once been the village police station.

‘The house was a 1970s monstrosity when we bought it in 1994. There were patterned carpets and lino on top of two inches of concrete on all the floors, and woodchip everywhere,’ Jo recalls. The bathroom