The kitchen behind us was originally a galley kitchen which was the right hand side of the kitchen, that led into a back door on to a part of the garden, and what we wanted was that wall taken out and the kitchen extended out to encompass the piece of unused land and we just wanted bigger kitchen. That kind of snowballed into things that we wanted, we wanted to change the whole dynamic of where we were, the whole space. We've had the whole downstairs remodelled. We've had an arch taken out, we've had a door moved, and yeah, just it's totally different! If you'd seen it before you would see it's just an absolutely different house! I mean it has really changed the way we use the house. Ruth and I, what we like to do, we're not people that go out very often so we like to have people around and what this has given is just the space, the kitchen to do it. It's the kitchen I always wanted. I love cooking, I love cooking for my family, and my friends. It's made a massive difference in our front room. When you see the front room it's a lot more cozy and and just, it's just a nice space to be in. I think it's it's just a more social area. As Rich says we have people coming around for dinner or just for drinks, girls, mates and whatever and before we were very separate in the kitchen, if you're in the kitchen you weren't part of what was happening. in the other room, whereas now, you can chat and have a drink, and talk to everybody who's here as well. It just works so much better.

The main challenge in the project was dust. It was the dust, the upheaval, just the you know, we ended up living like students out of the bedroom but I will say, what I will say is that despite that, the guys were so good at keeping the place tidy keeping the impact to us and our daily lives, to as minimum as possible. Graham and Alex are so proactive, so open with you that they will just say right we need to do this. This has happened so we're going to have to think, come at that from a different angle and they just get it done. So they just think laterally, whereas you know we were getting bogged down with problems and they're like 'no there's always a way around this' and 'we'll do it this way', 'we'll do it that way' and they were just amazing.

My thing is I love cooking, I love cooking for my friends, my family, and for Ruth and just having that kitchen for me that is my dream kitchen. This is something I've dreamt about for the past 15 years, so yeah, for that that to come around, that is, for me, the standout is the kitchen. I just absolutely love it. I think, yeah, the kitchen, but I think the whole package. I think the fireplace, what we've done in the in the living room, we've got this quite clinical looking kitchen but then we've got our cozy part of the living room, and I I just think it all works as a whole. I think for me, not one thing stands out, it all  has to be together for it to work. It's just transformed, and I just can't believe that this has happened in a little Victorian Terrace House in York!