I’m always a bit apprehensive about finding new homes because the satnav doesn’t always quite get me to where I need to be and that can be a little frustrating when I have a client waiting for me to appear! This was not such a difficult find in the end although I did wonder if I had found the correct barn. It’s a trend at the moment to make the part of the barn that can be seen from the road, really unassuming and quite ordinary, which means you have to walk to the side of the building to get to the front door and then start to see the beauty of the place. It’s a clever way of not having a dwelling draw too much attention to itself and so largely go unnoticed by anyone walking or driving by. Once I was given the tour of the barn and garden I realised this was going to be a great shoot because I had good weather on my side (no small feat in this country!) and the conversion was a wonderful example of maximising space innovatively. I also loved that, wherever possible, old bricks and walls were retained and merged with new new bricks.