From Run-down Apartment to Period-style Home

Michael Booth has created an elegant period home with light, free-flowing rooms and perfect proportions by renovating a two storey apartment in a 19th century wool merchant’s house

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From Run-down Apartment to Period-style Home

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Name Michael Booth
Profession Company director
House Type Three bedroom, two storey apartment in a 19th century detached house
House Size 260 sq m
Finance Private
Build Time One year
Land Cost £400000
Build Cost £250000
Total Cost £650000
Current Value £750000
Cost /m2 £962
Cost Saving 13 %
Build route Self as a project manager
Construction system Masonry
Difficulties overcome Run down
County West Yorkshire
Region Yorkshire

When Michael Booth first viewed the house described by locals as Ilkley’s ‘hidden gem’, it smelt of damp and mothballs and felt chilled to the core. But he was drawn to it like a magnet when he saw the high, elegant ceilings, its beautiful proportions and the way the property beckoned him towards mature, private gardens at the back.

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Author
Heather Dixon
Photographer
Dave Burton
Issue date:
July 2009
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