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AT HOME WITH
Colour me happy

Interior designer Terian Tilston found her perfect family home
on ESPC, in a location she hadn’t considered before.

ollowing the birth of their first child our boxes: four bedrooms, a garage, two living
back in 2016, interior designer Terian rooms and two bathrooms. We didn’t have
F Tilston and her husband Sam were a particular style of home in mind; we were
keen to find a bigger home for their family to quite open to exploring anything that suited
grow into. Already the owners of a bungalow our requirements in terms of functionality. We
in Cupar, the couple started their search for a weren’t familiar with the area, and it wasn’t
larger property in the town – but after a year really where we wanted to be, so we didn’t
of searching on and off, their perfect property have high hopes but thought we would just
appeared in a location they hadn’t thought take a drive around the village to check it out.”
about before.
Terian and Sam duly explored the village, and
“Our son Harrison was getting older, and we to their surprise, found that it was actually
were on the lookout for something bigger,” everything they’d been looking for. “I fell in
Terian explains. “We kept an eye on the ESPC love with the rural location and the country
website for a home in Cupar, where we thought views straightaway – and when we viewed the
we would stay, but we started to see a few house, we just loved it,” says Terian. “As soon
properties pop up in the surrounding areas and as I walked into the extension (which is like a
did some exploring to get to know the areas a sunroom), I could see straight over to fields,
bit better before booking viewings.” and the space just had an amazing feel to it. I
knew the whole house had potential for us to
One of the couples’ searches on espc.com personalise it, it was a complete blank canvas.
brought up one such property – a detached It was in amazing condition too, which was
house in a village just outside of St Andrews perfect at the time, as we had just had a baby
that they hadn’t visited previously. “This and wanted to be able to move in without any
property came up, and on paper it ticked all of dramatic renovations needed.”

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