James and I met in 2017, and we had a ten-year plan — we wanted to be in a detached house with loads of space [says Sophie Baldwin 31].
When we first met, James had a two-bedroom house in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, and I was living at home in Goldsborough, a village nearby.
James was going through a divorce and after the Harrogate house was sold we bought a three-bedroom mid-terrace in the village of Glasshouses, 12 miles away, in August 2017. It cost £215,000 and although there was nothing particularly wrong with it, it looked awful.
Sophie Baldwin and her husband, James, got married in 2020, while they were living at this property in Glasshouses, a village in North Yorkshire
It was painted purple everywhere and it didn’t have a proper fitted kitchen, just an Ikea freestanding one. We knew there was money to be made
