Louise and Ian were absolutely not looking to buy a house when they pushed open the gate to view the little seaside bungalow with its peeling paint name sign - “Eureka”. “That was certainly not what I felt when I first saw the house” says Louise. “I wanted a house with more character it was an awful yellow colour inside and I just could not see the potential” Luckily her builder husband Ian could and although the couple who had just returned to the UK after five years in Australia had planned to rent for a while they could not resist the chance to secure a place on one of their favorite roads. “The house is one row back from the beach but it sits opposite a lane between two other houses which means the sea view will never be obscured. We will always have that view” says Louise.