Linda and Brent Walker have relocated from Yorkshire to Fife to live in their new self build
PHOTOS DAVI D BARBOUR
Brent and Linda Walker’s new energy efficient home in the Colinsburgh conservation area of Fife, Scotland, is the culmination of a long held ambition that goes way back to the early 1990s and their previous life in Yorkshire. “We renovated our home in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, in 1993 and realised we could do it –with the help of Mark Brinkley’s Housebuilder’s Bible!” says Brent. “That gave us a real flavour and taste for self building, which has been a dream of ours ever since. When our son was born in 1997, we shelved our plans, but when he went to university and we were heading for retirement, we revisited the idea. We realised with the equity in our house, which had gone up in value, and with our various savings, we could make self building a reality.”