Sophia Ferguson, 38, and her husband, David, 40, viewed 30 houses over a three-year period.
After years spending evenings refreshing online property portals, late last year the couple believed they had found the property of their dreams.
Sophia, who runs her own aesthetics business, Bloom Aesthetics, and David, a director at a PR agency, live with their children, Evelyn, 13, and Finlay, 11.
The family are living with Sophia’s parents on their smallholding. Sophia and David are living in a small converted barn while the children are living with their grandparents in the main house.
Sophia and David sold their first home last year as they were planning to buy a modern farmhouse, but this fell through.
