Property Snakes and Ladders

Winchmore Hill

Sarah Beeny meets first time property developers Sharon Lennon and Mark Standing, who have turned their backs on high-paid jobs designing shops to see if they can work their magic on a large rundown property in Winchmore Hill, North London. They want to move the bathroom and knock rooms together upstairs to create three large bedrooms, a smaller single room and a fabulous family bathroom. Downstairs they want to knock the loo, pantry, dining area, kitchen and shower together and build on an extension to create one enormous kitchen-diner. But two weeks into the development Sarah and Mark take their summer holiday, leaving a friend and the builder to oversee the job, with disastrous consequences.