How creating a perfect home can wreck your marriage

Kate Glanville bought family home in Carmarthenshire with her husband Newly married couple fell in love with the two-bedroom cottage in 1996 But in achieving dream of building perfect home, their marriage crumbled Couple discovered problem after problem with home and started arguing Beautiful home was featured in a magazine, but the pair were not happy After 17 years and 150,000 spent, their marriage finally collapsed in 2013

By Kate Glanville For The Daily Mail

Published: 17:36 EST, 9 March 2015 | Updated: 10:30 EST, 10 March 2015

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The handwritten For Sale sign caught our attention as we drove through the Welsh countryside on the first warm day that spring. The hills were drenched in sunshine, daffodils lined the lanes and newborn lambs bleated in the fields.

For years we had fantasised about living in just such an idyllic place; dreaming of a country cottage where we could set up a pottery studio for us both to establish our ceramics businesses, and where I could write and fulfil my dreams of becoming a published author.

The sign was propped outside an old stone cottage in the village of Bethlehem, Carmarthenshire, in the Brecon Beacons National Park. The two-bedroom cottage had a long barn attached to it and was surrounded by a large, overgrown garden. Damp patches stained the walls, and the slate roof and wooden porch looked as though they might collapse at any moment.

Despite its dilapidated appearance, my husband Duncan and I could immediately see its potential, and by the time wed finished looking around we had fallen in love with the property.

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