Why on earth did I leave the 'dream home'?

Am I mad? Possibly. But here’s the real reason I left our so-called ‘dream home.

It’s a funny thing, working so hard to create something beautiful and then deciding to walk away from it.

The house we lived for the last seven years has been good to us. It was what we could afford at the time, it had potential, it was in a lovely location. It made sense. We spent years making it lovely, smoothing out its rough edges, turning it into a …