EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW AND PHOTOS AT HER OWN PLACE IN THE SUN LAURA HAMILTON

TELLS OF CREATING A HAPPY HOME FOR HER CHILDREN

- JANE DOWDESWELL

Labour of love is the phrase that springs to mind when Laura Hamilton welcomes us to her beautiful Surrey home, complete with gardens that lead down to a lake and its very own folly.

The renovation has taken more than a year to complete and when HELLO! was last here, the A Place in  the Sun presenter was in hard hat and hi-vis amid structural work to create the perfect place for her and her children, Rocco, nine, and Tahlia, eight.

“It was a house when I bought it and now it’s a home,” she says. “Even I sometimes forget what a huge project it’s been and I can be hard on myself, but then I have friends who say: ‘Laura, it’s insane! Look at what you’ve done here, you’ve built a house!’