Grandparents convert £1k cottage into ultimate playground - with life-size playhouses - video Dailymotion

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A couple who bought a cottage for £1K have turned it into the ultimate playground for their grandkids - including three life-size playhouses.   Alban, 86, and Angela Bunting, 82, moved from Hertfordshire to Binegar in Somerset in 1964 - after buying the 17th century derelict property for £1,250.   The pair moved their lives from Hertfordshire to the small village and Alban skillfully renovated the falling down home - now called Spindle Cottage.  But when Alban was told him and his wife were going to be grandparents he decided to design and build three playhouses for their much-loved grandchildren.

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00:00I'm Angela, and this is my husband Auburn.

00:07And I'm Auburn, as Angela just said.

00:11Soon as we knew there was a baby coming, he made this little cottage.

00:16Ruth was the eldest one, 2002, which is the one I'm standing in now, which is Gothic style.

00:23And she loved it. She absolutely loved it when she came on holiday.

00:29We had two more grandchildren after Ruth. The next one is Tom, 2003,

00:35and his was Elizabethan built-in period with a thatched roof.

00:40Tom loved his playhouse. He told Ruth and Charlotte,

00:46you can't come in here unless you have my permission.

00:50The final one is Charlotte, which was 2005,

00:54and that is a Victorian post office on a copy of one that I'd done in my village

01:01when I was an apprentice carpenter and joined them.

01:04People often ask me, what would you do if you get great-grandchildren?

01:09And I say, well, it'd either be a church or the very old-fashioned pub with a public and saloon bar.

01:16Any great-grandchildren would just love to play in these houses.

01:21I shall, if I'm around, have to make sure it's all clean and tidy.

Grandparents convert £1k cottage into ultimate playground - with life-size playhouses

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