Tiling, bathrooms and kitchens in Market Harborough

Market Harborough's centre is a picture-postcard market town, with the timber-framed Old Grammar School standing on its wooden pillars beside the church. Georgian and Victorian properties in and around the centre make up much of the older housing, many with period features worth working around.

The town has also grown a great deal, with large new developments on its edges bringing a generation of modern homes. As with new houses everywhere, the original tiling is usually functional rather than beautiful — which makes bathrooms, kitchens and floors natural candidates for an upgrade.

Around the town, villages such as Great Bowden and Lubenham — and East Farndon, Clipston and Kelmarsh on the Northamptonshire side of the border — mix period cottages with newer homes. Each property is assessed on its own terms before any work is planned.