There was a low point about 18 months ago when David Rich-Jones began to wonder if he and his wife Laura had bitten off more than they could chew with an epic project to renovate a neglected Georgian mansion. The 28,000-square-foot-property had not been a private house in almost a century when the couple decided, in 2009, that it could make an amazing home for them and their three children, Serena, 20, Charlotte, 17, and Archie, 11.

Source: Wall Street Journal April 17, 2019 16:18 UTC