My husband and I have lived in this house for ten years. It’s very small, but we love it and have no plans to move. Instead, I’m on a mission to find the best way to fit two adults, two cats, one work-from-home career, one music studio and occasional guests into a tiny space.

The house is an 1860s back-to-back terrace. It is built into a hill, so part of the downstairs is below ground and the top of the little garden is level with the upstairs windows. This brings all sorts of challenges but also benefits, the main one being that we are not on a road; instead, the house is hidden away up a little path. Our hill also has an eccentric numbering system. Delivery drivers do not like this; they usually arrive huffing and puffing and mightily pissed off after going up and down the myriad of paths that make up our hill, trying to find our house. It might help if I put a clearer number on the gate, but this goes against all my sporting instincts.

Downstairs, there are two rooms - a sitting room and a kitchen. Upstairs, there is a bedroom, a little box room (my office) and a bathroom. We have also defied all planning regulations and converted the tiny attic into a little music studio. I have high hopes that we also have a WWII air raid shelter buried in our garden, but most rational people think this is very unlikely. Still, a girl can dream. It would, after all, be a perfect place to store guests.