With the heatwave showing no signs of abating, spending your days cooling off in a calming tropical oasis sounds like the dream right now.
But that’s a reality for one creative couple who have managed to transform their new build home into an island paradise inspired by their honeymoon in Sri Lanka.
When Chris Ensell, 32, and his wife, Anneka, 31, moved into their new build home in Ackworth, West Yorkshire in 2018 their garden consisted of nothing more than dried out turf.
Taking inspiration from previous trips to Thailand and Sri Lanka, the couple got to work making over the area in the summer of 2019, in a bid to create their own calming garden sanctuary.
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