A Newcastle couple gifted a family home by Ant and Dec have revealed how they've made the place truly their own.
It's just over two years since Simon and Petra Williams were surprised with the keys to a £260,000 home on Saturday Night Takeaway, in recognition of their amazing charity work.
In February 2020, we visited them on their very first day in their new home. The three-bed on Bellway Home's Moorfields estate, near Gosforth Park was already "very Petra", thanks to the pink and grey interior design scheme by Q Interiors.
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But now, Petra's Instagram account, @our_home_antanddec_built, offers an inside look at how the family have made the place truly their own, settling in and introducing many lovely personal touches to make it work for them and their children, Emelia-Paige, seven, Layla-Grace, three and Bailey, four.
On the anniversary of the amazing gift, at the end of February, Petra wrote: "2 years since we were given our dream home on Ant and Dec Saturday Night Takeaway!
"This time 2 years ago Simon and I were in London in our hotel room totally oblivious as to what was going to happen tomorrow night. Little did we know our life would change forever that night.
"To be given a dream family home on National Television truly is what dreams are made of. It really was a dream come true it has changed our life forever and we love our home.
"We still love our home and always will. The children are so settled here now and we are eternally grateful to Ant & Dec, ITV and Bellway.
"We will be watching tomorrow night as we always do."
When developers Bellway were looking for a deserving family to award the £260,000 home to, Ant and Dec's team could find few who deserved the spectacular gift more than the Williams family.
Delivery driver Simon works hard to provide for the family, while dedicated Petra works every hour she can for the charity she set up, following the sudden, tragic death of daughter Darcey-Leigh from sudden infant death syndrome in 2017.
The charity works to support bereaved siblings, offering them counselling and support to help them remember their lost brother or sister.
And it's fitting that the family's forever home has plenty of space set aside dedicated to Darcey, with mementos of her throughout.
Whilst the house, decorated in grey with accents of pink and plenty of sparkles, continues to follow the theme that Ant and Dec's team, with the help of a close friend of Petra's, settled on, the Instagram account shows how they've settled in and made it work for them.
The biggest change is also seen upstairs, where a loft extension has transformed the home into a four-bed, so that all the children can have a room of their own.
Sharing an image of one of the children's new unicorn-themed bedroom, Petra said: "They all love having their own space!."
