I won a £2m Omaze house on my birthday - this is why I didn't sell it

Eliza instantly fell successful emotion with the Yorkshire spot (Image: Getty)

A mum who won a £2m Omaze location has revealed wherefore she kept it - and has ample household Christmas parties and regular visits from her kids' uni friends.

Eliza Yahioglu, 57, received the champion day contiguous erstwhile she discovered she’d scooped the picturesque farmhouse adjacent Harrogate successful Yorkshire.

She had the enactment to either unrecorded successful the house, rent it retired oregon merchantability the beautifully renovated 17th period hillside mansion.

But she “instantly fell successful emotion with it” and decided she was going to support it.

She has present revealed however 'surreal' it feels each time - and however they person enjoyed a large household Christmas of 16 radical since the triumph past August.

The household fto their pals usage the location and Eliza says her kids besides bring location their uni friends to bask the palatial property.

They are besides readying connected having radical affected by humor crab to travel and enactment astatine the location successful betwixt treatments.

The prize gully raised £194,000 for Blood Cancer UK (Image: SWNS)

The farmhouse is located adjacent Harrogate successful Yorkshire (Image: SWNS)

The house, located adjacent to the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, came mortgage escaped with each stamp work and ineligible fees covered.

She was calved successful Yorkshire and is ‘over the moon’ to present ain a location adjacent her puerility roots aft moving to London for enactment astir 40 years ago.

Eliza has been joined to hubby Gokhan for 30 years and the mates person 2 children, Carl, 24, who manages a barroom - and Leyla, 21, who is studying biomedical subject astatine the University of Sussex successful Brighton.

Eliza said: “I can’t judge it’s been a twelvemonth already, it feels similar lone yesterday - it’s inactive sinking successful present if I'm honest.

“I was connected vacation celebrating my day erstwhile we recovered retired - truthful galore thoughts went moving done my caput erstwhile we got the video telephone to accidental we’d won the house.

''I conscionable couldn’t judge Jo from the Omaze TV adverts was lasting extracurricular my beforehand door.

''I was convinced determination must’ve been a mistake and they’d called the incorrect idiosyncratic - past I started to realise thing truly large was happening – each of that successful 30 seconds - it was crazy!

“My hubby had a pugnacious occupation topping that for my day this twelvemonth - though the play successful Stockholm was a beauteous one. The ABBA depository astir swung it!”

On her caller location she added: “The location is amazing, adjacent nicer than it looked successful pictures.

''As soon arsenic I walked done the beforehand door, it stopped being a location and instantly became our home.

''Although I inactive travel downstairs immoderate mornings and bash a treble instrumentality due to the fact that I can’t judge I’m really lasting successful my kitchen, it's inactive precise surreal astatine times!

“I’ve loved returning location to my Yorkshire roots, my accent decidedly comes backmost stronger arsenic soon arsenic I deed the A1!

''It's truthful bully that my children get to person a genuine transportation to the country wherever I grew up - that's been a fantastic experience.

“I’ve lived successful London for astir 40 years, but I'm a arrogant Yorkshire lass astatine heart.

Some of my household are inactive based up here.

''We’d ever dreamed of having a spot successful Yorkshire 1 day, adjacent to what I’ve ever called location - present that imagination has travel true!

“We’ve loved having friends travel up and enactment with us, arsenic good arsenic letting them usage it with their families excessively - it’s a location that’s built for sharing.

''We had 16 radical present for Christmas, convey goodness it came with an Aga to header with each the Yorkshire puddings!

Eliza had ever dreamed of having a location successful Yorkshire (Image: SWNS)

“The kids person stayed present with each their friends from assemblage - the location looked pristine aft they’d near truthful they’re invited backmost anytime! We each conscionable emotion it up here!

On the section assemblage she said: “Everyone successful the country has been truthful welcoming, we emotion each our neighbours, it’s a existent assemblage up here.

''We perfectly adore the section pub The Queen’s Head successful Kettlesing - the landlords Louise and Glen are existent legends, adjacent giving america a assistance location aft a agelong lunch!”

She added: “Winning thing truthful invaluable successful bricks and mortar is superb - I gag that I’d person burned done the wealth if I’d won it successful cash!

''This location is thing we tin each bask unneurotic arsenic a household - and is simply a lasting bequest for my children - it’s thing that volition assistance their futures.

''The triumph means I’ve already been capable to assistance my lad get connected the spot ladder. I’m besides looking guardant to status adjacent much now!

“Some radical I talk to accidental they thought Omaze was a scam, but I guarantee them and anyone other that it's decidedly real.

''You’ve got to beryllium successful it to triumph it, and I privation everyone who enters the adjacent Omaze House Draw successful Yorkshire the champion of luck.”

The Omaze Million Pound House Draw besides raised £1,950,000 for Blood Cancer UK.

She added: “It was precise peculiar to spot however overmuch was raised for Blood Cancer UK - it was specified an unthinkable magnitude of money.

“We’re readying connected having radical and families affected by humor crab to travel and enactment astatine the location in-between treatments - they tin person the spot each to themselves and conscionable get distant from it all.

The £1,950,000 raised from the 2nd concern went to humor crab researchers crossed the UK from the South to North West, helping to further make probe into hard-to-treat humor cancers.

This included probe projects investigating attraction types that could beryllium much effectual and perchance little harmful, peculiarly for younger people.

Helen Rowntree, Chief Executive of Blood Cancer UK, said: “We’re delighted that the Omaze Million Pound House Draw successful Yorkshire raised a fantastic £1,950,000 for Blood Cancer UK.

“The wealth has present been invested into probe via the Omaze x Blood Cancer UK Research Fund and it’s allowing america to money six projects each focused connected processing kinder and little toxic treatments, giving anticipation to radical with humor cancer.

''These projects see caller ways to dainty humor crab successful children.

“Thank you to everyone who has supported Blood Cancer UK and made this probe imaginable done the Omaze Million House Pound House Draw!”

James Oakes from Omaze, said: “We’re delighted that Eliza has settled into her caller location and is loving beingness successful her autochthonal Yorkshire.

“Omaze is simply a win-win for some charities and entrants. By offering unthinkable prizes, similar the beauteous location successful Yorkshire, we springiness radical the accidental to triumph astonishing houses, portion besides introducing charities to audiences they wouldn’t usually beryllium capable to reach. We’re incredibly arrogant that the Omaze assemblage has already raised implicit £56 cardinal for bully causes crossed the UK.”

The latest gully guarantees that 1 fortunate idiosyncratic volition triumph a beauteous location successful Yorkshire, worthy implicit £2,500,000, on with £250,000 successful cash.

The victor of the 2nd Omaze Million Pound House Draw, Yorkshire, volition get the keys to an 18th period Georgian state location boasting six-bedrooms, acres of gardens and a spa pool, arsenic good arsenic its ain paddocks, stables and state-of-the-art equestrian facilities.

In summation to winning the Grand Prize, radical who participate online by midnight connected Sunday 15th September (Tuesday 17th September for postal) are besides successful with the accidental of winning a Mercedes AMG GT, worthy implicit £160,000, positive £150,000 successful cash.

As good arsenic making its Grand Prize Winner a multi-millionaire, Omaze has guaranteed a minimum donation of £1 cardinal for foundation spouse Mencap. The gully is backed by histrion Jodie Whittaker, who hails from Yorkshire.

Draw entries for the Omaze Million Pound House Draw, Yorkshire, are disposable present astatine omaze.co.uk. The Draw closes connected Sunday 29th of September for online entries and Tuesday 1st October 2024 for postal entries.

Entrants tin besides take to subscribe to Omaze to beryllium automatically entered into each Grand Prize and Early Bird Prize Draw each month. Omaze subscribers person 4 times the fig of entries compared to non-subscribers and tin cancel their subscription astatine immoderate time.

Eliza’s winning introduction outgo her conscionable £25 arsenic portion of her monthly Omaze subscription.

For afloat presumption and conditions, spot www.omaze.co.uk. No acquisition indispensable to enter. Over 18s and UK residents only.