Mum wins incredible £500k home - but nearly missed out after thinking call was a joke

A fortunate Welsh mum has won the eventual agrarian retreat successful her location region - worthy implicit £500,000 - on with £50,000 successful currency - for conscionable £30.

Sarah Perry (49), primitively from Llanfair Caereinion, has won the Omaze Great Escape House Draw, Wales, and is present the arrogant proprietor of a modern three-bedroom, 2 bath location successful Powys - located wrong casual scope of Hay-on-Wye.

Her stunning spot is nestled successful quality and has a terrace with stylish achromatic decking, beneath a canopy of corrugated tin. The veranda overlooks 4 acres of backstage wildflower meadowland.

Sarah exclaimed that “Christmas had travel early” for her household this twelvemonth aft landing her large win.

But her hubby of 18 years Richard (54) was near “flabbergasted” arsenic helium had nary thought she had entered the prize draw, saying helium was “more than a small amazed erstwhile Omaze turned up connected the doorstep telling america we’d won thing but it's without uncertainty the champion astonishment we’ve ever had!”

An ecstatic Sarah said: “I got the telephone from Omaze and was a small dubious astatine first, you conscionable ne'er deliberation you’ll beryllium the 1 that wins thing similar this truthful my archetypal instinct was it indispensable beryllium a windup.

“I conscionable couldn't judge it erstwhile Omaze arrived connected the driveway and told maine I’d won the location - I was shocked - but my hubby was utterly flabbergasted arsenic helium had nary thought I’d adjacent entered! He said it was the champion astonishment we’ve ever had.

“We’ve had a bully vessel of Welsh whisky successful the cupboard for years, which would’ve been precise due to observe with but we didn’t person a accidental to ace into it arsenic owed to each the excitement we’d forgotten to provender the kids! So, we ended up celebrating by going retired for a beauteous steak meal instead.”

On returning to her Welsh roots she said: “I’m from Wales and my household inactive unrecorded successful Powys, I was really connected my mode determination to enactment with my sister erstwhile Omaze came knocking. Now I've got this place, she tin travel and enactment astatine our spot for a change!

“Since I moved away, I effort to get backmost arsenic often arsenic I can, and ever dreamed of having a spot present 1 time - this triumph means I tin present instrumentality to my roots, it truly is simply a imagination travel true!

“I enactment successful London a batch - truthful to person specified an astonishing spot successful the countryside to flight to with my family, wherever I grew up, is fantastic - our sons are going to emotion each this abstraction - who knows, they mightiness adjacent prime up the accent!

“All my household are implicit the satellite astir the information I person a location present now, my husbandman brother-in-law already has his eyes connected the backmost meadow for his sheep!”

On her caller location successful Wales, she said:“The location is perfectly amazing, adjacent nicer successful existent life.The main chamber is huge, I’ve lived successful flats that are smaller than that room! The views are conscionable spectacular - this is what Wales is each about!

“With each the snowfall today, the location looked similar a Christmas card. When we walked up the thrust and saw it, I had to cheque the day arsenic I thought it was December 25th already! Christmas has surely travel aboriginal for america this year. We’re inactive pinching ourselves - the full happening is conscionable truthful surreal!

“This triumph has changed our status plans, and decidedly moved things guardant a bit. The triumph and the 50 1000 pounds conscionable takes the unit disconnected - and each for conscionable £30!”

On Omaze’s concern with Scouts she said: “I’ve been volunteering for the Scouts for 7 years, and our sons person some been done Beavers and Cubs, with the oldest present successful Scouts. The question has had a truly affirmative interaction connected them, truthful I’m thrilled Omaze is raising wealth for Scouts - they are a immense portion of our lives.”

Sarah and Richard person 2 sons aged 13 and 9 and person lived successful their existent location successful Reading for 12 years.

Sarah, who moved to England successful her twenties, has worked arsenic an accountant for 30 years. Richard, primitively from Dorset, is simply a Project Manager and has worked successful IT for the past 35 years.

Sarah’s 1,300 quadrate ft spot comes mortgage-free, with each stamp work and ineligible fees covered.

Inside Sarah’s caller house, windows supply framed views of the glorious Welsh countryside, which she tin bask from the spacious surviving area, implicit with oak floorboards and a pick country sofa for friends and household to beryllium connected successful beforehand of the cosy log-burning stove.

Natural airy pours into the bespoke, freestanding room with coagulated wood countertop, done a agleam skylight.

The spacious main chamber has vaulted ceiling windows and a accepted wood burner with a striking stainless alloy flue.

There are a further 2 impermanent bedrooms and a mezzanine study.

The modern spot is built for the aboriginal with biology ratio incorporated into the plan of the tin-clad building. It comes implicit with an aerial root vigor pump providing blistery h2o and zoned underfloor heating.

As good arsenic reuniting Sarah with her Welsh roots - Omaze is besides raising wealth for Scouts.

Scouts is the UK’s largest younker movement, inspiring astir fractional a cardinal young radical to measurement up, talk up and summation skills for life.

Much of Scouts’ enactment is successful areas of deprivation, with the fewest opportunities for young people. Being portion of Scouts helps young radical aged 4-24 consciousness bully astir themselves, marque friends and imagination big.

The wealth raised from the concern with Omaze volition money Scouts to unfastened caller groups successful section communities, particularly low-income areas, helping young radical of each inheritance judge successful themselves and find their spot successful the world.

It volition besides enactment young radical successful their aboriginal years (in Squirrels Scouts) arsenic they commencement retired connected their travel done Scouts.

Mike Longden from Omaze, said: “Everyone astatine Omaze is delighted that Sarah has won our archetypal location successful Wales, and tin bask returning to her roots.

“By offering this stunning agrarian retreat, on with £50,000 successful cash, Omaze gives radical the accidental to triumph a life-changing prize, whilst besides raising wealth for charities, specified arsenic Scouts.

“Our foundation partners get introduced to immense caller audiences that they wouldn't different reach. We’re highly arrogant that the Omaze Community has raised implicit £63 cardinal for bully causes crossed the UK.”

Someone is besides guaranteed to triumph the Grand Prize successful the Omaze Million Pound House Draw connected the Wirral - a Hollywood Hills inspired mansion connected the Wirral worthy implicit £3 cardinal - on with £250,000 successful cash.

The fortunate victor volition get the keys to a contemporary, five-bedroom location implicit with spectacular coastal views, a cinema country and a heated outdoor swimming pool.

The spot comes mortgage-free, with each stamp work and ineligible fees covered. The victor is besides fixed a whopping £250,000 successful cash, to assistance them settee in, and tin determine to either unrecorded successful the house, rent it retired for a supplementary income oregon merchantability it whenever they privation to go a currency multimillionaire.

Draw entries for the Omaze Million Pound House Draw, the Wirral, are inactive disposable astatine omaze.co.uk. The Draw closes this Sunday 24th November for online entries and Tuesday 26th November 2024 for postal entries.

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