I constructed my dream lotto residence throughout lockdown: EuroMillions bricklayer who scooped £40m jackpot reveals how he constructed his personal luxurious 6,000 sq ft home full with a man-made lake, lodge and floating fireplaces

A bricklayer who scooped a £40million jackpot on the EuroMillions lottery has revealed how he constructed his personal luxurious home throughout as Britain was plunged into lockdown. 

Gareth Bull spent over a 12 months constructing his 6,000 sq foot dream residence, full with a man-made lake stuffed with rehomed fish, an accompanying lodge and floating fireplaces.

The 52-year-old says the mission, which additionally noticed him set up his very personal swimming pool with programmable waves, stored him going because the nation struggled by the Covid pandemic.

Mr Bull, who lives in Nottinghamshire, initially gained the EuroMillions jackpot of £40,627,241 in January 2012, however did not begin work on his new residence till 2019.

Now he is dwelling the great life in his accomplished four-bedroom home, which has a sound system constructed into the ceilings, three bars and two scorching tubs, and admits the hassle he put in to ending it has made it much more useful.

Gareth Bull spent 4 years constructing his dream residence after scooping a £40million EuroMillions jackpot. Pictured: Mr Bull in his open plan dwelling and eating space

The 52-year-old even constructed a man-made lake and crammed it with rehomed fish. Pictured: Mr Bull on a jetty over his the lake

The bricklayer spent over a 12 months constructing his new residence, engaged on the mission by lockdown

Mr Bull stated: ‘The home is further particular as a result of I did a lot of the work myself, and throughout the pandemic too. 

‘It helped me by lockdown, and I do not know what I might have performed if I hadn’t had this to work on. It was the right distraction with an important reward on the finish of it.’ 

Throughout development, Mr Bull ‘determined to dig a small pond exterior the home’, which he expanded till it grew to become an L-shaped ‘fishing lake, the scale of two tennis courts’. 

‘I known as it ‘Lockdown Lake’, made a little bit signal with its identify on it and invited anybody who wanted to rehome their fish to convey them right here,’ he stated.

‘Now, I’ve a few hundred fish, primarily goldfish and 10 koi carp and I name it my ‘fish orphanage’ as a result of they’ve all been rehomed.’ 

Mr Bull constructed ‘Lockdown Lodge’ alongside the home, full with two bedrooms, a rest room and a totally functioning kitchen. 

He purchased the two-acre website with a three-bedroom bungalow in Nottinghamshire in December 2018 and started work on his dream home six months later. 

He stated: ‘As soon as I acquired the inexperienced gentle to go forward, I began digging and simply did not cease. 

‘The unique bungalow sat on open land, so I knocked down half and lived within the remaining rooms so I may very well be on website and guard our instruments. 

The lottery winner has put in three bars within the constructing after starting work on the mission in 2019. Pictured: Mr bull at considered one of his in-house bars

He has additionally put in a swimming pool that has programmable waves, as effectively two scorching tubs. Pictured: Mr Bull sat exterior subsequent to his lake

The bricklayer says he moved right into a caravan whereas the home was nonetheless a constructing website to ensure nothing went improper with the mission

‘When the remainder of the bungalow needed to be knocked down, I moved right into a caravan on the constructing website – a lot to the amusement of my pals.’ 

Mr Bull helped dig out foundations and full brickwork as the home started taking form, however the development was threatened by lockdown in March 2020. 

He stated: ‘I used to be dwelling right here alone on the time, and I did not know what to do, so I threw myself into work on the house, and it saved me from getting too lonely. 

‘Lockdown guidelines allowed constructing websites to maintain going, so finally a few of my builder pals got here to assist me, however this became my final lockdown mission.’ 

Mr Bull stated considered one of his favorite options of the principle home is ‘a remote-controlled system which runs my lights, curtains, music and ceiling audio system all from my telephone’. 

He added: ‘In the meantime an 8ft projector display pulls down from the ceiling so I can watch sport with my pals. 

‘I put in two scorching tubs – one by the home and a second log-burning scorching tub from Scandinavia exterior the lodge.’ 

After greater than a year-and-a-half of development, he moved into his home on Christmas Eve 2020. 

‘I had an enormous 7ft Christmas tree. I needed all the things to be good once I moved in and it was,’ he stated. 

The EuroMillions Jackpot on Friday September 29 is £110 million.