Billie Faiers gives fans a guided tour of lavish new cocktail bar at her £1.4million Essex mansion after home renovation plans suffered countless delays and disputes with neighbours

Billie Faiers has given social media followers a sweeping tour of the latest addition to her £1.4million Essex home - a lavish, neon lit cocktail bar. 

The reality TV personality is adding the finishing touches to her sprawling family home after numerous delays and exhaustive planning rows with neighbours in affluent Brentwood. 

And Faiers, 36, wasted no time in showing off the spacious bar room she and husband Greg Shepherd use to entertain their numerous house guests in a new Instagram post.

Beneath a neon banner bearing the message 'A little party never killed nobody,' the mother of two revealed a curved bar loaded with bottles of her husband's favourite tequila, fridges stocked with booze and a set of newly installed swivel stools. 

The comfortable space also includes a snooker table, described by Faiers as 'the main feature' after admitting her husband was initially reluctant to buy it. 

'When we have friends over, everyone's always using it and playing on it,' she added. 'So I'm glad we went for it.' 

Looking down on the room, a framed artwork inherited from her late grandparents and gifted by her mother depicts what appears to be a crowded ballroom.  

'I feel like it's such an interesting picture,' she said. 'Whenever anyone comes in here, the first thing they walk over to is this. I love it and I feel like it really goes with the vibe in here.' 

Floor to ceiling patio doors complete the space and offer views across a neatly manicured garden, with Faiers adding: 'In the summer, we just push these doors back, and everyone can come in and out and help themselves to drinks.' 

The couple began renovating their family home in 2021, but ongoing work at the property reportedly led to a dispute with disgruntled neighbours before they had even moved in.      

Their relationship with neighbours in leafy Brentwood was thought to be so strained that £20,000 was spent on trees to maintain their privacy. 

Laurel trees, which conveniently grow between 15 and 35 feet tall, cost £240 each and were bought in order to keep eavesdroppers away, according to The Sun. 

A neighbour told the council at the time: 'I give my response to the amended drawings for the above property which, whilst I would have liked to have had similar window treatment to bedroom 4 as that of bedroom 2, I find to be acceptable in principle.'

They went on to claim that they would 'give their support' if the house would 'fit the character of the area', adding how it would be the biggest house on the street.

In 2020, Faiers confirmed she's not speaking to the neighbours, after they opposed the couple's plans to demolish the original rundown house and replace it with a five-bedroom palace.

'We've not seen anyone,' she said after winning planning permission the following year. 'But it's just not a great start, is it?'

She added: 'The house is so old, whoever was going to buy it was going to have to renovate.

'There's only one neighbour to the side of us and he had a lot of reasons as to why he didn't want us to go ahead, but it was getting a bit silly in the end. 

'It's been a very long journey already and it's about to get even more pressurised once the builders start work.'

Faiers also admitted she would have reconsidered purchasing the property had been made aware of the 'headache' it would cause.

She said: 'Now someone else has also said to us that we should probably think about knocking the house down and start all over again it's just becoming one thing after another.

'We're nearly a year in now. It would have been nice to know that like six to eight months ago because if we are going to knock the house down it means we're going to have to reapply for planning permission and start this process all over again.

'I don't regret buying the house but if I had known it would have taken this like, like over a year to get to find a builder, I probably wouldn't have done it because I just was so unaware of how long things take.'