Home & Garden Design UK
There comes a time in every house’s life when the owner has to look around and decide what stays and what goes! That much loved carpet upstairs that you had put down the day you moved in – now when exactly was that . . . 20 years ago?! Then there are the dado rails […]
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I sometimes catch a programme that covers truly unique high end house building schemes. Individual plots. Where we meet the apparently foolhardy pair of dreamers with their tiny budget and heads full of grandiose ideas . . . . . the host seems to have all the rights to this format – he’s also the […]
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I was out on a birthday treat day out the other week – a wonderful spur of the moment idea. Visiting a truly spectacular heritage property with some pals, both of whom are real home birds who felt seriously out of their comfort zone . . . . Usually you look at each room as […]
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I have been following the exploits of a family I know with a village house in Cyprus. As land and property passes down through the female line over there, my pal married into a ready made house and acres of olive groves and vineyards. Only problem is that his sisters in law own parts of […]
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Gosh how I remember our neighbours’ house when my parent managed to move us to a brand new house in the late 1960s. Dad had struggled to obtain a mortgage and there had been a danger that this lovely new semi-detached beauty was going to be beyond his reach. Anyhow, the neighbours were a young […]
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I always know when I’m in a house that is happy and comfortable – there is just that feeling that either warms you or makes you stand up and the back of your neck feels prickly. I did have this happen not long ago, it was really odd. When I was younger I had many […]
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In this day and age we can now view all kinds of property online and get inspired enough to tackle a serious domestic challenge on the strength of what we have browsed. We only have to search for a subject or task and there is a million pieces of information about it ready for us […]
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When I was first in the house buying market, the major thing then was to secure that mortgage. Nothing could be done until that was received in writing and almost sealed with blood! This is where you notice that the mortgage company has highlighted areas for remedial work and suggested repairs – often they would […]
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I had the overwhelming joy of viewing a proper antique and vintage wares emporium over the recent holdiay weekend. It took up the whole of a former coaching inn and there were hundreds of little enclaves and rooms where sellers had a few racks and cabinets with their precious wares for sale. What I particularly […]
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I live in a modern detached exec style home on the outskirts of a once thriving industrial town. Now that the industry seems to have been diverted overseas, the old factory units have been knocked down as brownsite refills with all kinds of small urban redevelopment projects. One of the more innovative schemes involved knocking […]
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