The Beauty Of Having That Garden These Days

To really appreciate how lucky we are to have gardens, we need to spend an hour or two in a flat, with no back door leading to space outside.  I used to live in a maisonette which was simply a two storey flat.  It’s really a small house but inside a block of identical units.   […]

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Transforming Your Garden with Tree Surgeon St Albans

Your garden is an oasis of tranquillity, a place where you can escape the stresses of everyday life and connect with nature’s beauty. To create and maintain a truly stunning garden, you need the expertise of professionals who understand the importance of trees in the overall landscape. Tree Surgeon St Albans is here to transform […]

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From Little Acorns Great Family Oaks Do Grow

There are so many aspects of owning a home that require much thought and even more action!  Take a house.  Is this a modest two bedroom starter home with very little frontage, or are we talking a luxuriously spacious seven bedroomed, five bathroomed detached with long drive sweeping across the front of the house and […]

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Country Walks Inspire Garden Room Decor

It’s amazing  how much brighter one feels as soon as the cold and damp weather starts to ease off.  Only a week or so ago I was house and dog sitting at a property right out in the middle of the countryside – masses of open spac across the fields where I take the dogs […]

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Garden Theme Curtains & Colour Schemes

The thing about changing one’s deco at home is the need to look at the curtains, window blinds, sofa covers and cushion covers.  you can’t just get a tub of paint and start slapping it on all over the place.  To form a fnished look, there needs cohesion bnetween all the properties and these also […]

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Perfumed Plant Placed To Perfection

I have a relative with a really nice comfortable family home.  She lives in the home counties, in a very big village  on the outer perimeter of a busy and vitally important county town.  The road network is always frantic around her village.  People use it as a rat run to avoid some inherently busy […]

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Coveting Owners Of Stunning 1900s Style Homes

I was enjoying a conversation with an ancient relative – she was recalling the days when my father was posted abroad on one of the assignments, leaving us with our mum, living in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere.  Mum didn’t drive so reaching the shops brought untold challenges.    At that time my […]

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How Kitchen Tile Choices Are Too Many & Varied

Well I have to say that going out to find the perfect kitchen wall tile is one of the most exhausting exercises I have taken part in.  My goodness there is such a choice and what was once the preserve of the high end kitchen or bathroom designer – the one area that gave them […]

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Conversion Contractors Make Ace Job Of Project

When you stay with friends or relatives, you always feel that you must clear up as you breathe don’t you;  it’s not always as relaxing as a stay over would seem when first suggested.  I had this recently when inivted to stay in a nice reasonably big country house – to look after the owners […]

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Expanding A Cramped Space From Inside to Out

There are so many new choices out there for making our homes appear bigger and more spacious.  One key area is the patio – being able to have bi-fold doors across the back of the house ca make a tremendous difference to quite a lot of homes.  Not all, of course.  In my own case, […]

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