Home & Garden Design UK
This time of year is fab. For a variety of reasons too. The weather has markedly improved – the torrential rain and incredibly winds have gone until lat summer and the temperatures are soaring. This in itself is great although the last couple of years, the first week of Wimbledon has been frighteningly hot – […]
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This time of year can be very slightly tricky – take the weather for example. We have been promising ourselves some time out to carry out a real upgrade of our decor and interior design. We’ve been in our nice comfortable four bedroomed house for several years and it had a professional redorcation throughout a […]
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I am reminded of a trip I took to a very ultra modern city – in the States. The very history of the site dictates it cannot be more than 200 years old and so buildings less than that. I smiled when shown around a particular highlight for my host family. Their local heritage society […]
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There are some phases in house design that stand the test of time so much better than others. I’m thinking here of the humble victorian and edwardian terrace houses – sometimes an absolute eyesore these days. Even when the various owners have done their best to bring the place to life, its difficult to make […]
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We all tend to view rooms differently to perhaps our spouse & family might. I know someone who spends an amazing amount of her spare time up in her bedroom – she has a recliner armchair, drinks cabinet, small tv and candles for relaxation. This is all so her other half can sit and watch […]
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I know of one couple who have added a huge extension on to their 1920s double fronted detached . . . They had four bedrooms but only one bathroom – growing family of teenagers meant it was all hell let loose of a morning. so an old barn type outhouse was incorporated into the plan […]
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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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