Home & Garden Design UK
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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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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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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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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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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One of the things that we need to sort out well before the onset of winter weather is the sealant around windows and doors. Although I have well fitting upvc frames and double glazed panels, I sometimes put the windows on the first lock to get much needed fresh air into the home. Leaving the […]
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When you decide that it’s time to decorate and refburbish the home, there are so many decisions to be made. Do you go for an all silk emulsion finish, or perhaps have a statement wall in a modern print. Or if doing the sitting room, how about doing the wall with the chimney and mantelpiece […]
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I have a large family house, currently all to myself. It is tempting to think that just selling up and moving to a smaller one would be a breeze. This is not the case for many people – including me. There the things you can’t overlook such as sentimentality and a strong sense of being […]
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There is one house in a nearby town that has featured on a prominent ‘do up & stay or lose it & move’ property show. The owners will have applied to the show to get help with either vastly improving their home, having pointed out what they loathe about it etc. or to find a […]
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I have recently been able to have a sneaky peek into my neighbour’s newly finished extension. They’ve taken out the back of the house and enlarged the kitchen, utility and added to where the original pokey dining room used to be. It’s a fantastic improvement and I am so envious. The something that really impressed […]
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