Renovations on any age of house can only be undertaken by folk who have a good understanding of buildings and how their construction took place. It’s absolutely no good taking a sledgehammer to a partition wall and hoping to make space – only to discover that yo’ve hacked your way through a supporting wall. The devastation and damage to the […]
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My house is not really in the age bracket considered ripe for renovation but it is now looking a bit shabby on the outside. It’s twenty years old and there has been nothing done to the exterior, beyond having the garage door changed from a rickety and tempramental up and over for a sleek electric neo georgian one. That door […]
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I was over in cyprus recently, well back in the early summer. They have grasped one part of living on a hot mediterreanean isle quite well. They have fields and fields of solar panels. Although they look impressively green, it is true to say that they’re very likely to be second hand with old technology. The rest of the cypriot […]
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I just love this mellow time of year. Autumnal smells of woodland, that slightly damp air when you go for the daily walk around the fields. In my middle youth I used to make a few bob a week from helpfully brushing up and collecting bag loads of fallen leaves off the front lawns of dear old aged pensioners. My […]
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I was watching one of those day time lifestyle programmes that involved couples who have taken the plunge and bought into the property renovation market. there is one particularly fascinating show based on France – ex pats are apparently queueing up to buy old chateaux dotted around the least likely venues over there. We only see the fairly successful ones […]
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Things have certainly started to take off as far as property building and renovations are concerned if the immediate area near me is anything to go by. There is one major trunk road very close by – for years, once you get past the town area itself, this has led to fields either side. The houses that are popping up […]
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Considering that the genuine-estate industry is on the upwards, a new buyer would often look at the new projects rather than getting a second hand flat. If the market place goes down, then the projected price of £150,000+ would also come down steeply. If a home owner comes to me and wants to sell his or her residence for all […]
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Where I live in my lovely comfortable family home, I am constantly grateful for the space, the warmth and convenience of having a home constructed to the latest building methods available in the early 2000s! So long ago my first rented home was an attic flat in a rather run down victorian semi detached villa – the landlord lived on […]
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There has never been as much building and refurbishment work carried out in this area since we moved in some years ago. It was a top end development of executive style 4 and 5 bedroomed detached, and assumed we would find satisfaction in every aspect of our chosen property. Our family home has always felt spacious and perfectly adequate. The […]
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When we moved into this house nearly twenty years ago, it was brand new and we’d had to wait for the developers to finish this phase of 4 houses. We were rookies at the ‘buying new’ game and thoroughly enjoyed the process. Each stage was exciting, from the surprise visit to the sales office and show house right the way […]
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