Whn we buy a house tht has already been planned and designed by a large group developer there is very little room for negotation or change – they have their blue print and you buy what is already stipulated. There are a couple of personal choices to be made as far as paint colours and sanitary ware etc. These are […]
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There is no doubt that to get on with one’s neighbours does make for a very much more harmonious lifestyle than when one does not. There are endless stories of disputes and neighbourly rows every day in the papers. Things often get so bad that one or both end up taking a case to court. This is generally because of […]
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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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I’ve had my eye on some new houses being built near one of the huge out of town retail parks. I’m not sure I’d like to be quite that near to the thrills and spills of a shopper’s dream, but hey. These properties are really big. Definitely not the cheaper end of the market – the first time buyer would […]
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There are a great number of lifestyle programmes on tv currently – a lot of new ones were imported from the US and Canada during the recent pandemic lockdowns. It’s fascinating watching how the n.american renovations take place – their homes look to be much flimsier builds to start with – they look more plasterboard and flatpack. This was apparent […]
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