When you’re a room steward in a heritage property that opens to the public, there is a tendency to assume a rather strange proprietorial air. I was listening to a colleague the other day when he was stewarding the room […]
I had a pal living abroad in a nice very hot spot and they were hving their villa spruced up for the 3rd time in ten years. The sheer heat and dry weather for 10 months of each year, with […]
So much time is spent watching reality tv programmes every day – the old standby of properties in a range of ghastly states of repair to be auctioned off and we pore over the amazing before and after stories. There […]
I have relatives going through the usually harrowing house move – but I have to say that so far, contrary to history in their case, everything seems to be working out amazingly smoothly and trouble free. There are only two […]
I do know someone who wishes to turn his comfortable family sized home into a recreation of a Georgian villa . . . rather like those he’s seen down in beautiful tourist hotspots like Bath or Cheltenham. None of us […]
Having just been on a nice healthy and inspiring walk around this estate, it has been most interesting to note which houses now exhibit a new Sold sign out side. When I went on the same route this time last […]
It’s funny how I can look back at one house I used to visit as a child and automatically shudder with the instant recall of mothballs, freezing cold bedrooms with heavy clumping furniture – no fitted carpet of course, just […]
It’s funny thing, whenever I hear the phrase Interior Design, my mind races to sleek modern minimalist homes and offices with no frills or sentimental trivia clogging up the shelves and bookcases. In my mind’s eye I’m seeing beautiful clear […]
As we know, taste in decor and design is about the most individual matter in the housing sector of industry. There cannot be a single person n the country who has not watched one of the hundreds of lyfestyle televison […]
I do love a piece of modern oak furniture. There’s something timeless about light oak which never seems to age. In whatever design the furniture is made to, that finish always seems to glow and reflect a sunny outlook. It […]