Infographic: moving house
We received this fun infographic from Real Oak Floors on what to look out for when moving home. It’s not all location location location, but maybe location, education, price, and square footage… Enjoy!
Moving house checklist
When it’s finally time to move, you’ve exchanged and your completion date is in sight, then it’s time to notify all the businesses and services that have integrated themselves into your life over the years. But where to start? Home and Decorating magazine brings you this handy list for you to print and tick off...
Space Saving: Staircase Drawers
Spotted this today on a blog entitled ‘20 odd inventions or totally pointless?‘ thought it was a great example of functional interior design and wanted to share it with the HomeandDecorating readers. The concept is simple – although you may have an under stairs cupboard to make maximum use of hidden space, here is a...
Selling your house: Choosing an Estate Agent
Here at H&D towers, we’ve decided to move house again, after 2 wonderful years living by the sea, we’re going inland again back to mid-Kent. Now we’ve lived in 4 houses in 10 years so we’re somewhere between amateur and experts at the moving game, but there are still some difficult decisions to take when...
Put your foot down for a bin with style
If you were a house dresser/stager for a housing developer then you would be an expert at sourcing and displaying products in the most effective and aesthetically pleasing way… in the shortest period of time. You would have a subscription to Ideal Home, be a placer of wooden chopping blocks, Brabantia storage jars, fresh bread...
Gardener’s Knuckle
Eternal Skincare Aloe Super Hydrating Moisturiser Product Review My wife was looking over at me the other day and after a few sustained seconds, she realised she was staring, a glazed look in her eyes, so she adjusted her gaze, and then she whispered those three little words to me. Cleanse, exfoliate, moisturise. Ok, so...
Faithless Temples
Alain de Botton, the philosophically orientated author, schoolmaster, and sage of our time, has proposed buildings of social, ordered, congregation; inspirational architecture within which to contemplate and confess, to reinforce shared beliefs and morals, but to each other… not to a higher being. Faithless temples is not the missing seventh album from the popular london electronica...
Restoration Man: Inspiration to DIY?
Watching George Clarke’s Restoration Man (C4) tonight, has inspired me to ask myself what parts of a renovation could you and more importantly should you take on yourself. I’m sure without even watching the show you could at least take a wild stab in the dark at the plot; couple take on building, least suitable member...
Interior Design Predictions for 2012
Interior design is constantly evolving. Just like the fashion catwalks in New York, London and Paris, interior design is a fashion in every sense of the word. Combining the latest materials and fabrics with new stylistic possibilities and design creations produces an exciting, dynamic industry. Whether you can keep up with the changes or not...
Huf House, Grand Designs – As seen on TV
Four years ago Kevin McCloud met David and Greta Iredale, whose Huf Haus was built in a factory in Germany and put together on site. It was one of the most striking and efficient processes Grand Designs has ever seen. But four years on, is the Huf Haus still delivering perfection? David and Greta Iredale...
