Telling your neighbours, whether you have a good relationship with them or not, that they are going to have to put up with a building site next door for the next 8 months is never an easy thing to do. It doesn’t matter whether you intend to completely refurbish your home or just build a small extension. The noise, the dirt & dust and the builders stomping in and out … [Read more...]
16 Organisation & Storage Hacks For Terraced Houses
I’m not sure if I ever mentioned this before but I used to play drums in a rock band. Now whilst I had a great time playing gigs the one thing that was a constant pain was horsing the drum kit all around the place and then putting together the many pieces of the drum kit together. And if we were playing with another band, then I would have to put the kit together, do a … [Read more...]
How to Get a Bigger House Without Doing Any Building Work
I'm sure you remember the story of the Frog Prince. As a quick recap, a Princess finds a frog in a pond after dropping her ball into it and after giving it a kiss it turns into a handsome Prince with whom she lives happily ever after. And what has that to do with your home?! Bear with me here. Our sense of space in a room is defined by the walls, beams and columns and the … [Read more...]
Can You Really Extend Your Home for Just £20K?!
Lets be honest.. We all love a good Home Improvement show on TV. Whether its Grand Designs, Amazing Spaces, Property Ladder, Homes under the Hammer… you name it, we lap it up! But how useful are these shows to us in the real world? How much of it is just gloss and shine for the cameras and what can we actually learn from them for use in our own projects? Its time we … [Read more...]
Renovating Your Home With Mobility In Mind
My aunt Nuala was in a serious car accident a few years ago. She got caught in the middle of a three car pile-up at a dodgy 4-way junction with no traffic lights. She was wheelchair bound for many months and luckily after some intensive and very painful physiotherapy she managed to get back on to her feet and could eventually walk again. That said she still has … [Read more...]
