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...]
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...]
The Ultimate Bathroom Buying Guide – PART 1: Choosing A Shower
We all love a good shower… Showers are one of the most important parts of any bathroom. They arguably get the most use of any of your bathroom’s features and a good shower can really set the mood for your bathroom, as well as your overall enjoyment of the space. Its not a simple as you might think. There are a multitude of choices to be made and the even more expensive … [Read more...]
CASE STUDY: The Upside Down Terraced House
I know just how tough it can be.. Renovating an old terraced house, trying to drag it kicking and screaming into the 21st century, is never easy – especially when you are on a budget. The layout, the room sizes, the darkness, the damp... there are so many problems to fix and so many areas to modernise. It is a complex problem, but as architects we are trained look at a … [Read more...]
