Developers very often don't really budget to make hallways fabulous, or have run out of money, or just run out of enthusiasm! Either that or so many of the apartments sold off plan (those days are now gone??!) that they did not need to spend extra cash on creating a gorgeous entrance as their cash... Continue Reading →
Mortgages and scary standard variables
Well, we are all waiting for the budget with (bated) breath, how much is it going to cost us on personal level and all that. My mortgage on house is luckily on a tracker, but only til Autumn, and I checked the paperwork this morning - it said their standard variable is 7.85%. I nearly... Continue Reading →
Headboard ideas
Fantastic post for headboard ideas, all inexpensive, recycling, and innovative can be seen at the post link below. Not so sure about the pictures unless they were firmly screwed to the wall, but all better than buying an expensive shop sourced one!! http://mysweetsavannah.blogspot.com/2009/04/diy-able-headboard-ideas.htmlThis is just one of them, see post for more.
Vance Millers Maple Kitchen up in flames!
I reckon firefighters (with my other half amongst them) may well have given up trying to put out the mother of all fires - the (in)famous Vance Millers Maple kitchen empire in Oldham is, well, as you can see, probably not going to be trading tomorrow. I once bought a kitchen from there, barking mad, all... Continue Reading →
Lovin my Claire Norcross garden lights
Got these last year in the habitat sale and summer had already gone..... SO great to get them out this early in the year for bbq's already, result!I'm finding myself a bit of a CN fan. I still mourn for the cable tie light which I stupidly left at Tenby, just put some of her... Continue Reading →
The NatWest come up ‘trumps’?
Finally the re-finance has come through, what was once so easy eh?!I wonder how long it's going to be like this and how many people will continue to get the hell out of the property game as it becomes harder and harder to make a living?Hands and knees time today, cleaning up the hallways of... Continue Reading →
In is the new out? According to B&Q
How come I can't find anyone in B&Q who knows what the bloody hell they are talking about, (apart from Kerrie on bathrooms at Stockport) - yet their new advert says that they have ex builders, landscape gardeners and specialists everywhere. It's getting like bleedin Ikea in there, no staff to be seen!!!I feel a... Continue Reading →
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