Awwwwww, I'm a bit sad!! We've been visiting January's Design Interiors at the Birmingham NEC for about 7 years, watching it develop into a much more funky and innovative trade show year by year, and learned at last week's show that this is the last one before it ups sticks and moves to London's Excel... Continue Reading →
I though it'd be interesting to have a look back at my photos from Design Interiors 2013 to see what caught my eye back then, before I visit tomorrow for 2014's furniture and interior design extravaganza. I visit several trade events each year to see how styles and trends evolve and develop, and to specify... Continue Reading →
Being a full time landlord means life is full of surprises, and I don't mean the kind wrapped in a big bow which when opened taste / small / feel good! A tenant moved out on 31st Dec and as the new tenant couldn't be in until 18 Jan, I decided to give the one... Continue Reading →
There's such a buzz in Manchester about food at the moment, with new restaurants popping up all over the place, all very exciting but sometimes all very hit and miss, especially if initial expectations are set too high. I don't mind when we eat out if it's in the fanciest of venues or the middle... Continue Reading →
2014 is all about personalisation and creativity, so how about some vintage sunshine in the form of these rather beautiful printed blinds by Nottingham based company Creatively Different? The ladies you see are the Lovelies, part of a series of about 160 illustrations drawn in the 1940's by British artist David Wright as 'pin-ups' for The... Continue Reading →
Whilst dashing in and out of one of the Manchester B&Q's before Christmas on a bonkers renovate-a-house-in-21-days mission, I stopped in my tracks when I saw a large new Valspar display where the Dulux colour cards and mixing desk had previously stood. I'd heard whisperings of a partnership between B&Q and a new paint company... Continue Reading →
It seems from conversations with everyone from designers to tradesmen to suppliers that the last few months have seen a bit of an upturn in activity within the property & interiors market. We're undoubtedly still in difficult times, for all the national newspapers headlines of housing bubbles, let's face it, it's only really London which... Continue Reading →
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