Back in January Homesmine did some filming at Birmingham Interiors, which was fab. Not as ott as previous years, pared down for the economic tightening of belts, but interesting and inspirational nonetheless. One stand I found myself wandering round stood out more than most, a company i've never heard of called Coach House, and I... Continue Reading →
Wall stickers go up on Stick Em up Saturday
Spent the day signing up a new tenant, and also on a(nother) trip to Ikea. God bless it when you need to furnish a rental flat, and it's never ending supply of affordable, decent quality and likeable flat fillers. I Love It. Can't stand Ashton, worship Warrington, can find my way round the place blindfolded.... Continue Reading →
Fabulous colourful sofas at Birmingham Interiors 2009
I saw these fabulous sofas showcased at Birmingham Interiors this year and find myself inspired. I'm not exactly the beige queen but am hereby making a resolution to banish the buying of dull settees from my life. It's hard to find such amazing sofas for affordable prices for our rental flats, but I'm determined not... Continue Reading →
Credit crunch affects my tenant relationships!
So, one lot of tenants has moved out due to a relationship split - I am debating getting couples to do a compatability test before allowing them to live in one of my flats cause twentysomethings are always splitting up! We've a problem as the sound travel has always been appalling between that flat and the... Continue Reading →
Project Bishop – revamping a grotty communal area
It never ceases to amaze how little thought goes into the vast majority of new build apartment schemes' communal areas. Just take a look at the picture above! We're not talking about following a Candy & Candy specification, obviously, but just putting a little more thought into the regular schemes built in cities all over... Continue Reading →
Wednesday
My hands are killing me still today, itching, and loads of those blister things, it's crap not knowing what they are. Didn't sleep well at all, hands on fire. Even had to get one of the lads in B&Q to lift a tub of paint into the boot of my car, granted it was a... Continue Reading →
Endowment policies & crap advice!
Sent of an application to the Financial Ombudsman earlier this week re my vastly underperforming endowment policy, they are snowed under, he said, so it'll be about 9 months before anything is looked at. It's thousands under what was 'promised'. I think it was promised with no inverted commas - I distinctly remember the girl... Continue Reading →
