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"Labour will give renters a default right to have pets, which is the case in many countries, including Belgium and Italy." tweeted Tom Copley, London Assembly Member this week. A man who clearly knows an evil landlord when he sees one and who has never had to hoist a feline urine soaked sofa out of... Continue Reading →
It's probably now official (according to this blog) that there's only a Monday every fortnight 'cause yep, I missed a week last week. Again! But we're working so hard, I can be excused from blogging, surely? The house is coming on in leaps and bounds! As winter sets in properly, thank goodness we have actual... Continue Reading →
This morning I watched with interest on BBC Breakfast as the presenters discussed, alongside experts and contributors, today's property news: Home ownership is falling in major English cities. This headline comes from a report by the Resolution Foundation, stating that across the country home ownership has fallen, giving the example of Manchester where home ownership has dropped... Continue Reading →
Hugely excited about this! And so should you be if you've got a gorgeous home or amazing home project which you've completed this year - you could win £1000 if you're the overall winner of the Real Homes 2016 Transformation Awards. And guess what, yours truly is a judge! As part of a stellar team... Continue Reading →
Gazing at my lovely, neat new joists in the extension, it's very tempting to pointedly ignore our reno-hell-section but those ignoring days are coming to an abrupt end as we start to get to grips with the old bit of the house. Here is my living room prepped for the forthcoming festivities:Suffice to say that as you... Continue Reading →
Note: I wrote & posted this in Sept 2015 but for some reason it's just popped up now, weird! Blimey, it's not exactly the Young Ones is it? Those of you old enough to remember the grimy squats of the past will be a tad shocked at these images of luxury Leeds student living replete... Continue Reading →
Keeping on top of all the external maintenance of the original part of Moregeous Mansions, whilst still renovating internally and sorting the new build, is a challenge and many things can be 'put off' however with water leaks, that isn't a great idea. At the end of last year we restored about 12m of the... Continue Reading →
I thought it'd be interesting to do something a bit different with the exposed bricks in the hallway - after we'd worked so very hard cleaning them up! - and came up with the idea of framing the areas with a 200mm edge of plasterboard. I haven't seen this done anywhere else and am very excited... Continue Reading →
So you saw our exposed brick where and why last week and now I can show you some of the hows too! We're well underway creating the bare brick feature walls in the hallway and landings at Moregeous Mansions and it's been a very dusty, dirty couple of weeks. Not only did we need to remove three... Continue Reading →
