So, you already know that the West Wing is going and being replaced with a new construction broadly the same size, slightly wider, but what else is happening? Seriously, I don't even know where to start other than we must be mad! In for a penny, in for a pound, we decided if we were really going... Continue Reading →
Blog Reader Advice: Ground floor extension layout & how open plan to go?
Whilst doing the HomeSense inspiration day the other week, a lady approached me to ask a question which didn't quite fit into the "which colour cushion goes with this sofa" category. She asked if I was a *proper* interior designer and began to describe her home, on which building works are due to commence. She... Continue Reading →
Finding a trade – Is cheapest REALLY the best?
My eyebrows raised this morning (slowly obviously as it was pre 9am on a Monday) but raised nonetheless as a BBC presenter chatted animatedly about the difficulties of finding a tradesperson for those jobs around the house and mentioned words along the lines of we're always told cheapest is best. Eh? Are we? And is it?... Continue Reading →
Never mind meatballs & tealights, now you can buy Ikea Solar Panels!
Readers of the Moregeous blog know that we're big fans of Ikea here, having spent beyond a fortune over the years on cool rental furniture & kitchens for clients & tenanted properties, as well as the obligatory candle & orchid splurges. However instead of the new furniture range many people have been cooing over this... Continue Reading →
A Beauty in Decay – Birmingham’s Moseley Rd Heritage Baths
After over a year working with a core team on the Love Withington Baths campaign & project, our visits out to other amazing buildings in the heart of their communities have sealed it - I'm officially a Pool Geek. How gorgeous is the building above, Moseley Road Baths, currently being left to rot by Birmingham... Continue Reading →
Passing on the Property Portfolio? Not on your Nellie!
We're at that point in the cycle of the property world when, to be blunt, many large portfolio landlords are either knackered, too old or on their last legs and are looking to pass on their long managed and barely mortgaged property mountains to younger, energetic, enthusiastic sons and daughters. Or not, as the case... Continue Reading →
Moregeous Blog Diary: Grand Designs Live, Birmingham 2013
In all my years going to trade shows & exhibitions I have never been anywhere as busy as Grand Design Live Birmingham last weekend, packed to the rafters with fans of The God Who Is Kev. If those numbers are anything to go by, the UK doesn't need any national house builders, it just needs... Continue Reading →