So you've seen her from the grotty inside as she was when I bought her all those years ago and also from the outside front garden.... what does Moregeous Mansions look like layout wise? Ā Imagine half a church on its side and you're pretty much there, a central core, an East facing room, a South... Continue Reading →
Do Up Diary #2: External view of Moregeous Mansions
I'm thinking that after writing all about why I fell in love with Moregeous Mansions but then showing you all those awful interior shots, I should show you her at her best, when the sun is shining on southerly facing elevations and the grass is green š She's been a beautiful house to live in... 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 houseĀ and mentioned words along the lines of we're always told cheapest is best.Ā 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 rant: Just what IS a landlords responsibility?!
An interesting question arose this week about what should be a landlord's responsibility. Our rental apartments are in blocks i.e., I take a cruddy old Victorian block converted badly in the 70's / 80's and redesign the interiors to make fabulous new apartments within the same spaces. I like that all our tenants are in... Continue Reading →