Month: November 2013

Graham and Green offers

Until midnight Monday 18th November, Graham and Green are offering free shipping on orders over £75 with the code XS13FS.

Colour in wallpaper
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Lovely stuff for your home. Furniture and decorations.

They have some Colour in Wallpaper

Graham & Green Wallpaper Range

White Library Wallpaper White Library Wallpaper

Colour-In Wallpaper Colour-In Wallpaper

Grey Plank Wallpaper Grey Plank Wallpaper

Ivory Library Wallpaper Ivory Library Wallpaper

Young Birch Forest Wallpaper Young Birch Forest Wallpaper

Light Grey Panelled Wallpaper Light Grey Panelled Wallpaper

Driftwood Timber Wallpaper Driftwood Timber Wallpaper

Gallery Wallpaper Gallery Wallpaper

Lumberjack Wallpaper Lumberjack Wallpaper

Linen Crackle Wallpaper Linen Crackle Wallpaper

Plantation Wallpaper Plantation Wallpaper

Studio Grey Wallpaper Studio Grey Wallpaper

Luggage Wallpaper Luggage Wallpaper

White Timber Wallpaper White Timber Wallpaper

Cargo Wallpaper Cargo Wallpaper

Lime Timber Wallpaper Lime Timber Wallpaper

Grey Crackle Wallpaper Grey Crackle Wallpaper

Palmer Wallpaper Palmer Wallpaper

Studio Charcoal Wallpaper Studio Charcoal Wallpaper

Curator Wallpaper Curator Wallpaper

Oxford Wallpaper Oxford Wallpaper

Colour Library Wallpaper Colour Library Wallpaper

Oak Regent Wallpaper Oak Regent Wallpaper

Ivory Regent Wallpaper Ivory Regent Wallpaper

Ark Wallpaper Ark Wallpaper

Charcoal Penny Post Wallpaper Charcoal Penny Post Wallpaper

White Brick Wallpaper White Brick Wallpaper

Pinboard Wallpaper Pinboard Wallpaper

Louis XV Panelled Wallpaper Louis XV Panelled Wallpaper

Love Letter Wallpaper Love Letter Wallpaper

Large White Brick Wallpaper Large White Brick Wallpaper

Stone Library Wallpaper Stone Library Wallpaper

Red Penny Post Wallpaper Red Penny Post Wall

Worst rightmove ad ever?

This story on the metro tells the tale of a former cannabis farm being advertised on rightmove.

Didn’t the estate agent think it looked a bit strange?

Mind you some of the photos some estate agents use on rightmove are shocking. Blurry photos, ones taken with a fish eye lens that distorts the view massively, photoshopped skies, and many more silly ones.

Near Crackington Haven

High quality 3 bedHigh quality 3 bed residential barn conversion with countryside and sea views with planning to extend.
3 bed residential barn conversion. 2 Further Cottages. 3 bed residential cottage available by seperate negotiation.
Guest barn with kitchen, luxury showers, games room, laundry room and BBQ area.
5 yurts with panoramic countryside and sea views.
Planning permission to covert Dutch Barn into an additional holiday cottage.
Set in 18.9 acres of organic pasture and paddocks
leading down to stream.

Recently a friend asked where was a good place to stay in Cornwall. Within moments two of us had said Crackington Haven. It has a lovely beach and is a wonderfully pretty place to stay. St Gennys is right next door to Crackington Haven. It’d be a beautiful place to live.

Greenwood Grange – part of the Hardy story

17 self catering cottages
Greenwood Grange is an impressive holiday complex. It has some very interesting history.

17 self catering cottages
Indoor swimming pool with sauna
Games room, 2 tennis courts
Established & successful business
Approx. 7.2 acres

Greenwood Grange is an impressive conversion of a range of farm buildings, constructed by Thomas Hardy’s father in 1849. The brick, stone and slate barns have been rebuilt, extended and refurbished over the
years and today provide luxury holiday accommodation. Thomas Hardy was born in Higher Bockhampton which later became the model for Upper Mellstock in his novels. Hardy’s Cottage is now maintained by
the National Trust only a few hundred yards from the holiday cottage complex. His famous poem ‘The Oxen’ refers to one of the farm buildings at Greenwood Grange.

Consumer confusion over Help to Buy Scheme

Consumer confusion over Help to Buy Scheme

Results from an independent consumer survey commissioned by the Building Societies Association (BSA), show that:

18 per cent of first time buyers and 17 per cent of home movers believe that they can borrow more through this scheme than with a ‘standard’ 95 per cent loan.
12 per cent of both first time buyers and home movers believe that their monthly repayments will be lower as a result of taking a Help to Buy: mortgage guarantee loan.
One in ten first time buyers (just 5% of home movers) believe that the scheme will protect them if they cannot keep up their monthly payments.
12 per cent of first time buyers (just 6% of home movers) say that Help to Buy: mortgage guarantee will protect them if their house price falls.
24 per cent of first time buyers and 22 per cent of home movers say that they are more likely to be approved for a Help to Buy mortgage.
In fact not one of these suppositions is true

This is a fantastic survey by the BSA and well worth having a read of the rest of it.