Author: Diane

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discount at Wickes10% OFF ALL Tiles, Flooring, Doors, Paint & Lighting at Wickes – a great time to smarten up your house!

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10% off up until Tuesday 13th March 2012.

Replacing tiles in a bathroom or kitchen is a fairly simple DIY task that you could easily do in a weekend. Get new tiles and your whole kitchen looks smarter!
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This is a great idea to spruce up your house for less especially if you’re thinking of putting it on the market.

Grand Designs Dance Floor in Basement

Kevin McCloud meets Claire Farrow and Ian Hogarth, who are trying to build a home containing a sauna, spa, dance floor and DJ booth on a small patch of land in London. They have applied for planning permission to include a basement and started work on the construction, but setbacks, including their digger smashing into a neighbour’s wall and the re-emergence of the old river under the building, threaten to prevent them completing the project

This was a great episode. Kevin was almost beaming with glee with his map of London rivers pointing out that a creek does underground just where they were putting their massively deep basement.
Double tanking was needed when they hit the river and they had to pump water out and stop it as best they could. It would worry me somewhat knowing that water was there still!
This was of course after the obligatory planning debacle where they had to argue with neighbours about having the bigger size house on the smaller plot. Massive disruption for neighbours with the size of machinery required to dig the piles and a small bump into a garage.
The house was very modernly retro with a huge gold sofa and light up dance floor.

Watch on 4onD

East Wing of Alkrington Hall

Alkrington Hall is a
East Wing of Alkrington Hall – Alkrington Hall is a Grade II listed Palladian mansion erected by Sir Darcy Lever (High Sheriff of Lancashire) in 1736, the architect was Giacomo Leoni who also re-designed Lyme Hall at Disley near Stockport. Alkrington Hall is an important and imposing example of Leoni\’s work and is one of only a few surviving examples throughout England.

Alkrington Hall West is also for sale

Nice house with cannon

fine country residence standing
fine country residence standing within 16.5 acres – approx
Reception hall, 4 reception rooms, kitchen breakfast room with Aga, pantry, utility, cloakroom, 4 bedrooms, master & guest bedroom suites, family bathroom, beautiful gardens, orchard and pasture land, long private driveway approach, garaging. in all approx 16.5 acres

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As seen on the BBC this morning.

Sker Court

Set on the beautiful
Sker Court is set on the beautiful South Wales coastline and backing onto the Royal Porthcawl Golf Club, is this stunning seven-bedroom home. Look at this great games room. Very nice house.

Picture 15 shows a bath in the bedroom. I’m not convinced about this idea myself.
It does have a pool, gym and sauna too!