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Selling your house may seem to be an endless cycle of keeping everything lovely and tidy and making sure you can actually still enjoy living there. If you’ve read through lots of other hints about selling your house you’ll see … Continue reading →

This is a fantastic magazine for all fans of the show. Regular features on houses seen on TV, plus design articles and all sorts of new products for you to drool over. Grand Designs Magazine from Magazine Group £27.50 The magazine … Continue reading →

How many times have you seen a radiator and thought “oh I like that”… A few times maybe. I love the really chunky looking ones like you used to get in schools. Really solid looking radiators look good in big … Continue reading →

Ireland is set to have Mandatory alarms for carbon monoxide THE MANDATORY installation of carbon monoxide alarms in all new homes is to be addressed by new building regulations being drafted by the Department of the Environment. I have read … Continue reading →

Win a farm – competition run by Covent Garden Soup Co. I’ve had two cartons and not won a farm yet though! How fab would it be to win a farm worth £500,000?

A house in one of the most remote parts of the UK has been put up for sale. The 181-year-old stone cottage renovated by fisherman Mick Simpson, 62, and his wife Joyce can only be reached by foot or by … Continue reading →

Buried ‘witch’s cottage’ discovered in Pendle, Lancashire Engineers have said they were “stunned” to unearth a 17th Century cottage, complete with a mummified cat, during a construction project in Lancashire. The mummified cat found could indicate it’s a non-witches house … Continue reading →

This amazing, but perhaps a little ghoulist, map shows every death on every road in Great Britain 1999-2010 A total of 36,371 people were killed on Britain’s roads between 1999 and 2010. An interesting map that gives you details on … Continue reading →

I’ve seen several different types of wood effect floor tile, and this Gloss wood effect ceramic tile at Topps tiles is an interesting change from the usual floor tiles available. If you’re looking for an alternative to normal square floor … Continue reading →