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We’ve all known for a long time that John Lewis stands for quality and good service. They’ve just bought out a 600 piece range called House that emphasises style for a contemporary look.

This new range is called House by John Lewis

This wonderful range of products has been created so that they will stand the test of time so that, rather than following fashion, and changing for change’s sake, the range will evolve over time, allowing customers to build a look gradually.

This is an excellent idea which will allow you to buy over the years a range of goods that will fit in with each other as the styles will stay fairly constant with design changes being subtle year on year.

The look and feel over the entire range is contemporary, with an evolving colour palette. They’ve cleverly chosen to anchor the range with combinations of neutrals. A playful set of solid colours and patterns will be introduced for different seasons. Core materials include wood finishes, glass, metal, and white ceramic that come together to create a relaxed, informal look.

Theo Williams, Design Manager, John Lewis, said: “HOUSE by John Lewis is the latest step in a journey we’re taking to make John Lewis the destination for great design. We develop contemporary collections that reflect the latest seasonal interiors trends, work with the brightest names in design through our Design Collective that launched earlier this year, and now, with this new range, we’re appealing to a whole new customer base who want great design that’s well-made, design-led and surprisingly affordable. The range is simple, accessible, and designed for contemporary living.”

Louise Stuart, Head of Buying for Cooking and Dining, John Lewis, added: “As a nation we are more design literate than we have ever been. HOUSE by John Lewis is a range offering well-designed and thought-out contemporary design, at affordable prices, and with a colour palette and design that makes it easy for customers to build on the range over time.”

It’s clear that this new set of products will appeal to anyone wanting a stylish look to their home that will last for years to come. As always you can expect high quality from John Lewis.

The House by John Lewis range will cover the five major areas of your home -:
Cook
Dine
Live
Sleep
Wash

This means you can bring ever-lasting style into your home with John Lewis’ latest range – House
It’ll allow you to turn your house in to your home!

Cheapest house in the UK?
It’s up for auction next month

Request a brochure from Breckenridge Conservatories and find out just how wonderful conservatories can be.
Beckenridge is an architecturally led company which aims to give you as much choice as possible in style and design of your new conservatory.

Whatever you want a conservatory for you should check out the enormous range. A brochure could be on your doormat within days to allow you to browse through the designs at your leisure.

Whatever you want from a conservatory – in terms of style and design they can help
Orangeries

Conservatories

Contemporary conservatories

Contemporary buildings

Garden rooms

Pool enclosures

Verandas

Windows & doors

Interior design

Jimmy Carr’s house gets a mention in this article about him. There’s a photo – The plush double-fronted three-storey property in north London that Carr bought for £8.5million with cash

This status is supposed to guarantee a house sale – St. Joseph, My Real Estate Agent/The Authentic St. Joseph Home Sale Practice

FSA gives thumbs up to landmark residential property fund
Residential property fund managers David Gibbins and Lucy Hawkins will manage the fund, with the aim of tracking the House Price Index by investing in private rented sector housing across the UK.

Hearthstone’s target for the fund is £250 million in the first 24 months of launch, rising to potentially more than £1 billion in the longer-term.

So will this drive up prices of property and rents at a time when more people are struggling to manage financially, or will it be a lame duck and no one want to invest in housing?
Is this a shoe shine boy moment?

This shouldn’t be news to anyone who’s been inside a new build.
Without storage for things like vacuum cleaners, ironing boards and Christmas trees, houses just don’t have enough room.

The modern town house style built up into the roof space also deprives people of storage space there. A few eaves cupboards don’t make up for a roomy attic.

Article here by RIBA about how some houses don’t have room for a vacuum cleaner

They list 8 key things people want in their home
The first two are:-
1. Long-term and short-term storage for functional items, and for personal possessions people have chosen to keep during their lives
2. Dedicated space for domestic utility tasks, such as vacuum cleaners, washing, drying and ironing clothes as well as storing rubbish and recycling

Contour Housing are going to be building some passivhaus houses in Oldham – Contour Homes is developing 93 new homes on the 2.2 hectare flagship site and four homes will be built to the ‘Code for Sustainable Homes Level 6’, the highest level of sustainable construction which offers many benefits to residents and the environment.
The two Passivhauses are being built alongside four Code 6 carbon-free homes, all set to be complete by the end of 2012.

It says just FOUR homes will be built to the level 6 standard and just 2 passivhaus.
It is good that they are building some to this standard though and maybe in future developments they will all meet these higher standards.

It’ll be interesting to see what people think about living in them!

People living in sheds, overcrowded houses and worse!

Article at the GUardian exposing some harsh realities of what people live like.

Even if council’s identify where people are living in sheds, then where do they rehouse people to? There isn’t enough social housing as it is.

That’s not a reason to do nothing.

People who rent out shacks should be fined and the shacks removed.
There’s a process for real landlords to be investigated by Environmental Health officers and forced to do improvements.

This is a pretty scary car parking space!