I was chatting to a really good chum of mine – she has lived in the house she & her husband built.    I can well remember the days when they first talked of...

It must have been quite wonderful in days gone by to be able to have your own house designed and built to your own specification without having to worry about planning permissions and all...

We live in a buy cheap and throw away society – due to much less expensive manufacture of almost everything we buy and our lack of sentimentality when it comes to retaining anything.   Well...

The winter time is very often depressing for some people.  They don’t like the cold and many feel frightened in damp weather that they’re going to slip on wet leaves etc. etc.    Of course...

There is often a problem with extending onto an existing property – although it’s great to have all that extra space – light and airy, it very often comes at a cost in terms...

The need for compliance with rules and regulations can sometimes be a tedious matter for some people.  The guys who want to get ahead with projects.  They’re inspired to extend here and add on...

I live on a comfortable family housing estate – spacious homes that were built in the period of great optimism and prosperity for some .  . .  .  between 1995 and 2002.  My house...

It can be baffling to drive through parts of the UK and see so many different styles of town and city.  Some are beautiful – somehow or other they’ve not been entirely butchered in...

I saw the most amazing house/garden transformation the other week.  I have dealings with a family up in the north east of the country;  they moved up there some forty odd years ago when...

We do tend to take for granted our being able to have built houses with plots of garden.  I can’t think of many neighbours and friends now who relish their gardens.  I did have...