Tag: home design

Why We Chose to Improve Rather Than Move

During the pandemic, like many other people, our lives and priorities changed. We realised just how hectic our lives were and how important the sanctuary of home truly is. Repurposing spaces in our home during the various lockdowns to create a makeshift classroom in the dining room and a drawing studio in the playroom. Our home office becoming a means of escape from the chaos of a newborn baby and home schooling an eight year old boy with zoom PE classes, led to us re-evaluating how we want to live in our home when some form of normality resumed. Our... Read More

The Importance of Project Management

Building your own home should be one of the most exciting experiences of your life –  you’ve found the perfect spot for your forever home, better still, you have planning permission. You’ve already chosen the light fittings and where that amazing piece of art you saw at the exhibition last month is going to hang in your new Hallway. Your budget is probably tight, taking on work yourself could be an option…. you don’t really have any previous experience (if you are not counting the shed you put up in the garden with your Dad three years ago) but your... Read More

To Move or Extend?

You’ve achieved the unachievable – you’re on the housing ladder! You love your home, the area, the school catchment area, maybe even the neighbours! So what happens when you’ve outgrown your home or it no longer suits your way of living? Do you look to move and leave behind the memories, the wallpaper responsible for the three-day argument with your partner last spring? The garden you’ve cultivated? The windows you lusted for a year before they were installed? Or do you opt to keep all of that and make you home bigger? Extending your home opens up a world of... Read More