When it comes to hiring a builder, it can feel like a bit of a minefield. After all, you don’t need builders every day, and odds are you probably haven’t hired one before now. So you might not know what to look for in hiring one, and how to avoid falling foul of the dreaded [...]
If you’re feeling a bit cramped in your home and feel like you need some extra space, your first thought might be that it’s time to move on to a bigger house. But if, like many people in the UK, you like where you are, or you aren’t in a position to move right now, [...]
Have you ever wondered what makes a house, a house? Not the nice comfy things on the inside, but what actually goes into building your house. It’s one of the questions we get asked a lot, whether it’s to check the materials are what the client wants, or just because people are curious about how [...]
How much thought have you given to the way you power your home? Probably not much – and that’s OK! Most people don’t. But did you know that the average home in the UK uses around 3700 kWh of electricity per year, on top of the energy used to power gas and oil systems. All [...]
Extending is a very popular way to add space to your home without having to move. In Britain, 46% of people will extend one of their homes at some point, with many extensions being about delivering ‘wow’ factor as much as adding extra space. But every extension is different, and there are a lot of [...]
You might not think that right now is a good time to think about solar panels. Not only are times a little uncertain, but because we’re now firmly in autumn weather, moving very quickly towards the winter, meaning dark evenings and overcast days. All in all, it’s safe to say no one in the UK [...]
We love building extensions. There’s something wonderful about helping people create their forever home from the house they bought, and watch their family and life expand to fill it. But we’re not going to lie – it’s not a simple thing. There are a lot of rules around building extensions, what you are and aren’t [...]
Building a house is not a small task. And if you thought buying a house was complicated, be prepared for a whole new level of stress when building your own. But it’s worth it all – because as soon as you step through the front doors of a house you designed, that no one else [...]
For the last few months, most of us have been introduced (a bit roughly), into the world of home working. For some of us, working at home has been the norm for a while, but for most people it’s been a shock to the system. Desks have been thrown together out of dining room tables, [...]
Yes. Really, that’s not a question. Electric cars solve a lot of problems for our planet and our economy. We’re now at a stage where almost every major car manufacturer out there has at least one full electric, or at least hybrid vehicle on the market, and lots of them have more than one to [...]
