I had the good fortune to be staying down in the south with some good pals – they are great ones for going out and about at weekends, seeking out the unusual. This could include properties to look round, antique…
Look To US Station Artistry For Iconic Style
I have thoroughly enjoyed watching the programme by a certain ex mp, who has now become a reknowned travel writer and racontour. His programmes are primarily to promote rail travel and having almost exhausted the entire uk rail network, using…
From New Starter To Established With Character
When you’re setting up a new home, after your first starter property and now well into making it a proper home, your style tends to change and a different set of values sets in. I can think here of a…
Social History & A Lesson Art Deco Styling
I have a really beautiful big book published last year by the major heritage property charity. I was visiting one of their places up in the peak district and as is my want, I was happily mooching about in the…
Art Deco Designs Are Worlds Apart From Stark Modern
Some of the furniture designs today do look rather plain and clumpy. I have been checking out sideboards and dining sets, with a view to a change round. The tables on offer all seem to be various shades of oak…
Great Aunt’s Hotel Yields Art Deco Delights
I recently had the joy of taking an aged relative off for a birthday weekend in a swish hotel in town. Her family contributed to this enterprise and as I am the most mobile and flexible with time, I offered…
Holiday Cottage Proves An Art Deco Delight
I recently returned from a helter skelter kind of exciting holiday down in the south west – a cottage break with several family members and a handful of puppy dogs. It was full on for the first half of the…
Keeping True To Design Forms A Museum Piece
On a trip to the Peak district a few weeks ago, I was blessed with the opportunity to visit a gorgeous house that stood out from the rest of the village – which being a walkers’ paradise was made up…
Symphathetic Buyer Needed To Retain Character
I have been watching a particular property near me that went on the open sale market some weeks ago. It’s definitely of the 1920’s era, as it’s in a row of ten or twelve set back off a now very…
Searching For That Pre Loved Art Deco
Whilst watching a recent episode of a well known antique and collectibles programme, I wondered how many things are still out there being described as ‘found in local car boot’ or had been tossed in a skip. With the rise…