Househunter

Cheyne Walk via The Modern House We're going househunting as usual this week everyone but as the house selling season kicks off in earnest in Spring I thought it might be helpful to share this feature I wrote for a newspaper a little while back on tips for helping you to sell. Spring and Autumn

Now I don't know about you but most of my late night, one too many glasses of wine, mad schemes involve winning the lottery and buying a house in Italy. Usually I content myself with the almost realistic; buying something really cheap like a rustico (old, generally knackered farm building) and gradually converting it to

Now it turns out that many of you weren't taken with the country last week but we're going there again this week because, well, look at this. It's in Burnham Market, Norfolk and it's on the market via The Modern House for £695,000. It used to be a 1950s bungalow that was completely remodelled and

So far so ordinary. Well, inasmuch as a three bedroom house in Hampstead on the market with Chestertons  for £3,750,000 can ever be ordinary. I mean, yes, there's a lot of glass and yes, somehow, given the size of it you would expect more than three bedrooms. But there are three receptions too. Although one

We'll go gently into Friday with a soothing palette of blush, black and natural wood. This three bedroom flat in New Cross, south- east London, is on the market with The Modern House for £675,000. It's so restful isn't it, you can't imagine ever having a row about whose turn it was to empty the dishwasher

Morning Househunters, are you ready to poke about some houses? St Pancras is one of my favourite buildings in London and I couldn't resist the chance for a snoop inside - fancy it? I do love modern and contemporary too but there's just something about this completely OTT Victorian Gothic architecture that draws me in.

Shall we head to Brighton first? At the time of writing the sun is shining high low in a cloudless almost clear sky and I feel like a bit of seaside is in order. This five bedroom house is on the market with Fine and Country and it is rather splendid isn't it? Or perhaps it's

Well now this is an interesting one to start off with; it's the house my father grew up in. My mother visited him there many times while they were - shall we say "dating" - it was the sixties - and then it was sold shortly afterwards. It was eventually bought by Sir Bernard Lovell,

Good Morning househunters. Or Nosey Parkers depending on which camp you fall into....I'm definitely in the latter these days and no shame in that I say. So then, where shall we go today? Let's begin with a trip over to west London to see this two bedroom garden maisonette which is on the market for

I LOVE this house. With only one small exception. Actually two, but apart from that I think it's amazing and can't understand why the owners are selling it. Although it belongs to one of the founders of Darkroom, one of London's most fabulous design shops, so it's possible that the next house will be even

So it's 2016 and time for our first nose around someone else's house this year. The housing market can be little quiet in January but I've still managed to dredge up a couple of beauties that you will enjoy wandering round and peering into their virtual closets. This one's a beauty from The Modern House.

Friday morning so we're off to Somerset to look around this rather fabulous eight bedroom house in Somerset. It's on the market with Savills for £2,200,000 and this might be a serious contender for the lottery winnings which, as it turns out, didn't quite come off as planned at all last week so that clearly means we're

It's Friday so it must be time for a little nose around someone else's house for a change. This week we're starting off in The Old Courthouse, in west London. It's on the market for £2,495,000 with Domus Nova should you be planning to win the lottery this weekend. I know I am. This two bedroom

Ashworth House is in Westonbirt, in the Cotswolds and this is on the market for £2,500,000 with Savills (via Rightmove). It has four bedrooms and three receptions (drawing, sitting dining) as well as three bathrooms. And that seems to me to be well-proportioned. I know, from my own house-hunting experience and from talking to estate agents,

Why do the good houses have to be so expensive? The housing market in London is clearly completely mental and this is not the place to get into the why (oh whys) and wherefores of that, but while I never miss an opportunity to poke my nose around someone else's house and while we can't

So first of all a huge thank you to everyone who voted to get the Mad House onto the shortlist for the Amara Blog awards. We won! It was, as I believe the saying goes a "glittering star-studded ceremony" at The Ham Yard Hotel, in London, and I drank far too much champagne and didn't

Well Sweden was lovely but it's time to come home now and have a look around this little (HAHA) gem in Highgate, north London. It's on with Knight Frank for about, ooh, £4.9m but we won't let a little detail like that trouble us will we? It's a pretty nice looking pile isn't it. There

Straight off to Sweden this week as we had such a good time last week. This gorgeous house is on the market via entrance makleri and the images, which include fabulous shots of a children's birthday party on the roof terrace, were taken by Anders Bergstedt. image by Anders Bergstedt It's not the best translation I've

Come on we're off to Redenhall on the Norfolk-Suffolk border to see this seven bedroom grade II listed medieval hall house that's on the market for £735,000 via fineandcountry.com. It's located next to the village church, which also means it's within walking distance of the pub too. For some reason every village I've ever been

We're off to Somerset this week, Frome to be precise, which has recently got all trendy with various London hipsters moving out and trying to turn it into the capital with added cider. That's when they're not rampaging all over the Cotswolds. Both are undoubtedly beautiful parts of the world. One is significantly cheaper than