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The Househunter: A Two Bedroom Flat with South-facing Garden

20th November 2020

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Surely the dream first time buy is a two bedroom flat with a south-facing garden, although this isn't really first time buyer prices, but, be that as it may, it's a great example of open plan living and squeezing a lot into a small space. Coming in? It's in Brackenbury Village, in west London (explains

The Househunter: Georgian Dreams

30th October 2020

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warm neutrals via the modern house

Oh I had such a good house for you this week. A real mix of yesterday's post actually so I know you would have loved it. It was all dark and rustic with lots of William Morris velvets... anyway it's been taken off the market so you can't see it but just consider a floral

The Househunter: A Garden Apartment with expansion potential

23rd October 2020

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When we bought our first flat (a two bedroom garden apartment back in 1998 - I won't tell you what it cost or younger readers will cry) we used to fantasise about buying the flats on the two floors above and creating one huge house. Then the woman on the top floor put hers on

The Househunter: Pretty in Pink

16th October 2020

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From the candy pink of stylist Siouxsie Dickens to the pale pink of this week's Victorian terrace I think we can safely say that pink is gaining ground as the new neutral of choice. Of course, there will always be those who default to a safe grey (and a dark grey will warm and enhance

The Househunter: Open Plan Living in a Victorian Terrace

18th September 2020

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It was a tricky choice this week - between the incredible folly conversion extension which was lovely to look at and the house that might give you some proper tips and ideas for your own spaces. The latter won out. This week. So it's a three bedroom Victorian terrace in Bath that is on the

The Househunter: Let’s Move To Wales

17th July 2020

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Now this is a treat; the Carmarthenshire home of the founders of gorgeous lifestyle brand Toast, is now on the market with The Modern House for £650,000 and I could. I really could. Jamie and Jessica Seaton are the couple behind the hugely successful business, which started out selling pyjamas and blankets, expanded into fashion,

Re-inventing Estate Agency: an interview with The Modern House

25th June 2020

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As regular readers will know I, and many of you, am slightly obsessed with The Modern House, a UK estate agency that has reinvented the genre, not just by apparently agreeing to sell only beautiful houses, but by turning itself into a sort of magazine providing endless inspiration and aspiration to those of us who

The Househunter: Room by Room

19th June 2020

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A beautiful house in Cornwall that I am mostly going to let you wander round on your own this week. If you saw my post yesterday you will have seen that I have been working flat out with Rukmini Patel to launch a campaign to push for more diversity in interiors and I need a

The Househunter: Room by Room

5th June 2020

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A lovely example of small space living for you this week - after last week's eclectic extravaganza. This is a converted coach-house built around 1800 which is now a two bedroom two floor property on the market for £700,000 with The Modern House. Let's go in through the round window first shall we (anyone around

The Househunter: Room by Room

29th May 2020

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Proper lottery money this week as we get to have a look around this house which, apparently, belongs to the illusionist Derren Brown. It's a 19th century former print house that has been converted into a three bedroom property spread over five floors to include a cinema, artist's studio and two south-facing terraces. It's on

The Househunter: Room by Room – Concrete and Antiques

1st May 2020

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On the face of it not a property I would normally consider, but actually I love this. It must be lockdown mania - in the same way I suddenly want to paint my kitchen ochre yellow, it now seems I want to live in a concrete bunker. Well, a very posh concrete outhouse, as it

The Househunter: Room by Room

17th April 2020

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I do love it on Grand Designs when people find odd little plots of land and turn them into brilliant and imaginative houses and this week I have found one such property. A three bedroom house arranged over two floors with split levels, created from a former mechanic's garage in east London, this is on

The Househunter Room by Room

13th March 2020

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So here we are on Friday 13th and this house seemed apt. Not least for the picture over the fireplace but also just look at the setting. Feels like the perfect place to hide away and still be able to go outside for fresh air. Built in 1980 it's nestled in oak woodlands in Surrey

The Househunter: Room by Room – Open Plan

28th February 2020

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Off to the country as the sun is shining and the sky is blue ( as I write that sentence at least. Could be a different story by the time I've finished the next one.. and it was as it then started snowing as I was editing!). Anyway, this is a converted stable block in

The Househunter: Room by Room

14th February 2020

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Now look at this. I love it when you can really see how an architect has taken notice of the surroundings. We have a new build not far from us which is on a hill and the houses above have gone from looking at a lovely view down the hill to a grey roof and

The Househunter: Room by Room

7th February 2020

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Right then let's see what you make of this. Following on from yesterday's eco house tour in a 1960s property, this was built in 1979 and is a house that would have been screamingly unfashionable until very recently. But times have changed. As Oliver pointed out, these houses often have big square rooms and large

The Househunter: Room by Room

31st January 2020

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There are now so many architect designed apartments at the newly redeveloped BBC Television Centre that it's a wonder there are any left undone for the rest of us to have a go at. Designers include Suzy Hoodless, Bella Freud, Laura Fulmine and now The Waldo Works. This, like the others, is on the market

The Househunter: Room by Room

24th January 2020

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I'm sucker for a black clad building and while I sense this one might divide opinion it's so different from what, I assume, most of us live in that I wanted to take a tour to see what we all think. It's in Broadstairs, Kent, and is on the market with The Modern House for

The Househunter: Room by Room

15th November 2019

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GeioSome of my favourite houses are the ones that don't actually look decorated. Or should that be designed. The ones where it looks like the owners just unpacked their stuff, poured a glass of wine and sat down. This Georgian townhouse is one of those. Although, it has to be said, the words "Georgian" and

The Househunter: Room by Room

8th November 2019

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So last week we looked at a four bedroom house in the wing of a country manor and this week we've got the whole manor. It's actually a four bedroom former rectory that's two or three times as big as last week's but that can bring its own issues I think. This is on the