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Crafty moves in interior design
Hindsight is 20/20 and never more so than with trends. The Victorians didn't think that their homes looked Victorian. No one with an orange-and-brown rug in 1976 thought that they typified the time. Anyone looking back to 2008 will see two clear interior themes: the return of craft and the rise of design-art.
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Tool test: Ryobi Mitre Saw
My latest DIY mission is to make simple wooden frames for my wife’s burgeoning
art collection. Cutting anything at that elusive 45-degree angle is tricky
at the best of times. Professional framers often use the Morso Guillotine,
but for my more humble needs I found the Ryobi EMS-1426L mitre ideal: I
could make a basic frame that we could [...]
Focus on property in King’s Cross
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here for a map and property prices for King’s Cross
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Wreck of the week: 17th-century Somerset house
What?
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Strange stuff at the bottom of the garden
Most people have a shed at the bottom of their gardens ... a shed that is strategically positioned behind some sort of foliage. If, however, you have something unsual down your garden path you may want to expose it - and transform it into a feature that could help to sell your property.
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New jargon for the property crunch
Is the chance to staircase up a compelling reason to buy a shared ownership
flat in the current climate? Will the Tarp (Troubled Assets Relief
Programme) make mortgages cheaper? Will the leverage employed by many
investment bankers in their real estate deals cause problems for the whole
market if they are thrown out of work and become distressed sellers?
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Upwardly mobile: Britney Spears
Britney Spears has put her six-bedroom LA mansion on the market for the optimistic price of $7.9 million after trying to sell it on and off since she bought it in January 2007 for $6.75 million. Rumour has it that pop's most public fame victim has been struggling to sell the 7,500 sq ft villa [...]
Major lender raises mortgage rates
HSBC today became the first of the major lenders to announce it was hiking its
mortgage rates following the recent jump in wholesale funding costs.
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Cut-price flats
Prices have been cut by 25per cent in Liverpool to sell the remaining flats in
a City Lofts scheme overlooking the Mersey. Buyers at Half Tide Dock, now
renamed Waterside, will pay from £127,500 for a 493 sq ft one-bedroom flat
to £240,000 for an 858 sq ft two-bedroom flat in the 121-unit scheme, one
third of which had [...]
Slump hits wealthy as £11m home is repossessed
It can, it seems, happen to anyone. If the fear of repossession is something
that is supposed to afflict only the lower-paid and the sub-prime, then the
news that it has happened with an £11.6million London mansion will make
those at the bottom end of the market smile a little and those at the top
end blanch.
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