It would seem that the process of getting your house looking nice for sale now has a catchy buzz phrase. Yes indeed, ‘home staging’ is big business now – we’ve spoken about it many times on The Box Room before, most notably with Sarah Beeny – but we’re always up for learning new vocabulary, and we’ve always go room for more declutter chatter.
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How Tiny Houses are hitting big in the UK
The Tiny Houses movement launched in America, but increasingly we’re seeing companies offering designs and kits in the UK. Em Kuntze explores.
Selling your house? Get it picture perfect with these tech startups
When your house doesn’t sell overnight, it’s easy to hang the blame on your estate agent. But there are loads of things you could be doing to give it a boost. Given our usual enthusiasm for on-demand, tech-driven startups, we shared a few tips with Tepilo’s Sarah Beeny to see if we could come up with the ultimate how-to guide.
Moving house in London: 5 life hack services that’ll sort you out
Feature image: The Guardian Gone are the days when searching for a new home in London meant scouring dodgy estate agent windows and booking a viewing with no idea what awaited inside. These days, we’ll have surveyed the area via Google Street View and enjoyed a 360-degree virtual tour from the comfort of our sofa before we send our first speculative email. In fact, despite its reputation as one of the most stressful things we go through in our lives – even more so in the chaos of London’s streets – moving house needn’t be a headache.
Last-minute checklist for moving house
Feature image credit: Fine Art America Wouldn’t it be great if moving house involved six months of planning, a colour-coded spread sheet and a label-printing machine? Well, yes. But, like it or not, we live in the real world, which is full of last-minute changes, broken computers and stupidly packed schedules. You might be faced with an unexpected move from rented accommodation or perhaps you’ve been waiting for an age to complete a house purchase that’s suddenly going through – either way, we’ve all been faced with an eleventh-hour house move. And it’s no fun. To help you with your priorities over the next few days/hours/minutes, we’ve put together a handy checklist for moving house. We hope it helps – and good luck!
Tips for downsizing: a handy guide
There’s a myth that downsizing is just for empty nesters, rattling around a family home that’s too big to live in comfortably and too expensive to run. But moving into a smaller space can happen at any time of life: from your packed bedroom to your student digs, your uni room to your first flat, or from the countryside to the city. And there’s a lot to think about - do I really need that broken toaster that’s been in the loft for seven years? Will I ever use that penny-farthing I bought from that weird-looking bloke at the village fete? - and it can seem like too big a task to tackle. Well, fear ye not - we’ve put together a handy guide to downsizing to help make the process as smooth and as simple as possible.