Saturday 17 November 2018

Bit of "press" cant harm

Glad to see the "pick of the week" in the Evening Standart being one of our flats.
Thinking about the amount of properties available in London, I guess that means we did get something right?

Wednesday 3 October 2018

A few pictures of finished product...

Its been absolutely  ages since the last post and I can only apologise profusely!

By now we are nearing resale on the phase 1 of the development in Clapham..... I presume some of you who are attuned to British politics will raise eyebrows due to the rather pathetic timing!

For those of you who are not: current UK affairs are now reaching such a pity state that it would be hard to think of a more atrocious time to market! Well, actually it could be worse, the 29th March 19 could potentially be more auspicious (hardly any sarcasm intended)....

But let's just "keep calm and carry on" as they say on this side of the channel.

Below a few pictures of the 1st flat to be finished....

Thursday 11 January 2018

Feeling a bit rusty.

Have to admit I am feeling a bit rusty.
Just like any other brain activity -or any kind of activity for that matter- unless trained, used and exercised on a regular basis......

Nevermind, it's been a while I had not applied my grey cells to some 3 dimensional puzzle games like how to fit a bathroom into a niche half above the stairs and half into the butterfly roof loft space in order to be able to fit a decent sized second bedroom within the rest of the floorplan.

On top of the spatial constraints, come the financial and regulatory puzzle pieces.... As soon as we open the loft space, new insulation becomes a requirement for building control.... The new support for the load bearing wall, and the extra costs that follow suit.... How much value is added by this second bedroom? Does it cover the necessary additional expenses?

These are the questions on the top floor. But in the lower ground, it seems that the only two options to have two bedrooms to fit is to either knock off the wall that supports the entire staircase across the 4 floors above, or maybe skew the corridor to some "funky angle" in order to knock the wall off but at least keep the pretty much predetermined place for pillars to support it!

I could go on but you get the picture.  It's like playing with a 3 dimensional puzzle.... Maybe 6 dimensional once you take financials, timeframe s and regulations into the equation?

That's just the "straightforward" phase 1 where we are taking the existing 4 flats and just refurbish them for resale later in the spring, but am already looking forward to walking around the finished product!

Plenty of obstacles still to go but it's a labour of love... Can't deny it. Just wish I had more time to exercise that part of the brain a bit more often.

Literally "watch this space"