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Batman in your bedroom?

Bygeoff July 15, 2014September 25, 2019

If you want to get creative, read this first I read two stories about Star Trek themed houses this week. Both of them (surprise!) in the USA. One fan spent $300,000 on converting his New York basement into the bridge of the USS Enterprise. The other did an entire house in Florida. Surprisingly, at least one of…

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Avoiding home damage from the cold

Bygeoff January 24, 2013September 3, 2015

This kind of weather makes people worry about everything from burst pipes to collapsing roofs. It also makes my workmen fight over who gets to work in the warmest houses. But there are points to watch out for in a cold snap that could save nasty bills later, so I thought I’d pass on what…

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Painting and Decorating Shabby Chic

Bygeoff July 9, 2012September 3, 2015

Ok, So the most up and coming thing nowadays seems to be Shabby Chic… Most of you may be wondering what this is, to men it means ‘everything is painted white’ and to woman there is a whole other world to the white, there is Vanilla White, Cotton White, Violet White, Ivory Lace, Chalky White,…

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Sorry, you can say to the election canvassers: we’d love to talk but we’re having the house painted

Bygeoff November 6, 2019December 4, 2019

Already the phones at Parvin Towers are ringing off the hook. Can you park a van outside our house until the election’s over? Or lend us a “Wet Paint” sign for our front door? There are serious questions to be asked of all parties: for example is Dulux’s “Striking Cyan” washable paint an anti-Labour or…

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Oh dear! More things we didn’t know about the colours we paint our houses

Bygeoff April 12, 2014August 31, 2015

Sorry to keep coming back to this, but you might have seen my previous newsletter about green paint in bedrooms, and how it’s supposed to promote…well, let’s say, night-time exercise. Bad luck for the owner of this bedroom. And as we come to Easter it struck me that all the seasonal symbols – eggs, rabbits…

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Before you put up the decorations….let Parvin’s elves make your house look fabulous

Bygeoff November 3, 2023November 14, 2023

It’s a little-known fact that the period between Haloween (spray-on spider-webs and flourescent aerosol shoestrings) and Christmas (cards, trees and stockings) may have been invented by super-intelligent mice in Victorian London as a winter ritual to keep them safe from the cats of Chelsea. These mice used subtle mind control techniques to force house-owners into…

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