Tuesday, May 21, 2013
The new Seven Acres development at Great Kneighton is about more than contemporary, sustainable homes – it’s a new way of living Skanska, the Swedish company behind the Gherkin in London, is building Seven Acres: 70 houses and 58 apartments including three and four bedroom family homes and one and two bedroom flats from £235,000 [...]
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A new home in Ickleton has been named best property this year in East Anglia so Resident went to find out why Chapel House in Ickleton is home to Adrian Barbrook, who is a research scientist and fellow of Churchill College, who lives there with his wife and young family. The award was picked up [...]
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Five years ago, Jess Simpson Nicholl and her partner, Tim Worzencraft, started their gardening business, Real Gardens Cambridge (www.realgardenscambridge.co.uk). They do everything from initial planning and hard landscaping, to planting suggestions and on-going maintenance. RHS-qualified Jess says, “Everyone knows this year started with drought conditions and has since become the wettest summer on record! “We [...]
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Resident promotional feature Fiona Garwood from Cambridge Sunblinds looks at the latest ways to update dull rooms with clever curtain and blind ideas Better Bedrooms The trends for bedrooms this summer are fresh vintage floral designs, stripes and gingham designs in blue, pink, orange or lemon. There are some beautiful new fabrics in the Clarke and [...]
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Home-making on a budget can be unique and stylish, as this Ely couple prove Ed Hine, senior marketing officer at the Junction, 28 and girlfriend Kate Neill, 29, live in a period house in Ely which they have been lovingly redecorating in a retro style. Kate runs Goodnight Prudence Vintage (www.etsy.com/shop/GoodnightPrudence) an online shop selling [...]
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Susie Turner is about to open the doors of her studio to the public this month for Cambridge Open Studios, but Holly Willis was lucky enough to be invited into Susie’s home to discover more about her art, inspirations and life. Susie Turner lives a few miles outside Cambridge. The prints on the living room wall are her own [...]
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Aimee Yates chatted to Resident about her struggle with anorexia, being a Cambridge Olympic torchbearer and daydreaming about her ideal home. Q: Tell us about yourself? A: I’m 38 and trained as a music therapist at Anglia Ruskin but lately I’ve been working as a flute and music theory teacher in a school in Comberton [...]
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Welcome to Resident: Explorer’s brand spanking new section delving into Cambridge home life in all its forms. Where Explorer shines the spotlight on going out, Resident celebrates the joys of staying in and hands the mic to you. From having a nosey around neighbours homes and peeking in some real wardrobes for fashion tips to [...]
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With a garden studio from myspace the only real limitation is the extent of your imagination. Each garden studio designed and built by the Cambridge-based company is unique, and there are an increasing number of them gracing the gardens of homes in Cambridge and beyond. Each one meets the customer’s specific needs, is constructed with [...]
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