Publications
Practical Advice - Preservation
Product Support for Architects and Design Professionals
We have launched a product specification service aimed at architects and designers. We work with a wide range of professionals, including architects, who will typically specify for the building contractors, a ‘shopping list’ of products to be included in the…
Product Specification Support for Architects and Design Professionals
What is Specify? We help and work with a wide range of design professionals including architects and designers to help them find heritage products. CALL TO FIND HOW WE CAN HELP Specify is free to use. We help find the right heritage products for the project, era and budget. We have expert knowledge and contacts at the tips of our fingers. We find and advise on a diverse range of products and information such as suitable…
How to restore a Victorian fireplace
Fireplaces can be beautiful centrepieces in all rooms of your Victorian house but they are enhanced incredibly as a period feature if they work and provide a source of heating too. We'll help you achieve that with this article which focuses on bringing your…
How to restore a Victorian fireplace
Fireplaces can be beautiful centrepieces in all rooms of your Victorian house but they are enhanced incredibly as a period feature if they work and provide a source of heating too. We'll help you achieve that with this article which focuses on bringing your Victorian fireplaces back to life. It would be unusual to have a working fireplace in a bedroom nowadays as people typically want their bedrooms to be cooler than their reception…
The Do’s and Don’ts of Owning a Victorian Home
Owning a Victorian home is a responsibility. It existed long before you did and will probably be around well beyond the date of your death. For these precious architectural beings, you should see yourself as merely the custodian/caretaker, tasked with looking…
The Do’s and Don’ts of Owning a Victorian Home
Owning a Victorian home is a responsibility. It existed long before you did and will probably be around well beyond the date of your death. For these precious architectural beings, you should see yourself as merely the custodian/caretaker, tasked with looking after the property until it becomes someone else’s.
Buying a listed building
In England there are approximately 376,099 listed buildings. There are many positive reasons to buy a listed building, but there are also some elements that you need to be aware of before you sign on the dotted line.
Buying a listed building
In England there are approximately 376,099 listed buildings. There are many positive reasons to buy a listed building, but there are also some elements that you need to be aware of before you sign on the dotted line.
Period Property Renovation: Our Guide to Success
With our guide we hope to help you avoid many of the pitfalls a renovation project can pose both to your period property in terms of costly mistakes and bad decisions and also your general wellbeing, health and of course your bank balance.
Period Property Renovation: Our Guide to Success
Find out how to plan your period property renovation project with our guide: avoid the pitfalls and costly mistakes to achieve the character home of your dreams. Finding and purchasing a renovation project fills many people with excitement and often this excitement leads them into making hasty decisions and regretting them later. The initial honeymoon period of a project, filled with ideas, vision and enthusiasm can quickly turn to…
Period property renovation management Beds, Herts and Bucks
Our house refurbishment project management service in Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire provides help and advice for novice or indeed experienced renovators working on period properties where they are feeling out of their depth and in need of help…
House refurbishment project management in Bucks, Beds and Herts
Our house refurbishment project management service in Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire provides help and advice for novice or indeed experienced renovators working on period properties where they are feeling out of their depth and in need of help and advice.
Victorian interior design ideas
When you’re the proud owner of a Victorian property needing modernisation or renovation it can be overwhelming when you are faced with the vast array of interior design choices available. You will need to make decisions on everything from wallpaper to flooring…
Victorian interior design ideas
When you’re the proud owner of a Victorian property needing modernisation or renovation it can be overwhelming when you are faced with the vast array of interior design choices available. You will need to make decisions on everything from wallpaper to flooring to paint colours to kitchen styles to furniture.
Introducing the Victorian Sarah Beeny
Many of you may well have avidly watched television programmes such as Property Ladder with Sarah Beeny, The Renovation Man with George Clarke and Grand Designs with Kevin McCloud. Maybe you’ve been looking back at your own home renovations projects and wished…
Introducing the Victorian Sarah Beeny
Many of you may well have avidly watched television programmes such as Property Ladder with Sarah Beeny, The Renovation Man with George Clarke and Grand Designs with Kevin McCloud. Maybe you’ve been looking back at your own home renovations projects and wished that in the difficult times, you could have benefitted from their morale boost, injection of enthusiasm and sounding board. With our first few period renovation projects, we felt…
Victorian Terrace Renovation
Of period properties that exist (pre 1900), Victorian properties are the most plentiful. And of the Victorian genre, the terrace is the iconic Victorian property. The origin of the many of the terraced houses that still exist lies in the generosity of Victorian…
Top Tips for Victorian Terrace Renovation
Of period properties that exist (pre 1900), Victorian properties are the most plentiful. And of the Victorian genre, the terrace is the iconic Victorian property. The origin of the many of the terraced houses that still exist lies in the generosity of Victorian entrepreneurs and factory owners who built whole streets and towns to house their workers. These clusters of houses had the added benefit of making the journey to their own home…
Reclamation yard top tips
When you are renovating a period property, it’s the unique and authentic vintage elements that you add to it that make the project truly memorable. We are passionate about finding the best vintage or quality reproduction items to transform period properties…
Reclamation yard top tips
When you are renovating a period property, it’s the unique and authentic vintage elements that you add to it that make the project truly memorable.We are passionate about finding the best vintage or quality reproduction items to transform period properties from projects to a stylish Victorian period property house refurbishment project management success!
