1930's Archives ~ INTERIOR DESIGN & CONSULTANCY FOR PROPERTY SUCCESS

**A typical Redrow “Heritage” collection house**

This month has flown by and a lot has happened since my last post in September.

I’ve been working on a project in Portugal for design of some bathrooms in a holiday villa. It finishes soon and I’m very excited to be able to reveal some photos of in future.

I’m also planning a big move soon and have been house hunting – one of my favourite things looking at showhouses. We’ve sold our house and now plan to move to somewhere close to Exeter in Devon still.

The house we have our eye on is a new build Redrow house. Having lived in a new build before it’s interesting to compare the process with our previous experience of buying a CG Fry house in Cornwall on the Duchy of Cornwall estate in Tregunnel Hill. CG Fry built the original Duchy Estate at Poundbury near Dorchester – something we studied in my interior design degree as an example of sustainable housing in the post-modern style by Prince Charles’ architect Leon Cryer. The same post-modern apporach was used by Leon Cryer whom developed a pattern book for the Newquay site. Today they continue to build further “Duchy” houses at the Nansledan estate in Newquay.

Tregunnel Hill Home by CG Fry

Redrow are a large housebuilder and have a very neat system with an online portal where all your plot’s information is stored. It is also where you can reserve, stores the documents and shows the build progress.

This is very convenient to be able to access when you want to check something out!

One advantage of Redrow is the style of their “Heritage” range of houses. I find this very appealing being in the Arts and Crafts style. The exterior of the houses looks very good quality and has a classic feel.

Have you bought a new build? How did you find it? I’d love to hear from you?

Word Trade Fair 1939 Depicting the Skylon and Perisphere on a Postcard — New York’s Wolrd Trade Fair 1939 Depicting the Trylon and Perisphere on a Postcard by Keystone

Recently I made the trip of a lifetime to New York and California for my honeymoon for 3 weeks. I’ve never been to the USA before and so it was all the more exciting.

One of my interests is looking at the future – this fascinates me not only on a contemporary level but also looking historically at what we thought would lie ahead of us. I like to see what is going on and one of the ways I do this is by joining forums such as the Technology Strategy Boards’ “Knowledge Transfer Networks” or “KTN’s” essentially a knowledge forum.

The Technology Strategy Board is a government body that promotes technology through businesses in the UK. It links the public sector to private companies small and large to work on live projects together in an innovative way. Forums or “platforms” as they call them have different themes such as Low Impact Buildings or Assisted Living. Within these platforms lie the KTN’s (knowledge forums) such as Modern Built Environment. Read more here

http://www.innovateuk.org/ourstrategy/innovationplatforms/lowimpactbuilding.ashx

A programme called Catapult Centres is also fascinating; these are technology and innovation centres which aim to bring the best of the academic research world and join it with industry, promoting the UK to gain business here and abroad. One of the most exciting is their Catapult Centre entitled “Future Cities” – the location is still being decided. Read more about the Catapult Programme here:

https://catapult.innovateuk.org/about-catapult

Another of my passions is the 1920’s and I have collected a few interesting things in Paris from the 1920’s such as postcards from the original Art Deco exhibition in Paris in 1925 and a fashion newspaper also printed in the 1920’s. Imagine my joy when I found these postcards depicting the New York World Fair of 1939 – a vision of the future as they saw it then the Trylon and the Perisphere on these postcard drawings were actually built . The fair was “Building the World of Tomorrow”. Even better the guy that sold them to me was a young child and saw these very buildings at the fair himself!

1930’s

New Decade New House!