You may like your toast quite well-browned, or even slightly burned; but for really, really DARK toast you need one of these bad boys - a Darth Vader Toaster…

And in the interests of keeping the balance of the Force, we move away from the Dark Side to something that’s lighter than errr, a lightsaber and [...]

I know, you’re all probably sick of the whole US Presidential election. But rejoice readers; it’s all over now! And we couldn’t let it pass without some tenuous property-related blog now could we?
So even as Barack Obama is chasing George Bush around the grounds of the White House shouting “get orf moi laaaaand”, here are [...]

With Halloween on the way, and inspired by Joss’s punning chocolate post, here’s my spooky tale based on streets and placenames around the UK. (Apologies in advance. I got carried away. I’m sorry. So very, very sorry.)
(original lightning pic: istock:nature_247)

Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin…
‘Twas the night of AllHallows.
Rain(ham) was lashing down and the [...]

My new favourite designers are the Play Coalition, who first came to my attention with their selfless light fitting, The Martyr; a neat little visual pun on the idea of energy-saving.

They’ve now come up with a crazy, Tim Burton-esque solution to light-starved houseplants, The Plantbot.
Slap in your favourite fern, yucca, whatever and say goodbye to [...]

Not that I want to blow our own trumpet (toot-toot!) but it seems the good people (person?) over at the Property Owl Blog have some kind words to say about how engaging our humble blog is:
“Findaproperty.com rightly identified this area recently and now produce a good and interesting blog, which is aimed more at the [...]

In honour of their 10th birthday Google are offering their earliest searchable database from 2001. (So what happened to the 1998-2000 databases eh? Did the cleaner throw them out?)
Anyway, I did a search for ‘FindaProperty.com’ just to see, curious like, and my! How we’ve grown!
Way back in the day, we had a mere 26,158 properties [...]

It was Miguel de Cervante’s birthday yesterday (happy birthday Mig, me old mucker) and so in honour of his most famous character Don Quixote, here are a few choice windmills for sale for him to tilt at.

Sadly they’re all lacking their sails, but I’m sure the Don would still have had a pop at them [...]

No room at home to work? No room for a kitchen? No room for Great Aunt Ethel to stay?
No problem, thanks to the slightly odd, very Japanese and super space efficient creations of Architect Toshihiko Suzuki and his ‘Architectural Furniture’.

His three designs, a foldaway office, kitchen and guest room offer a neat solution to limited [...]

I read that Gatwick Airport is up for sale, a snip at £1.8billion. It’s certainly not your average ‘property for sale’, but its particulars are impressive:

(original photos: johnsto and stormo66)

So this is how it is: you’re living in a shared flat, your flatmate Dave has annoyed you once too often - he’s nicked your milk *again* and left crumbs in your margarine.
You’ve seen the Godfather a billion times and you know he’s showing you far too little respect. This shmoe needs to get da [...]