It’s back to school this week as we take a look at school conversions.
Top marks to whoever had the brainwave of turning these one-time educational establishments into homes.
Their typical features include high ceilings and a multitude of windows, which makes them a very clever choice for transformation into light-filled living spaces, and the buildings themselves [...]

We have an agricultural theme this week. This, quite simply, is because I have been Farmville-d.
If you haven’t a clue what I’m on about, you are very, very lucky.
Farmville is a seemingly innocent Facebook game, but be warned: it can take over your life. (My name is Jocelyn, and .. sob! … I am a [...]

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
Why, ’tis Juliet on her new Bloomframe balcony.

Had Shakespeare been alive today, and living in Amsterdam, then it’s a dead cert that ‘Romeo and Juliet’ would have included a Bloomframe balcony scene (and more sex and drugs probably, but this is a family show, folks).
A whattyframe? A bloomingpardon?
Hush [...]

With this year’s Edinburgh Festival almost in its closing stages, we decided to don our tartan bonnets and kilts, and hotfoot it north to Scotland’s capital city.
As well as hosting the world’s most famous arts festival and being home to the globe’s biggest Hogmanay party, Edinburgh always ranks highly on those Most Fabulous Places to [...]

Oh, we all love to be beside the seaside, as the famous ditty goes, so this week we’re taking a look at properties with sea views.
Since we’re not short on coastal locations in Britain, being an island and all, we’ve focused our attention on the South West corner, namely Devon and Cornwall, both of which [...]

I have to admit, before I started working at FindaProperty.com, I’d never heard of oast houses.
Maybe that’s because they’re mainly located in the South of England and I grew up many miles away in Scotland.  Or maybe it’s just because my architectural knowledge is somewhat lacking.
Whatever the reason, I’ve subsequently become a fan of these [...]

A recent report claimed that Turkey has what it takes to be a potential hotspot for property investors over the coming twelve months.
So, because holiday season is well and truly underway – and the much promised barbeque summer hasn’t quite materialised – we decided to have a little jaunt overseas to Turkey for this week’s Five to [...]

It seems that even in the property world, green is the new black.  Earlier this month, the Government announced the locations of the UK’s first four eco-towns which will feature affordable homes that use natural energy.
This was followed by news this week that Velux are to build the country’s first two carbon neutral model homes [...]

In honour of the BBC’s lavish new series, Desperate Romantics, which is based on the lives of the artists behind the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti), this week’s Five to View focuses on studio houses.
The Pre-Raphaelite boys and their associates were often from privileged backgrounds, of course, so [...]

If you took one dollop of 2001: A Space Odyssey, whisked in a hefty glug of Blade Runner and added a dash of The Mummy you’d end up with something like Makoto Tanijiri’s sleekly beautiful Pyramid house in Saijo, Hiroshima, Japan.
Not only is it a stunningly futuristic statement, but it also apparently echoes the earliest [...]