The front door of your home is the first actual physical contact that people will have with it – touching the door to knock on its wood or glass, picking up the knocker or touching the doorbell. So it makes sense that your front door forms an enormous part of the first impression that people have of your home. Many of you are renovating to sell, not only to live in, and a well-presented front door is said by ’some’ agents to add ‘up to’ 10% to the value of a property! We aren’t sure if you’ll be able to charge an extra twenty thousand on top of the price of...

No, we aren’t talking about getting rid of everything in the room … just what to add to your rooms once you’ve chosen the all-important door handles, and the somewhat important paint and furniture! This isn’t a course in imagination (if we could teach that, we’d be millionaires already) … but we do provide a framework for things you might want to add to give your traditional home or your modern home a bit of personality. Comfy Bottoms Where are you going to sit when you are in this particular room? Adding pillows and throw-blankets to a room, especially the living...

You roof must be the most important part of your home … there are plenty of dwellings to be found worldwide without walls (though the inhabitants might live some place that is closer to a tropical paradise than your own home!), but a home without a roof is just not a home! Who wants to be rained on while they sleep? Certainly not me … but if that floats your boat, I’ll not comment As such, we are looking at interior decorating of ceilings in this ‘Out with the Old’ feature. There are so many homes that have boring old white ceilings, that you will now find ‘Ceiling...

As you would have realised if you are doing a traditional renovation on your home … creating a whole new look for your most significant investment involves a little more than just choosing new doorknobs! (Although, of course, that is the most important part!). The second decision you’ll have to make when doing a traditional renovation, after the lever handles versus door knobs conundrum, is what color scheme you’ll have in your home. Here we look at some general guidelines and some inspiration for period style homes. One of the first things you need to consider when you are looking...

We love old stuff here at Architectural Classics. We may have told you that once or twice! We also think, though, that new stuff can be just as exciting … especially if that new stuff is old stuff. Confused? Well, I’m actually talking about doing period  style renovations. Ah, it all makes sense now!! This will be the first of a series of articles on renovating your period style home – some random information gems, tips and hints, and guidelines. This week, as is often the case in life, we look at why sometimes to get something, you have to go back to nothing. Or, as a wise old Muppet in...