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Designed for Wellbeing – Biophilic design 

Designed for Wellbeing – Biophilic Design We spend on average 90% of our time indoors [...]

Accommodation for students in Lancaster can help to boost their mental health and wellbeing – and their grades

Philippa and Tom featured in Lancashire life at the beginning of this year. They spoke to Louise [...]

9 Quick Wins to Improve Your Home in Lockdown

Our homes have a huge impact on our mental and physical wellbeing. Buildings affect almost [...]

Here we go again : 10 Wellbeing Habits for your Home and Happiness in Lockdown 2.0

Here we go again : 10 Wellbeing Habits for your Home and Happiness in Lockdown [...]

How university students’ mental health is being destroyed by accommodation. And what we can do about it.

Lockdown #2 is here. Through #1 your home was either your prison or your palace. [...]

Are students really bothered about wellbeing? 

Are students really bothered about wellbeing?  The COVID pandemic has changed our appreciation of what [...]

Overcoming Design Myths

Overcoming design myths “Good design is too expensive.”  “I never have a problem finding tenants so [...]

Designed for Wellbeing

DESIGNED FOR WELLBEING  Where we live has a huge impact on wellbeing. Our home both [...]

The Property Renovation Podcast

So a few weeks ago I saw a call out on Instagram for guests for [...]

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I Quit! – Podcast

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APARTMENTS // Is it too early to feel like spring APARTMENTS //

Is it too early to feel like spring might be round the corner? I snapped this yesterday - sunshine! A little warmth! ☀️ 
How nice to have that after all the rain. 

Had a good site visit yesterday - see stories for a full tour ☝️☝️. 

This beauty is currently 4 x 1 bed apartments and they are starting to feel like homes again - plaster on walls, light fitting going in etc. At least a couple are, with the other 2 not quite as far along. 

There is still a grim reminder of the buildings past - a sharps tub where the needles that were stashed in hidy holes have been collected by the guys. They’re all removed now. 

Had a fun day yesterday - also saw 2 off market properties. Not saying too much about them yet 🤫😉 , but it’s more number crunching and plan scribbling to see what can work and if the deals stack up ✏️📈🧑‍💻

What’s your Friday looking like?

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THRILL OF THE CHASE // What’s your favourite pa THRILL OF THE CHASE //

What’s your favourite part of the property game?

Anyone else love the initial part- hunting down the properties, putting a project together and negotiating the deal?! 

Feels like we’ve been doing lots of this recently- viewings; calls with vendors, and agents; balancing the design vision with the maths; and working out how to maximise opportunities for our investors. 

Not easy with homeschooling fun and games too BUT- thank you Bojo, homeschooling ends in 8 days and counting! 🎉 

Imagine how productive we can all be again without the constant juggle and guilt. 

Watch out world!

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CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE // Every successful business CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE //

Every successful business realises they are in the business of customer experience. 

The Essentials:

Convenience, speed, efficiency, friendly service. Would you add anything else? 

Right now it’s all about communication (nothing much else can happen during lockdown), but these basics definitely apply to communication!

The basics are what makes a satisfying customer experience. Once those are right, then looking at what can be improved elsewhere in the customer journey makes sense. 
We discuss all this and more in our best selling book Designed for Wellbeing. Link in bio ⬆️

Have a great Monday and let’s hope Bojo delivers some good news later. 🤞 Do you think schools will open up? 

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SITE VISIT SUNDAY // It’s got a good ring to it SITE VISIT SUNDAY //

It’s got a good ring to it hasn’t it? We’ve recently had to make weekends our main site visit days - no builders on site means we can have a good long visit. In the week there’s no hanging around for obvious reasons. 😷

So it’s great to have the time to really look properly (and do lots of Insta stories! Check them out as @tom.charrier takes you on a house tour ☝🏻☝🏼☝🏽)

This one is going really well - the structural work to the main house is done: walls are out to make open plan kitchen, dining, living space; steels for new floors are in; chimney breasts are out. 

First fix plumbing, drainage and wiring is going in. 

The next job is to take off the roof and build the big attic extension and dormer. On this new second floor we’ll get 2 double rooms and a bathroom. 

Overall we’re going from a 3 bed 1 bath to a 6 bed 3 bath. 💪

Enjoy your Sunday evening 🍷

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IT’S THE WEEKEND 🎉// Looking forward to a l IT’S THE WEEKEND 🎉// 

Looking forward to a long walk this morning to clear away the cobwebs before the kitchen disco later on 💃🏼🕺👩🏼‍🦱👦🏼👧🏼🐶. 

So we’ve had our try of both @mindfulchefuk_ and @hellofreshuk (thanks everyone for their help) and we’ve decided that there are pros and cons of each of them so we are keeping the deliveries of them both each week so that’s dinner sorted. Any others to try? 

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