IMPROVE December 8, 2011 CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF APD INTERIORS WWW.APDINTERIORS.COM Q. Dear Andrew, we have just moved to a house where the living room is long and thin. How do I avoid it looking like a bowling alley? A. Everyone would love large square rooms in their home, but the reality is very different. However, even with a long [...]
PROPERTY NEWS December 8, 2011 CITY IS BOOMING, SAYS REPORT Knight Frank has added the City of London and the City Fringe to its Prime London index, which includes neighbourhoods such as Knightsbridge, Belgravia, Chelsea and Kensington, citing an uplift in the supply of new high end properties, improved amenities and transport. Prices in the square mile have risen by [...]
THE LONDON BAROMETER December 8, 2011 DIRECTOR OF DOUGLAS & GORDON Unlike Autumn 2010, this year has seen business stay lively, and it looks as if it’ll stay that way right through to Christmas. Just when we thought that stock levels were going to continue to decrease, we have seen a 45 per cent increase in new instructions compared with November [...]
Kitty cat wins over awful rom com December 8, 2011 Film PUSS IN BOOTS Cert: U After the grouchy cash monster that was the Shrek series, Dreamworks has quite rightly laid the franchise to rest, instead focusing on the series’ most interesting character: a small cat who looks cute but kicks arse. It may well have been a disaster, but thankfully there are enough gags [...]
Look dazzling for your Xmas bash December 8, 2011 MOST of us get ready for festive bashes in the loos at work – after a crazy day. We certainly don’t have time to spare primping for mid-week dos. The key is having the outfit ready to go, but even more importantly, having the right makeup for instant glamour and shine. At the end of [...]
HOW TO GET DRESSED December 8, 2011 Founders of Rous Iland members’ Boutique www.rousiland.com Q. I’m now officially pasty white and feeling exhausted from too many parties, but there’s still over two weeks of a full social calendar before the year ends. How can I disguise my weariness and keep things exciting? A. If you’re already bored of your winter day-to-night ensembles, [...]
A Yuletide special: where the Nativity meets mobile tech December 7, 2011 JOSEPH is running the new Napster music service on the new iPhone (also works on the Android). It helps him soothe Mary whose tweets (Virgin Mary) show her to be increasingly exasperated. She’s also using the iHeal pain relief gadget sent by Homedics. But a bed would be better. Readers of Joseph’s tweets will see [...]
The greener Z4 with little downside December 6, 2011 The high price of petrol now affects people who previously wouldn’t have been able to tell you the fuel economy of their cars. It seems that everyone is beginning to look for ways of reducing everyday costs and now we’re all looking to buy less thirsty and more frugal cars. This is straightforward enough if [...]
CAR TALK December 6, 2011 THE WEIRD AND WONDERFUL PIVO 3: IT CAN PARK ITSELF The Tokyo Motor Show usually excels at the weird and the wonderful and this year was no different. This is Nissan’s PIVO 3 concept, an electric microcar with all-wheel-drive, which has an electric motor at each wheel powering each wheel independently. The car can even [...]
House prices dip December 6, 2011 House prices fell by 0.9 per cent in November, mortgage lender Halifax said on Tuesday, though it said it expected the housing market to hold steady in the coming months. House prices fell by one per cent in the three months to November compared with a year ago, weaker than the 0.7 per cent decline [...]