Interior Design Sense

By that time most people know that the big reason behind the financial crisis these days, is the way the real estate sector moved. Prices skyrocketed and people had to pay more and more to own one. If last year many houses were worth £250,000 in the UK, they’re now being auctioned off for some £100,000 because banks are desperately trying to minimize their loses after clients failed to pay for their mortgages and have been kicked out.

Just a few examples to make sure you got the point, a three-bedroom flat in a council block in Brixton was sold for £79,000, a two-bedroom flat with two bathrooms and two balconies in a gated development with communal gardens in Abbey Wood sold for £96,000 while a one-bedroom flat in a stylish block of flats in Lordship Lane, sold for some £100,000.

Call these bargains or not, the housing market is still feeling the crunch. At the moment, auctions are the only marketplace that working these days to buy/sell properties. – via DailyMail

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Financial Crisis Brings House Prices Down

On Planet Green, Kelly is cooking up a series of one pot meals. She tries to find cooking techniques and recipes for people without a lot of time (who usually buy too much takeout) or money (not uncommon these days) so these meals are “fast, easy, nutritious, delicious and cheap.”

What she and her readers need is the Pot Plate, designed by Joong-Ho Choi & Hyun-Soo Choi to reduce the number of dishes and the space required for them all. You cook your food inside and used the compartmentalized lid as a serving tray.

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Fitting neatly into a spare corner the Slide hydromassage tub from Gruppo Treesse will add so much to your lifestyle. Discreet and linear the Slide will not dominate your bathroom, but it may dominate your free time as you discover the benefits of hydro-massage! You can combine this with color and audio therapy (there are audio jacks for your MP3 or CD player as well as an integrated radio!) for the ultimate in relaxation. The spacious 140 x 140 x 63 cm interior is suitable for two people, and there are double back rests to keep you both comfortable. Gruppo Treesse refers to this tub as having ‘faultless design’ and we’d tend to agree! Designer Fabrizio Batoni succeeds in making a tub that marries form and function effortlessly. From Italian company Gruppo Treesse, the Slide corner tub is new.

Another attractive corner tub for two – the TMU from BainUltra.

Transformer furniture lets people get more out of small spaces, and you are going to be a neat minimalist if you have to clean off your desk before you go to bed every night.

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You can’t do much with a jack’o lantern after Halloween; some people try to cook the pumpkin but they are really bred for size rather than flavour. In Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood they have a tradition: bring them to Sorauren Park and have a pumpkin party.

Photographer/blogger Joseph writes in BlogTO:

The sheer volume and diversity or pumpkins was incredible and throngs of pedestrians slowly strolled through the glowing orange spheres. Today, almost all of the pumpkins remain – which is amazing, because with them all lined-up like that, it’s a smashing-pumpkins fan’s dream. …