Trying to create a bedroom for any child/teenager can be challenging, as whilst you want your child to love their room, you also want it to have a bit of style! Our show homes often include children’s rooms and we’ve created them with kids in mind. Our interior designer, Catherine, has designed a couple of […]
A new home offers a lovely, blank canvas, but can often leave you asking, ‘where do I even start?’ Open your wardrobe – what colours do you see? Is your jewellery preference for silvers or golds? This can be a great way to decide on colours for your new home. Over the past couple of […]
We caught up with Peter and Cathy about their experience of returning to live in Cumbria after nearly 30 years and buying a brand-new Genesis Home at Sanders Brow in Armathwaite. How did you end up buying a new build in Armathwaite? We first lived in Armathwaite between 1982 and 1991 as I’d been working […]
There’s no denying that the changes to our work patterns in the last few months may have a major effect on the way we work going forward. Many of us have been working in a makeshift ‘study’ (aka the kitchen table). Rightmove report that over a quarter of people (28%) who were not planning a […]
The Government’s announcement that new build development sites and marketing suites could re-open was very welcome news to our business; we’re sure this resonated with all house builders. We have strict safety measures in place, and health and safety remain our top priority to allow a safe environment for those visiting our developments and for […]
Our Head of Brand is currently homes-based and she shares with us her experience of how she’s keeping busy. Check out her ‘10 top ways to keep busy’ with free, online learning from updating your professional skills to the science of beer, DIY and dog CPR! How are you finding working from home – are […]
We caught up with Jackie about her experience of buying, moving and living in a brand-new Genesis Home at Sanders Brow in Armathwaite… Why a new build/Genesis Homes? I had spent 37 years in a farmhouse heated by a Rayburn and an open fire. Throughout the years I had chopped a sufficiency of kindling and […]
Our team have been working hard from home for the last couple of weeks now – here’s some of our top tips to make sure you have a productive and healthy working day: • Get up, get showered and get dressed; you’ll feel more professional – and you don’t want to get a Skype call […]
Coronavirus updates are currently dominating our news, social media feeds, conversations and interactions. The World Health Organisation has issued some advice on how to protect your mental health during the outbreak. Some key things we can all do to help ourselves and each other are: • Limit the news and be careful what you read. […]
The working hub of the house is often the hardest room to tackle so lets get cracking! Many of us spend hours cleaning the kitchen only for it to look like it hasn’t been cleaned a few hours later. The first job is to tackle the oven. There are lots of products on the market […]
We spend between 8 and 9 hours in our bedrooms so it’s good once in a while to give them a good clean and airing. Get those windows open, move the bed so you can vacuum behind it, strip the bed and give the mattress a hoover too before putting on clean bedding (got to […]
Another unpopular room for cleaning is the bathroom… If it’s been a while since your bathroom had a good clean, then try something like ‘vamoose’ which is a foaming spray that lifts dirt (available locally from Lakeland Plastics). Tiles and grout can be freshened up with a mix of 3 x cups of bicarbonate of […]