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AUCTIONS......................................... 19
CLASSIFIEDS...................................... 19
NEW HOMES..................................... 18
RESIDENTIAL
Allan Morris.................................... 8
NORTH: 10 Lea Close, Claines. Andrew Grant................................. 10-15
Griffiths & Charles......................... 9
Cul-de-sac
Halls................................................ 7
Hills Estate Agents......................... 3
Michael Tuck................................... 16
home’s four
Philip Laney & Jolly......................... 6
Reeds Rains.................................... 4-5
bedrooms
RECENTLY re-decorated
throughout, 10 Lea Close can be
found at Claines, on the northern
boundary of Worcester.
It has four bedrooms, a lounge, a
dining room, a re-fitted bathroom
and a workshop/storage room.
The kitchen has pine fronted
cupboards, deep fill pan drawers,
roll top work surfaces, an electric HANDY FOR THE SHOPS: 53 Victoria Street, Barbourne, Worcester, has three bedrooms and a cellar.
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HE thought of all that
ALAN MORRIS that recent snow, ice
WORCESTERSHIRE might make you feel the
O
safest place is in bed with
VERALL, 2010 the covers over your head.
turned out to be an If that’s your inclination, at least
annus mediocris for make sure your bed is a superb
estate agents. Or to sanctuary, by dressing it with
use a more bedding that's designed to thrill as
contemporary cliché it has been a well as to warm.
year of two halves. Getting into bed at the end of the
The first six months were rather day and facing thin cotton covers,
good with the property market limp duvets and faded throws will
getting into its stride early in the simply lower your spirits during
new year. In retrospect it looks this somewhat stressful season.
as if all those people frustrated by But sinking into a soft bed,
the previous two or three years of dressed with pure cotton or silk
stagnated market just wanted to sheets and snuggling under thick
get on and move. quilts (yes, they’re back in fashion)
So, for the optimistic at least, it or faux fur throws, won’t just ward
seemed for a while that the off the chills, it will make you feel
market was on its way back. This like a pampered princess – or
certainly included sellers who prince.
saw for the first time in years a Designer Joanna Wood said: “The
market that was offering real whole look for interiors is about
choice and opportunity. luxury and textiles, and nowhere is
Prices were also making gains that more important than the bed.
and in some areas clawing their “We spend so much time in it and SLICK MIX OF
way back to 2007 levels. This came it should be a place to relax and RED AND WHITE:
THE PROPERTY recharge as well as to sleep. Bed linen from
La Redoute’s
THE PROPERTY
COLUMN Layering is the key to success.
“We’re seeing people asking for Edelweiss
COLUMN feather and down mattress toppers, collection –
oblong pillowcase,
sensual textures such as silk and
as good news for sellers who velvet – and the whole look is
£7; square
quickly saw the chance to extract enhanced with plump cushions.”
pillowcase, £7;
a little more from their sale. There’s a selection of looks to
duvet cover, from
But – and there is always a but choose from, but don’t be limited
£19 and fitted
in property – halfway through the sheet, from £9.
by trends. After all, your bedroom
year the mood changed. A negative is your personal, private space, so detailing, edged with a rope trim. highly decorative throws and from John Lewis, could be a wise
pall hung over everything – rather you can experiment with whatever Double duvet cover, £100, and cushions from the Alegra bedding buy.
like the cloud of ash from that style pleases you, and create a there's also a selection of matching selection at John Lewis. Floral
unpronounceable Icelandic room where you’re guaranteed pillowcases and boudoir cushions patchwork bedspread, £60, and pom MINI SNOOZERS
volcano. sweet dreams. to layer up for cold, wintry nights. pom cushions, £20 for two. Encouraging the smallest members
Perhaps it was the impending
general election. Perhaps it was SKI LODGE SNUG SANCTUARY STYLISTS SMART SPARE ROOM of the family to go to bed is always
quite an achievement during the
the relentless news of austerity, Think cosy log cabins and beds There’s nothing like an attractive, excitement. But fun, new bedding
They’re certainly not sleepyheads
cutbacks and public sector layoffs. dressed in the traditional colours well-equipped bedroom to make could be a treat, if not sleep-
when it comes to style, and there’s
Perhaps everyone just wanted to of the season – cheery red and guests feel welcome. inducing, and it’s an easy way to
nothing they like better than
think about the summer holidays white – for this jolly look, which Dress the bed or beds stylishly, update a room.
revamping the bedroom.
or the World Cup. Perhaps they owes its inspiration to a and provide other home comforts Cath Kidston’s prints never
Plumping for purple is a safe on-
just grew tired. Scandinavian influence sweeping such as a ‘hottie’, a TV and an disappoint and her retro-inspired
trend choice, because it’s predicted
Certainly they grew tired of the through interiors. electric kettle, which will allow Cowboy design is my favourite. The
by all the experts to still feature
lack of mortgage funds and the An Edelweiss bedding set, from visitors to use the room as a single duvet set, which is reversible
strongly right through next year.
lack of will on the part of lenders La Redoute, is a delight with its retreat. After all, everyone needs a with a red and white polka dot
Asda’s amethyst embroidered
to provide any. The lenders still slick mix of red and white spotted little privacy, space and time out pattern on one side is £34.99, from
flower bedding in plum is excellent
say they will lend but in many sheets and folk art patterns. It’s from the hurly burly of a long the Gifted Penguin.
value at £15 for a single set, and £20
cases the over-harsh lending also a steal at £7 for a pillowcase, family break. If you want to spoil a little girl,
for a double.
criteria has made buying difficult and a duvet cover from £19. Add a touch of luxury with Laura Ashley has pretty choices.
Just because the landscape
for anyone without cash or a very Marks & Spencer’s interpretation Egyptian cotton white bed linen Its new heart-decorated pink and
outside is barren, it doesn’t mean
substantial deposit and gold of this look is just as good, with a from the White Company. Its Single white Carrie bed linen, £50 for a
you can’t enjoy pretty blooms. But
plated job prospects. red check pattern bed set, from £35, Row Cord Bed Linen – pillowcase, single duvet cover, is charming and
forget ‘mumsy’ florals – the most
So now we are left at the end of cuddly red Fair Isle knit throw, £35, from £14, single duvet cover, £45, is would team well with with its pink
fashionable designs have a painted,
the year with the lowest mortgage and chunky knit cushion, £25. rightly one of its best sellers. The Libby bedspread, £100, decorated
artistic feel, and House of Fraser’s
lending on record. Not such a Vienne velvet bedspread in natural with ribbon bows and satin ribbon
Lex bed linen collection for Linea
good end to a property year that BOUDOIR BABES is one of the most attractive. or silver, from £140, would be the trim. Sleepovers with pals are a
had started so well. ideal finishing touch. must and interiors company Rice,
Those who swan around in slinky, Pillowcase, £10, and double duvet
So the big question now is what And if you have an open door which boasts a dazzlingly colourful
silky nightwear and wouldn’t be cover, £45.
will happen next year? It is a hard policy, encouraging a steady range, has a Bed in a Bag, £113.80,
seen dead in fleece pyjamas will Alternatively, be inspired by the
one to call. The austerity and the stream of visitors throughout the that's nifty to carry around and
want a glamorous, statement bed, decorative style of Morocco and
mortgage problems won’t melt year, the smart Roxy sofa bed, £750, you simply unfold to use.
fit for posing. dress a bed with vividly coloured,
away quite so quickly as the
Kylie Minogue caters for divas
recent snow. Also, all those over-
optimistic sellers will have to re-
adjust their price expectations as
with her exquisite Latina bedding,
in a flock-patterned satin fabric BEDDY BUYS
the market settles once again. embellished with diamante, from
But with the UK slowly climbing her Kylie At Home collection. ASDA: 020 30036555/asda.co.uk. HOUSE OF FRASER: 0870 1607270/ laredoute.co.uk.
out of the economic crisis there Pillowcase, £20, and single duvet LAURA ASHLEY: 0871 2302301/ houseoffraser.co.uk. MARKS & SPENCER: 0845
are two things for sure next year. cover, £55, from home store Leekes. lauraashley.com. LEEKES: 0845 0508240/ 3021234/ marksandspencer.com.
The British public will be Dorma is master of bed linen and DORMA: 0844 9800011/ leekes.co.uk. RICE: rice.dk.
anxiously looking forward to the its new Rivello range is a classic dorma.co.uk. JOHN LEWIS: 0845 6049049/
design with a modern twist. It's THE WHITE COMPANY: 0870
royal wedding in April and to a THE GIFTED PENGUIN: 01642 johnlewis.com 9009555/ thewhitecompany.co.uk
steadily improving property ultra-luxe with textured jacquard
and white soft-touch cotton velvet 763000/giftedpenguin.co.uk LA REDOUTE: 0844 8422222/ JOANNA WOOD: joannawood.co.uk.
market.
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PROPERTY PROFILE
SEMI-DETACHED HAS BEEN EXTENDED
A substabtially extended modern
style semi-detached house, 11 St
Mary’s Close, is situated in a
peaceful location overlooking a
green at the front in the village of
Kempsey, south of Worcester.
Benefitting from gas fired central
heating and double glazing, the
accommodation comprises a
reception hall, a sitting room, a
superb refitted dining kitchen
with appliances, a utility room
and a refitted ground floor shower room.
On the first floor are four good-sized bedrooms and a refitted family
bathroom.
There is a block paved driveway at the front allowing off-road parking, a
neat rear garden and an integral garage.
PRICE £202,500; AGENT ALLAN MORRIS; CALL 01905 612266
PROPERTY PROFILE
LOOK OUT OVER FIELDS
A detached bungalow
overlooking fields, 61 Diglis EXTENDED: 2 Broomhall Green, Worcester, is a larger than average semi-detached home with three bedrooms.
Lane is within walking
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PROPERTY PROFILE
ADMIRE THE OUTLOOK
CONVERSION: Old oast houses have been combined into the layout of a grade two listed building in Socks Lane, Leight Sinton, near Malvern.
PROPERTY PROFILE
THREE-STOREY SEMI WITH FAR REACHING VIEWS FROM PRIVATE BALCONY
The property at 267 Tolladine a patio. On the second floor the
Road, Worcester, is a substantial landing leads to three double
three-storey semi-detached town bedrooms, a bathroom and two
house. storage cupboards.
It has gas central heating, double The master bedroom at 267
glazing and far reaching views. Tolladine Road has an en-suite
There is an entrance porch with a shower room and there is a family
quarry tiled floor, a reception hall bathroom.
and a courtesy door to a large At the front of the house is a
garage and a store room. tarmacadam driveway providing
On the first floor is a spacious off-road parking.
lounge, a separate dining room, a The rear garden is predominately
fitted kitchen and cloakroom. laid to lawn with a walled paved
The lounge has a private balcony patio area and far reaching views
and the kitchen has wall and floor plumbing for a washing machine over Worcester.
mounted units, built-in fan and a built-in dishwasher.
assisted electric double oven, a The dining room has rear facing PRICE £168,000; AGENT
gas hob and hood, space and views with doors to a garden and HALLS; CALL 01905 611066
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BATTENHALL 3 BED
AuctionsNews
Accommodation PROPERTY
GCH, garden, No Pets. Rooms To Rent
to Let £650 pcm
07941423340
BEAUTIFUL LODGINGS ST PETERS ROOMS TO RENT
Excellent value: £600 pm Well presented Semi detached Arboretum area, from £65 per
all bills included. one bed house. 2 parking
spaces. Garden. D/G, C/H week bills included, no DSS.
Second floor of rural property
with 2 dble rms & bathroom Tel. 07899 035058 07984 108930
Colourful costumes
shared use of ground floor
sitting rm and kitchen with Property Wanted House Share-£325/MONTH-
washing machine, ALL INC. 01905 451279
fridge freezer & dishwasher. 07903 437537
Can be let part-furnished. PROPERTY WANTED FARMHOUSE SHARE
Parking.garden. Located in COMPANY REQUIRES
Suckley village between Leigh Sinton. Non smoking
Malvern and Worcester with PROPERTIES FOR WAITING
TENANTS. Professional required.
easy access to both.
Would suit professional or Tel: 01684 292154 01886 832230
professional couple.
Viewings recommended
Houses and
Flats to Let
GILLAM STREET
Brightwells is selling some of the striking clothes from Ram Gopal’s exotic wardrobe
W
Spacious, quiet, refurbished
house, 2 double bed, GCH,
HEN Ram Gopal DG, Garden, Unfurnished, N/S,
performed with No DSS, £585 pcm ex
Natalia Markova in
07906 652669
the early 1960s he had
been long accepted as HARLEY WARREN
2 BED HOUSE
the world’s greatest exponent of the Excellent condition,
art of Indian dance. breakfast kitchen, lounge,
garden shed, 2 parking
Gopal had enjoyed celebrity in spaces, unfurnished.
London in the years before the Second References essential.
£600 pcm
World War, even taking tea with Queen 01386 550449
Mary who, like other theatregoers,
TWO DOUBLE BEDROOM
delighted in the drama and beauty of
RENOVATED COTTAGE
his presence and techniques. Quiet location, with garden,
Interpretations of Oriental dance had close to city centre
appeared on stage from the early years £585 pcm exclusive
of the 20th Century notably in the Tel. 07932 689922
work of Diaghilev while Anna Pavlova 01905 426158
and Nijinsky had both practiced Indian LUXURY AND VERY
movements but it was not until Gopal, SPACIOUS ONE BEDROOM
shining with oil and costumed in rich Fully furnished apartment in a
rural location between Powick
brocades and ornate head-dresses, and Brandsford.
revealed the authentic tradition that Seperate sitting room, fully
Europeans were able to enter this fitted kitchen diner . Worcester
unique world of the senses. City Centre 5 miles. Usually
FAMOUS: Indian dancer Ram Gopal. used as self catering holiday
Next Wednesday Brightwells Fine accommodation and now avail-
Art will be selling some of the because of the outbreak of war he able for short term let of one-
colourful costumes that Gopal had returned to India. He later made his three months.
Ample Parking. Strictly
treasured throughout his life. I home in London with periods in Paris None Smoking.
ncluded in the sale at Easters Court, and Venice. £650 per month, inclusive
Leominster, will be two tunics he wore He danced at the Royal Festival Hall of all heating, electricity,
water and rates.
for social occasions and a number of and at the Edinburgh Festival in the You can see it at
headdresses that are embellished with same period and toured continually in www.temelodge.co.uk
stones and beads. ORNATE: One of the sale’s costumes. or call 01905 831100
one year playing in London for 14
They reflect the career and life of a weeks Paris for three and Stockholm ornaments, Indian fabrics, a gold lame
man who became known as the for four as well as undertaking many costume, two skirts a brass hanging
Nijinsky of India and whose image was single appearances. lamp and a French style bed. Land For Sale
recorded by some of the world’s His last dancing tour took place in A formal jacket is labelled Nan
leading photographers. Also in the sale 1988 and he died in a Surrey nursing Austin, London but most are of Indian
is a copy of a 1960s programme that home in 2003. origin dating between 1920 and
shows how the costumes were worn Brightwells’ sale includes 12 1970.Written material relating to Ram
and provides a record of some of his especially made headdresses, boxes of Gopal is now in a national collection.
greatest roles. wrist and ankle bells on leather, an This costume archive , because of its
As a dancer Ram Gopal was probably ornate 19th century belt, brocaded importance as an entity in the history
at his peak in the late 1930s but costumes and loincloths, neck of dance will be sold as a single lot.
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LettingsNews
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Looking
for a place
to rent in
2011?
Check out
the lettings
pages every
Friday in
your
Property
News
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