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You dont need a home stylist to increase your property appeal. In fact, the features that most impress potential buyers might surprise you.

According to Rated Peoples recent Home Improvement Trends Report, six of the top 15 features that make buyers more likely to buy a property are external, with a garden lawn, security system, paved patio, outdoor lights, bi-fold doors and decking all working to increase the number of potential buyers for a property.

And inside? The big buyer attractions are functional additions like a downstairs toilet, built-in storage, a separate shower cubicle and underfloor heating.

Who'd have thought clever storage solutions could sell your house?

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The floor plan de jour for the past few years has moved towards open plan, but interestingly, the survey reveals that having separate living spaces is more popular with prospective buyers.

Forget open plan. Buyers are looking for separate living spaces now.

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Adrienne Minster, CEO of Rated People, says although some of the most attractive home improvements may look like bigger, more costly jobs to complete, there are clever and cost-effective ways to achieve similar looks, which could in turn increase the value of your home. When it comes to selling, its a good idea to stay up to date with the features that buyers are looking for because the trends that were adding value just two to three years ago might now be devaluing properties.

The research is taken from a wider study into renovation and interior design trends and other surprising buyer turnoffs.

Outdoor lighting and lawned gardens are a big selling point.

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Here, the top 15 home improvements that attract the most buyers are:

(Rated People Home Improvement Trends Report: 2020 ranked by the percentage of homeowners who said each feature would make them more likely to buy a property).

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PUBLISHED: 15:31 29 March 2020 | UPDATED: 15:32 29 March 2020

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One of Park Houses favourite entertainers, Andrew John Hayes, has been using his one hour daily outing to maintain residents routine as social distancing measures are tightened.

By pitching himself on the patio on the other side of the glass windows, complete with amp, microphone and guitar, residents are able to have their regular entertainment from the safety of their armchairs.

Park House manager Sara Pearce said: Andy has been coming to sing at Park House for a number of years. He usually comes on a Friday.

Over the years he has grown very fond of the residents and has been deeply saddened when we have unfortunately lost any of our Park family.

He is especially fond of a lady called Olive, and helped us to plan her 104th birthday, coming in to sing for her on her big day,

He brought his drum kit so that she could play it, as drumming is one of her favourite things to do when music is playing.

He was devastated to learn that the pandemic was going to affect his time with the residents - so weve worked it out in a way that means he can still come and residents can still enjoy their time with him.

Olive said the through-the-window performance was brilliant and that Andy was her trusted friend.

Another resident, Joyce, said: It was such a lovely thing to do in these difficult times, I do prefer it when you can see him with no window though.

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Oliver Leech Architects, a young specialist studio based in Wandsworth, has transformed a wisteria-clad mid-terrace Victorian house in Camberwell with ground-floor, side and rear extensions, using a palette of raw, natural materials exposed brickwork, timber and concrete that respect the patina of the original house, creating a sympathetic relationship between old and new.

The light-filled ground-floor extension stretches into the garden, blending indoor and outdoor space.

Here a scrappy, paved patch has been turned into a trellis-lined, urban oasis, set with a garden bench and planters of lavender.

To be honest, Im not hugely green-fingered, admits the owner, Max Taylor, an advertising executive. But it looks and smells great and it is low-maintenance.

When Max bought the two-storey house in 2015, it was in poor condition, with little natural light and a cramped kitchen.

I was looking for something with character that I could do up in a few years time. Dad gave me some good advice. He said, You should live in a house for all seasons before doing work to it, to see where the light catches and what spots you want to be in.

After living in the property for three years, Max knew he wanted to redesign the house to provide new cooking and eating spaces facing out on to the garden.

I noticed the old side return got amazing light in the summer, so when I was speaking to Oliver, I said, When we build the kitchen extension, we must keep this area open to catch the evening sun.

He also wanted to maximise open-plan living to provide more usable space and a calm atmosphere. Work began in September 2018.

Max moved out for six months while the house was stripped back to a shell, extended and internally rebuilt.

Leechs aim was to maximise the height of the new extensions and introduce large glazed openings.

Natural light is a very easy and inexpensive thing to make the most of, he says.

Light-filled: pitched skylights in the side extension let the evening sun pour in (Juliet Murphy)

The side extension provides extra width to the previously narrow kitchen, with pitched skylights overhead.

White oiled Douglas fir was combined with pale buff bricks to provide a subtle contrast with the existing London brickwork.

A rear extension with a high ceiling projects slightly further into the garden, framing a set of white-oiled Douglas fir bi-folding doors across a low-height window seat that has pull-out drawers for extra storage.

The bespoke seat, formed in cast stone, is flexible, in that the bi-fold doors fully retract and you can sit facing the kitchen, or with your legs lolling into the garden.

The bespoke-built kitchen, designed by the architects, continues the use of exposed raw materials, with a polished concrete countertop and sink to match the grey microcement kitchen floor.

Domestic touches warm up the pared-back design. No true whites have been used on walls and ceilings. Rich green units with circular handle detail run along the left side of the kitchen.

The green band of the planting in the garden continues through the kitchen, says Leech.

Theres underfloor heating, while Tala pendant lights hang over the long wooden table in the side extension.

The materials used for the extension continue through into the patio, with buff clay pavers laid in herringbone bond, surrounded by white-oiled timber boundary screens.

We got rid of the steps to the garden and made it all one level, says Max.

In the reception areas at the front of the house, original timber floors have been sanded back and oiled, and a muted colour palette employed on walls and ceilings.

The dark, narrow hallway has been opened up to expose the original wall structures, which creates extra light.

We kept the old timber studwork to retain some of the history of the house, says Leech.

An urban oasis: the trellis-lined, low-maintenance garden is planted with lavender(Juliet Murphy)

The front room has been turned into a chill-out space, with sofas, rugs and a film projector to screen movies. This leads into Maxs reading room.

Max told us he wanted a space to hand-write letters, says Leech.

Upstairs there are new windows in Maxs bedroom. In the bathroom, he now has a cast-iron bath in front of the window and a walk-in shower.

Plastered walls were left exposed and sealed to create a textural finish.

Maxs brief was that he wanted a contemporary home, but he didnt want to lose any sense of comfort and warmth, says Leech, who founded his studio, specialising in small to medium-scale residential architecture, in 2016.

Max says he loves living with the seasons.

You hardly need the lights on in this room, even at 10pm. I enjoy just sitting in silence in the space thats been created.

He has hung photos and artworks, but at certain times of the day the sunlight creates beautiful graphic patterns on the wall.

The way the light hits the timber beams in the kitchen, and then refracts around the extended kitchen is amazing.

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Heres an impressive property in a superb location and with three acres of grounds that include a swimming pool and pool house.

Braithwaite was built in the 1930s and is located in a quiet country lane in the village of Crook, between Windermere and Kendal.

It is full of charming original details, such as the oak front door with fanlight, polished wood floor and oak staircase in the reception hall, a feature Lakeland slate fireplace and galleried landing.

The spacious layout includes a playroom filled with light from with two west facing windows, a large picture window and part-glazed door to the front of the house and an open-plan sitting room with study/music area.

This spacious, south-facing room has three windows and two sets of sliding patio doors opening to a terrace offering uninterrupted views over the garden and surrounding countryside.

The first floor has a fabulous master bedroom suite with sliding patio doors to a roof terrace, fitted furniture and an en-suite bathroom.

Three further bedrooms are served by a shower room.

The second floor has the final two bedrooms and a cloakroom and there is also an attic.

Outside the grounds contain a double garage and driveway providing ample parking and turning and gardens with lawns, terraces, mature trees, conifers, shrubs and fruit trees.

Braithwaite in Crook, near Kendal, is for sale at 1.25m from Hackney & Leigh, tel. 01539 729711.

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The radio alarm burst into life at 7am, the news headlines providing a sudden reminder that this was the start of a working week like no other.

Usually Id wake at 6.30 but I had allowed myself the indulgence of an extra half hour due to the fact that, well, I didnt have to travel far. Just to the kitchen to be precise.

At 15, my eldest was supposed to be sitting his National 5 exams this year. Hes now gutted that my endless nagging at him to work harder during his prelims fell on deaf ears the landing zone for pretty much all my advice. Annoyingly for him, sometimes (though not often) Im actually right.

Most impressively considering his age, he didnt ask for a lie-in. He wanted to get into a routine and be at his bedroom desk for the start of school, ready to begin the day as normal. A part of him was excited to see how this new home schooling thing would work out. Badly, if the first half of the day was anything to go by.

His first message came at 9am telling him the Firefly system of sharing tasks wasnt coping and to await further advice.

My 13-year-old was less keen to get up, the thought of maths at home just as unappetising as learning it in class, so I set it as his first lesson theres no point pussyfooting around in times of national crisis.

With my eldest hanging about waiting for his first task to be assigned, I seconded him into assisting his brother. Leaving them to it, I ran downstairs to make my first call of the day. It started with what has now become my default opening line. Just to let you know my teenage sons are working upstairs so if you hear any sudden shouting, banging or possibly even fighting, please dont be alarmed.

To be fair, they made less noise than my husband the previous week who, on attempting to fix the garden fence, fell off our back wall when I was on a conference call. He could be heard in the background moaning loudly as he struggled to stand. I took immediate action of course, by swiftly shutting my patio doors.

Monday morning with the kids passed in a blur of running up and down the stairs to assist with their work, break up arguments and play-fights, keeping the younger one on task and providing snacks including to the dog who had piled in on the act.

Any thought of regular office hours is out the window now. You work when and however you can, including in the evenings.

By lunchtime I realised I needed to come up with a new pattern of working where I could be on hand to help in the morning making calls and answering emails when I can then allowing the younger one to break for a few hours so I can get through my to-do list. Any thought of regular office hours is out the window now. You work when and however you can, including in the evenings.

Those times when I connect with colleagues through video calls have become the highlight for me. For my first one last week, I linked up with five other colleagues and it was fascinating to see their home set-ups in the background. I started oohing and aahing over one of the teams new wallpaper in her lounge so she gave us a tour of the room.

Things then moved on to a more professional note until my chocolate Labrador, Daisy, started barking outside setting off one of my colleagues dogs. Once they piped down we continued and I was just getting into full flight on my team briefing when my youngest son passed behind me in his Mario onesie.

Unlike those times where you have to work from home when your kids are sick and you are pretending on work calls that everything is normal when really chaos is unfolding all around you, at least now everyone is in the same boat.

This is small beer compared to a clip that has gone viral on social media of one poor homeworker overseas who is presenting via videoconference when her husband appears at the bottom of the stairs behind her in his underpants. So panicked is he that he then bumps into the wall before stumbling backwards in a daze prolonging the exposure. The clip finishes with her holding her head in her hands. It will be a familiar pose to most of us over the next weeks and months just dont touch your face.

No, none of this is pretty, but unlike those times where you have to work from home when your kids are sick and you are pretending on work calls that everything is normal when really chaos is unfolding all around you, at least now everyone is in the same boat. Theres something about that I have to say I find liberating.

Right now we are all just trying to find a way through this overwhelming and fast-moving situation. There are challenges around every corner. But I think, I hope, that maybe, just maybe, we can make it work (ish).

Lots of us are finding ourselves working from home for an extended period the first time, and it looks like that might be the case for some weeks to come.

Of course, many others do work that cant easily be transplanted from an office to a home, but even if yours can be, it can be an odd and difficult experience especially now.

You can, though, learn from the home-working pros! One writer and author who has worked from home for many years looked at our current situation and decided that his best contribution was to quickly write a book, sharing the wisdom that not only he has learned, but his friends and colleagues across the world too.

Its called Take Control of Working from Home Temporarily, and its available for free from Take Control Books

Its author, Glenn Fleishman, also joined the host of one of our sister podcasts, Pass It On to talk about what you can do to understand how you arrange your working space and your life if you or someone you know finds themselves working from home for the first real time. Just search for Pass It On tips wherever you get your podcasts.

None of the advice in the free book or on the free podcast is preachy or patronising. Its all really pragmatic stuff from how you indicate to family or flatmates when youre busy versus interruptible, making sure youre being kind to yourself, and not feeling guilty about the second re-watching of Frozen II if you just need to get a solid hours work done when looking after your kids.

Download the free book for Kindle, iBooks, PDF and more from http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/working-from-home, and listen to the podcast by clicking here or searching for Pass It On tips wherever you get your podcasts.

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PORTSMOUTH Demolition of the former St. Patrick School has begun, making way for a future 30-car parking lot for the nearby Immaculate Conception Church.

Asbestos work started earlier this month, and demolition this week, by Air Quality Experts and Rangeley Enterprises, the contractors selected by the Diocesan Building Committee for the 115-year-old 125 Austin St. school. City building records list the property at 98 Summer St.

A pre-construction meeting was held March 11 with the purpose of mitigating adverse impacts arising from the demolition activities.

Demolition of the rear of the building was taking place Thursday. On an upper floor, old writing on a chalkboard still read, "Let's create a great year together."

Abutters received a notice from the city March 23 warning of potential rodent spread as a result of the ground vibrations caused by the demolition.

City Health Inspector Toni McLellan wrote that while the property has been evaluated and cleared of rodents, the demolition "may drive rodents living on neighboring properties into surrounding areas."

McLellan said other property owners can protect their homes by looking around for holes in siding, foundation or other openings that may allow rodents to enter. She asked people to take photographs if they do see rodents and to call her at (603) 610-4187.

"If rodents are found on your property, the Health Department does not recommend treating for them yourself, particularly if it is not confirmed that where you are treating is actually where rodents are located," McLellan wrote. "Poisons for pests are very dangerous in the environment. Often neighborhood cats or dogs and large birds will come into contact with poisoned rodents and will also be poisoned, or may consume the poison themselves."

McLellan said a certified pest control operator should be consulted if a property owner wishes to have their property further evaluated or treated.

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We told you back in 2018 that Walt Disney Imagineering was once again developing a Wreck-It Ralph-based attraction to replace the seasonal (I think we can now all agree that its gone and that we were right I would hope) Stitchs Great Escape in Tomorrowland at Walt Disney Worlds Magic Kingdom. Well, now it seems work is set to commence on the project as recent permits (Notices of Commencement) were filed for demolition of the theaters interior.

According to sources, the new Wreck-It Ralph attraction would reuse the existing theater-in-the-round from Great Escape (which were also used for Alien Encounter, Mission to Mars, and Flight to the Moon), but would attach video game-style controllers to every guest seat.

Of course, with construction halted throughout Walt Disney World property due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, progress all depends on when things will return to normalcy, but its clear that the project is moving forward for the time being. The current Stitch meet and greet will likely be closed upon the parks reopening, whenever that might be.

If all goes according to plan, the Wreck-It Ralph attraction in Tomorrowland will be coming our way in 2022, directly following the opening of the TRON Lightcycle Run roller coaster in 2021. These additions combined with the ongoing cosmetic changes in Tomorrowland should provide the base for a new version of the area for the Magic Kingdom.

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In an unprecedented move, Final Fantasy XIVs development team has temporarily suspended automatic housing demolition. This affects all data centers and all servers globally. By the time the announcement was posted on the Lodestone, demolition had already been suspended.

To keep your house in FFXIV, you typically need to enter it at least once every 45 days. For Free Company houses, as long as any member enters the house every 45 days, the house is safe from demolition. This suspension stops the timer.

Heres an example of how this works: You havent entered your house in 30 days. Once this freeze is lifted, the timer starts again, and the next day will count as 31 days since you last entered your house.

Suspending the housing demolition timer is exceedingly rare, and typically only affects a few data centers. The timer has not been suspended on North American data centers since 2018s Hurricane Michael, the first Category 5 hurricane to strike the continental United States.

Square Enix is unsure when housing demolition will be turned back on. As for when auto-demolition will resume, we will monitor the situation in the coming days, and inform you all when we have come to a decision that auto-demolition can commence again, their announcement said.

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The city fathers tried many times to extend the water intakes in the bay to stop the Typhoid Fever. None seemed to work. In 1902 they finally decided to take water out of Lake Erie which meant that they would need to run a 60 inch or more pipeline under Presque Isle out into the lake. The State gave the Erie Water Commission 175 acres of land.

This article tells the history of this undertaking and how it almost solved the problem. There was on last step that finally did solve the Typhoid problem.

The city tried many options such as floating flumes, various length intake pipelines in shallow water to try to eliminate the contamination coming into the citys water supply. One of the flumes was just 100 Yards from a sewage clogged creek outlet into the bay. None of these even slowed the typhoid problem in the city.

Next, they planned a 60-inch cast-iron pipeline and put it in a trench on the floor of Presque Isle Bay. This would extend the pipeline to within 2,500 feet of the Presque Isle shoreline and was a total of 1.6 miles in length. This installation took place in 1896 and 1897. The work was done by two huge barges equipped with dredges to dig the trench for the iron pipeline. Water began to flow in the fall of 1897.

Regrettably, by 1902 it was evident to the Water Commission that there was still a high level of typhoid as over 180 deaths were happening annually. The Commission's first action again demanded that the city cease dumping raw sewage into the bay. Yet again, the City fathers ignored their request.

That is when the Water Commission, as I mentioned in my earlier article, decided to lay a pipeline under Presque Isle and out 5,000 feet into Lake Erie. That location is 3.5 miles from the Chestnut Street pumping station. The Commission budgeted $ 104,000 to do the extension. In July of 1904, T.A. Gillespie of Pittsburgh was hired to extend the pipe into the lake from the end of the existing pipeline in the bay.

As this was happening and work was being planned, the Water Commissioners found they were having a difficult time raising funds to pay for the task. At this point, the three commissioners, Mr. Clark Olds, Mr. William Hamilton, and Mr. Willis B. Durlin, advanced the necessary funds personally.

The work on the extension was to be done in three stages. The first was to be from the bay to the shore of Presque Isle, or about 2,500 feet. This portion was to begin in late 1904 and early 1905. The next section was the lake portion, which was to be done in 1906 and 1907. The final section was to be started in 1907 and finished in 1908.

Regrettably, in early 1907 strong storms disrupted the lake work, and the pipe barge was heavily damaged, and some pipe was lost delaying that work until 1908. On December 7, 1907, the work on inland Presque Isle began on the twin settling ponds that still exist today. A map of this area from 1900 shows this whole area was originally covered with many small ponds and numerous swamps.

When work began, two ponds already existed near where the settlings ponds would be placed. The new ponds, when completed, would be used to let the silt settle out of the water before pumping it over to the city side.

A huge floating dredge called Centrif worked on moving the massive amounts of sand and water necessary to create a channel 25 to 40 feet wide from the bay to the lake. As planned, along the way it would also create the two settling ponds we see today. Old records also indicate the dredge also enlarged the area where the Ferry Slip is today on the bayside. Its first job was to create the East Pond. When done, it moved to the West Pond area and enlarged an existing pond to form the new West Pond. When completed, it moved to the trench bisecting the peninsula. Finally, when this was done, it moved into the lake portion of the job.

On September 16, 1908, the new line to Lake Erie was completed and turned on. Today, the only visible reminders of this 1904 to 1908 extension project are the massive blue iron valves that are still located in the area. These, by design, moved water between the two ponds.

The other only remainder was the lighthouse looking structure located at the end of the Ferry Slip. While many people believed this was a lighthouse, it was not. It never had any power and was never used. Thank Heaven for that. It was an emergency valve house designed to draw water from the bay again if problems developed with the lake intake system.

While the intake line into the lake was somewhat successful, it did not fully solve the typhoid problem. It seems that in the winter of 1910-1911, another epidemic broke out, and records show reported cases of 1,060 with 135 deaths recorded. The hospitals were so crowded that Hamot Hospital built a temporary addition which contained eighteen beds. There was a shortage of trained nurses which was relieved when a group came to Erie from Philadelphia.

In 1910, Big Bertha, a 20 million gallon per day MGD Bethlehem Triple Expansion High Duty Pumping Engine, was installed in the building that is now located on the southern side of the bayfront highway. By 1912, the Water Commission began treating the water using a hypo-chlorination process that included adding hypochlorite of lime to the water supply. At the same time, they decided to install a water filtration and treatment plant at the Chestnut Street plant with a complete chemical and bacteriological laboratory. This ended most of Erie's water problems. (By the way, Big Bertha is still in the plant, but not in use. Occasionally tours are held to view this huge Pumping Engine.)

In one more article about the Water Works in Erie and on Presque Isle, I will cover the positive events and construction that has occurred since the water improvements in this area. Until then, stay well and,

See you on the park!! (A wonderful place to get outside during this time)

Gene Ware is a published author of 9 books and is on the board of the Presque Isle Light Station, and past Chairman of the board of the Tom Ridge Center Foundation, and the Presque Isle Partnership. He is also a goerie.com contributing writer. If you have questions or comments, send them to ware906@gmail.com.

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The DeForest Planning and Zoning Commission approved a 66,000-square foot project to add onto, and make improvements, to DeForest Area High School at its March 24 meeting.

The project was initially given the go-ahead during an April 2019 referendum. It includes an addition to the high school in the form of a new gym and natatorium on the south end of the building. There will also be more room for classrooms, with improvements to athletic fields and parking.

Zoning Administrator Brandi Cooper listed the details of the project.

The main entrance will shift away from the current one on the north end of the building. It will be moved to the west side. There will also be 163 parking spaces added, bringing the total to 690 stalls.

There will be an access point to the eastern athletic facilities via North Towne Road. The project would include an easterly extension of Jefferson Street and a school-only driveway to North Town Road to its south.

Before it was given final approval, there were a few provisions to the plan. The biggest concern came after the Village Engineer Ryan Quam had been accessing the area for a while. Quam sent an email to Village Board Trustee Jason Kramar, who is also on the commission.

The project initially called for a design of the Fox Hill Estates plat located northeast of the Highway 51 and 19 interchange that does not require the vacation or change of any stormwater outlots dedicated with the recorded plat and Certified Survey Map (CSM), if practical.

Quam said that the requirement could not be met and would be an unfortunate waste of time and/or hundred of thousands of dollars.

Quam has spent the last 10 months evaluating the site and said that the soils in the existing pond outlots are not suitable for infiltration and thusly cannot contribute toward the 100% infiltration requirement.

Also there was a requirement that the existing runoff volume draining to the wetlands be maintained, but the pond would not allow sufficient runoff to the wetlands, according to Quam.

Quam designed a stormwater plan to minimize all future construction costs.

The ponds were designed as low as possible in order keep the lots low and balance site earthwork, Quam wrote in his email. The ponds were designed over soils suitable for infiltration to eliminate the need for importing sand. The ponds were designed in a central location to keep storm sewer sizes below 36 diameter to minimize storm sewer costs. Note that 5-foot by 5-foot box storm sewer is very expensive and causes pipe conflicts. The regional ponds meet the infiltration requirements for the entire plat so developers of the commercial lots will not need to import expensive sand, construct costly bio-retention devices, or install expensive permeable pavement.

Quam said that the design, with a view adjustments, met Capitol Area Regional Planning Commission and DNR requirements.

Also, new additions to the project were to widen the extension of Jefferson Street and adjust the west end of a path connecting to the high school tennis courts to better facilitate its western extension south of the tennis courts as part of a grant application.

The project is scheduled to begin construction in summer an be completed for the 2022-23 school year.

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