Our journal is a place where you will find our new blogs and stories. We comment on the housing market, give you links to Youtube videos on how to achieve our look and provide useful top tips on your own property presentation.
Spring Selling
Traditionally the housing market gears up for its busiest time of year about now. Once the Easter holidays are over then many people list their homes for sale to catch the Spring rush in the market. Estate agents have relied on this trend for many years, even through...
Life under the Coronavirus Cloud – week 4
Last week, week 3, I started out feeling pretty down for all the reasons in my last blog. Lots of practical things, normally so easy, were proving to be almost impossible. I’m not known for my patience at the best of times so when things aren’t going well…..! The end...
Pub Quiz!
If you feel your mind is loosing its sharp edge during this lockdown, maybe its time to try a pub quiz with your friends! Zoom, Whatsapp and Skype provide great platforms to catch-up with family and friends and test your knowledge! As Lemon and Lime is based in the...
Get to know team L&L!
If you've followed us on social media for a while you will know a little bit about what our team get up to both in and out of work. We thought it would be fun to ask them a handful of questions about their interests and what they have been doing whilst in isolation....
Why being in isolation might be the perfect time to get your house ready for sale
We have set up new ‘virtual’ services to help homeowners sell quickly once the Covid-19 pandemic has passed. Now is the perfect time to get your home in order now the country has gone into isolation. At the moment there are more people than ever with time on their...
Have you tried a virtual exercise class?
As a business, we encourage all of our employees to maintain a healthy lifestyle and take part in regular exercise, not only for their physical health but also to maintain a healthy mental well being. Due to the current situation, we are unable to attend our usual...
Why not have a go at painting furniture?
Several years ago I had a collection of mismatched bedroom furniture and other odds and ends and so thought I’d have a go at painting some of them. I was immediately hooked! I used Annie Sloan chalk paint as I’d heard a lot about it and everyone said it was...
Life under the Coronavirus Cloud – week 3
Unbelievably, we are now into week 3 of isolating or ‘shielding’ as it has now become. Because my daughter’s Cystic Fibrosis means that she is in the group of extremely vulnerable people, as designated by Boris, realistically we can’t go anywhere either for fear of...
Making a vegetable patch
When my kids were very young, we made a vegetable patch. We grew everything from potatoes to peas, we grew strawberries, raspberries and gooseberries, special favourites were the tall white leeks and the muddy carrots. My kids often used to sit in the dirt eating...
Coronavirus: Keep calm and carry on!
The recent coronavirus outbreak has created a large amount of worry and anxiety amongst people and it can affect different people in different ways. No one knows what is going to happen next, so we need to be proactive and get through this together. We have suggested...
Life under the Coronavirus Cloud – Days 6,7 and 8!
What a week it’s been! Crazy times settling in to working from home with Rob, my other half in the office. My plan at the weekend is to have a massive office clear out and reorganisation. Like most people, I imagine, we moved into the office at home and started...
Housing Market Update
The 2020 housing market set off at a great pace following a period of political turmoil during 2019. The Boris Bounce cheered everyone up and agents sounded more upbeat than they have done for a long time. The Halifax produced their house pricing index for February...
Virtual Staging Service
Top Tips on styling your home office!
In light of recent events relating to COVID-19, we understand that this brings a lot of changes to our daily routine and many of us will be working from home for the weeks to come. This will be a big adjustment for some. Our team are already working remotely and we...
Life under the Coronavirus Cloud – Day 5
Good days and bad days – the weekend was interesting. Good day: The government announced help to cover wages for staff who may otherwise be made redundant. What an amazing job this chancellor has. Every chancellor in history up til now has been unpopular, having to...
Life under the Coronavirus Cloud – Day 4
We’ve talked a lot today about home office working and how everyone is finding it. In our house we have to have some rules because there are two of us working in the office and my daughter is ‘working’ in the kitchen. She has Uni assignments to do, so she says. In...
Top ten things to achieve whilst self-isolating
With the Coronavirus present, as a small business we want to make sure our employees and network are looking after themselves during this time. It can be strange suddenly leaving your usual working pattern and not being able to do some of the things you have done...
Life Under the Coronavirus Cloud – Day 3
One of the disadvantages of living with someone with Cystic Fibrosis is that they cough. Often. As a mother of a 20 year old CF cough I can describe her coughs in almost as many ways as a wine connoisseur can describe wine – dry, fruity, with a hint of acidity…. Once,...
Mother’s Day Gift Guide!
This year we’re taking a different approach to our Mother’s Day Gift Guide. In light of the ongoing Coronavirus outbreak, we’re making sure we shop local for Mother’s Day. Here is a round up of some lovely items or experiences from some of our favourite shops here in...
Life under the Coronavirus Cloud – Day 2
OK, so we have to make a plan. I have to work at home and get my head round maybe not going out again until Christmas, at least. That’s tough. I am utterly useless at sitting still. I spend a couple of days most weeks in London, networking (AKA drinking coffee/wine...
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