Coo de grace
It was the spacious roof terrace overlooking lush, tree-filled gardens which clinched it for me when I was flat-hunting two years ago. I pictured myself sunbathing there on lazy summer days and relaxing with a glass of vino of a
Selling up is hard to do
Sunday Times, 27 May, 2012 My partner Nick and I moved in together 11 years ago. After much searching we had finally found the proverbial dream house with everything we wanted: the plentiful space, the garden, the garage. What’s more, it
Why Gates are Good
Sunday Times, 4 April 2004 Gated communities: the scourge of society? No, just safe from vandals, says MONICA PORTER Three years ago my partner Nick and I moved into a small, newly-built gated community in north London, comprising five houses. I realise
The Villa That Saved Lives
Sunday Times, 29 February 2004 I was born in 1952 and for the first four years of my life I lived in my mother’s villa in Budapest. An elegant, airy house nestling amongst the hills on the Buda side of the Danube,