Snap Unhappy: Why I wish I’d snapped up an old photography studio
Alan Page reminisces about the property's former charms...
Alan Page was for many years an award winning advertising creative director and founder of his own successful agency. More recently he has served on the boards of various marketing businesses and acted as a property buying agent in the South of France. He has owned numerous homes in London, Paris and Saint Tropez and has now turned his hand to small prime central London property development.
The Doer-Upper Diary: A cracking party
It's not the neighbours that are driving doer-upper Alan Page up the (party) wall in Kensington; it's the surveyors...
By Alan Page
Caricature Homes: Why are some developers creating show homes for stereotypes?
Some developers are creating show homes for extreme stereotypes, not people, rages Alan Page as he moots a few suggestions to help the unimaginative designer.
By Alan Page
The Doer-Upper Diary: I bet it’s not like this over at Candy & Candy…
After an invigorating tour of India, doer upper Alan Page's triumphant London return takes a turn as he risks losing a chunk of the margin on his first SW3 renovation project, and weighs the relative merits…
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