It's what dreams are made of and nightmares kindled: Most home owners aspire to it; some take a few tentative steps and fewer still are crazy enough to go the full hog! This blog shares some of the trials and tribulations of a major redevelopment of a 1950s home through a cataclysmic transformation which retains the best of the last Century while metamorposing the property into a design classic fit for today's living.

Monday, September 11, 2006

Crooked traders

It's vaguely "off topic", but after a week of two break-ins and continued grief with the plumbing installation in the en-suite, the last thing I needed was a fraudulent transaction on my credit card. After spotting a charge of nearly a grand last Saturday, from a company I had never heard of, I called the company and card issuer today to find somebody had used my credit card information to have goods delivered to an address several hundred miles away. And what did the crooks buy? Several taps, mixers and a shower!