Apartment Choice

18 Aug 2017, 09:44 In 2007, I lived in a one- bedroom apartment , wasn’t married, had no kids, no pets, was an outright retail planner working almost exclusively on a range of Tesco projects, and had a respectable hairline. Come 2017, I cannot claim any of that to be true, writes Sebastian Tibenham , executive director at Pegasus Group. I’m married, have two kids, three pets, work across a range of development sectors , my retail client, now Asda, makes up just 10% of my workload. Am I happier and more sustained at work and at home? Yes! Why? Diversification. Not only is diversification important in running a business, and experiencing day to day life, it is vital for our towns, cities, the economy and our industries. Unfortunately, the planning industry in the North West, and particularly the housing sector, a fundamental industry within our economy, was too targeted and not sufficiently diverse in 2007 to recover quickly from the deep recession. Throughout 2007/8, the proportion ...

The house in Wickford Point has four bedrooms, four full bathrooms and one powder room, and 5,245 square feet of living space. Christine Dunn Journal Staff Writer ChristineMDunn NORTH KINGSTOWN — The waterfront property at 47 Lands End Drive is in Wickford Point, a subdivision off Camp Avenue, just north of historic Wickford Village . Owners Audrey and William Maloney had the house custom built while they were living in England. They bought the land in 2005, and the construction took place in 2006 and 2007. Audrey Maloney said she often traveled from England to Rhode Island during the construction process. The couple, both native New Yorkers, lived in England for 12 years. They had rented homes in Rhode Island for a couple of summers before deciding to build their home in North Kingstown. The house has four bedrooms, four full bathrooms and one powder room, and 5,245 square feet of living space. Wickford Point was developed by Gilbane Properties on land formerly occupied by...

IN THE 1960s and ’70s, long before helicoptering emerged as a parenting style, adults had far less interest in looming over their children, frequently urging them to go play outside or downstairs. The netherworld to which these parents pointed was usually a recreation room or finished basement, clad insipidly in wood-veneer paneling and linoleum. Furnishings typically included a saggy sofa, a scratched ping-pong table and a built-in bar never used for mixing drinks; instead, the kids commandeered it as a make-believe store or a stage for puppet shows. Not even Dad’s novelty naked- lady martini stirrers lured him down once the children moved in. And the closest Mom got was to stand at the top of stairs and yell, “Supper’s ready! Wash your hands!” Perhaps these ratty rec rooms weren ’t worthy of House Beautiful, but the stints of physical distance they offered parents and offspring arguably benefited both in ways today’s airy cathedral-ceiling’d great rooms can’t. These days, peopl...