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Builders LondonHiring a design professional to design the kitchen is ideal as they often are able to come up with innovative design solutions as well as finding and specifying the proper materials to highlight the architecture of your house, making your kitchen look more appealing to the potential buyers. In most cases, a kitchen with granite countertops would be a fast seller because it creates richness, elegance, and emphasizes quality. Besides the marketing advantage, granite countertop is also ideal for daily personal use because of its resistance to scratches, looks natural, and is easy to maintain. You should never try to save money on design, appliances, or labour because these are the basis of a spectacular space. Remember, having the job done well is a value adder; doing it poorly may reduce the value of your home! According to the Appraisal Institute of Canada, the average amount that you should spend prior to selling your house should be 10-15% of the house value. If you are planning on renovating the kitchen for personal use and not only for the purpose of investment, and if you are going to live in your house for more than five years, then you should spend 15 - 25% or more. In most cases, you will be able to recover the cost of the renovation by the time you sell your house – with a 44% higher return on investment than the average return on other popular renovations! 1. Green power station opened data: 19.03.08 First Minister Alex Salmond is to officially open a £90m biomass power station in the south of Scotland. 2. Credit crisis fallout continues data: 10.04.08 The latest report from the IMF on the global credit crisis is the main news in the Daily Telegraph. 3. Police spoke to missing presenter data: 10.04.08 Officers who spoke to TV presenter Mark Speight hours before he went missing say he appeared distracted. 4. Three US troops killed, 31 wounded in Iraq clashes with Shi'ite militia data: 07.04.08 suspected Shiite militants lobbed rockets and mortar shells into the U.S.-protected Green Zone and a military base elsewhere in Baghdad on Sunday, killing three American troops and wounding 31, officials said. 5. Breeder plans to clone 'genius' fighting bull data: 27.03.08 The Spanish breeder Victoriano del Rio plans to turn to ViaGen, a cloning and genomics company, to clone his prize bull Alcalde. Animal rights activists object to the project. 6. Mobile internet access increases tenfold data: 07.04.08 The GSM Association is set to reveal the world's 32-millionth mobile broadband connection – up from 3m in March 2007 – lending credence to suggestions the sector is coming of age 7. Crash dead remembered data: 07.04.08 A special church service is held in Farnborough a week after an air crash which killed five people. 8. Paul Routledge: Class snobs taint hunt for Shannon data: 19.03.08 Mystery surrounds the fate of Shannon Matthews, the nine-year-old girl missing in Dewsbury for more than three weeks. 9. Pernod Ricard buys maker of Absolut vodka data: 07.04.08 The acquisition by the French company combines Vin & Sprit's Absolut with Pernod's brands, which include Seagram's gin, Havana Club rum, Chivas Regal Scotch and Jameson Irish whiskey. 10. Experts warn Alex Salmond over tax data: 10.04.08 A Westminster ruling that Alex Salmond does not have the authority to introduce a local income tax has "real substance", some of Scotland's most senior constitutional and financial experts have said. 11. Internet appeal on fatal shooting data: 10.04.08 The family of a teenager who died after he was shot in a betting shop make an internet appeal over his murder. 12. IOC'S Rogge says "very concerned" after torch protests data: 07.04.08 International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge said on Monday he was "very concerned" after protests disrupted the Olympic torch relay in London. 13. Cricket: ICC to act over Hair data: 19.03.08 The International Cricket Council will act to prevent reinstated umpire Darrell Hair from standing in matches involving Pakistan. 14. BA's Terminal 5 proving to be one big hub of chaos data: 07.04.08 Terminal 5 was supposed to be the saving grace for British Airways and London Heathrow. Instead, passengers are bracing for more chaos. 15. US envoy may challenge for Afghan presidency data: 10.04.08 The Afghan-born US Ambassador to the United Nations, Zalmay Khalilzad, has signalled that he will run for the presidency of Afghanistan in elections next year. 16. Richard Hammond: Why I'm on a short fuse data: 19.03.08 Short men are, according to a report published this week, more prone to jealousy, anger and insecurity than tall blokes. 17. 'LTTE suicide bomb' kills Sri Lanka minister data: 07.04.08 A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed at least 13 people including a government minister in an attack near the Sri Lankan capital Colombo yesterday. 18. Cyprus talks 'must succeed' data: 19.03.08 The Cypriot president says the failure of new peace talks will be "devastating" for the divided island. 19. Notes from a hot and humid Friday in Sepang data: 27.03.08 20. Barca official says camouflaging player indiscipline data: 10.04.08 Barcelona are using player injuries to hide the fact that a number of players have been sidelined for indiscipline, a high-ranking official at the club said on Wednesday. 21. Payout for death of Olympic hopeful, 15 data: 07.04.08 The parents of a teenage diver tipped for Olympic glory have won undisclosed damages from the swimming club where he lost his life. 22. Alibaba seeks buyers for Yahoo-owned stake data: 19.03.08 The Chinese internet company is in late-stage talks with a group of investors to raise the money to try to buy back Yahoo's multi-billion dollar stake should Yahoo eventually be acquired by Microsoft 23. Britain's financial regulator to hire more supervisors data: 27.03.08 The Financial Services Authority issued a report that found its supervision of Northern Rock was inadequate. 24. Delia Smith's recipes 'have too much salt' data: 07.04.08 A number of Delia Smith's recipes in her How to Cheat at Cooking series contain more salt than the recommended daily intake, food campaigners warn today. 25. Youths attack Australian school data: 07.04.08 Several people are hurt after youths armed with bats and a machete attack a Sydney high school. 26. Yahoo ups the ante against Microsoft data: 19.03.08 Yahoo attempted to bolster its case for an improved offer from Microsoft, releasing stronger-than-expected financial projections to support its decision that the proposed deal had seriously undervalued it 27. Birmingham City bosses Karren Brady and David Sullivan arrested in football probe data: 10.04.08 Karren Brady, the Birmingham City managing director, and David Sullivan, the club’s co-owner, have been arrested as part of the investigation into alleged corruption in football. 28. Russian artist disappears in Germany data: 07.04.08 A prominent artist who had run-ins with both church and state in her native Russia after taking part in a controversial exhibition has disappeared without a trace from her new home in Berlin. 29. Cypriots are offered a chance to grieve for victims of conflict data: 27.03.08 In Nicosia's buffer zone separating Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities, families can view at last the remains of relatives who vanished in fighting in the 1960s and 1970s. 30. Police warning to Shannon estate data: 10.04.08 Police warn neighbours of Shannon Matthews' family against taking the law into their own hands. |