Our lives these days fly by at such a fast pace that we take the simple everyday parts of life for granted. Our jobs, our family and our health are the backbone of our everyday life but yet we only stand back and truly appreciate what have when something grave occurs.

It’s that time of year again, the clocks have gone back and our lives feel as though they are now shrouded in darkness, until we see glimmers of light appear in the New Year.

Croft Architecture welcomes Sarah Croft to the team as our Digital Marketing Assistant. Sarah joined the Croft Architecture in June 2014 with an experienced sales and marketing background.

FYI There are so many acronyms that fill our lives today it’s easy to get overloaded with too much technical jargon, so much so that your mind is well and truly “boggled”. Just when you thought you’d escaped the overload one more just creeps through in the form of BIM.

Are you currently thinking of ways to make your home project stand out from the crowd? You can spend hours visiting home showrooms, looking through magazines and different websites for design ideas, but more often than not someone will have the same use of materials and products.

How many of us wake up on a winter’s morning and crank the thermostat up because we feel a little chilly?

We are all aware the world’s fossil fuels are depleting and new technologies and techniques are being investigated, tested and used for a new sustainable life on earth. I’m sure that you will have seen programmes on the television and read articles relating to eco living, green homes, our carbon foot print and sustainability, but do we know what they really mean?

Mr and Mrs White live in rural Staffordshire, in a modest countryside cottage dating back to a period in the 1800s. The property had some previous additions to it, noticeably a kitchen extension, and a porch added within the last 20 years.

Hearing, yes hearing, hello, hello, yes I said hearing, can you hear me now? Jokes aside, the ability to hear is such an important sense along with sight. Our ability to hear with ease and clarity is something we may take granted on a daily basis. We do it without even thinking about it.

How often can you remember queuing for your next class at school and walking into the room only to find it extremely hot, sweaty and smelly from the previous occupants?