See the possibilities from shell to furnished home It’s been a long journey at Blenheim Grove, from trying to track down the owners of the site to negotiating the purchase, finally starting to build, finishing the shells and then having owners fit them out and moving in. Apt 62A was the last to be fitted out, and we couldn’t be happier to see the beautiful home that this shell has become. Scroll down to see the full gallery. Before After Before After Before After Before After Before After Interested in your own custom build? Our next custom build development is at Pound La ..read more

written by guest writer Liam Cogan Rates for energy are going up across the UK, and it shows no signs of stopping. Here are some changes you can make to help with the increase. With dramatically rising energy costs, and many independent energy companies closing their doors, trying to find savings from your energy provider has become difficult. In fact, Compare the Market has paused their energy company comparisons because they are not able to find more cost effective alternatives. The good news is there are some things you can do on your own to save money, even though rates have gone up ..read more

*UPDATE 27/06/2022 The Help to build fund is now open for applications! Visit the government website here for more information on how to apply. Read the government’s press release here.*   Following on from the government’s announcement of the much anticipated Help to Build fund, the details about who can apply for the fund and what you will be eligible for have been released.   Since Help to Buy mortgages are not available for self and custom builds, this £150m fund will level up the funding landscape and be a great boost to the industry and to aspiring self and custom builders ..read more

Our custom build development at Blenheim Grove was featured in Dezeen last month, and it’s been interesting to see the responses to the project and the idea of custom build.   One person said that the basic shell is “a good idea as it saves all that waste of people changing things and really this is where a lot of buyers like to start with all the services in.”   We couldn’t agree more. One of the big reasons that Unboxed Homes was created with the aim of building custom build homes was to give homeowners the choice and flexibility to have their homes exactly the way they want it ..read more

Richard Bacon MP ribbon cutting at Blenheim Grove The Bacon Review was released last week, led by Richard Bacon MP as an independent review commissioned by the Prime Minister in April 2021 to make recommendations on scaling up self-build and custom build housing.   The need for new housing is an ongoing issue, and no matter where you land on building on the green belt, changing use classes, or retrofitting vs new builds, it’s hard to deny that we are not creating enough homes.   The homes that are being built are infamous for being either vanilla cookie cutter boxes, overpriced, o ..read more

Before After The great thing about self-build and custom build is that you can design whatever layout you’d like. But if you’ve never done it before, where do you start?   The shell homes at Blenheim Grove are almost complete, and we’ve had some great response from the people that we’ve taken around the site.   But sometimes seeing a shell home that’s a completely blank space is too empty, and it helps to see some ideas of what could be done to the space to help visualise the possibilities.   We’ve asked an architect to help us lay out House 60 in way that best utilises the s ..read more