http://www.jeremypaxton.co.uk The Website of Jeremy Paxton Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:33:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When Jonathan Margolis of the FT's How To Spend It magazine needed "the coolest swimming pool in Britain" to film an underwater edition of his video bulletin on the smart new How To Spend It website, I naturally offered the artspa. Jonathan and his crew turned up from London in a foot of snow the ... http://www.jeremypaxton.co.uk/?p=274 Start up a business, and you’re involved in every single decision from day one.  You don’t have the resources to do otherwise, and it’s not immediately operating on a scale which would warrant it anyway, but as time goes on and your business gets bigger, you have to ... http://www.jeremypaxton.co.uk/?p=273 The desire people have to own and have built one of these amazing Huf houses from Germany has finally reached Lower Mill Estate. I think Kevin McCloud is partly responsible for the Huf House as one of its greatest proponents on Grand Designs.  I see them as a kind of Mercedes Benz ... http://www.jeremypaxton.co.uk/?p=271 Guess what?  - there are no government incentives or grants at all for tread lightly – not really doing much are they? http://www.jeremypaxton.co.uk/?p=270 ‘I often forget for long periods that Lower Mill Estate is actually a family business,’ says Jeremy Paxton. ‘For me it’s where I live most of the time, where I and my family work and where I’ve concentrated almost two decades of passion and hard labour. I don’t even really ... http://www.jeremypaxton.co.uk/?p=269 There are, as has been famously said, known unknowns and unknown unknowns. One of the most remarkable things that has developed at Lower Mill Estate since its founding, and that Jeremy Paxton readily admits he wasn’t really expecting, is the way a real community has developed both on the estate as ... http://www.jeremypaxton.co.uk/?p=268 Hundreds of acres of lush, unspoilt Gloucestershire countryside to roam at will. Thousands of wildlife species to observe and enjoy. Lakes where even on a busy bank holiday, you can often row, fish or swim on your own. Groups of houses cosily nestled in among it all. It could almost be ... http://www.jeremypaxton.co.uk/?p=267 “This guy is worth watching he will be the UK’s young architect of the year I think – he did the hide for me before he qualified and it is genius” http://www.ardesignstudio.co.uk/images/estationery/newsletter0409.htm jeremy paxton http://www.jeremypaxton.co.uk/?p=260 There’s no question in my mind that over the next decade, energy performance is increasingly going to drive building. We had the Prince’s Trust down to see us the other day for first sight of a coming development at Lower Mill which is going to be known as Treadlightly. Treadlightly is going ... http://www.jeremypaxton.co.uk/?p=258 The first HUFHAUS at the Lower Mill Estate  - a fantastic opportunity to build pretty much any Hufhaus at the estate has opened up due to Richard Reid and I designing a fantastic south facing Island that is surrounded by water and can (when it shines) get all day sun. http://www.jeremypaxton.co.uk/?p=257