London basement attended the FocusPR media showcase in July 2011

Maggie Smith, London Basements Marketing manager, was interviewed during the event.

Christmas in July 2011 from Focus PR on Vimeo.

in common with many PR agencies – we hold a media showcase day, inviting journalists to come along and see what our clients have in store for the second half of the year. Quite often these events are focused on Christmas products so the media find themselves eating mince pies and wading through fake snow in the height of summer.

This year we decided to stand out from the crowd and have a village fete theme, complete with lucky dip and candy floss. Have a look at this film to see what clients and journalists got out of the day.

London Basement attended the FocusPR annual July event. The Village fete theme puts a new twist on Christmas in July media event.

Notable highlights were UKTV inviting new client London Basement Company to be a part of a new series they’re filming, ITV1′s LK Today looking to feature ShoeDazzle’s co-founder Kim Kardashian when the UK website officially launches in September and masses of interest from beauty writers in the new products from clients such as Eylure, Collection 2000 and Elegant Touch.

We are extremely proud of our own Carly Doyle, who ran in her 3^rd London Marathon and each year she has improved on her previous time, this year running it in an amazing 3 hours and 27 minutes (beating last years by an incredible 11 minutes).

London Basement and our suppliers (listed below) were delighted to sponsor Carly and she raised over £1,750.00 for her chosen charity, Shooting Star Chase (Hospice Care for Children) – http://www.shootingstarchase.org.uk/

Sponsors:

Carly and London Basement would like to thank the very generous sponsorship of the following companies:

Well done Carly, we are all very proud of you!

In the weekend edition of The Financial Times on 2 April 2011 there was an interesting article discussing the variety of options and solutions for wine storage and perfect cellaring conditions.

Their best solution was a basement conversion! This not only provides for an ideal wine cellar but also allows for a multitude of options for creating additional living space whilst keeping any wine collection in perfect conditions.

The full article can be found at: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/4e4a7238-5b20-11e0-b2a1-00144feab49a.html#axzz1IYXTuM2K

In September 2010 George Clarke published his new book, Home Bible, which is an exceptionally useful tool for those looking to make small and large changes to their homes, with helpful advice and tips and showing you how to make the most of your home’s potential.  We are very pleased to be involved in George’s own home project, part of which is the construction of a basement, the structural part of which is almost completed.

 George very kindly made a mention of london basement in his book and if you click on the attached link you will see an excerpt of what he has written.

We are pleased to announce our sponsorship of Barnes Rugby Football Club and would like to wish them every success for the 2010/2011 season.

We are very pleased to announce an exciting new investment deal for London Basement, which will add to it’s industry-leading reputation in basement development and construction.

The new company will be known as Holbase Ltd, trading as London Basement. This new venture is a partnership with long-established residential and commercial property development company the Hollybrook Group.

Bringing together these two great companies, with the solid reputation of London Basement as the market leader in basement construction, combined with the track record and experience of Hollybrook, going back over 20 years, it ensures we are well placed to take advantage of the upturn in conditions, and do what we do best, provide and deliver superb basement projects, in which we have unrivalled expertise.

We are very pleased to announce that we are soon to commence a basement construction for George Clarke, the presenter of the Home Show on Channel 4 on Thursday evenings at 8.00pm. If you would like to visit his web site, the address is www.georgeclarke.co.uk and under the heading My Tips, you will see an article about Basement Conversions and this explains better than anything why he chose London Basement.

London Basement recently held an “open day” at one of our sites in N.W. London, where architects, interior designers and clients, were invited along to enjoy some refreshments and have the opportunity to discuss their proposed projects with our experts on site, covering all aspects of a basement construction from the more technical through to design and finishes. There was also the rare opportunity of viewing a basement construction in progress at close hand, which all agreed was quite an experience and created a better understanding of what is involved.

The feedback has been extremely positive, with everybody telling us that they found it to be an extremely useful and informative event. Therefore, we will be putting plans in place to hold another event in the early Autumn.

With the property market at a low ebb we have found that more and more people have opted to invest in their own properties rather than go the expense of moving, particularly when in most cases it is the need for more space that is the deciding factor.

To illustrate the level of interest in basement construction since the start of the ‘credit crunch’, there has been a 20% increase in the first quarter of 2009, compared to the first quarter of 2008.

The creation of a basement floor level provides genuine living space, with the possibility of constructing a basement below the entire property and even beyond, i.e. under the garden and we can even dig down more than one level, to create all the additional living space required.

Apart from the savings in moving costs, stamp duty and the cost of the larger property, you get to stay in the home that you have probably already invested your time, love and money, perhaps in an area where you have children settled in school.