As the weather gets warmer and we all have a bit more spring in our step, this time of year is a popular time to pack up and move house. If you want to congratulate a relative or a friend on moving house, a special note or card is always an appreciated gesture. Here are this month’s top card design pics:
Geri’s Pick
“With many of my own friends moving out and settling down in a home of their own, this design is perfect as its cute, contemporary and a great choice for a young couple.”
Dom’s Pick
“I like the humour in this card, which would be ideal for one of my friends who has recently moved out of his parents house into an impressive pad of his own...not that I’m jealous of course!’’
Are you planning on moving house any time soon? Here are our favourite facts about houses:
- Truro, Inverness and Norwich are three of the best rated and most popular places to live in the UK.
- Mukesh Ambani is the fifth richest man in the world who owns the first ever billion dollar home in Mumbai, which stands at a whopping 27 stories high.
- One of the world’s smallest houses is situated in London, and went on sale last year for £275,000, but measured at just 7ft wide.
- In Scotland, it’s traditional for homeowners to paint their front doors red once they have paid off their mortgage.
- According to old superstition, there is a myth that if a bird flies into a house it means that a death could follow.
- Rural Indians spend many months leading up to the monsoon season building huts made out of faeces, which are used to live in and store cooking fuel. Yuck!
- The average Briton moves around eight times in one lifetime and will move around three times whilst in their 20’s.
- Star Carr, a place near Scarborough in North Yorkshire contains what is believed to be the remains of Britain's oldest house. The house dates back to around 10,000 years ago, when Britain was still attached to the rest of Europe.
