DIY Website for House Enthusiasts
We all love our houses, and at one time or another spend time doing DIY on them. Now there is a website (www.TheHouseArchive.com) devoted to houses that enables you to "do your own" web pages about your house. New or old, DIY-ed to death or untouched, there are millions of houses in the UK worth celebrating and this website enables you to play your part by celebrating your house (or any house you have been connected with at some point in your life).
Martin Ludlow of The House Archive, says, "we treasure our houses, and even the most mundane houses contain beautiful craftmanship, incorporate features that tell us how people lived and thought in the past, and have the imprint of many occupants over time. They are worth celebrating and publicising. This site was created to enable everyone to do that".
The House Archive website's content is provided by contributions from ordinary householders, local historians and anyone else with an interest in the houses in their area. We all know interesting facts about our houses and the houses we have been in contact with through our lives; and most of us have old documents and photographs of our current and past houses. Now these things can be put onto this website for others, including local historians and people thinking of moving to an area, to see.
Martin Ludlow further comments, "we have designed the website so that minimal computer skills are needed to add content to the site - if you can use a computer to type a letter, you can add text and pictures, create a webpage for your house and create links to other pages. We want everyone who owns a house of some interest (to themselves, their families, people in their local area, or nationally) to create a webpage for their house. We also encourage people to add content to the pages others have created, where they have relevant pictures or know something about the history of other houses.
"The House Archive website is essentially a collaboration between thousands of people living all over the UK and, by recording what they know of their own and others' houses, we will create a constantly-growing archive of the UK's housing stock. The householder gains by being able to present their house in the most advantageous light, and the local historian gains by having access to a wealth of information never before available".
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