Property: BUY IT ALL CHEAPER; How you could save pounds 17k on big name brands.(Features)

From: Sunday Mirror (London, England) | Date: October 3, 2004 | Copyright information

NOELLE Walsh and her husband David Heslam saved over pounds 17,000 by furnishing their home entirely from factory shops and architectural salvage yards.

Now they are giving everyone the chance to make huge savings by revealing just how they did it on a new website called www.gooddealhouse.com

They show how they furnished a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house at Langford, in the Cotswolds, with past-season, slight seconds and returned goods which often cost only half of the new price.

Noelle says: "I have visited factory shops all over Britain from Gateshead to ...

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