Interiors
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Things You Need to Keep Your Home in the Best Shape
Whether you’ve bought your home to live in or as a means to make rental income from, it’s likely one of the biggest investments you make, at least until you expand your property portfolio. Because you spend so much on a house, it makes sense to keep it in top shape any way you can. Not only will this help to preserve its value, but it also means you’re less likely to need to spend big on future repair costs. While maintaining your home might seem challenging, it’s worth it in the long run. Provided you’re able to dedicate a few hours a week to general maintenance, you should be…
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How To Decorate A Room With A Sloping Ceiling
Rooms with sloping ceilings can present a challenge to homeowners searching for the best way to decorate their homes. Traditional furniture does not fit very well in rooms that feature sloping ceilings which means that, in order to make the most of the available space, you need to be extra creative with the way you decorate and layout your room. From getting a sloping ceiling fitted wardrobe installed to using skylights and mirrors, we cover the best ways to decorate a room with a sloping ceiling in this post. Are you ready to start decorating? Let’s go! Choose Light Colours When Decorating If you want to make a room seem…
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6 ways to update your kitchen
I don’t know about you, but I spend a lot of time in my kitchen. I’m the person who does most of the cooking and I spend a lot of my free time baking delicious recipes including biscuits and cakes. I can often be heard telling my husband and kids to keep out of “my kitchen” as they only just get in the way when I’m busy. It is my space and I have everything in its place in the room just as I like it. That being said it will soon be due an update as it’s been a good few years since we did anything other than give…
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What Our Perfect Gaming Retreat Would Have
We are a family of gamers. I love to play on my Xbox, my husband has a PC and the boys each have a console of their own too. We are short on space in our house so we don’t have a designated room for gaming, but it is on our list of must haves for when/if we move in the future. A gaming set up So, I say a set up. It would probably be more than one set if I’m being honest. Matthew already has his gaming PC, but he would love a new desk and chair, it would need to be big enough to house his speakers,…
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How to Make Your Kitchen Bigger Without Moving
The kitchen is such an important part of a family home. As families grow, the amount of space needed in a kitchen increases too. If moving isn’t an option, how do you even begin to make more room in your kitchen? There are a number of tips and tricks you can employ to make the best use of your space and maximise what you’re working with. Whether you have the capacity and budget to extend or you’re restricted to working with what you already have, there are plenty of techniques that help make your kitchen as space-efficient as possible. Add an Extension If you have the budget and ground space…
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Top Tips To Childproof Your Home Without Losing Your Style
Childproofing is a necessary part of living with children; you want to keep your children as safe as possible after all. However, often the childproofing items and accessories that initially pop up on online searches are all extremely obvious and unsightly products. If you want to learn how to childproof your home without losing your home’s style, keep reading. Set some rules, even if your child is very young. If you’re babyproofing your home, it’s likely you’re setting about creating a safe environment for your crawler or toddler to explore. It’s safe to say that there will, of course, be areas that are off-limits. Maybe there’s an area that has…
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Amtico Brings the Edge to Your Home
You may have heard people rage all about Amtico, but it’s important to understand just why people have this love for a luxury vinyl flooring product in particular. Amtico has become synonymous with luxury wood effect vinyl flooring – and it’s not just wood effect that is all the rage as they also cover stone, slate, marble and many other replicated designs for flooring. It’s seen huge advancements in the commercial sector by providing shops, offices and other businesses with a durable and cheaper alternative – but it is within its domestic vinyl flooring that imagination has evolved. Its perfect replication of woods and stones, as well as its abstract…
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Easy Ways to Update Your Teenager’s Bedroom
Are you looking to update your child’s bedroom but not sure where to start? Keep reading on for some helpful tips. It can be a difficult period for your child when they transition from a child to a teenager. It can cause many arguments between us, the parents, and them, as they think they know better than we do. They are trying to find themselves and in doing so you may notice that they change the way they look, the friends they hang out with and the things that interest them. Their bedroom might still be childish in appearance, and they might want to change it. This can be a…
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5 Ways to Make Your Bedroom Extra Cosy This Winter
Winter nights are long and cold, and it seems like a long time before the lighter nights and fairer weather of spring returns especially once Christmas and the New Year have been and gone. We spend more time in our homes during the winter months, so it’s important that its warm, comfortable, and inviting. On cold evenings, I love nothing better than a lovely, warm bath followed by snuggling up in a blanket with a hot chocolate, my Kindle, and a film on in the background. Sometimes I’ll watch downstairs; other times I’ll take my hot chocolate to bed and get comfy in my bed – I won’t lie I…
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How to Find Your Personal Interior Style
After an extended period of time spent indoors, its understandable to feel like your home might need a refresh. Where this previously might have meant expensive interior design specialists to realise a vision, the democratisation of interior design and the rise of Instagram and Pinterest mean that homeowners have more resources available than ever before to take their home’s décor into their own hands. But you might be struggling to figure out what makes you tick design-wise. Look no further – here we’ll discuss ways to think about your new interior, and how to decorate it. Research, Research, Research The first step to any interior redesign journey is research. Pinterest…