Homes & Gardens

What to Consider Before Adding Colour to Your Home

Choosing a new colour for your home is much more than just picking something that looks good in isolation. You need a tone that reflects your style and complements the architecture. Before you start splashing paint on the walls, there are a few factors to think about that can help you make an...

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What Makes a Home Remodelling Project Successful?

Depending on who you ask and what the goals of the specific project is, the answer will vary, but there are certain core elements that can be held as key to the success of any home remodelling project. As it happens, the benchmarks are actually not that different for contractors or consumers in this case, which is why the following should feel relevant to both parties.

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Useful Tips For Selling Your Home Quickly

Selling your house isn't easy. Sometimes, you want to sell your house because you are relocating to a different city whereas at other times, you are upgrading to a bigger house and you need to sell your existing home quickly in order to get funds to close the deal on your next home. While there are several resources to sell your house, you also need to do some work on your own in order to...

Five Mistakes You're Probably Making When Cleaning Your Home

Everyone wants a sparklingly clean home. However, even if you believe that your cleaning skills are top notch, you are likely making a few common mistakes just like everybody else. In other words, your house could always be cleaner.

Here are a few errors that the vast majority of people make when giving their home some needed TLC.

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Five simple habits that make housework a breeze

Not many people find housework fun. Yes, there may be a few routines and tasks you find satisfying or therapeutic, but it’s rare for someone to have fun cleaning the house top to bottom. For those of us who can’t always muster the motivation to do the ironing or break out the vacuum, there needs to be as little friction involved in these actions as possible – otherwise, they might never get...

Five most effective ways to add value to your home

If you have just bought a new property and are wanting to put your own stamp on the place, or if you simply want to renovate your existing home, it is important to remember that you want to make changes that will add value to your home, as well as ones that you will enjoy living with.

Of course, you may not want to go to all the trouble and expense of adding an additional bedroom to...

House Prices on the Verge of Falling Further with No-Deal Brexit

The no-deal Brexit deal is causing jitters in the property market, regardless of whether you support or staunch Brexit. Though the terms of leaving the EU are not predictable, the Brexit’s uncertainty has already affected the property markets since 2016. Curious you might be, accurately predicting Brexit’s impact remains a challenging game, even for me.

According to the recent report...

4 hacks to improve your flooring

One of the major parts of home remodeling is flooring. The first difficult step is to find the right flooring for your house that complements the interior and décor of your house perfectly and the second step is to improve it to transform your home. Renovations to improve your house’s appeal can be pretty expensive sometimes especially when you are renovating the flooring. But, if you just...

Plymouth Home Renovation: Your Guide to Safety

Whether curating a luxury apartment in Millfields or rolling up your sleeves on a doer-upper in North Road West, Plymouth has plenty of property ripe for development. For those undertaking these renovations it is an exciting, but often chaotic time.

Amongst the chaos, including finalising designs, sourcing materials, briefing builders and getting sign off from building regulations,...

Home improvements that make life easier

Sometimes you’ll feel the urge to transform your home because you want a change. Sometimes it’ll be because you’re moving somewhere new and want to add some value before you sell. But other times, you might want to change your home because there’s a certain unnameable something that is making life just that little bit less enjoyable. Friction between your daily activities makes everything more...

How to Cost-Effectively Renovate Your Home

Big renovations like kitchens or bathrooms might add a lot of value to your home, but they could easily become massive mistakes without the correct planning. That is why they should be the last rooms you renovate. You need to work out on how you can improve the living areas of your home first so that you can decide on your style and understand your living habits intimately.

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