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3 Tips For Getting The Best Price When Selling Your Home
Selling your home can be a stressful time, and the one thing that can add to that is getting the right price for the house. While there are a lot of things that can decrease the value of your home, there are generally simple ways to fix them. Today we are going to look at a few of the things you can do to ensure you get the best possible price should you be selling your home. Image Credit – Pexels – CC0 Licence Declutter If there is one thing that puts buyers off and incentivizes them to lowball you, it’s having a house full of clutter. Now, why most…
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Decor That Makes You Go “Is It Kind Of Purple In Here?”
Purple, it’s a kind of unloved color. It’s not quite feminine like pink, but it’s not quite masculine like blue. It’s a kind of forgotten middle child. But does it have its place in the modern home? If you love to experiment with decor then yes it does. Even if you’re not too keen on the color, it can fit in with many other modern tones that you see all-around your home. The key is pairing it with colors that either elevate it or allow it to blend in. it’s also where you implement this color as well. You’re not going to paint your front door purple anytime soon, but…
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Preparing Your Garden For Winter
Image Winter is coming. It’s hard to let go of Game of Thrones after all this time, but of course that’s not the purpose of our post today. Winter really is coming, the year seems to have disappeared into the blue without a trace and many of us are struggling to keep up. The garden is an important place to think about as the winter draws near because many of the plants we love will go dormant for a winter and get ready to brace for harsher weather conditions. There are a lot of different things we can to do prepare for the winter season, and in the garden there…
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Is Your Home Ready For The Worst Of The Weather?
Winter is on the way but is your home prepared? Here are some of the things you need to think about before the cold weather kicks in. Pic Source CCS License Insulation The first step that you should think about is your home insulation. You can learn more about home insulation on https://www.canadahomeinsulation.ca/. If you have poor insulation, you’re going to find it incredibly difficult and expensive to keep your home warm over the winter months. So, how do you know if there is an issue with your insulation? Well, you can usually feel it. If you move your hand around the space close to the window panes, you…
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Oh, What To Do With That Spare Room?
Source – CC0 Licence For those lucky enough to have a big enough house with a spare room, do you actually make the most of it? A spare room is one of those gifts that we can give ourselves but they tend to be used for piling up all the clutter. A spare room can be so much more! What can you do with that spare room that doesn’t just make it more useful to the home, but can become a space that you (and everybody in the house) will gravitate towards? A Home Office You can take inspiration from a variety of rooms but if you find that you…
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Home Security Tips
*This is a sponsored post.* Image by Christo Anestev from Pixabay The holidays are soon approaching which means a lot of guests in and out of your home or long travel plans with the family. The holiday season are such a wonderful time of the year however statistics also indicate that burglaries around that time are also reported. It has a lot to do with that they are aware that there are plenty of gift in the home and probably extra money lying around. Did you know that according to the FBI there are over 400,00 burglaries that take place during the holiday season, including Thanksgiving and Christmas? There are ways for you…
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Building Your Own Home: The Pros And Cons
Guest post listing the pros and cons of building your own home.
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What Does It Take To Stay Sane While Restoring Your Home?
Pixabay – CC0 License Restoring a property isn’t easy. It takes time, money, and perseverance. It pays, therefore, to go in prepared. How can you pull off a successful home restoration and maintain your sanity at the same time? Check out these tips. Work To A Schedule When restoring a home, it’s all too easy to lose track of time. Sometimes even the smallest jobs can end up taking the better part of a week to complete. When this happens, it makes work drag on, seemingly endlessly, putting a downer on the whole project. Working to a schedule and keeping realistic time frames can help enormously. It won’t speed…
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Preparing For The Winter Wonderland
Pexels – CC0 License Winter is on its way, to try and avoid a sentence popularized by a famous television show. We can often feel the chill of autumn and feel comforted by its beautiful sepia tones, and then all of a sudden, Jack Frost enters the landscape and the world becomes white and dimly lit. For some, this is their favorite season. The idea of snow, cold, harsh winds and uncomfortable environments can lead the promise of an indoor cosy experience all the more beauty. There’s hardly anything more comfortable than sitting in a warm home, perhaps next to a fireplace, with a blanket around your legs, a tea…
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Four Things You Need In Place Before Renovating
Image via Pixabay – C00 Licence The decisions been made. You’ve looked at moving house, but realised that you love your current location – or you’ve just moved into a home that needs a lot of love to bring it back to life. Or you may have lived there a while and exhausted every other avenue to find more space in your home. Whatever path has led you there, you’re now looking at home renovation as a serious prospect. There’s no doubt that undertaking this kind of project can be extremely daunting – there’s a lot at stake after all. So before you plunge in, what do you really need…
