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7 Expensive Exterior Design Mistakes To Avoid
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4 Easy Ways To Create A Rustic Look For Your Living Room
Pexels So what exactly can we define as a rustic look? In an interior design sense, a rustic look is intended to have a charming and natural quality to it; often relying on rough textures and a deliberately unfinished quality. A rustic design will use old wood, natural colours, beautifully messy textures and vintage feels. Such a design often relies upon giving already functional objects different uses. (Vases made out of vintage wine bottles for instance)! If you’re looking for some easy ways to create a rustic vibe in your living room, read on! Pexels Exposed brick Exposed brick is a gorgeously rustic look for any living room space.…
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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…
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Three Ways To Find More Space In Your Home
Image via Pexels – C00 Licence Ever get the feeling that you’re simply running out of space? As our lives and circumstances change, we tend to fill up the spaces that we have and find that things are getting a little bit snug. Whether it’s wanting extra space at home to start up your own business, or even planning a family, the solution doesn’t have to involve a costly and stressful house move. There are a variety of things you can do to enhance the space of your home – from quick and easy projects that you can tackle in a weekend to big remodelling works. It all depends on…
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Creating a Luxury Feel in Your Home on a Budget
Giving your home that little bit of added luxury needn’t be hard or even expensive. Even if you have a limited budget there are so many things you can to do add a little bit of glamour and give your home a more high-end feel to it without the high price tag that can be associated with luxury. Image Credit: Pexels CC0 License. In some cases, less is more. You don’t need to go overboard when it comes to adding items to your home. A few statement pieces that complement your interior style can really add that wow factor and give a focal point to different rooms and areas of…
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Redoing The Design Of Your Home By Yourself
Renovating a house is a big task, but it’s one that many homeowners have to face at some point. You might have looked after your humble abode very well, but time takes its toll on any household after enough years have passed. Paint starts to fade, bathroom tiles get chipped, and design pieces start to look dated. Still, you might not have the funds to hire a team of professionals to help give your home a makeover. Is a DIY approach possible for an amateur or even a beginner in the world of household renovation? Yes. Let’s talk about how you could start redoing the design of your home by…
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Interesting Additions That’ll Lift Your Home
Lifting your home to that next level and getting more out of it is more possible than you think. There are lots of steps you can take and new ideas you can implement, and we want to talk about some of them today. Whether it means making your home more comfortable, more tech savvy or better at helping you to stay fit and healthy; there are so many potential changes, but these are the five of the best. Create an Outdoor Cinema One cool thing that’s actually pretty easy to achieve is adding an outdoor cinema to your garden. All you need is a projector and an old bed…
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The Easy Way To Modernize A Period Property
Period properties are very much in fashion now. Even though they usually need a bit of work doing to them, especially if the previous owners haven’t kept their home in a good condition, it’s usually worth it as investing well into the home can help push its value up. When you do buy a period property, you will have two main choices: do you stick to a vintage style and bring it back to its original former glory, or should you revamp it and bring it into the 21st century? Most homeowners decide to go with the latter option. This is usually the most favorable option as period properties that…
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Making Your Home’s Protection Into A Design Statement
(Image Source) No one likes the idea of letting their home get damaged. Whether you are worried about the weather, time, or the threat which other people can pose, keeping your property safe is a goal which almost everyone shares. Of course, though, achieving this isn’t always easy. If you don’t put the time into the right areas, you can easily find yourself in a bad spot. To help you out with this, this post will be exploring these three threats, giving you an idea of what you can do to protect yourself from them while also making your home look great in the process. The Weather The weather…
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Book Review: Rock Stars at Home
Remember MTV Cribs? Is that still on? Anyway, I remember watching when I was younger and getting a glimpse inside the homes of celebrities. The tour, usually given by the star themselves, showed their giant houses and almost always showed off some fancy pool out back. Sometimes the houses were super classy and sometimes they were really over the top or eccentric, but it was always interesting to see. Rock Stars at Home gives readers a glimpse inside the homes of famous rock stars like Freddie Mercury, David Bowie, Elvis, and others. I think rock stars always have the most eccentric homes! The book details these stars’ homes like Freddie Mercury’s…
