With skyrocketing electricity costs – a trend that doesn’t appear to be waning any time soon – more and more people are looking for ways to reduce their cooling costs and cool their homes naturally. Here are five tips for keeping your home nice and cool this summer. Put them into practice today and spend your precious money on more important things in life. Continue Reading
It’s about to get warm and the snow is going to be melting before you know it. One of the hottest new trends in outdoor living over the past two years has been safety Glass Pool Fencing for your patio and outdoor swimming pool. The key benefit for this Spring and Summer is the fact that you can spruce up the way your backyard looks while also improving the value of your property. All of the homeowners who have installed these frame-less glass railing solutions have found that this is really a new and innovative way to add value to your home while also making it safer for your children, pets, and guests. Continue Reading
Everyone’s at it these days, with house prices rising even higher compared to our hard earned wages, they are redecorating their house to make the best of what they already have, and in so doing, are upping the value also to maximize their valuable assets.
The room we now spend the most in by far is the kitchen. Once just a place for cooking and washing and eating, it has now turned into a sleek modern living “space” – An open plan extravaganza of gleaming taps and tiles, fabulous work surfaces, industrial fridges and modern day ranges but still keeping enough space for children to play and adults to sprawl out on comfy sofas while their trained doggies bring them their designer sheepskin slippers.
At least, that’s the sort of fantasy kitchen you might find in fabulous Interiors shops mysteriously tucked into cute corners with glorious front windows, in boho chic neighborhoods, but which mainly cost megabucks. However reports show that actually we really are all spending a fortune, with a recent report by a well known Bank revealing we as homeowners can splurge up to a whopping £5,000 on our kitchens alone… Continue Reading
Garden design is an art. There are hundreds of different styles to choose from, some of which stem from ancient cultures such as the Japanese and Chinese. Figuring out how to get the balance right between plants, flowers, trees, water and natural materials is incredibly difficult and a lot of it depends on what someone’s personal taste is. An added difficulty in today’s world, however, is that space is incredibly limited, particularly in larger cities. Luckily, good town and city garden design companies exist to help you work with limited spaces and create an oasis of beauty.
Japanese interior design arrived in the west during the mid 19th century, Victorian era when trade opened up. However, it was actually discovered by the west in the 16th century. Continue Reading
