Homes & Gardens

Where Should You Begin When Planning Your New Modern Kitchen?

Planning a new modern kitchen? Revamping your kitchen can make a huge difference to how your home both looks and feels as such an important space. Additionally, modernising the kitchen is one of the best ways to add value and make your home more appealing to potential buyers. This post will guide you through a few of the main steps involved in modernising your kitchen. Read on to find out more.

Envisioning Your Dream: Style, Function, & Lifestyle

First, you need to consider what your ideal kitchen looks like. This means thinking about what style you want to adopt,...

Liv Butler

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Planning permission: Protecting the environment and building your dream home

Authored by Simon Wells
Posted: Wed, 12/15/2021 - 8:04am

When you're in a position to build your dream home, starting the project can be a daunting prospect. You will need to consider many things, from surveys to getting planning permission and setting your budget to beginning construction. But, how do you get started? In this article, we'll cover everything you need to know in order to build your dream home while protecting the environment.

Finding the Right Plot

There are many types of buildings you might be dreaming of turning into a home for you and your family, but the first step is finding the right plot when it comes to...

What type of paintings should be in a living room?

Authored by Val Watson
Posted: Wed, 12/15/2021 - 7:43am

The truth is, the only limitation in choosing a painting for a living room is your imagination and budget. Art adds the final touch to the room, shows your personality, and captures the essence of the room design. You’ll make a conversation about it with every single visitor at your house. It's good to choose a painting that’s consistent both with the house design and your personality. Follow this guide to learn how to do it.

Create a Visual Balance

Pay attention to balance. Choose a painting in a similar colour palette, art genre and size, as the rest of the room. If your room...

Hiring a house extension architect

Authored by Simon Wells
Posted: Tue, 12/14/2021 - 11:18pm

Architects play a massive role from project inception and design to completion. Finding the best architect can be the difference that makes your extension project stand out. Most of the time, people avoid contracting architects in a bid to cut down on costs.

Hiring an architect can be quite expensive. However, this shouldn’t deter you from hiring one to oversee your extension project. A great extension can add value to your house or project. More often than not, the extra fees you pay to hire an architect will be well worth it.

If you're planning to hire an architect for...

GPS dog fences: A beginner's guide

Authored by Simon Wells
Posted: Sun, 12/12/2021 - 6:56am

Are you an animal lover? Do you own a pet dog that loves to run around? The truth is, most dogs love to spend time outdoors playing a game or two of fetch but in the world we live in, there are so many dangers lurking in the environment; some are hidden while others are quite obvious.

If you are a homeowner, and your entire property is fully fenced in such a way that your dog cannot leave the vicinity, then you can let your dog run around the compound unsupervised. But happens when a guest forgets to lock the backyard door and your dog runs away, or what do you do when you need...

Lower-income households invited to apply for free energy efficiency improvements to their homes

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 12/10/2021 - 5:14pm

Lower-income householders across Devon can benefit from free energy efficiency improvements to their home worth thousands of pounds.

Devon County Council has formed a partnership with other councils in the region to offer homeowners and tenants the chance to save on energy bills and lower the emissions of their property.

More than 40 per cent per cent of Devon’s carbon emissions are caused by the buildings we live and work in.

Now the Green Homes Grants Scheme, funded by Government, is available to Devon residents such as pensioners, who have an annual household...

7 Cleaning mistakes that are actually unsafe

Authored by Ellie Green
Posted: Sun, 12/05/2021 - 11:07pm

Cleaning your home isn't just about making it look good. It's also about making your home a safer and healthier place . Often, we unknowingly make mistakes while cleaning that are not the safest things to do. That's what I am going to discuss here.

I will go through 7 common cleaning mistakes people make that aren't safe. The purpose of knowing these is to avoid them. So, without wasting any more time, let's get going.

Now, these are some general mistakes anyone can make, and it's easy to avoid them as well. What's more important is that you don't make these mistakes...

The top 4 reasons to invest in an invisible dog fence

Authored by Liv Butler
Posted: Sun, 12/05/2021 - 10:53pm

An invisible dog fence is an electrically charged fence placed underground to keep your dog within a confined area in your yard. The fence is digitally connected to a transmitter in your house and a receiver on your dog's collar to keep him from going beyond the set boundaries. This article discusses why you should invest in an invisible dog fence. To learn more about the benefits, reading further.

It is cheaper than a physical fence

Constructing and maintaining physical fences can be pricey. If you compare the cost of buying materials and installing the physical fence, you will...

Capturing The Country Vibe In Your City Home

Authored by BHTNews.com
Posted: Sat, 12/04/2021 - 10:36am

I’m from the countryside, a town surrounded by hills and lakes and sheep, but like many of my peers, I now live in the city.

It’s a reality of work. Sometimes you may have to compromise for a while when you are getting established within your profession.

With that being said, you don’t have to live in a super sleek modernist apartment just because that’s what the apartments to the left and right of you look like.

If you’re going to be city-based for the next few years, why not bring in that country aesthetic, make it your home away from home. We all get homesick...

Tenant referencing: What can affect it, and how to protect your profile

Authored by Liv Butler
Posted: Fri, 12/03/2021 - 6:27pm

If you are a tenant of rented property in the UK, you are highly likely to have been subjected to a referencing process in order to successfully start your tenancy. Tenant referencing is a fact of the market, and a powerful tool landlords use to ensure that prospective tenants are not only legally allowed to rent property, but a safe bet for property maintenance and prompt rent payment. The state of your tenant reference check when applying to rent a new property can have a number of ramifications for your chances – but what are they, and how can you address them?

Why does tenant...

The eco-friendly way to save money - recycling and reusing furniture

With the rising awareness of environmental issues, many people are looking for ways to make a difference and help save the planet. This awareness has created the idea of an eco-friendly lifestyle. An eco-friendly lifestyle is about minimising your impact on the environment and making sure you are conscious of what happens to any waste that is created. There are many ways you can do to implement an eco-friendly lifestyle such as practising recycling, reusing and repurposing items.

One way for homeowners to live a greener lifestyle is by repurposing furniture items they already...

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