Top Tips For A Family Room Makeover

If there’s a room that has to be multi-functional, it’s your family room. Unfortunately, that means it tends to be the room in the house that falls victim to both design flaws, and day-to-day mess. Because a family room is, by definition, everyone’s space, it tends to get messy, cluttered, and disorganized easily. If you don’t want your family room to become an all-purpose storage space, you might try following these design tips. They will help you turn your family room into a beautiful, functional space that welcomes the whole family. Think About How You Want To Use the Space…

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Where Do You Find Inspiration for Home Renovations?

Home renovations can be some of the most demanding projects that we’ll ever perform on our home, but they’re also capable of completely changing the perception we have of our home and adding some fundamental changes that can overhaul how we use our homes. As a result, it’s a good idea to get some inspiration before calling up a contractor and asking them for help. But where exactly do we get inspiration from? There are actually plenty of different sources where we can get inspiration for a home renovation, and we’re going to list a couple of the best places…

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Top Tips For A Low Maintenance Garden

I’ve mentioned before that the main reason we came to initially view our house was because of the garden. My husband knew it was a decent size and as we were planning a family home that definitely appealed to us. I don’t think either of us realised quite how big it was. As lovely as it is having a big garden it can be very time consuming, and as busy parents of two little boys, who both work full time we don’t have the time required to dedicate to a high maintenance garden. When we were planning the extension one…

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Living Room Lighting Guide

The living room is a place to relax, unwind and spend time with the family. It’s where you snuggle up with a good book, host parties, watch a film and open presents on Christmas and birthdays. The room is multi-functional, so your lighting needs to be too. This guide will tell you everything that you need to know about lighting in your living room. You need to have three types of lighting in your living room – ambient, accent and task. Ambient lighting is designed to provide the room with its overall illumination, task lighting is for the different ‘work…

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The Finishing Touches: All the love for pink and copper

We’ve been back at home about 6 weeks now and life is starting to get back to normal.  There is still a lot left to be done (I’m currently sat in my un-tiled kitchen) but most of this is adding the homely, finishing touches to each room. For so long we had a brown and cream base to our home and I love that very little of that remains but what it does mean is that a lot of our home accessories no longer go.  The main colours are now off-white, grey and navy and I’ve found myself drawn to…

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