In many homes, the porch is the first thing a visitor notices when pulling into your driveway. If your porch is run-down or shabby, with chipping paint or torn screens, it reflects poorly on your entire home. Make your home look beautiful inside and out by overhauling your porch. A porch renovation … [Read more...]
Your “One-Stop Shop” Spring Cleaning Checklist
For many, spring is a time of great excitement, renewal and promise of warmer weather and greengrass. For others, the word “spring” strikes fear into their hearts, because of another word that is forever combined with it: cleaning. Over the winter clutter accumulates, the floor under couches and … [Read more...]
Create Your Own In-Home Pool Hall
If you’re ready to build your own pool hall, you’re in good company. For over 500 years, royalty and commoners alike have enjoyed the game of billiards. The game originated in France in the 1400s and was played outdoors like croquet. Over time, the game grew in popularity throughout Europe, and … [Read more...]
5 DIY Tips I Need to Stop Ignoring
This is a guest post from Pete. Pete Wise is a content developer and white-hat SEO Jedi. This article was written for Discount Decorating Online who sell deeply discounted wallpaper and wallpaper borders. Follow Pete on twitter: @MySEOHeadache Hi, my name is Pete, and I consider myself a bit of … [Read more...]
Get Creative – How to Nurture Creative People
How to Nurture Creative People in a Creative Office Space A drab office environment is as uninspiring as one that jars with clashing colours and furniture, one that’s cluttered and cramped or one that’s dark and depressing. Stagnant surroundings are the enemy of creativity and savvy office … [Read more...]
How to Build a Greenhouse Plans
If you need to build a greenhouse, it's fairly easy to find how to build a greenhouse plans for you to do so. The plans that are available for greenhouses range from small patio greenhouses for plant hobbyists to larger commercial greenhouses for farmers. One of the things that most people … [Read more...]
8 Great Ways to Save on Home DIY Projects
In our tough economical times, people everywhere are tightening belts: driving less, eating at home more, clipping coupons, and cutting corners. One of the corners people most often cut first is home improvement. Spreading the wealth and hiring others to do projects is a luxury few can afford today, … [Read more...]
Interior Design – Previous Trends and Predictions for 2011
The advent of TV shows like Changing Rooms in the 1990s changed forever the way people in the UK thought about their homes. People became more confident in using DIY products themselves rather than hiring in a painter and decorator, and also became bolder about selecting colours and furniture or … [Read more...]
A Do-It-Yourself Project In The Garage
My family and I have lived in this house for near on ten years. The kids are growing up fast and we need some more living space. We are quite fortunate to have enough bedrooms - that is why we chose this house in the beginning. The only problem is we only have one living room, so we struggle to meet … [Read more...]
Home is Where the CPR Is!
Did you know that in the UK at least more people are killed in accidents in the home than die on the roads? 76 people are killed in domestic accidents every week compared with 66 in road accidents, according to Department of Trade and Industry figures and more than 2.8 million people needed … [Read more...]
Top 5 Home Improvement Tips for 2011
Home owners all over Europe love to remodel and spruce up their homes in order to make them the place of their dreams. Even in tough economic times, DIY home repairs still continue to thrive. But it's during these tough economic times that we can use all the help we can get in saving a little bit of … [Read more...]
DIY Floor Plans with Autodesk Free Online Software
For the DIY kinda' guys, here's a software from Autodesk, it's free and it's best suited for drawing floor plans and seeing them in a 3d View right away. Autodesk Project Dragonfly I've stumbled the other day on this little piece of wonder. It's basically everything you need to design your … [Read more...]
DIY Tile Design: Modular Decor Kits
Somewhere between a do-it-yourself textile kit and a make-your-own craft set, these small tiles can be assembled into anything from modest wall art and modular play forts to suspended light and sound barriers. There is only one piece in this simple puzzle from Kvadrat: a single module that can … [Read more...]
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