- Make The Most of Your Home With Fabulous Lighting
Good lighting is essential if you're to make the most of your interiors and it's the first thing you should think about when doing up a room. - Is a Celebrity Lurking in Your Kitchen?
The world's obsession with celebrity is as strong as ever. In fact its growing, with more and more celebrity endorsed products on the market. These include beauty products, homeware, designer diffusion clothing lines and now... kitchenware. - Drains and Guttering - Oh the Glamour!
Drains may not excite you in the same way as wooden flooring or voile curtains, but it's vital to keep them in good order. Otherwise the glamorous home you've created could end up ankle deep in sewage. - Put Some "Va Va Voom" Back Into Your Homes!
Chilli hot red! Burnt orange! Aubergine! Pea green! Sky blue! Its time to put some colour back in our homes. - Clean Up Your Act With Fitted Furniture!
Carpenters aren't just the stars of bible stories - they are busy sawing, hammering and sanding today, still creating both practical and ornamental features in our homes. - Don't Let Your Kitchen Be a Danger Zone
Kitchens may be affectionately billed as the social hub of the home, but they are also a potentially lethal mix of knives, fire, gas and bacteria. - Encourage Visitors to Your Garden
Is your garden your oasis? If so then how can you encourage others to join you? Frogs, birds and insects all need a home and with minimal effort you can invite them into your garden and watch them help you maintain it. - Three Cheers for Labourers!
The unsung hero of a builder's team is the labourer. He doesn't have a high profile and his contributions to a building project are rarely publicly recognised, so who are labourers, what do they do and can anyone be one? - Offline Business Directories are Out - Online directories are In!
Business directories have always been useful if you remember the name of a restaurant, shop or electrician but can't find the telephone number. But what if you're new to an area and you're starting from scratch? - Could You Do Your Job On Stilts?
Plastering is a skill that takes a lot of training. Its one of the jobs that's difficult for a DIY enthusiast to turn his hand to. You can't do little bits and keep going back to do more. You need to know what you're doing, brace yourself and go for it all at once! - Building Work - It's Just a Big Jigsaw
First fix? Second fix? What does it all mean? You look forward to gutting your new home and doing it all up but you don't understand the process. That's a risky place to be, so get yourself familiar with what your builder is up to and learn how the elements of a building project fit together. - Wet Rooms Are an Exciting Bathroom Concept!
Wet rooms are an exciting bathroom concept - sleek and streamlined they are a spa-like haven, with minimalist fuss-free design. - Fancy Becoming a Plumber? Here is What it Takes!
Plumbing is a highly qualified, skilled profession so how do you get yourself started? Firstly be patient. It takes three years or more to gain the basic qualifications and you should then work with an experienced plumber for at least a couple of years before starting up on your own. You need knowledge, skills and experience all of which take time to develop. - Roofs are Helping the Planet and Go Going Green!
We've all heard of slate roofs, tiled roofs even thatched roofs. But green roofs? Thousands of square metres of otherwise redundant space can be planted up to absorb carbon dioxide, release oxygen, insulate our buildings and more. - Gardens Are a Magical Part of Family Life!
Gardens are a magical part of family life. Some outdoor space, however limited, is a real bonus when you have children. A space to run around in, play with a ball and learn to dig, water and nurture plants is really beneficial to kids growing up. - Climate Change Will Inevitably Lead to Changes in The Garden
Climate change is taking its grip on our lives and that includes our gardens. So it makes sense to confront the issue and plan your garden accordingly. While some traditional plants may find the changing conditions tough to cope with others will thrive. - Kid-Friendly Bathrooms
Hooray it's bathtime! The highlight of any kid's day - all those splashes, bubbles and squirty toys are hard to beat. So if you're doing up your bathroom to cater for your children's needs think about how you can make bathtime even more fun and the room a safe and happy part of your home. - Rooftop Gardens Are Oasis In The Sky
Rooftop gardens are surprising, impressive and fun. Maybe it's because they are so counter-intuitive that people view them with admiration and wonder. They are a step away from reality. An organic, natural phenomenon in a completely unnatural place.
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