Ways To Improve Your Home’s Curb Appeal

When it comes time to place your house on the market, the buyer’s first impressions are everything.  It’s estimated that around sixty three percent of homebuyers usually find the home they are most interested in by utilizing some sort of online medium.  This means that the curb appeal of your home could lose you the potential of a sale before the buyer ever has the chance to see the inside of your home.  Don’t make this mistake.  Here are a few simple and inexpensive ways to boost your Read more [...]

Eight ways to increase the value of your property

With the price of property continuously increasing and it becoming harder than ever to get onto the property ladder, according to lettings and management specialists Leo Newman, it makes sense to look for ways to increase the value of your home. Below are eight of the most effective and economically beneficial ways to make the most out of your property by increasing its worth through a number of different methods.  Create space- Recently there has seen a trend showing anything within a Read more [...]

Creating the Perfect In Style Bedroom

Have you been dreaming of having that perfect space to call your own? Do you see pictures of bedrooms online and in magazines and wish that you could do this on your own? These are the tips and tricks that you need to know to create the perfect in style bedroom for your home. Tips to Create the Bedroom of Your Dreams Know Your Style The first thing that you have to if you want the bedroom that you have always dreamed of is have a good idea of what your style is. If you do not know the style Read more [...]

The lowdown on mold

Mold is essentially a fungus that grows from tiny, microscopic, airborne spores. To grow and flourish, mold spores like a dark, damp area and a source of food, such as dust. Both of those criteria are beautifully met in the average basement. The truth is, most basements have some sort of mold in them, but not all mold spores are created equal. Some are much more dangerous than others. The most common indoor molds are alternaria, cladosporium, aspergillus and penecilliumm which are the most benign Read more [...]

Tips for Designing Your Home to Avoid Baby-Proofing

When bringing children into a home, making the environment safe for them is of the utmost importance. Because of this, many people spend hours and hundreds of dollars working to baby-proof their homes before they bring in any little ones. However, if you’ve worked hard to design and decorate your home to your liking before you had children, you may find that making changes to accommodate a child won’t keep the coherent look you’ve mastered. To avoid this problem, consider designing your home Read more [...]

Multi-purpose decorating ideas for your living room- Transform it to a place worth living

A 160 square-foot living space might seem like a decent and average size until you realize that it should function as a lounge dining room, family room and home office. Creating a major design that can be functional in multiple ways and also aesthetically pleasing at the same time can become a major challenge for a homeowner. Although there are few designing elements that can help you with creating maximum space out of a small room, yet not many of us are aware of them. So, in case you’re looking Read more [...]

Spring Clean your Garden

As the days begin to grow a little longer, the promise of some sunshine (however weak) is enough to get us up and outside after a long, dark winter. Whilst the weather is still changeable, we can spend more time outdoors and get the garden in good shape for the summer. Swell UK have a broad range of pond essentials from pond filters to pruning scissors to see you and your garden through every season. February Planting can’t begin with earnest as frost is still very likely, but you can Read more [...]

Winter warming interior designs

When it comes to getting ready for a cold and blustery winter, changing summer cottons for woolly knits is a definite requirement. Preparing the home for wintertime may not be the first thought as the temperature falls, but taking a few steps to getting interiors ready for winter will ensure the home remains a cozy refuge throughout the long, dark season. Beating the winter chill The key to maintaining a warm interior during the colder months is to embrace cozier textures and warmer colors. Warming Read more [...]

Top 5 Easy Tips to Darken The Bedroom

We all know that sleeping is an important part of daily life and health. But did you also know that the kind of sleep you get can have an affect on your health? In fact, sleeping in a room with too much light can not only disturb your sleep patterns, but it can actually lead to adverse health effects in both the long and short term. A 2009 study published in Behavioral Brain Research journal showed that sleeping in a lighted room at night can lead to a wide variety of health problems, such as Read more [...]