A rash of tragic incidents involving the accidental drowning of very young children in backyard pools has prodded the NSW government to require owners of swimming pools to comply with stricter swimming pool laws by April 2014, but that deadline for compliance has just been postponed for another 12 months.
Pets bring a lot of joy to the family. You and your kids love to play with them, and there’s just something about pets that helps bring down your stress levels after a hard day’s work. You may be really exhausted at the end of the day, but once your cat or dog jumps onto your lap, you can feel your worries melt away with every stroke of your beloved pet’s fur.
Unfortunately, apart from joy and de-stressing, pets also bring other stuff with them. With their litter and their fur, our pets can make keeping your home smelling and feeling clean and fresh a little more difficult than usual. It is, however, not impossible to do. Here are a few tips we’d like to share about keeping a home with pets fresh.
We could be living in a small apartment or a humongous mansion, but there will always be that seemingly insatiable need for more space. That’s why people who live in houses big or small are always trying to find ways to maximise space at home in order to make it feel more spacious and welcoming.
You’ll certainly be surprised how much space you really have once you make an effort to maximise space at home, even if you’re just living in a studio apartment. To help you out, we’d like to offer these tips to maximise space at home.
Whenever we hear the word ‘zoning’, the thing that readily comes to mind is that device used by local governments in developed countries for land-use planning purposes. What you probably don’t know is that the concept of zoning can also be applied within your home to help you organise and arrange everything about it. An article by Naomi Findlay for RealEstate.com.au talks at length about zoning in your home.
Congratulations! In a just a short while, you will be welcoming the newest addition to your family. By now, you should have already prepared his or her room. If you still haven’t, we’d like to share some tips for preparing your baby’s room to help you make sure that your baby’s room will have everything that it needs.
The new year brings a fresh start that more often than not inspires new home improvement ideas. Nothing spells “fresh start” better than to get home improvement projects up and rolling . These projects don’t even have to be big ones. They can be quick, simple and should not cost you that much.
Whether it’s done in a high-traffic area or a barely used room in your house, painting adds a pop of colour and a fresh clean feel to your walls. If you’re painting newbie, don’t hesitate to ask for tips from people working at the paint store, from colours to do to painting techniques that will make the job easier and faster for you.
If painting is too much work, then perhaps putting up wallpapers might do the trick for you. Many of the wallpapers available in stores today are very chic, and they certainly would make amazing accent walls. Plus, the choices are simply amazing. You can get wallpapers with texture, wallpapers with retro patterns, metallic wallpapers and many more.
Changing your drapes is one great way to greet the new year. Sure, everyone wants brand new drapes every single time we change them, but there are less expensive ways of changing them. One such way is to recycle your curtains and drapes to another room. The drapes you had in your living room, for instance, could be switched with the ones in your bedroom, and vice versa.
When you give your cabinets a facelift, it does not necessarily mean you have to change a lot of things about them, although that could be an option. Giving it what we call a “spa treatment” will do. Dust the cabinets inside out, then wipe them down with a soft, damp cloth. If your cabinets have nicks and scratches, get a soft cloth and dab those areas with just a tiny bit of wood stain. When the wood stain is dry, wipe lemon oil onto the whole cabinet using a soft, clean cloth. All these will enhance the natural colour of your cabinets and give them a newer feel.
Your door handles are perhaps the most worn-out among all the fixtures in your home, and the coming of the new year is the perfect time to replace them. To spice things up, you can actually replace them with handles that are actually different from the last ones. Just make sure that they look perfect for the door and that they don’t end up looking out of place.
With the holidays just a few weeks in the past, it’s safe to assume that your home has to deal with a lot of clutter, especially when you have children at home or when you’ve had people come and go for the entire holiday season. The new year would be the best time to organise your home. You can start with just putting things back where they actually belong. If you’re up to it, do some segregation, like keeping the things you still use and deciding which ones you can actually throw or give away. Organising your home may not be as simple or as quick as other home improvement projects, but it’s one of those home improvement ideas that has to be done, whether it’s the new year or not.
Are you still on the fence about doing a luxurious makeover for your bathroom? If so, then you might want to consider the following reasons. Much has been said about the kitchen being the most important part of the house. The bathroom, however, is no less important, if only for the fact that it also serves as our sanctuary from the stresses of life. The bathroom is where we can enjoy a long, hot shower, or luxuriate in a relaxing bubble bath for hours on end after a long and stressful day at work.
The bathroom may be one of the smallest rooms in the house, but just because it’s small doesn’t mean it’s all right for the bathroom to look so drab or cheap. You can actually do a lot of things that will add more style to your bathroom. Here are some ideas to do just that.
Christmas is that time of the year when there is a lot of cheer and happiness in the air, gifts being exchanged left and right, and friends and family coming over to your home to spend the holidays with you.
With all those people visiting, you definitely will need to prepare your home for holiday visitors. Here are some tips that could help you get your home visitor-ready for Christmas, all of which require no fortune to do.
So you’re planning a Christmas party at your home this year. As you already know very well, there are lots of stuff to be concerned about, from the food and drinks to serve right down to the people you want to invite. Of all these things, however, what you need to work on ahead of anything else are the Christmas decorations, which we all understand to be the single most effective way of spreading holiday cheer and making people really feel that it’s that wonderful time of the year once again.
So you already have a Christmas tree inside your home, and all sorts of Christmas decorations all over the place. How about the outside of your home? If you plan on making your home as Christmassy as it can get, here are some outdoor home enhancements for your Christmas party that you might want to try.
As long as people live in a home, there will always be a mess in one form or another. This is most especially true when you have little children leaving their toys—among other things—all over the place. The only way to not go crazy with all the mess or clutter is to organise your home on a regular basis.
Truth be told, organising your home can be a daunting task. There are ways, however, to make the job of organising your home a bit easier. Here are some tips and trick to do just that.
