Top Tips for Upgrading Your Kitchen

The kitchen is the hub of the house. It’s where mums spend most of their time preparing yummy food and we entertain guests. The value that can be added through a kitchen renovation is quite significant too. It is thought that by upgrading your kitchen, you can increase your property’s value by up to 10% - that’s £25,000 for a £250,000 house. Continue reading for top tips on revamping your kitchen.

Bathroom remodel - advantages of hiring a professional

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The problem with many bathrooms across the country is that they are often inherited suites from previous homeowners or have not been updated in many years and starting to show their age and lack of style.

If you hate your current bathroom’s style and want to give it a new look things like giving it a fresh lick of paint, adding a new shower curtain, introducing new bathroom accessories or boosting the bathroom’s storage with shelves or a new cupboard can overhaul a bathrooms look. These simple changes are often ones you can DIY and thanks to resources such as pinterest you can find bathroom redesign inspiration to help you find the perfect colour scheme and bathroom style.

DIY Home Improvements

Sometimes, having a side project after work, or on weekends is a great way to keep yourself busy. Whether it’s putting up a shelf or building a birdhouse, DIY can be the way to go! Here are just a few ways you can improve your house yourself.

Decorate your fridge

Weird one, right? But when you think about it, most fridges come in white. So why not add some paint to it. You could paint it a similar colour to your kitchen or you could give it a bright pattern. This doesn’t even need to be done with paint. You could get tape and create patterns. This is a great idea for temporary decorations like you would put up for Christmas. In fact, you could even use this technique to decorate your fridge for Christmas and other holidays.

Transforming a room on a budget

When we first moved into our current home we went all out on decorating the children’s bedroom. Apart from finding a home for our furniture and other worldly possessions the other rooms in our house got neglected.

Fast forward a few years and nothing much has changed. Busy lives and lack of money has meant we haven’t got around to decorating any of the other rooms which look rather drab, boring and uninspiring.

Recently we redecorated the children’s bedrooms - lucky boys getting their room transformed again whilst our bedroom has never been touched. We painted their room, moved around furniture, upcycled a few pieces of tired looking furniture, decluttered and added some new eye catching accessories such as modern rugs. Even though we did not do much and no radical changes such as flooring or new furniture it was amazing how the room was transformed.

Home improvements that can’t wait

Whether you’ve just moved into a new property or have been living in the home for several years, you’ll know that the process of upgrading the home never ends. By the time you’ve finished one decorating and improvement cycle, it’s time to start the next. Thankfully, most projects are focused solely on the outcomes rather than the timings. However, there are some that simply cannot afford to wait.

If any of the five issues below need sorting in your home, it’s vital that you so with immediate effect. You’ll be thankful in the long run.

How can balustrade modernise your interior design?

Typically used to support balconies and staircases, balustrades bring style, elegance and functionality to a property. Given their sophisticated look and practicality, balustrades are a popular component of many homes and commercial buildings.

Balustrades can be made from a number of materials, including glass, chrome, wood, stone, iron and stainless steel.

Home Improvements

Whilst I often dream about winning the lottery and being able to buy or build from scratch the perfect house for us, the reality is that until the day that my numbers come in (I live in hope) we are stuck with our lot and have to make do with the home that we have.

There are many reasons why I love our house. It is in a great location for us, is a great size, has character with rustic slanted beams in the bedrooms and quaint farmhouse style doors with beautiful latches.

However there are a few things that I don't love about our house. The issues I have with our house are for the most part cosmetic and have not really bothered me too much since we have lived here as I am grateful that we have a roof over our head and the benefits and other lovely things about the house outweigh the bad. Whilst they do not make me hate the house or make daily life difficult, I would love to change a few things about our house.

Hello Spring.....time for some spring cleaning and DIY!

There is something about this time of year as we welcome spring that I feel inspired to spring clean and improve the home and garden with some much needed DIY and TLC.

With upcoming Easter bank holiday providing us with a long weekend at home as well as enjoying some family time and Easter egg hunt and activities with the kids, we have plans to tick off some of the household jobs that have been on our DIY to-do-list for too long now!

Whilst neither of us can boast good skills to do with home improvements we do like to turn our hand to DIY projects and have managed a number of projects and home improvement jobs without any major disastrous or huge arguments that has ended up with us breaking up over wallpapering the walls or assembling furniture.

Our home, our story - #MyHomeStories

I believe a house becomes a home through the memories and experiences you have there. As you live your life and put your stamp on your house, the house you live in becomes intertwined in the memories of your life.

As I look around our home memories of events and milestones achieved are sparked. Our home is the backdrop to our life, as well as being a roof over our heads it is a safe, special place that we can make memories, enjoy family life and express our characters through DIY and home décor.

As the saying goes ‘if these walls could talk’ it would have a lot to say.

Our home has our story.

Updating a bathroom on a budget.

Giving your bathroom a new lease of life doesn’t have to cost a fortune or mean gutting out the bathroom and fitting a completely new bathroom suite. Whilst I am sure the idea of having a completely new bathroom suite is appealing unfortunately sometimes money cannot stretch that far, but fear not you can still update your bathroom and give it a new look without breaking your budget.

You can update your bathroom and revive a tired bathroom by simply changing a few elements of the bathroom to give your bathroom a refreshing new look.

Win a Grip It starter pack – as seen on Dragons Den.

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