If you’re a regular Pinterest user, or you follow all of the best interior accounts on Instagram, then you’ll know that dusty pink is a huge interior trend right now. For many, introducing pink to their décor may seem like a challenge, but with the...
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How to Make the Most out of the Space in Your Garden
Knowing how to design your garden can be a daunting prospect, especially if you’re not particularly skilled in the gardening department. The garden is an area that requires a little creativity and planning, especially if you intend to use the space for entertaining as...
How to Prepare your Garden for the Spring
In the UK, there are an estimated 27 million people who regularly partake in gardening. This is a huge portion of the nation’s 64 million-strong population, while this interest also funds a gardening retail sector that’s worth in excess of £5 billion. While it may...
Quick Ways to Make Your House More Liveable When Moving into a Buy to Develop Property
Buy to develop properties can be a great investment. Often sold at reasonably low prices, these properties give you the potential to earn a significant profit. However, if you need to actually live in the buy to develop property you’ve purchased, it’s likely you’ll...
Bringing the Outside in – Is it Really a Thing?
Trends have a tendency to come and go in the world of interior design, but there are a select few that stand the test of time and continue to boast universal appeal. Take the notion of bringing the outside in, for example, which has become an extremely popular...
How to get the Most of your London Property
In some respects, you would think that the cost of real estate in London would be the biggest issue facing those in the capital. Value for money is also a pressing concern for buyers, however, with properties becoming increasingly compact even as the average price...
How to Create the Illusion of Space in your Home
If you want proof that British homes are smaller than ever, a recent article in The Guardian has probably provided it. According to this study, UK living rooms have shrunk by around a third since the 1970s, with new-build properties increasingly restricted in terms of...
Creating a Home Office Space – 3 Key Considerations
At first glance, there are many reasons why you would consider building a home office space. You may want to minimise your daily commute and create a space that can empower your business, for example, while it’s believed that building a home office will also add value...
The Things You Need to Know Before Starting a Renovation Project
When you invest in a new property with the intention to renovate, its extremely important to take certain things into consideration before you go ahead and make any concrete plans. Renovating a property is perfect for adding value, creating a space that works...
The Features that will welcome wildlife into your garden
There are so many fantastic benefits of encouraging more wildlife into your garden. More wild visitors will create a vibrant living atmosphere in your garden, as well as encourage better pollination of your plants. By following these few pieces of advice, you can...
How to Improve Your Efficiency When Completing DIY Tasks
Home and car owners will know the struggle of constantly having a range of DIY tasks on the go. From redecorating the spare bedroom to fixing air conditioning in your vehicle, there are hundreds of DIY jobs that seem to always need doing. The problem is, when you’re...
What to Look for When Hiring an Interior Designer
Let’s face facts; the cost of modifying your home can be prohibitive at the best of times. Adding a simple extension can cost the eye-watering sum of £14,000 on average, for example, while even relatively affordable improvements such as carpeting your house can set...
Winter colour schemes for your living room
It's well known that colours and seasons solicit different moods in people, which in turn influences they way in which they interact with the world around them. Seasonal changes can be particularly impactful, as they often encourage home-owners to change the interior...
3 quick ways to de-clutter your house (before Xmas!)
If you're a parent, you'll probably be preparing to de-clutter your house as Christmas approaches. After all, you're bound to have purchased a number of new toys for your kids, meaning that now is the ideal time to clear out unwanted items, make the most of your space...
The Best Autumn Colour Schemes for your House
While it may seem like winter is in full flow, this season does not actually get underway until December. Instead, we are in the throes of autumn, where the temperature begins to cool and the nights draw longer. This is also a time of year when you begin to consider...
Eco-friendly Construction in London: A Rising Trend or a Flash-in-the-pan?
As the UK's leading property market, London tends to blaze an influential trail for others to follow. This can be both an advantage a burden for the UK capital, with its most recent trends highlighting this in microcosm. The London property market is set to be...
How to Achieve a More Spacious Look with the Right Furniture
Regardless of whether you want to reside in your current home for years or are modifying your property in preparation of making a sale, optimising the level and sense of interior space is crucial. If you are looking to create your forever home, for example, optimising...
The Link Between Minimalism and Eco-friendly Living, and How to Capitalise on This
In many ways, there is an intrinsic link between the concepts of minimalism and Eco-friendly living. This is largely because those who embrace minimalism automatically avoid pitfalls such as overbuying and excess consumption, which are also key principles of...
Key Bathroom Design Trends: Using Dark Colours to Decorate the Space
While interior design trends are fluid and constantly changing, there are some that are generally resilient in the contemporary marketplace. Take the increased focus that home-owners are placing on their bathrooms, for example, which has seen the affiliated product...
Creative Ways to Transform Your Loft Conversion
For many homes, the loft area is a space that is often neglected and used for storing miscellaneous items such as Christmas decorations, old clothes and toys that you don’t need, but can’t bring yourself to throw away. Whilst this may be a good temporary solution,...