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Store Part or All of Your Life and Avoid the Clutter

If your current residence is turning into a house of horrors because of too much stuff sitting around, is it time to do something about it? For many homeowners and renters, their places can quickly become filled with everything from furniture to collectibles. When you toss in the countless things they need for their daily lives, space can quickly become all but non-existent. Oh, what about all those paper and files that can quickly accumulate over time? In the event it is time for you to retake control of your residence, have you considered turning to self storage to help…

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Improve Your Lawn & Soil with Top-Dressing

Ideally you wouldn’t have to do this in the first place. By laying quality sand and soil at the beginning before laying lawn down will hopefully avoid this process altogether. But if you want to improve your lawn and soil, then continue reading. A healthy lawn requires healthy soil, but it’s often difficult with an already established lawn in place. This is where top-dressing comes in. Top dressing can help with: Uneven terrain caused during the cooler seasons by freezing and thawing, run-off, tunnelling insects and bugs, and soil settling over longer periods of time. Nutrient deficiencies caused by leaching,…

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Missing The Sun, Sea and Sand? Simple Tricks To Get that ‘Beach Look’ For Your Home

Don’t you wish you could spend all day, every day on the beach? Well, you can – sort of! If you love nothing more than feeling the sun on your back and sand in your toes as the turquoise water laps at the shore and the palm trees blow softly in the summer breeze, why not re-create it in your home? The beach is a happy place for many – a place where the stresses and worries of everyday life are forgotten and relaxation ensues – a place where loved ones can have fun and spend quality time together. The…

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Smart Renovations: Get A Better Price For Your Home With These Quick Fixes

The need for renovations arise every few years, but it renovating need not be just about maintenance. There’s a lot of ways to add value to your house by renovating smartly. In a recent interview, property renovation expert Cherie Barber shared her views on how homeowners can add value by renovating. “Focus on what’s visible,” says Cherie, “concentrate on the areas buyers love.” By focusing on certain crucial parts of the house, you can generate a substantial return on your renovation investments. So, if you plan on getting the house redone in the near future, here are some quick fixes…

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How to Host a Gathering

If the home style magazines and TV commercials were to be believed then we would be hosting gatherings of families and friends every weekend. For many the unfortunate truth is that time constraints and pressures from work and family life mean that getting everyone together in one place at the same time very often proves difficult. Added to the difficulty is the stress of hosting and ensuring that your home is in fit shape to hold a party like this. If hosting a few more gatherings is something you’d like to do then here are some top tips to help…

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Zero Waste Sapioponic House – the Most Exciting Eco Project Ever!

We all do our best to be live in harmony with nature. Or at least we try – some don’t, but let’s not waste time with them right now. As technology advances, we now have more ways to reduce our ecological footprint, hoping to leave more of the world as it is today to the generations to come. The most exciting project of them all is the “Zero Waste Sapioponic House” initiated by Adam Kokesh, activist, youtuber and self-published author. What does “sapioponic” mean? Sapioponic is a term that I think has much more right to be included in dictionaries…

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4 Interior Styles to Try

Last year was certainly fascinating when it came to attractive home design trends, but as 2016 gets underway, we can look forward to a new set of interior moods and styles for the next 12 months. If you are adamant about changing the style of your house or moving into a new one, the good news is that you can choose from a variety of merged styles. Buying homes that readily accommodate your design dreams could save you time and money, so always hunt around before committing to a purchase. Buy the best condominium for sale at Zipmatch that doesn’t…

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Effective Tips for Finding the Right Home Security System

If you’re in the process of shopping for a home security system for your home, there are several focal points to evaluate. If you’re a homeowner with children, installing a state-of-the-art monitoring system might be something you’d be more inclined to pursue. If perhaps you have trained guard dogs, deadbolt locks on door/windows and motion-sensor lighting already invested into your home—installing a home security with basic features may be the savvier alternative. Whatever ‘security’ path you choose to take, it’s imperative that you analyze your current lifestyle to gain a better perspective for finding the right home security system. Here…

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Frugal furnishing – easy tips to save money on interior design

Are you putting together a new interior design scheme? Not a lot of spare cash lying around? Don’t worry, there are ways of achieving fresh and contemporary interiors without going bankrupt. That’s right, frugal is the new fashionable, and nobody wants to spend more than they need to on creating a vibrant new scheme at home. Read on for easy tips on how to save money on interior design so you can transform that dull interior into a low-cost luxury delight. There are so many things to consider when designing a new interior; the costs can quickly spiral out of…

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Your extreme house makeover: home renovations that add value

Looking to update your house in the hopes of boosting its value on the local real estate market? There are many home renovations that add value to the list price that you are looking to get from prospective buyers, so let’s get into a few projects that will achieve this goal… Changing your windows Along with your front lawn, the windows that grace your home’s exterior form a great deal of the opinion that home buyers will have of your property You can increase its value by installing ones that make a fashion statement, and keep the interior warm in…

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