Furnishing and Decorating Tips For Your First Apartment

It’s a pretty exciting time, being able to rent your very first apartment, a clear sign that you’re finally independent. You are bursting with anticipation about the things that come with having your own place and the things you could do with it. That initial rush, however, is often replaced by a sense of being overwhelmed, simply because having your own apartment means that furnishing and decorating it is your sole responsibility and no one else’s.

When furnishing and decorating your own place, there a lot of things that you need to consider. To help you get started, here are some furnishing and decorating tips for your first apartment.

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Tips For A Profitable Renovation


Home owners undertake renovation projects for a variety of reasons. If your reason for the renovation has something to do with increasing the equity in your home or selling it sometime in the future, we’d like to offer a few tips that would help ensure that your renovation project would be profitable when the time comes.

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Deadline For Compliance With Stricter Swimming Pool Laws Moved

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.

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Make Your Rental Property Pet Friendly

As a landlord, you have the power to decide on many things that have to do with your rental property. If you don’t want to allow pets in your property, it is within your right to forbid any and all potential tenants from bringing their beloved cats and dogs with them. But is that really the smart way to go? If statistics are to be believed, you might want to change your mind about pets, and make your rental units pet friendly instead.

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Tips For Keeping A Home With Pets Fresh

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.

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Research: Word of Mouth Is Best Marketing For Tradies

use word of mouth to find a tradieA study commissioned by the NSW Government Fair Trading has confirmed that word of mouth is the best kind of marketing for tradespeople. The 2013 study, which looked into consumer behaviors when they hire a tradesperson, was conducted by independent research company Instinct and Reason. About 1,000 NSW home owners who had hired a tradie in the past 18 months from the start of the survey acted as respondents.

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HIA Predicts 2014 Will Be Good For Housing Industry


Australia’s housing industry is looking good this year based on the recently released Summer 2014 edition of the National Outlook report by the Housing Industry Association (HIA).

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Preparing Your Home For Sale? Tips Direct From a Sales Agent

Selling your home can be one of the most stressful things you can do especially when you think of what is involved even before your home hits the market such as:

  1. Choosing which agent or agency to sell your home
  2. Organising your contract of sale with your solicitor or conveyancer
  3. Deciding on renovating or styling your home
  4. Basic preparations inside and outside the home
  5. Communicating the possible sale of your home with your finance institution

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Aussies Like Modern Interiors For Their Homes More

modern interiorsData gathered by Australian property site RealEstate.com.au has revealed that more Australians prefer their homes to have modern interiors characterised by simplicity, clean lines and fully functional furniture.

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Live Longer Through Home Improvement

household chores are good for your healthWe can’t stop aging, but we can do something about living a longer life. And no, it doesn’t really involve joining a gym or starting Pilates or whatever fitness craze everyone’s into these days. Well, regular visits to the gym, Pilates and all kinds of exercise programs do help you extend your life, but we’re talking about something a little closer to home here. According to an article by Sabina Read for RealEstate.com.au, we can also live longer through home improvement projects as well as everyday household chores.

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