Quick Tips To Keep Your Air Con Alive This Summer

keep your air con alive this summerIt’s probably safe to assume that with summer officially underway, your air conditioning system is working very hard to keep everyone in your household cool by now. Given how important your air conditioning system is to you these hot summer days, it’s only proper that you do everything you can to keep it running efficiently all summer long.

You really need to keep your air con alive this summer, and here are some tips on how you can do this in a safe manner at home.

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Useful Tips for Organising Your Home

organising your homeAs 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.

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Is A DIY Wardrobe For You?

pros and cons of a DIY wardrobeDoes the house you just moved into have enough cabinet space in the bedrooms? If the answer is no, you obviously are going to need a wardrobe or two to accommodate all your clothes and accessories. The question is, which route should you take into getting that wardrobe done? Are you going to hire a professional cabinetmaker or carpenter to build and install a wardrobe for you, or are you going the do-it-yourself or DIY route?

If you’re thinking about tackling a DIY wardrobe,  there are certain advantages and disadvantages attached to it. We spoke to some of the great cabinet makers in the Tradebusters network who have shared  their  insights into the pros and cons of DIY wardrobes.

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6 Bathroom Design Mistakes You Need to Avoid

bathroom remodelRenovating a bathroom is perhaps one of the most exciting and at the same time, most stressful renovation projects a home owner can undertake. While you will be finally getting the bathroom that you’ve always wanted, there’s an off-chance that there will be bathroom design mistakes that will stop that from coming true, at least within the budget you’ve prepared.

Committing bathroom design mistakes, unfortunately, is common among home owners. There are far too many tales of woe about renovating a bathroom, mainly related to going over-budget and still ending up with a bathroom they’re not happy with.

When renovation a bathroom (or any kind of renovation in your home for that matter), you have to make sure to not exceed your budget and maximise the return on your investment. More than anything else, you need to make sure that your get the right bathroom design for your lifestyle. Here are some common bathroom design mistakes you need to avoid to do just that.

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Keep Your Home Safe While On Vacation

keep your home safe while on vacationFinally, after months of planning, you and your family are going on a well-deserved holiday, and outside the country at that. You’ll be gone for weeks, which means no one will be home for quite some time. Have you done enough to secure your home safe while you’re away? Here are some tips to help you keep your home safe while on vacation.

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7 Simple Ways to Make Your Home More Energy Efficient

energy efficient lightingIt’s easy to make your home more energy efficient. Sure, there are ways to make your home more energy efficient that entails a certain amount of expense. Mostly, however, you can make your home more energy efficient in much simpler ways. Here are some of them.

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The Hidden Costs of Renovating Your Kitchen or Bathroom

renovating your kitchen or bathroomSo you’re about to begin renovating your kitchen or bathroom. After years of setting aside money for that purpose, you finally have this chance to get the kitchen or bathroom you want. The question is, how sure are you that your budget would be enough to cover the entire cost of renovating your kitchen or bathroom? Read more

Spotting Signs of Roof Damage After A Storm From The Ground

signs of roof damageNo one will argue that the roof of our house is our primary protection against the elements. That means it bears the brunt of harsh sunlight, strong winds and heavy rains that hit us from time to time. With all the abuse it goes through, it would just be a matter of time before our roof begins sustaining some damage.

Typically, we check our roof for damage after a storm by climbing up the ladder and seeing it with our own eyes. There are, however, ways to determine roof damage without going up the ladder. There are signs of roof damage you can spot from ground level, and here are some of them.

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Home Renovations Sydney: The Best ROI

ROI on home renovationsWe take on home renovations mostly because we’d love to give our homes a brand-new look. One thing that should never be that far back in our minds, however, is the return on investment or ROI on home renovations.

The truth is, most of the home renovations we do don’t really increase the value of our house as much as they cost. So what yields the best ROI on  home renovations? Here are some suggestions.

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Make a Room Easier on the Eyes With These Tips

make a room easier on the eyesWith all the stress that our eyes go through every single minute of every single day at work or anywhere else, there is nothing more refreshing than to go home to a place where our eyes won’t have to work that much. That, however, isn’t really the case with many of us.

More often than not, our homes are also loaded with visual stimuli that further stress our eyes out. Clutter, see-through cabinets, differently-coloured walls—all these are visual stimuli that overwork our eyes and cause us stress.

The typical knee-jerk reaction to this is to want to get rid of visual stimuli that overwork our eyes at home altogether. However, aside from not being possible, too little visual stimuli can still stress us out. The best way to not overwork the eyes is to strike a visual balance for any room within your home. In short, you should make a room easier on the eyes, and here are some tips on how to do just that.

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