Creating a Reading Room In Your Home
A reading room is one place in the house that you can escape to and head off on adventures or learn some fascinating facts about your favourite historical events. It doesn’t matter if you are just working on your library of books or have a hundred in desperate need of a home; here are some easy tips that you can use to create the reading room (or little nook) of your dreams. Reading Room Lighting If you don’t have good lighting in your reading space, you will soon find that your eyes are getting strained. Making it an uncomfortable reading…
Creative Ideas For Your Outdoor Shed Organisation
Your outdoor shed may not be an area you consider or put much effort into when organising your home. However, contrary to perceptions, it is crucial to pay attention to it to maximise your usable storage space. Fortunately, Australians value their outdoor living, which explains why many homeowners add a separate outdoor shed to their homes. According to real estate experts, a garden shed can increase property value by as much as 20,000 Australian Dollars. Meanwhile, it’s not just about building one. Additionally, it’s best if you had it well-organised. Here are some creative suggestions on what you can do…
House Moving Stress And How To Avoid It
House moving stress is so common yet there are ways to avoid it… or at least minimise it. These five expert tips will help you to plan your move and reduce the stress. Moving house is one of the most stressful things that you’ll ever have to do in your life. Thankfully, it is generally not something that we need to do very often. But if you’re coming up to a point in your life when you need to move, you may be worried about how it will all go. Stress can creep in very early in a move and…
A Tidier Home With Three Simple Tips
If you think you need a tidier home, then the good news is that there are plenty of ways to make sure that this happens. A tidier home is always within reach if you’re prepared to take some action. It’s not going to happen without some planning and work. Depending on your starting point, the work required to have a tidier home may be less or more. In this post, we will help you by taking a look at some expert tips on exactly how you can create a tidy home. These tips should generally help you to do that…
Major Decluttering – Scary, But Necessary
Major decluttering can feel a little scary. That’s because you’re on the cusp of potentially chucking out thousands of dollars worth of possessions in the name of making things tidier. It’s a big deal. All sorts of thoughts race through your mind when you embark upon a major decluttering project. For instance, you worry that you’ll accidentally throw something out you’ll need in the future. And you regret the fact that you’ve spent hard earned money to buy things that you ultimately don’t use. The trick is to push through these feelings and just get on with the job. Often,…
Creating A Beautiful Office In Which You’ll Love To Work
Your beautiful office should be a place where you feel you’re most productive as well as relaxed and calm. You want to put your best into your work, and your surroundings will have an impact on that. Create a beautiful office, either at home or in another space, in which you can’t wait to spend time. Increase your productivity, there are a few simple design tips that can make that a reality. Photo by Alexa Williams on Unsplash A Beautiful Office Is Green No matter your colour scheme, or your preferences in terms of decor, there is always room for…
5 Quick and Easy Home Moving Tips
These 5 home moving tips will help you to be organised and less stress when your moving house. It’s a lot of upheaval so it’s best to be prepared and start planning early. Home moving is an incredibly stressful process and whether you’re completely new to moving house or you’ve done it a million times before – it never gets easier. There are so many things you need to remember to do and no matter how well you do them, it always seems as though something goes wrong. To help you avoid the stress of a home removal, I’ve put…
The Rules for New Year House Fitness
New Year house fitness is about getting your home in shape for 2019. Now that the festive season is over, you are likely to have set some new year’s resolutions – yet, achieving these resolutions can be a lot easier to attain when you are operating from a calm and ordered home. Many of us are looking to get our bodies in shape. However, it can pay to get your house in shape too, with some New Year house fitness rules. As the saying goes “tidy house tidy mind”. So if you’re looking to achieve some major goals, it can…
Your Comfortable Home With 4 Vital Elements
Have you ever wondered what makes a comfortable home? Ask 15 different people and you’ll get 15 different answers; everyone has their own opinion. The idea of a comfortable home generally depends on what people value. For instance, some people value a home that has modern design elements. Others prefer a more traditional approach to decor, colours and furniture. Everyone has their own idea of what it means to live in a comfortable home, but there are four vital elements that will remain consistent no matter who you ask. You might subconsciously know some of these fundamentals. However, here is…
Manage Homelife… And Have A Life Too
To manage homelife you have to be organised, fit, healthy, motivated, selfless and a whole bunch of other time-consuming and super humans things. When you’re a mum, a wife, a worker, and a woman, you’re always going to try to do it all. Women do seek to manage homelife and everything else often to our own detriment. It’s just how our brains naturally work. Because you want to be the best mother you can be. And a great wife. And a good employee. And just a wonder woman all around. But the best thing to recognize here, is that you…
Style My Home: I’m Selling So Need It Clean and Pristine
“Style my home” is now the catch-cry of every motivated home seller. Styling a home for sale, or home staging, is now an integral part of selling residential real estate. These top tips will help you help your home stylist. It’s now well-known that home staging can add tens of thousands of dollars to the sale price of a home. So when you think about who will style my home think about ways you can also help your home styling expert. Whatever your reason for selling, ensure your home is a buyer’s dream so you get a smooth and easy…
Dependable De-cluttering That REALLY Works
Dependable de-cluttering is the de-cluttering process that REALLY works. With these four very simple tips, your home will be de-cluttered and pristine before you can say “where did I put that”? The reason dependable de-cluttering is so important is because most people do want a home that is laid out in style with no excess. It’s relaxed and stress-free living that’s attractive to many. Having a tidy and de-cluttered home can mean you spend less because you know what you have, what you don’t have, and what you don’t need. An organised home needs less cleaning with less stress, less…
Lifehacks: 10 Secrets to a Perfectly Organized Kitchen
Lifehacks; where would we be without them? Now there are hacks for everything… some more useful than others. But what’s really useful is hacks for your kitchen. They may not make you a better cook but they may save your life. There is nothing more nerve-wracking than trying to prepare lunch in a chaotic kitchen that allows you no room to manoeuvre. The worst thing is that this is not the case with only small kitchens. It happens even to the most spacious rooms. The problem lies in an inefficient organization that can sabotage even the best of chefs. But…
Can’t Work In Your Home Office Disaster?
What has become your home office disaster was supposed to be a glorious and creative space in which you achieved your most fabulous work, right? So what went wrong? Many of us dream of the day our home workspace can become our primary working base. Imagine the freedom of being able to work somewhere you designed. What could be better for productivity? Certainly not the home office disaster you now hate. When the dream becomes a reality, it often doesn’t work out. Your home office is how you always wanted it. You’ve recently painted your walls and splashed out on…
Organisational Tips: Protecting Your Keepsakes From Harm
Keeping organised is always a good idea, it can help you stay calm and enable you to put your hands on any item you need with ease. However, sometimes in our enthusiasm for having a place for everything we can forget organisational tips to ensure proper protection for our valuable and sentimental items. That may mean they age more quickly or are damaged while being stored. This is, of course, completely contrary to the idea of tucking them away for safe keeping in the first place. Luckily, it can be avoided if you follow the organisational tips below. Organisational Tips…
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