Top 3 Signs Your Home Appliance Is Nearing Its Expiration
In a disposable world, your home appliance may need replacing more often. This includes small appliances like a toaster or kettle up to bigger appliances such as a washing machine or dishwasher. But what are the signs and how can you tell? You may be considering replacing your old household appliances as the new year approaches. The question to ask yourself now is if those appliances are still functional. If they are and are not sapping too much energy, they may be good to use until you notice the end of lifecycle signs. The average lifespan of your home appliance…
Best Kitchen Remodeling Tips
Kitchen remodelling can be easier and cheaper than installing a new kitchen. However, are you worried about how much money you will have to spend and whether you can afford it? Even if you are on a tight budget, you’ll want to make your kitchen look its best. However, you may be worried about getting your project completed. Fortunately, there are ways kitchen remodelling ideas without breaking the bank. You may be surprised at how much you can do with a small budget once you strategically use it. Here’s a look at how you can remodel your kitchen quickly on…
Update Your Kitchen Without Renovating
When you update your kitchen understand it’s one of the most important rooms in any home. It is the place where friends and family most commonly gather in order to have fun times and food together. So, it goes without saying that when you update your kitchen you want the results to last, be functional and be cost-effective. However, kitchen renovations are both expensive and intrusive into daily life. The good news is, if you’d rather not put yourself through all of that, there are lots of things you can do to update your kitchen without renovating it completely… Put…
Ensure Your Home Kitchen Renovation Runs Smoothly
The kitchen is often referred to as the heart of the home. Most of us spending a lot of time there eating with family or entertaining friends. So it is not surprising that the kitchen is the room we want to be perfect and a room that is often the subject of renovation. If you’re planning a home kitchen renovation, now or in the future, you’ll want the project to run as smoothly as possible. So here are a few things that will help you with that: Make A Home Kitchen Renovation List Before you a home kitchen renovation, it’s…
7 Modern Smart Appliances For Your Kitchen
A modern kitchen needs smart appliances that look good AND make life easier. Not all smart appliances need to be connected to the internet… some just make life better. The kitchen is often ‘the hub’ of the home. So it makes sense that it’s well equipped with essentials, as well as gadgets that make life a little easier. In today’s modern world, smart appliances make all the difference. So here are my top seven that make life easier. Top of my smart appliances checklist – The Air Fryer Investing in an air fryer can make light work of making french…
A Practical Kitchen. How to Make Yours Function Better
A practical kitchen is important if you love cooking. Your kitchen should serve your needs and become a hub for great conversation and great food. So how can you make your kitchen as practical as it can be? As the heart of your home, a practical kitchen will be a space that works with your lifestyle, entertaining and family needs. So I’ve prepared a few tips on how to make the most out of your daily routine and save time on preparing meals, too. Declutter The best chefs work in a clean and organized environment. Stop spending half of your…
Kitchen Cleaning and Care For Lasting Results
Kitchen cleaning is probably the last thing on your mind when you think about a fabulous new hub of the home. However, kitchen cleaning and care of appliances will allow you to love the space for longer. Whilst kitchen cleaning is a daily and weekly chore, when you’ve had a new kitchen installed it’s pretty easy to forget to meticulously clean all of your appliances and work surfaces. When the excitement wears off, you can fall into old habits. However, there is nothing more important than making sure that you prolong the life of your expensive kitchen. Because you don’t…
New Kitchen Design Questions To Ask Yourself
My interior design business undertakes more new kitchen design and open plan indoor/outdoor living projects than every before. It’s a highly popular home renovation. However there are important questions that need answering before you start. The kitchen is the heart of the home. Going through a new kitchen design renovation can take up a lot of your time (and money). When you start planning your new kitchen design, you may not know where to begin. You have to think about everything thoroughly before you go ahead and take the plunge. Engaging a creative kitchen design professional is a great start…
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…
Designing More Pleasurable Cooking In 2018
Foodies are generally on the hunt for more pleasurable cooking experiences and ways to WOW their guests …and themselves. So a festive season is a great time to hone some skills. Your Christmas kitchen is likely to take a big hit this festive season. Cooking a large, beautiful, indulgent, memorable feast does take its toll on the heart of your home. So more pleasurable cooking extends to the appliances you use. As you work tirelessly preparing food, perhaps you realize that despite the fun you have cooking your kitchen could use some renovation. If you’re like me and spend plenty…
Are Ersatz Appliances Better Than Genuine? Could Be.
Ersatz appliances are those that are poor imitations of the original. If you are ‘ersatz’ it means you dislike something simple because it ISN’T original. But can you be persuaded otherwise? If you’re like most people, you want the genuine article, not Ersatz appliances. Despite what founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma, might say about the virtues of fakes, there’s a desire for authenticity in all of us. Having said that, it’s important not to confuse our desire for something, and it’s objective capacity to improve our lives. Sure we could go with authentic leather shoes, but leather shoes tend to…
Kitchen Makeover Mistakes To Avoid
A kitchen makeover is undertaken somewhere in the world every 15 minutes! Even if that’s not strictly true, it can seem that way sometimes. Are you one of the thousands of people thinking of remodelling your kitchen? Before getting started, make sure you’re not about to make one of these kitchen makeover mistakes – it could be costly, impractical or even dangerous. Here are some of the big blunders, along with what you should do instead. Moving Fixtures Ovens, dishwashers, refrigerators, and sinks can be expensive to relocate. This is because you will have to pay for extra plumbing…
Celebrity Chrissie Swan Shares Her Kitchen Renovation Tips
Chrissie Swan is best known for her big personality and her role as co-host on Nova 100’s Chrissie, Sam & Browny radio show. She’s also the Mother of three small children… and recent owner of a daggy kitchen. Having gone through a recent renovation, Chrissie Swan wants to share with you her top tips for undergoing a kitchen transformation. The daggy kitchen exists no more because Chrissie finally decided to rework and modernise her family kitchen. With a ‘robust’ family and a love of cooking, the age and poor design of the old kitchen wasn’t cutting the mustard anymore. …
Stylish Kitchen Tips Straight From Design Magazines
A stylish kitchen will be the heart of your entire home. It is such a practical space in which we spend time socializing and where your family can come together to share meals and enjoy special time together. As the hub of the home, your kitchen should be practical as well as enjoyable. A stylish kitchen can be a true showstopper and will add considerable value to your home. If you want yours to look like the ones you see in all the design magazines, then use these unbeatable tips. Stylish Kitchen: Overall Style Whether it’s a stylish kitchen or…
6 Things You Need for a Serious Chef’s Kitchen
In recent years, we’ve seen a boom of culinary TV shows, including both famous chefs’ recipes and competitive shows where ordinary next-door people became high-end chefs. This trend gave birth to a nouveau generation of cutting edge chefs – not exactly the ones we can see on television, but the ones we become when preparing Heston Blumenthal’s roast turkey or Lorraine Pascale’s chocolate soufflé in our own kitchens. Since we always compare cooking with art, it is only logical to say that if you want to progress from Stickman to Mona Lisa, you need the right set of tools. Here…
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