Design Tips That’ll Make Your Home More Accessible
What does the word ‘accessibility’ mean to you? It might give you an image of gently sloping ramps and wide door frames, as well as elevator access and countertops that sit at a lower level. Just little changes in infrastructure that make the world more equal and accessible. But while all of these things are excellent for accommodating people who need support, what’s it got to do with your home? Well, if you’ve got a disabled friend or relative, or you’re living with a chronic condition that affects your mobility, accessible design tricks could go a long way to help! …
6 Crucial Steps To Improve The Family Home
The family home is your castle and the place you should feel the safest and happiest. Do you feel calm and happy when you walk through your front door? If not, there are a few ways to ensure your home really is your castle. Are you thinking about making changes to your property? If so, then you might be interested in exploring ways that you can improve it for your family. There are lots of steps that are worth considering here which could be worth both your time and money. Here are some of the key examples that we recommend…
9 Tips To Promote Wellness In Your Home
Have you ever considered how to promote wellness in your home? You can leverage your home to gain wonderful health benefits AND have a stylish home. Designing a wellness-centred environment can improve your physical, psychological and emotional welfare. It’s worth noting that wellness in your home should include things that allow you to feel more relaxed and get closer to nature. There are several ideas to enhance wellness in your home with very little effort. Here are nine simple ways worth considering. Design a kitchen that makes healthy meal preparation easy Indeed, your kitchen is among the most essential rooms…
Skyrocket Your Home Value with 14 Essential Upgrades
Looking to skyrocket your home value? Whether you’re planning to sell in the near future or not, there are certain upgrades you can make to your home that will result in a higher selling price – and sometimes, they don’t even require a lot of work or money! Here are 14 home upgrades that will skyrocket your home value. Upgrade Your Kitchen A kitchen remodel is one of the most surefire ways to increase your home’s value. Invest in high-end appliances, modern countertops, and stylish cabinets to give it a contemporary look. For example, you might want to consider purchasing…
How Do I Boost My Home’s Value? Best Renovation Ideas
If you’re considering selling your home, you may be asking yourself “How do I boost my home’s value”? Making key home improvements will make all the difference when it comes time to put your house on the market. There are several renovations you could undertake if you plan to sell your home. However, choosing the ones that will give you the most significant return on investment is critical. How Do I Boost My Home’s Value? Consider the value of homes in your area. Don’t over-capitalise on any type of home renovation. Ensure each renovation project adds functionality as well as…
6 Simple Ways to Create A More Modern Home
Do you have a traditional house but want to create a more modern home? You have a few options varying in budget and intensity. However, modernising your home doesn’t need to be hard. Creating a more modern home doesn’t mean a full house re-deign or overhaul. There are ways to modernise the look and feel of your home in small ways. For example, focusing on furniture or wall colour. However, there are six things you could do right now to give your home an easy modern makeover. You can be your own professional interior designer and create a home you…
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…
How To Create The Best Office Space
Creating the best office space is important whether you work from home or commute to your office. We spend so much time ‘in the office; you want it to be the best it can be. Here’s how you do it. Creating a convenient and beautiful office in which you and your colleagues love to work is essential for the efficiency of your business. Any office environment needs to be as spacious, open, fresh, and convenient as possible. This way, your staff can maintain focus and be happy at work. If you are looking at revamping your office, juts for you…
Stop! Your Kitchen Cleaning May Be All Wrong
Your kitchen cleaning is fundamental for hygiene and sanity. After all, nothing drives us crazier than the sight of unwashed dishes in kitchen sink, and nothing attracts bacteria quite as fast, either! With this in mind, most of us will undertake kitchen cleaning to some degree every day. But, what if you’ve been cleaning your kitchen wrong all these years? We’re sorry to say it, but it’s entirely possible that your existing cleaning habits are failing to provide the cleanliness a family kitchen needs. It’s amazing how many of us make this same mistake. However, to ensure a more proficient…
Pretty Beautiful Ideas for A Pretty Boring Home
If you are a house and garden junkie, you’ll see some pretty beautiful ideas across magazines, Instagram and renovation shows. Seemingly miraculously, pretty boring homes are turned into pretty beautiful spaces. And you want your house to look like that too, right? Here’s how. As an award-winning interior designer in Adelaide, I work with clients who want to make big changes to their home. They look at the homes of their friends and then become more critical of their own. Turning a home into something more eye-catching and modern is something that everyone wants to do. Especially in Australia, we…
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…
Shaker Kitchen Design for Every Home
A shaker kitchen is a type of kitchen design that is both practical and beautiful. They are very popular for various reasons; in fact, they are one of the bestselling kitchen options on the market. So why are they so popular? One of the primary attractions is that they can be adapted to your requirements. There are so many different ways a shaker kitchen can look. From traditional appearances to more modern ones, there is always a shaker kitchen design to suit you. The possibilities and number of unique kitchens are endless. What Are The Benefits Of Shaker Kitchen Style?…
A Magazine Worthy Makeover for Every Home Is Achievable
If you’re like me, you’ll love seeing magazine worthy homes in the multitude of places from which we find inspiration. Think those looks are out of reach? Not any more. There’s nothing worse than sitting in your living room chair, browsing the pages of a magazine, only to be reminded that your interiors look nothing like those crafted by professionals. Rooms look perfect on the page because they have had a magazine worthy makeover. But when you glance up and look at the interiors in your home, you quickly see that it is not the same. Worse still, you can’t…
5 Home Safety Tips You Should Never Forget
Home safety tips should never be forgotten because your home should always feel like a safe place. A few simple tips around food, housekeeping and electrical will help you create a safer environment for your family. When you think of staying safe at home, the first thing that comes to mind might be having a solid security system in place, or even using Intercom Systems to have some peace of mind. While security is incredibly important for home safety, you should also make sure other aspects of your house are consistently safe for you and your family, too. It’s far…
Hi, I’m Penelope Herbert, Interior Designer and Blogger. Welcome to Don’t Call Me Penny.
