Top 10 Tips: Home and Decorating
- Get the windows professionally cleaned. Clean the windows inside and out. You’ll be amazed how light and bright your home is afterwards and will enable you to make the most of the natural light.
- Give your kitchen a new look. Buy new cupboard doors, or if you’re happy with the style of your doors, brighten them up with some of the new, durable paints available for such surfaces.
- Update your storage. Employ a carpenter to install shelves in alcoves and dead spaces, build bench seating with storage underneath or a cupboard under the stairs. This will make the place tidier and seem more spacious.
- Change the feel of a room. You can move the furniture or (even less physical effort) change the pictures you hang on the walls or add a mirror to reflect light from the windows into the room. This is a great way to update any room without redecorating and spending lots of money.
- Invest in some house plants. House plants can be very beneficial and healthy to our lives. They purify and renew our stale indoor air by filtering out toxins, pollutants and the carbon dioxide we exhale – replacing them with life sustaining oxygen! Not only that you can change the look and feel of a room by simply moving the plants or changing them.
- Get the brushes out. A fresh coat of paint does wonders for making things look sharper and clearer and can give a room a totally different feel. Dulux have got an amazing choice of colours for all rooms.
- See the light. Make dark corners of rooms and hallways more spacious by using carefully placed lamps. You can pick up some bargains from Ikea or if you want to spend a little bit more try Laura Ashley.
- Garage full of clutter and no room for the car? Clear the clutter then talk to a company who specialize in converting the space. You can have an office, kids playroom or extra entertaining space right under your nose.
- Clear the gutters. While the weather is dry get a company over to clear anything that’s lying in the guttering so that if (or rather when) it rains there’s no problem of blockage or overflow.
- A window of opportunity. Sometimes all it takes to revitalise a space is a change the curtains. If you’re not overlooked why have curtains? A draping of a rich velvet material or muslin will completely change the way a room feels. Choose blinds instead of curtains and in kids rooms why not go the whole hog and have a favourite picture printed onto it. The possibilities are endless.
