Archive for December, 2010

Improve furniture in your home with a patch chair

Friday, December 31st, 2010

As I’ve mentioned before on this blog, it doesn’t take much to improve how your home looks, with one simple change. To brighten up your lounge or any room for the new year, how about doing some DIY and making yourself a patch chair. A patch chair is a chair that is upholstered with lots [...]

Buying your DIY products online

Thursday, December 30th, 2010

Sometimes you will need to buy tools and products for your various DIY projects that you are doing to improve your home. You will usually be able to find most of the tools that I mention on this blog in your local hardware shop, because the tools are not too complex or hard to find. [...]

Focus on DIY in the new year

Tuesday, December 28th, 2010

The fast-approaching new year is the perfect time to get stuck in to some new DIY projects. Do you often make new year’s resolutions, then break them when you’re barely in to January? This year, you should focus on DIY as your new year’s resolution. The beauty of trying to do more DIY is that [...]

Keeping your home safe over Christmas

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010

Christmas is an exciting time in the home, where you can decorate it exactly as you like and make it look festive. It’s important to make sure you do this safely though. It’s an improvement on the rest of the year, as you can really let loose with lights and decorations and Christmas trees. But [...]

Protecting your home when it’s empty

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

Around this time of year, many of us go on holidays or leave our homes unattended. After working so hard to improve our properties through DIY and home improvements, we must make sure is it safe and secure while we are away. Of course, the most important aspect of this is home security. Being away [...]

DIY: Learn how to wire a plug

Monday, December 20th, 2010

If you want to learn to ‘Do-It-Yourself’, then perhaps you learn how to wire a plug in your home. It’s important to learn how to do it properly, because it can be very dangerous, but it is definitely something that you could learn to do yourself, thus saving yourself the time, hassle and expense of [...]

News: Men require home improvements and DIY skills

Sunday, December 19th, 2010

According to some new research, home improvement skills are very important for a man to have around the home. According to a YouGov poll for The Sunday Times Magazine in the UK, 8o per cent of people surveyed said they thought that a man should be a able to wire a plug, hang a picture [...]

Home improvements: How to tile a bathroom

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

When you’re looking for home improvements or DIY projects for your home, one of the best you can do is tiling a bathroom. It will be quite a lot of work, and will require you to buy some tools and do some preparation beforehand but, if you do it right, then you will have a [...]

Improve your home with a fireplace

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

Having a fireplace in your home isn’t just about keeping it warm; it can also be an asset as how to your home looks and can really improve its overall appearance. Even if you don’t have a working fireplace, such as one with a chimney or flute to let the smoke escape, you could always [...]

Mirror, mirror, on the wall

Sunday, December 12th, 2010

Mirrors, when used cleverly, can be such a brilliant way to improve how a room looks. They have multiple purposes: as well as obviously having a purpose as a mirror, they can also look really beautiful as a feature on their own. In the same way that picture frames can look really special and make [...]