Having pictures up in your home can really improve how it looks and make it more personal to you. But if you have pictures or feature wallpaper up in a room that is particularly sunny, then these can fade quickly, which can be annoying and expensive to replace. This can especially be a problem in [...]
When you do DIY in your home, you need to make sure you always put safety first. This can include using wires when doing home improvements. Anything to do with the electrics is always a matter for extreme caution, so don’t attempt anything if you don’t know how to properly and safely do it. For [...]
Making improvements to your home is something that is really useful to be able to do. It means that you can adapt how your home looks until it really suits your style and tastes. It doesn’t have to be a big job that takes months but, instead, can be a series of smaller projects that [...]
Improving your home is a great part of DIY; it’s brilliant seeing your home develop and get better because of your own home improvement skills. But it’s not just about improving or making new things; you can also make the most of what you already have, such as your heating system. It’s a very cold [...]
Sometimes you might have a really good idea for a DIY project. You may really want to improve your home, but sometimes a job is just too much for one person. This is especially true if you’re not that used to DIY. For example, you might want to undertake a big project, such as building [...]
Many people will be enthusiastically starting new DIY projects in the new year, hoping to improve their homes and gardens. But if you have a DIY disaster and something goes wrong, you might find yourself in a difficult situation. What many people don’t realise is that their home and contents insurance won’t usually cover any [...]
Recent figures have shown a huge increase in people buying DIY products for home improvements before the VAT increase. The VAT (Value Added Tax) rose on 4 January from 17.5 per cent to 20 per cent, and lots of home improvement and DIY shops had a ‘pre-VAT rise’ sale to encourage buyers to get their [...]
If you are the manufacturer or maker of a home improvement or DIY product, then you should consider entering your product in to the Product of the Year awards 2011. If your product has been launched in or since January last year (2010), then you are eligible to enter. As well as DIY, products can [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]