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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]