DIY & Decor

Author: DO or DIY

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    DIY Remodeling Project Diary – Week 13 We’ve chosen the hottest week of the year to remove the wall between the kitchen and the sitting room. We created an enclosure around it so that the dust wouldn’t go everywhere. It looked like a scene out of ET. Of course dust  did go everywhere – the…

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    DIY Project Diary – week 12 I had a meeting with the local planning office and they confirmed that the space on the first floor cannot be opened up because a protected escape route must exist in case of fire. These rules apply to three (or more) storey buildings. Installing a fire escape into the…

  • DIY Project Diary

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    DIY Project – week 11 We finally moved into our bedroom! Six months after we moved into our house. The mattress & the blind arrived on time; we created the radiator cover from Hessian and attached some floating shelves on the wall facing the bed. I filled the storage boxes with stuff but I also…

  • DIY MARKET

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    DIY Market Do you want to sell your power tools, gardening tools, appliances or furniture? Or do you need to buy tools, books or materials for your DIY project? Why don’t you check out the DIY Market where people can buy and sell Home improvement & furnishing items such as: used power tools, diy tools,…

  • DIY Network

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    DIY Network DIY Network is a forum based service where DIYers can network with each other:- ask questions, find solution to their problems, discuss their DIY projects or ideas etc. Why don’t you check it out? The following forums are available: Home Improvement Home Decoration Home Design Home Maintenance Crafts & Hobbies Gardening These are…

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    DIY Project Diary  –  Week 10 Painting with the paint gun isn’t easy at all. I’d assumed it would be a time saver – but it isn’t. I bought an electric HVLP spray system – supposedly perfect for professional painting and lacquering because it creates an even, smooth finish – no brush strokes, no roller…

  • DIY Market Announcement

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    Sell your used tools,gardening tools & homeware We have now opened the DIY MARKET, the online marketplace where you can sell and buy used power tools, gardening tools, decorating tools, furniture, appliances… well, anything to do with home improvement, home decoration or gardening. For a limited period you can sell your unwanted items free of…

  • Wabi-Sabi

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    Wabi Sabi Wabi-Sabi is the latest interior design trend. But what is it? Apparently it’s an ancient Japanese aesthetic that sees beauty in nature, simplicity, imperfection and impermanence. Wabi is a spiritual path to simplicity and solitude whilst Sabi is a natural process through age resulting in objects that are irregular, unpretentious and impermanent. Isn’t…

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    DIY Project Diary – Week 9 In the world of home improvement things always take longer than anticipated. No wonder builders never finish projects on time – why, knowing this, can’t they be realistic and allow for extra time when they give their estimates?.. Anyway, we were working hard during the last week on the…

  • DIY & Home Makeover TV shows

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    During the last decade DIY home improvement shows, interior design makeovers and relocating & property developing programmes have been flooding our TV sets. We either love them or hate them – but either way, they have affected our lives and our perception of home improvement & decoration. Most of us want to live in magazine-style…