DIY & Decor

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  • Decorating with paint

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    Home Decorating: Modern paints Read article 1 about traditional paints and decorating with paint in your home Oil paints Used on interior, exterior wood and metalwork, floors and exterior walls. In most EU countries it’s no longer allowed to use solvent-based paint on interior surfaces. In fact, in many countries solvent based paints are banned.…

  • Leather Flooring

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    Leather flooring Leather is the latest luxurious material to use for floor covering. It looks good, it feels good, it smells good…but is it practical?.. Pros: durable absorbs sound warm under the feet hard wearing Cons: not suitable for heavy trafficked areas needs regular waxing not suitable for heavy trafficked areas Where to use it…

  • Floorboards

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    Wood is like wine – it matures and improves with age. If you live in an old house and have the original floorboards in good shape – you are lucky. There is nothing more beautiful than old, good–quality floor boards or an old parquet floor. Old floorboards fit or complement any design style, or can…

  • Office Feng Shui

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    Office Feng Shui Feng Shui is about arranging your stuff and furniture in a way that that helps you to avoid bad energy and to boost your wealth & well being. First you must find out your Kua number and establish your personal trigram – this depends on your birth year and on your gender.…

  • Office Decoration

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    Office Decoration Working from home More and more of us work from home these days. Yet when it comes to situating on our home office we normally allocate the least used or the smallest space in our home. Many of use the bedroom or the dining room as the office. This is not the ideal…

  • Wooden Flooring

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    I keep going on about not using carpets in a home. Why? Because unless you’re a single, obsessively tidy individual, carpets are impractical, unhygienic and require hard maintenance, as they get dirty/spoiled/ burned and wear out easily. So what is the alternative? The best material to use on floors is wood. In the following articles…

  • Decorating with paint

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    Home Decorating – Paint There is a wide range of choice when decorating with paint. It’s fun to go through the colour charts and brochures but when it comes to choosing the right paint we are baffled. What is the difference between eggshell and satin finish? When shall we use acrylic paint? What’s the difference…

  • How not to decorate

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    How not to decorate – Part 2 read part 1 of how not to decorate your home 6, Reproduction  A house or a piece of furniture should reflect its own time. One of the worst interiors I’ve seen was a traditional look created in a modernist 60’s building. All furniture looked “antique” – reproduced ceiling…

  • Kitchen worktop

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    Kitchen Worktops The worktop is the most used element in our kitchens. They need to withstand scratches, spills, knocks, water and heat. It is important to choose a strong and durable worktop that is also hygienic and easy to clean.  These are the top 10 materials suitable for a kitchen worktop.. 1, Laminate Pros: Economical…

  • Christmas Decoration 2008

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    2008 has been the year of the credit crunch and this even affects our Christmas tree! This year more and more of us are making our own Christmas ornaments or updating previous years’ decorative items. Actually, it’s not a bad thing.. More and more of us are turning away from consumerism preferring individual, bespoke, one-off…