Home & Garden
Make your floor sparkle
Luxury vinyl flooring manufacturer Moduleo has unveiled a collection of superb new finishes in its Transform range. Offering greater choice than ever before, Moduleo’s new products reflect the very latest interior trends and include innovative products such as a sparkling Azuriet stone.
Flooring trends for 2014
With 2013 drawing to a close, David Bigland, the MD of luxury vinyl flooring manufacturer Moduleo UK predicts the key flooring trends for 2014.
The unsung heroes of the kitchen
Most British kitchens are filled to bursting point with numerous gadgets and gizmos that once seemed like a great idea that you were bound to use every day (in fact, at the time you wonder how you ever lived without it) but are now just sat unloved and unused, collecting dust on the worktop or lingering at the back of a kitchen cupboard after having been put to action only once or twice.
How to create a perfect garden room
An extra room looking on to the garden is a traditional choice for many UK homes, and whether it is a garden room, sunroom or conservatory, the variety available is vast. It’s certainly a great way to add value to your property; the one danger is it can end up looking like something bolted onto the side of the house, rather than an integrated part of the existing structure.
The top 7 household lifesavers
These days, we often look for ways to make things easier for our busy lives; simple solutions that get the job done, and quickly. Here we mix unconventional uses for everyday items with revolutionary concepts, all with one thing in common: they make the perfect household lifesavers.
Warm Up North Offers North East residents free Green Deal assessments
North East residents are set to benefit from more energy efficient homes this winter as the UK’s largest energy efficiency initiative offers 450 free home energy efficiency assessments for the Government-backed Green Deal scheme.
More cash-back for carrying out Green Deal home improvements
Changes to the government’s Green Deal cash-back scheme have been announced.
Let Persimmon exchange your home this year
Prospective buyers waiting for the sale of their property are being encouraged to act now to make their dream of a ‘new year, new home’ a reality.
Adding a sense of space could make your home more buyer-friendly
So, the Christmas decorations have been put away for another year – leaving your home looking a little more spacious than it did this time last month.
Make a New Year's resolution to improve your home for 2014
Do you find yourself making the same New Year’s resolution every year, only to break it by January 5th? Are you tired of resolving to quit smoking or exercise more, knowing full well you’ll do neither?
Do different dinner times mean the death of the dining room?
With over half of UK homeowners eating dinner at a different time to the rest of the family and a third spending most of their time at home in the kitchen, according to research by the Lloyds Banking Group , the formal dining room seems to be falling out of favour.
Useless gadgets gathering dust
It’s almost a Christmas tradition to receive a present that will never make it out of the box.
For no mess, no mud it’s got to be LazyLawn
Home owners across London are discovering the secret to a mud and mess-free garden lies with turfing out their natural grass in favour of joining the LazyLawn revolution.
With energy bills rising - now is the time to buy new and keep your costs down
When it comes to moving or buying a first home, many people are faced with the dilemma of old versus new.
The most common house bats
You’d be surprised to know you might have bats living in your house. Since bats’ natural habitat has been lost they’ve adopted all sorts of buildings, houses, barns and even churches as their new roosts. But what bats are you likely to find inside your home?