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More than a third of homeowners have risked their safety by carrying out a DIY task that should have been done by a professional

More than a third of homeowners have risked their safety by carrying out a DIY task that should have been done by a professional

A study of 2,000 homeowners found a third (32 per cent) have fiddled with t…

The UK’s Five Most Common DIY Questions Answered

The UK’s Five Most Common DIY Questions Answered

Google searches for ‘DIY’ hit a 16-year high during lockdown, with many…

Making A New House Feel Like Home

Making A New House Feel Like Home

A house is more than just a building you sleep and eat in. It should be a s…

Budget Home Improvements That Sell Your Home

Budget Home Improvements That Sell Your Home

The government has now reopened the housing market, allowing people to view…

The DIY Jobs That Could Save Thousands of Pounds

The DIY Jobs That Could Save Thousands of Pounds

Leading tradesperson comparison site, HaMuch.com, has revealed eight pretty…

5 Home Improvements to Improve Your Mental Health

5 Home Improvements to Improve Your Mental Health

With an estimated one in six people experiencing common mental health probl…

Why Your Home Needs Bigger Windows

Why Your Home Needs Bigger Windows

Replacing your windows is a big job, it can be costly, but there are severa…

Repairing Your Garage, Step By Step

Repairing Your Garage, Step By Step

A garage is one of the most unique rooms in your house. It’s a place wher…

Home Gifts To Surprise Your Parent With

Home Gifts To Surprise Your Parent With

When our parents start to age, they tend to take great pride in their home.…

3 Changes To Make To Your Home Exterior Before You Sell It

3 Changes To Make To Your Home Exterior Before You Sell It

When you’re selling your home, it’s important that you make a good firs…

How The Pros Survive A Major Renovation Project

How The Pros Survive A Major Renovation Project

If you’re planning on ripping out your kitchen or completely reworking yo…

Stop Worrying - Upgrading Your Home Is Easier Than You Think

Stop Worrying - Upgrading Your Home Is Easier Than You Think

Whether you’re just moving into your new house, or whether you’ve been …

Common DIY Mistakes to Avoid

Common DIY Mistakes to Avoid

Carrying out tasks you’re capable of completing yourself in your free tim…

The Cost Of Clumsiness: Average Briton Replaces Over £1k Worth Of Broken Items Each Year

The Cost Of Clumsiness: Average Briton Replaces Over £1k Worth Of Broken Items Each Year

Brand new research has revealed that the average British household spent ar…

Improving Your Home's Energy Rating Can Raise Its Value By Almost £25,000

Improving Your Home's Energy Rating Can Raise Its Value By Almost £25,000

MoneySuperMarket reveals the effect of energy ratings on property prices ar…

3 Simple, Cheap Refreshers To Help Your Home Shine Once More

3 Simple, Cheap Refreshers To Help Your Home Shine Once More

From time to time, we can all benefit from improving our homes in the spiri…

Signs It's Time to Move Home!

Signs It's Time to Move Home!

Constantly browsing property websites, forgetting everything you love about…

Cutting The Cost Of Your New Kitchen Without Cutting Quality

Cutting The Cost Of Your New Kitchen Without Cutting Quality

A new kitchen can add heaps of value to your home while also making it a mo…

Half of Adults are DIY Disasters

Half of Adults are DIY Disasters

NOT-SO-HANDY UK adults avoid common household DIY tasks due to a lack of co…

Home Improvement 101: How Clever Homeowners Add Value

Home Improvement 101: How Clever Homeowners Add Value

If you think that the only reason to carry out home improvements is to make…

4 Tips For Decorating Your First House

4 Tips For Decorating Your First House

Buying your own home for the first time is so exciting. You finally have a …

Your Dream Home In Just One Weekend

Your Dream Home In Just One Weekend

Every homeowner is constantly on the lookout for little DIY projects that w…

Summer Maintenance Tips to Keep Your Home in Shape

Summer Maintenance Tips to Keep Your Home in Shape

When we think of summertime, we tend to think of long lazy days spent outdo…

Expert Tips to Freshen Up Your Home

Expert Tips to Freshen Up Your Home

The start of a new season is a great time to find new energy to dust out th…

Don’t Play I Spy with DIY: Home Improvement Jobs That Should Not be Played Around with

Don’t Play I Spy with DIY: Home Improvement Jobs That Should Not be Played Around with

Human beings are curious creatures, and this ultimately means that we end u…

Replacing The Beating Heart Of Your Home

Replacing The Beating Heart Of Your Home

In the next couple of decades or so, the way that homes are built is going …

Reinventing And Renovating Your Humble Home

Reinventing And Renovating Your Humble Home

If you’ve grown a little weary of your home’s aesthetic then it might b…

Bathroom Basics - Creating a Safe and Stylish Sanctuary

Bathroom Basics - Creating a Safe and Stylish Sanctuary

As the bathroom has evolved to become much more than just a functional plac…

Calming Comforts and Laidback Luxuries: Make Your House a Homely Haven

Calming Comforts and Laidback Luxuries: Make Your House a Homely Haven

When you moved into your house you created a detailed list of tweaks and re…

Eco-Friendly Home Improvements Everyone Should Consider

Eco-Friendly Home Improvements Everyone Should Consider

Everyone’s home needs updating every so often. This could be because you …

How To Not DIY Your Home Renovations

How To Not DIY Your Home Renovations

There is a time and a place to DIY your home renovations - but more often t…

Pros and Cons of Having a Fireplace in Your Home

Pros and Cons of Having a Fireplace in Your Home

If you are currently looking for a new home, you may be wondering whether t…

Bring A Taste Of Luxury To Your Dining Area

Bring A Taste Of Luxury To Your Dining Area

You don’t have to leave the house to experience fine dining. A few décor…

The 5 Most Profitable Ways To Add Value To Your Home

The 5 Most Profitable Ways To Add Value To Your Home

Doesn’t everybody want to know that they’re able to make as much money …

Intending To Extend?

Intending To Extend?

Home renovations can be as simple as a lick of paint and as complex as an e…

Three Functional Elements Of Good Kitchen Design

Three Functional Elements Of Good Kitchen Design

The kitchen is the most commonly renovated room in UK homes. It is somewher…

The DIY Method: Is It Worth The Hassle?

The DIY Method: Is It Worth The Hassle?

Whether homeowners plan to install a new kitchen or build some new bookcase…

The Best Heating Options For Your Home

The Best Heating Options For Your Home

There are many different options you have for heating your home, and the ch…

Is Starting Over Always The Best Idea?

Is Starting Over Always The Best Idea?

It's surprisingly common for a lot of people to end up feeling pretty bored…

From Period to 21st Century: Fantastic Kitchen Upgrades

From Period to 21st Century: Fantastic Kitchen Upgrades

Lots of people are now choosing to buy period properties as they are often …

Effective Ways To Create Separation In An Open-Plan Home

Effective Ways To Create Separation In An Open-Plan Home

Having an open-plan area of your home is fairly common these days. Rather t…

Making Your Home Improvement Ideas A Reality

Making Your Home Improvement Ideas A Reality

We all dream about the things we’d do to improve our homes if we just had…

Home Is Where The Hearth Is: 4 Reasons To Buy A Log Burner

Home Is Where The Hearth Is: 4 Reasons To Buy A Log Burner

Modern houses don’t care for log burners or coal fires because of central…

Small Bathroom Survival: Storage & Simplifications

Small Bathroom Survival: Storage & Simplifications

The main bathroom is one of the most used rooms in the house, but also the …

This Is What Everybody Forgets When Buying An Old House

This Is What Everybody Forgets When Buying An Old House

Buying an old house can be a real challenge, and if you’re not careful, y…

Turn Your Home Into A Castle With These Royal Tips

Turn Your Home Into A Castle With These Royal Tips

Have you heard the saying that a man’s home is his castle? It basically m…

Save Your Spare Room From Storage!

Save Your Spare Room From Storage!

All too often, our spare rooms end up being a dumping ground for all of the…

Planning Your Big Home Renovation

Planning Your Big Home Renovation

Home renovations can help you towards the home you’ve always dreamed of l…

Home Improvement Help: Upgrading On A Budget

Home Improvement Help: Upgrading On A Budget

Home is where the heart is, and transforming yours for the better is the to…

Easily Save Money On Home Repairs

Easily Save Money On Home Repairs

When something in the house gets broken or stops working, the first reactio…

Areas Of Your Home Feeling Unloved? Here's How To Make The Most Of The Space You Have

Areas Of Your Home Feeling Unloved? Here's How To Make The Most Of The Space You Have

Most of us would love more space in our homes, but rather than adding on, c…

Quick DIY: 15-Minute Home Improvements

Quick DIY: 15-Minute Home Improvements

Do you have an ever-growing list of home improvement jobs that never seem t…

Revealed: We Spend £36K On Decorating In Our Lifetimes

Revealed: We Spend £36K On Decorating In Our Lifetimes

The average person in the UK will redecorate their home 36 times in their l…

How DIY-ing Can Save Pounds

How DIY-ing Can Save Pounds

A compelling sales promotions strategy can mean cost-effective buys for DIY…

Britain Is A Nation Of 'DIY Bodgers'

Britain Is A Nation Of 'DIY Bodgers'

Three quarters of Brits have experienced DIY disasters that cost hundreds o…

Rooflights: Shining A Light Into Homes

Rooflights: Shining A Light Into Homes

Ian Kernaghan, Product Manager at Eurocell, illuminates us on all things ro…

Householders Urged To Check Indoor Air Quality

Householders Urged To Check Indoor Air Quality

To coincide with Allergy Awareness Week* (25th April to 1st May 2016), a le…

Who Bears The DIY Burden?

Who Bears The DIY Burden?

When it comes to DIY in the home men and women can’t seem to agree who ac…

Brits Are Sitting On A Small Fortune

Brits Are Sitting On A Small Fortune

We are sitting on more than £342 million worth of small change around thei…

Only 1 in 3 Willing to Make an Effort to do an Annual Spring Clean

Only 1 in 3 Willing to Make an Effort to do an Annual Spring Clean

Every year National Spring Cleaning Week aims to support, give advice and p…

Some Like It Hot, But What Sort Of Fuel User Are You?

Some Like It Hot, But What Sort Of Fuel User Are You?

Buying fuel that doesn’t come at the flick of a switch or turn of a contr…

Is This Your Dream Home? It’ll Take 12 Minutes To Decide

Is This Your Dream Home? It’ll Take 12 Minutes To Decide

The average house-hunter takes just 12 minutes to decide they have found th…

DIY Skills 'Dying Out' Among Younger Home Owners

DIY Skills 'Dying Out' Among Younger Home Owners

Home improvement skills are dying out among younger home owners, according …

How To Use The Right Tool For The Job

How To Use The Right Tool For The Job

DIY home renovation is an extremely big commitment, and requires the home o…

Winter is coming: How To Pick A Floor That Adds Warmth To The Home

Winter is coming: How To Pick A Floor That Adds Warmth To The Home

With increasingly well-insulated houses, double glazing, more efficient boi…

The Dangers Of Using Harsh Cleaning Solutions

The Dangers Of Using Harsh Cleaning Solutions

V4 Woodflooring, the UK’s leading wood floor expert, is warning of the da…

How To Make 'The Most Dangerous Room' In The Home Safer

How To Make 'The Most Dangerous Room' In The Home Safer

D-Line, the cable management solutions specialist, believes simple steps to…

D-Line ready for TV debut

D-Line ready for TV debut

D-Line, the Tyneside-based cable management specialist, is preparing to bro…

WIN a Cable Tidy Pack – worth over £50!

WIN a Cable Tidy Pack – worth over £50!

A D-Line Cable Tidy pack worth in excess of £50 is up for grabs, including…

How to make the most of bedroom space

How to make the most of bedroom space

When redesigning a bedroom the position of the bed and storage in the room …

Don't get into a tangle over festive gifts

Don't get into a tangle over festive gifts

With electrical goods expected to be popular on letters to Santa this Chris…

Bathroom solutions for small spaces

Bathroom solutions for small spaces

Bathrooms are often the smallest rooms in the home, yet they should still b…

Simply build it!

Simply build it!

Simply Build It, a unique new product which enables consumers to affordably…

Opening the door to an urban landscape in the home

Opening the door to an urban landscape in the home

V4 Woodflooring, which is a leading supplier of responsibly sourced, premiu…

How to make your home safer in the midst of cable clutter

How to make your home safer in the midst of cable clutter

With the ever-increasing number of electrical items in our homes, a great c…

The home improvement boom

The home improvement boom

The housing market isn't going to decelerate anytime soon, with recent figu…

How to choose a hard wood floor

How to choose a hard wood floor

Choosing a hard wood floor requires a lot of consideration, particularly fo…

Solid wood flooring at the click of a mouse

Solid wood flooring at the click of a mouse

A new website called Direct Wood Flooring has been launched to allow home o…

D-Line offers safeguarding solution for pets in the home

D-Line offers safeguarding solution for pets in the home

D-Line, the cable management specialist, is offering home owners the ideal …

D-Line's revolutionary new floor trim halves installation time

D-Line's revolutionary new floor trim halves installation time

D-Line’s revolutionary new floor trim is twice as useful, but takes half …

Making the mundane beautiful

Making the mundane beautiful

Lateral Design Studio specialises in transforming everyday functional produ…

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