The average monthly mortgage payment for UK households now stands at £527, which represents 15.4 per cent of a household’s total income. However, this figure fluctuates in different regions across the country, making some areas much more affordable when it comes to owning your own home. One of the best places to live in the [...]
Blinds: Keeping it simple
Minimalist design is changing the way we think about interiors. Functionality is still key but as of now, less is more. And when it comes to letting the light into your room, the rules are no different. Curtains are dead. Keeping your room stylish and clean-cut means people are turning to blinds as a contemporary [...]
Use Shelves in the Bathroom to Fill the Wall Space
Pondering how to dress up your bland bathroom walls? Well, shelving is always a good option, as it not only creates interest visually, but if done properly it makes great additional storage. Think of it as tackling two issues at once, and it gets more interesting. The most common towel colour is white, as is [...]
Clearing the Way for a Quick House Sale
The property market in 2012 is seemingly very hard to predict. Some experts are saying it could have a struggle on its hands whereas others think the time to invest could be now. But one thing remains the same. If your house is on the market you have to showcase it. It’s no longer your [...]
Instant Wall Art Found in a Personal Library
With technology moving forward faster than we can recognise the advancements, many things in our everyday lives are changing. With the introduction of the electronic readers, printed books are likely to become works of art within our lifetimes. This for me makes the dream of a library increasingly attractive. However, without a room that I [...]
Home Insurance: The Do’s and Don’ts
One of the most important issues when it comes to choosing home insurance policy is the size of the premiums – after all no one wants to pay more than they have to. However, what people really should be looking for is the most cost effective policy overall, which means the one with the most [...]
Taking a Look at Decorative Walls and Sofas From the Past
There are so many remarkable ways to create walls of interest these days, and this is to be expected considering how many resources are available especially because of the advent of the world wide web. However, I have been compiling a timeline of sorts on the progression of funky walls throughout the last century, and [...]
Oh How I Love The Funky Comic Strip Wall Murals
Now this is really funky. Should you, or a family member be a fan of DC comic strips, there are wall murals depicting many of the all time biggest selling characters you can buy to grace the walls of a room in your home. This is definitely for the faint of heart, and strays from [...]
Make Your Bedroom Walls a Colour You Love
Once you pick a funky paint colour for the walls in your bedroom, you can build upon that to make the space special. By using a shade you adore, like say chartreuse, you can then work in patterns in similar tones along with textures that introduce similar shades. The level to which you make the [...]
The Stone Walls of the Twenty First Century
River stones, or pebbles have been used on the walls of bathrooms for a while now, but these tiles appear to be branching out to other rooms in the home. They create very ethereal backdrops, and because of the calm that they can bring into a space they are cropping up in bedrooms now. They [...]
