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6 Simple Transformations To Give Your Home That Wow Factor
Want to create a dazzling space with minimal effort? There are a few excellent ways to revolutionise a room without doing a full renovation or throwing out all your furniture. 1. Refresh Your Window Furnishings - Whether curtains, shutters or blinds, new window furnishings will immediately add impact to a space. Not only will they offer...
7 Steps To Personalising Your New Home (without breaking the bank)
You’ve paid your deposit, sailed through settlement and you’re finally ready to move into your new place. But how do you make your house or apartment feel like a home? 1. Paint Your Walls, Or More - “The cheapest way to significantly change a space or refresh it is paint,” says Lucy Feagins, founder and editor...
How To Have A Successful Open For Inspection
Nelson Alexander Ivanhoe partner and auctioneer James Labiris says opens are not only about wowing prospective buyers with a home’s stand-out features, but also showing it’s well-maintained and cared-for. He explains what buyers, with the help of their agent, need to focus on before opening the doors to would-be buyers. 1...
How To Organise A Small Space In 7 Simple Steps
Not enough space at home? The number one reason why people think they can’t get organised is that they they “don’t have enough space”. 1. Declutter, Declutter, Declutter - Keep an eye out for things that serve only one purpose and ask yourself whether there’s another way you can accomplish whatever task that...
6 Tricks To Make Any Small Room Feel Much Bigger
When decorating small houses or rooms, the last thing we want is to make the space feel pokey. 1. Use cool colours - One of interior designer Meredith Lee’s main principles when working with small spaces is to favour a cool colour palette over a warm one.“If you use blues or greens the walls feel like they’re moving...
Renovating an investment property
Our clients often ask when the best time is to renovate their investment property. Experience tells us that the best time to renovate is when the property is vacant, however some renovations can be done with tenants still in the property. Obviously, this is dependent upon the renovations to be undertaken. Renovations undertaken during a...
Rental arrears
Rental arrears are often a challenging aspect of managing a property, however, there are a number of ways to minimise this issue. Prior to approval, it’s important to carry out extensive reference and credit checks to ensure the tenant has adequate income to cover the amount listed in the rental agreement. As the tenancy agreement...
5 DIY projects to elevate your outdoor area
Want to create the ultimate outdoor area for fun in the sun, here are tips to elevate your backyard. 1. Install a fire pit If you’re permitted to have an outdoor fire at your home, a fire pit isn’t a complicated DIY project and can bring a whole new level of fun to your backyard entertaining. We followed expert renovator...
5 steps to creating more storage space in your home
Some people’s homes were not built with adequate storage options in the first place while those with growing families have simply accumulated a lot of ‘stuff’. 1. Get rid of unecessary possesions If your home is bursting at the seams with possessions, your first task is to make sure what you have truly fits into your...
How to Design The Perfect Outdoor room
When it comes to creating a great outdoor room, think of your garden as a whole new space to decorate. 1. Install a pergola - A garden without a pergola is like a room without a rug. Square outdoor areas call for vertical interest to break up the landscape and inspire new seating and planting patterns around it. Go for...
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