As it starts to get hot, you start thinking desperately about ways you can keep cool. Feeling cool in your own home is the least that you should be able to enjoy when it's scorching outdoors, so getting ready for the hot summer sun is essential. If you want to be able not just to keep your home cool indoors but also comfortably enjoy the outdoors when you feel like it, it's best to do any jobs before it gets too hot. Here are some of the things that you might want to consider doing to get ready … [Read more...] about Prepare Your Home for the Summer Heat
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How to Recycle Your Accumulated Waste Periodically
Hoarding can be a problem for many people, whether they admit it or not. To keep you and your family from drowning in clutter, it is important to start reducing your rubbish one room at a time. After you finally gather them in one place, you can already call your trusted junk removal company to have them recycled or reused some other way. 5 Steps in Recycling Accumulated Waste While being eco-friendly may sound easy enough, some people may still see it as an insurmountable goal to the point … [Read more...] about How to Recycle Your Accumulated Waste Periodically
Streamline Your Bedroom With These Simple Steps
Streamline Your Bedroom With These Simple Steps Your bedroom should feel like the cosiest and most comfortable place in the world, it’s a space that’s truly your own. To be able to get up each day and handle whatever life throws at you, you need to be well rested- and sleeping in a good bedroom can certainly contribute to that. If your room feels messy and unorganized, or you just want to spruce things up a bit and make the most of the space, here’s how you can go about … [Read more...] about Streamline Your Bedroom With These Simple Steps
Simple Tips to Organize Your House Move
So the time has come and you are finally moving house. It might be interesting and exciting for your kids, but be prepared for a lot of stress. Things generally don’t go according to plan, and you will have to stay on top of the things to do, otherwise you will have to deal with weeks of chaos. Below you’ll find a few tips on how to organize your house move, so you can make the most out of your time and resources. Plan Ahead Your Vacations Moving at the weekend will cost you much more … [Read more...] about Simple Tips to Organize Your House Move
Making Life Easier For Your Family When Moving House
Moving house is an exciting experience for a family, but it can also be an exhausting and emotional experience for you, your partner, and even your kids. Perhaps you’re sad about leaving friends or other loved ones behind (even though you can still visit them, of course). Perhaps you’re simply sad about the idea of saying goodbye to a house which has given you so many important memories, even if your family has outgrown the place. During this chaotic time, you and your family need to support one … [Read more...] about Making Life Easier For Your Family When Moving House
Understanding the Difference Between Clean and Tidy
When it comes to home management, many of us have different ideas of perfection. The standards of tidiness and cleanliness that we set for ourselves vary and what one person might think of as clean and tidy may differ greatly from another's. However, regardless of your standards, have you ever considered how “clean” and “tidy” are different words often used in the same sentence. This is because they aren’t exchangeable. They mean different things. Believe it or not, you can, in fact, have a home … [Read more...] about Understanding the Difference Between Clean and Tidy
How To Give Your Home A New Lease On Life
As much as you may try to take care of your home, if you have a few kids and a dog or two, it is easy for it to get a little battered and worn-out over the years. However, your home is supposed to be a relaxing and welcoming place, and just because it’s easy for you to let it get into a bit of a state, it doesn’t mean that you have leave it like that, or that you should. Luckily, there is plenty that you can do to give it a bit of a freshen up and make it feel like a completely new house. Here … [Read more...] about How To Give Your Home A New Lease On Life
Decluttering Your Home: Making Your Home Functional And Minimal
Is it just me, or does January fill you with the motivation and inspiration to declutter and minimise your home and life in some way? This usually happens twice a year for me - in January and then again in September when the kids go back to school. It may not be going to extremes as a minimalist, but so many people like the idea of a good clear out this month that it seemed logical to share with you some of the best tips to get you started. Doing some of these tips could help you make … [Read more...] about Decluttering Your Home: Making Your Home Functional And Minimal
Moving House? Here’s What You Need to Consider
It’s hard to know what to take with you and what to leave behind when you are moving house. On average, people move house five times before they turn 30 and three more times after that, which means by the time you have reached 70 you might have moved homes up to eight times. This is not a small number, considering the fact that moving always comes with a degree of stress and uncertainty. “Have I packed all the necessaries? Have I clearly marked the boxes so that it is easier for me to find … [Read more...] about Moving House? Here’s What You Need to Consider
Spring is Around the Corner: Revitalize Your Home with 5 Decluttering Tips
It might not be spring quite yet, but if your cluttered home leaves you feeling anxious, fed up and overwhelmed then now’s the time to regain control. After the Christmas period many of our homes are more cluttered than ever before. All those new presents have to go somewhere, but the fact that we all have so many possessions these days means there’s very little room for it all. Furniture supplier OKA recently reported that the average family home has 39 pairs of shoes, 90 DVDs, 139 toys, 212 … [Read more...] about Spring is Around the Corner: Revitalize Your Home with 5 Decluttering Tips
Declutter Your Home For Good With These Top Tips
We can all have the very best intentions to keep our homes tidy and clean. But somehow throughout the daily grind of life that little promise can often be forgotten. Paperwork can pile up, clothes can be left in the wardrobe unworn. It happens to the very best of us. The problem most people have when it comes to keeping on top of their homes is time. Time to clean, time to sort through things and organize properly. But yet the irony is, if your home was clutter free those things would be far … [Read more...] about Declutter Your Home For Good With These Top Tips
The Many Emotions Of Moving House
Let's assume you are moving from a property you have lived in for a fair amount of time. And it’s a house you have turned into a home and made lots of memories in. Maybe your child took their first steps here, or you got engaged between these four walls. Perhaps you have had wonderful parties, invested time and effort into redecoration and made great friends with your neighbors. All these reasons and more make it hard to detach yourself from the home you love when it comes the time to move. … [Read more...] about The Many Emotions Of Moving House
