Renovating your home to suit your style can be fun and satisfying. It can also be a little daunting. If you aren’t sure where to start, you’ve come to the right place. Developing an interior design to suit your home and lifestyle can be done in five simple steps. (Read More)
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Creating a Warm Welcoming Interior Design
The holiday season will be upon us before we know it, and you may already be considering how you can create a warm and inviting atmosphere in your home to welcome your guests. Making your home feel cosy will not only help your guests feel comfortable, but it will ensure that you feel a relaxed sense of entering your own private refuge each and every day. (Read More)
Your Renovation Game Plan - My latest article in the Your Investment Property Magazine
Check out my latest article in the Your Investment Property magazine for mountains of tips and ideas to help you renovate for a profit. (Read More)
Finding the best trades-people for your reno
Finding good tradespeople to do your renovation work can be like pulling teeth sometimes. Many don’t get back to you on time. Others hand you quotes which make you wonder whether they’ve quoted you on a different job which was three times the size of what you asked. And some go weeks over their promised timeframes. (Read More)
Renovating before you sell? Wondering how to get the biggest bang for your buck?
It’s a common mistake to just try to make a property look good when renovating for a profit or to sell – and this is of course very important. However, it’s more important to produce a ‘product’ (your property) that buyers want to buy to buy from a practical perspective too. (Read More)
Renovating Soon? Stick to your budget and get set to make a whopping profit
Colours for your Renovation
I often get asked ‘how much will you charge to do my colours’. My answer? Nothing – because I won’t do it. There are so many other factors to consider and I for one find it impossible to ignore the things that I know NEED to change in order for a real transformation to be made possible. Colour is a very important factor, but it is only around 30% of what it takes to modernise and add value to any property. (Read More)
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Two-storey home renovations
Renovating the facade of a two-storey home is entirely different to renovating the facade of a one-storey home. Use these top tips to make sure your two-storey home reno looks the best it possibly can…
Create a visual anchor
If you were to stand on the road and look along the driveway towards your house, you should be able to get an idea of how your property presents, and how much ‘visual anchoring’ it needs. To visually anchor a property is to give it a sense that the house is anchored in place. It is quite a subtle thing but when done well, it makes an enormous difference to the overall aesthetic of the entire property.
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