Homes & Gardens

Annual Home Maintenance Guide: Keys to a Problem-Free House

Regular maintenance is crucial to keeping a house in great shape. If you don’t properly inspect your house at least once a year, there could be underlying problems that are steadily getting worse without your knowledge. By being diligent with home maintenance, you’ll get a home that won’t fail you no matter how many years pass.

  1. Check your doors and windows

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Top tips for recreating your perfect home

Top Five Interior Design Trends for 2021

Want to refresh your home for the New Year? As we spend more time at home, experts at Good Move reveal the top interior design trends for 2021, and offer top tips on how you can recreate them in your home.

1. Cottagecore Chic

If you’re into ‘Bridgerton’ and anything Austen-related, this is the aesthetic for you.

Cottagecore has become more popular within the last...

Playroom

How to create a great playroom

If you have enough space in your home and you are planning to have children or already have young kids, you may have considered creating a playroom they can enjoy. There are many perks to having an allocated playroom in your home, such as keeping other areas of the house free from toys and the kids will love to have room to play with their friends undisturbed. If you are thinking of...

What Your Home Warranty Covers

Pretty much all homeowners have heard of home insurance, but not all of them know what a home warranty is. Homeowners' insurance and a home warranty are not the same things. This article will cover what a home warranty is, what types of coverages are offered, and will hopefully help a person decide if this type of service is needed in their life.

What is a Home Warranty?

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8 Vital things everyone needs for their kitchen

Whether you’re renting your first flat or buying your first home, there are a few things that every kitchen needs. Don’t be tempted by cutting costs when it comes to your kitchen – the best quality will last and give you years of use.

Your kitchen should be a calming, fun place to cook and eat, with all that you need to make a delicious meal at the end of a busy day. With that in...

Make sure you check your bill and ensure you are not being incorrectly charged

Five things to check when you get your energy bill

Energy bills can be hard to understand, but Mark Gutteridge from energy switching site Flipper says you should always take a couple of minutes to check a few key details when you get one.

There are 4 crucial bits of information amongst the pages of your bill that show if you are being charged correctly and paying the correct amount. Mark says it is especially important to make sure...

Flower arranging is one of the hobbies being taken up during lockdown

British women learn new hobbies to help them through lockdown

With the UK in the midst of a second lockdown, new research reveals the hobbies women are turning to tackle boredom and develop new skills to pass the time.

The survey of 1,000 UK women, carried out by the UK’s leading independent online florist Serenata Flowers , reveals that half (50%) of British women have taken up a new hobby since the pandemic began, with 67% practicing their...

Tips for a clean and hygienic home

Over half of Britain shockingly unconcerned about cleanliness

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to affect the entire world and Britain enters a third lockdown, it would make sense that the nation should have overhauled what it deems to clean by adopting new and more stringent sanitising measures. But is this the case in reality? New research from home cleaning specialists Lupe Technology has found that shockingly over half of Brits remain...

People face the hardships of home schooling and home working again in lockdown

Working from Home with Kids (Round Two)

As the reality of the next few months sinks in, more parents once again face the hardships of home schooling and home working, we explore how parents can cope with the pressures of working from home with kids (again).

“Our hearts literally sank when the Prime Minister said those words “schools are to close” because we remember what is was like last time – seriously tough times....

Japanese knotweed

What to Know About Japanese Knotweed 

Also called the Godzilla weed or Polygonum Cuspidatum, in the scholar’s tongue, Japanese Knotweed is one of the most invasive plants known to gardeners. If you have ever tried to get rid of this weed on your lawn, you are probably fully aware of the monstrous tenacity of this ruddy weed. Believe it or not, this brute herb will grow right through solid concrete masonry, if so inclined....

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