Tips for Installing Kitchen Cabinets

One of the most crucial components in the kitchen is the cabinetry. It covers a vast area and impacts the room's aesthetics. And it stores all your food and kitchen items, therefore affecting the room's functionality. Here are some tips when planning your cabinetry. Make it Efficient When you're planning the cupboards, think about ways to make them more efficient. For example, you could opt for drawers of various depths to store different-sized items. [Read More]

5 Eco-Friendly Benchtop Materials For A Green Kitchen Renovation

As the effects of man-made climate change and global warming become more difficult to ignore, homeowners across the country are making changes to make their homes more environmentally friendly and energy-efficient. If you are planning a kitchen renovation, you have a perfect opportunity to boost your home's green credentials by using sustainable materials to build your new kitchen.  If you are choosing benchtop materials for an eco-friendly kitchen renovation, you may wish to avoid conventional choices such as granite benchtops (which require lots of energy and carbon to create) and low-cost laminate (which frequently contains toxic chemicals such as formaldehyde). [Read More]

Locked Out Of The House? 4 Problems You Face If You Don't Call An Emergency Locksmith

If you've locked yourself out of the house, and you've decided to take the DIY approach, now's the time to rethink that decision. You might think that you're saving time and money by foregoing the emergency locksmith, but that's not necessarily the case. In fact, you could end up wasting time, and spending more money, by trying to go avoid the locksmith. Read the list provided below. You'll find four serious problems you could face if you don't call for emergency locksmith services now that you're locked out of the house. [Read More]

Two budgeting tips to follow when replacing your patio

Here are two budgeting tips to follow when replacing your patio. Talk to your patio builder about using some of the current patio's parts You should have a discussion with your patio builder about whether they could utilise some of the existing patio's materials or structural features to build the new patio instead of simply tearing out every part of it and starting from scratch. For example, if the new patio will have the same dimensions and shape as the old one but you want to use different paving stones, it might be possible for the patio builder to keep the existing underlayers that form the sub-base of the patio as long as the reason you're replacing the patio isn't related to these lower layers being structurally damaged. [Read More]