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Re-Appreciating your Home Or, you may need to re-think the current curtains. Are they too dark and don’t enhance the sunny rays that light up your room? New curtains don’t have to cost a fortune and opting for full-length ones can make your room look much larger. Blinds today come in all kinds of styles and patterns so pop along to your local store or go online to see how they can enhance any window.You’ll be amazed at the latest styles – everything from vertical blinds to roller blinds and from Roman to Venetian, vision blinds and pleated.
JUST when you’re looking around your home and considering moving or drastic renovation a visitor praises your property and forces you to re-consider your views. Every now and then, it’s a good idea to re-appreciate your home and remember just what attracted you to it in the first place. This may have been its location, its sunny outlook, airy rooms, its living flowthrough or simply its potential. It’s good to recall what drew you to it and remember those feelings. It also helps that re-appreciation to take a quick sensory tour of your home and recall the pleasures – your cosy couch, the warmth of the sun coming through your lounge windows or the feel of a fluffy rug under your feet. Have you got lovely neighbours? Is the area pleasant and convenient for your lifestyle, your work and your social life? Can you live in that property comfortably within your means? If you listen to your visitors’ opinions, you may well see your home through a fresh pair of eyes and be pleasantly surprised. However, if you find that you’re still not 100 per cent happy with where you are, consider using all those pluses you’ve re-recognised and improving them. Those lovely WINDOWS that let in the light so well may need enhancing or even changing, perhaps to double-glazed windows that help keep insulation costs down.
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Take an honest re-appraisal of the OUTSIDE of your house and see if that smart exterior you originally bought into is long gone and might need a fresh coat of paint or new fascia boards. Is it still the welcoming place you remember or does your FRONT DOOR need painting or replacing with something more modern and brighter? A front door that allows in plenty of light can transform a HALL so it’s well worth the investment and taking a look around local suppliers. And while we’re in the hall, does it give a positive first impression of who you are? If not, it may be that you need to de-clutter it – move all those coats and shoes into a cupboard or shoe-racks, decorate in bright colours and add a large mirror to reflect light and give an illusion of space if it needs it. A change of FLOORING can make a huge difference to any area of the house but especially in the popular areas like the lounge and kitchen where family members tend to gather.
