Home Renovation Make A Clean Sweep When It Comes To Home Improvement
NOW is the perfect time to get stuck into turning your property into a dream residence, or ensuring a business premises looks its absolute best. Summer offers you a prime opportunity to get stuck into improving your premises. And of course, your local Tidy Towns
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committee will also be delighted with your efforts as the judges for the national Tidy Towns competition come a-calling this summer! What’s more, as you will see in these pages, the greater Killarney area offers unrivalled support in the form of busi-
nesses and experts in home improvement and DIY. The longer days will give most of us inspiration and scope to ensure our homes and businesses look their picture-perfect best and bear in mind that little foresight goes a long way. First of all, draw up a checklist of what you need. You may have to compile a shopping list while you’re at it. Once you have everything to hand, sort out that to-do list and don’t delay in tackling it head on. Create a realistic schedule, keeping in mind that a single Saturday won’t suffice, as you’ll need several days for more involved projects, such as shampooing carpets, clearing out wardrobes and blitzing that kitchen and living spaces. Decide first if you are going from indoors to outdoors, and have a scheme in mind for the starting and finishing point of both. Whether you are gardening or perfecting your indoor space, focus on one task at a time – and don’t forget to enlist the help of other family members. While wielding the drill can be satisfying in itself, there is also great pleasure in reviewing each finished task – and of course relaxing and enjoying the benefits of a comfortable property.
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Home Renovation Ger O’Doherty Decorating Services IF YOU want to ensure your property, whether domestic, commercial or industrial, looks its pristine best, get in touch with Ger O’Doherty Decorating Services. Originally from Ardshanavooly and now based in Lisheencanna, Ballyhar, Ger O’Doherty established the business in 2003 and it has gone from strength to strength, with a team of three fulltime staff and one parttime staff member. The services provided include painting interiors and exteriors as well as spray-painting. Ger O’Doherty Decorating Services has an enviable reputation for ensuring houses, apartments, B&Bs, hotels, holiday homes and all manner
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of domestic commercial and industrial premises look their best.
The team also takes care of handpainted kitchen units and wardrobes as well as offering floor painting and floor varnishing.
Ger O’Donoghue Decorating Services also carry out fire restoration and insurance work as well as power washing. It takes on all projects, from new builds to extensions and renovations. “Why not give your kitchen a facelift for a quarter of the cost of a new one?” said Ger. “Work we have recently completed includes a holiday home in Ballybunion, the Aran Sweater Market on College Street, McSorley’s Bar, Who’s 4 Shoes, Moynihan Expert Hardware, Farranfore, Peak Performance gym, Deerpark, and The Laurels pub, Killarney, and Dunnes Stores in Tipperary.” You can find Ger O’Doherty Decorating Services on Facebook or call 0851619672.
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Home Renovation Extract-Away Cleaning Services
WANT a top-class professional cleaning service that also uses non-toxic safe products? Look no further than Extract-Away Cleaning Services. The super-efficient team uses
non-caustic, non-toxic, fume-free and safe cleaning products. Services include ovens, hobs, extractors, chimneys, barbecues, microwaves, carpets, mattresses upholstery and much more.
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Colour Is Key When It Comes To Your Wellbeing NOW is a good time to rethink your property’s colour palette. It’s no secret that colour can either make or break a design, but fortunately, it is very easy to choose the perfect colour scheme for you. When the colour’s right, it can enhance feelings of health and wellbeing, modify perceived temperature (make your space feel warmer or cooler), transform perceived space (make your space feel larger, or more cozy and intimate), illuminate dark areas, create mystery and romance in dull areas, and energise static areas. Colour, and the psychology of colour, is a big design trend. But beware of generalisations — for instance, that green is relaxing, blue is soothing, red is energising — as these only apply when certain hues are used. A vibrant blue or a sharp, electric green definitely would not be relaxing; a deep blue-green might
feel cold instead of soothing. The wrong red used in an entire room might create the sensation of entrapment rather than energy. Before planning colour in your personal environment, make a mini-questionnaire and poll yourself and your family. Your answers are 50% of the project because your color choices depend on them for direction. Think about where the room is and how many windows it has. Also bear in mind what direction the windows are facing. Is there landscaping outside that will have an effect on the colours in the room? Who will use the room, and what will they do there? Is it private or community space? Will it be a sociable and active place, or a peaceful place? How do I want it to feel? Happy hunting when it comes to finding the perfect hues for your living space.
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