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Online Secrets to Designing your Perfect Living Room
Whether you’re thinking about changing the colour of your living room walls, or going for a complete room makeover, the internet has a wealth of tools that can help you design the perfect living space. We’ve taken a look at some top sites and online design tricks that you can use to help with your own home décor.
Furniture
The Laura Ashley website’s sofas section makes choosing your perfect sofa easier than ever. It uses a simple step-by-step process, where you choose your style of sofa, then choose from a huge selection of gorgeous Laura Ashley fabrics, and your new sofa design is delivered to your door.
Choosing Colour
One of the hardest parts of designing a living space that’s perfect for you is choosing your colour palette. With paint suppliers now able to paint-match to any colour you choose, your choices for wall colour are now almost limitless. That kind of choice is brilliant, allowing you more freedom to create your perfect space, but it can be a little overwhelming too. If you’re having trouble visualising your living room in a range of shades, or are just looking for some colour palette inspiration, the Dulux paint site has a really useful Mouse Painter tool that you can use for free. You can upload photos of your own living room, then click on their paint colour range to see the room automatically redesigned in that colour – a way to instantly imagine how your own room would look in that shade.
Chic and Unique
The internet provides a whole new way to seek out furniture and home décor items for your living room that are completely unique. Whether you’re looking for something quirky, classic antiques, or handmade designs, sites like Etsy, where designers sell their own handmade wares, or eBay, where you can get your hands on antique bargains, make for great home shopping options.
Do It Yourself
As well as helping you choose how to decorate your living room, the internet is packed with useful resources to help you out with DIY tasks. From step-by-step guides on how to put up shelving, to tutorial videos on how to lay laminate flooring, if you’re a DIY novice, make use of the DIY help that’s available online and you’ll save on the cost of hiring joiners and carpenters to complete your ideal room design.
Country living versus city life
When it comes to answering the question about whether the country or the city offers a better quality of life, there is really no definitive answer one way or the other. The fact is that it largely depends on what it is that you want from life; the country offers fresh air, quiet and homes [...]
Spruce up your Décor with a Spring Clean
When spring appears behind winter’s gloomy nights it is always nice to revamp your life a little to fit in with the warmer weather. Most importantly is your wardrobe, you can pack away your thick jumpers and woolly coats and swap them for cotton dresses and pretty camisoles. Second to this, we like to give [...]
Creating a haven in your home
The bedroom is the place we tend to relax; it’s a haven to most after a long day at work and the correct décor is the key to creating a peaceful ambience. Making your bedroom beautiful can be done by investing in a few attractive pieces of furniture and, unless you want to create a [...]
How to turn your old furniture into vintage white furniture
With the economic climate being the way it is at present, more people than ever are likely to be looking at ways in which they can effectively recycle things rather than simply getting rid of them, as they look to find ways of making savings. One of the things that can be very effectively recycled [...]
Leather sofas
Looking around modern homes you’ll find that leather sofas are everywhere. Yes, they are no longer the preserve of the bachelor pad and they have infiltrated even the most middle class of home. Why is this? Perhaps it’s because the image of the leather sofa as well as the sofas themselves have changed. While leather [...]
Insurance for landlords
While those in the property rental market vary from people renting a single second home, to tycoons with housing portfolios covering locations across the UK, anyone renting property to others for housing or commercial purposes needs to make sure that they have the appropriate insurance cover to protect them and their investment. Landlord Insurance is [...]
Preparing For the Holiday Season
As the nights get darker, the weather turns colder and rain seems to threaten every day, a lot of people’s minds turn to going away to warmer climes. The last thing you want to find is that some light fingered, morally bankrupt soul has helped themselves to your possessions. Perhaps you’re renting to students who [...]
Insuring Your Possessions Against Theft – What Kinds Of Policies Are On Offer?
Loss by theft is covered by Endsleigh and other insurance companies, in addition to loss by accidents, loss from natural disasters or loss by death. We explain a few of them below. House Theft: Home contents insurance policies will usually cover the loss of your belongings to burglars. This is good news as such incidences [...]
Furniture to Match Your House Style
So you’ve found your dream house, or you’re renting an apartment that you fell in love at first sight with, and you want to make sure the place feels like home as soon as possible. However, if you have invested in an eighteenth century cottage-style home, you may be worried that your chic, modern-minimalist furniture [...]