Creating whimsical features in your home

  • 5 Things You Should Consider Before Buying a Tree

    25 June 2020

    Careful plant selection can help you create an attractive landscape that will add great value to your home. The process is not as easy as buying a new tree and simply planting it. Before you and your landscape contractor start working on your garden, there are several things you need to look into such as pollination and positioning of the tree. Here's what you need to consider before buying a tree.

  • 3 Ways to Tell If the Nursery Plants or Seedlings You Want to Buy Are Healthy

    5 May 2020

    People who are passionate about plants typically have different species of plants in their landscaping, and each plant species plays a critical role. Having an attractive landscape requires a lot effort, but it doesn't have to be overwhelming. If you have interacted with landscape bushes and plants for a while now, you might have learnt that healthy and vigorous plants nourish the landscape in a big way. If you want to have beautiful and healthy plants in your garden, you need to get healthy seedlings from a reputable nursery.

  • Two Tips for Those Who Are About to Install Awnings in Their Gardens

    13 March 2020

    If you have decided that your garden would look and function better with an awning in it, here are some pointers that you may want to remember when you buy this item. Avoid connecting the new awning to any walls of your house on which climbing plants are growing Climbing plants can add a wonderful touch of whimsy and delicate beauty to a house's walls. However, despite their prettiness, they can cause problems if you connect other structures to the walls on which they are growing, and you should try to avoid erecting your new awning on any exterior surface where you have some of these plants.

  • Frosted vs Clear Glass Shower Screen: 4 Key Considerations for Your Wet Room

    30 January 2017

    If you want to install a shower screen to create a wet room enclosure within your bathroom, one of the key decisions you'll need to make is whether to use clear glass or frosted glass. Here are just four considerations that you need to take into account. 1. Size of Space Wet rooms are often used in smaller bathrooms. If space is at a premium, you're likely to be better off going for a clear glass screen.

  • Safety Checks and Solutions: A Homeowner's Guide to Asbestos

    26 January 2017

    It's common knowledge now that asbestos is damaging to health.  However, it is not always clear what kind of damage asbestos can do, exactly how much of a risk factor it is, and how to determine whether asbestos is present in your home.  Especially if you're buying a new property and feel that asbestos may be a concern, it's vital to understand how to proceed with asbestos removal and its importance.

  • Why you should install a floor heating system in your home

    25 January 2017

    Floor heating systems have been around for quite a while now and the technology used has only improved over the past couple of years. Under floor heaters warm large floor surfaces at modest temperatures making it the most comfortable and efficient heating system for buildings available today. Convectional heating systems are going out of fashion because of how noisy, inefficient, expensive and unsightly they are. Systems that rely on heating the air and relying on the hot air to move to the rest of the room are quite inefficient because it leads to stuffy and uncomfortable indoor atmospheres.

  • Is It Time to Replace Your Air Conditioning?

    17 January 2017

    Air conditioning systems are a must-have for most homeowners. However, since investing in air conditioning is expensive, some people make the mistake of holding on to their units long after their shelf life. This leads into investing copious amounts of money in repairing the unit on a constant basis, when replacing it would be cheaper in the long run. If you are not sure whether you need to replace or repair your air conditioning system, the following are some of the things that you should be looking out for.