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Advantages and Disadvantages of Building a Home

Moving into your own home is an exciting time, whether you purchase a pre-built one or decide to build your own. There are several advantages and disadvantages to building a home instead of buying one ready to live in.

Advantages

• When you build, you get more say about the design of the floor plan and can usually add or change certain features without it costing much – or anything. For instance, you could add a laundry chute from a bathroom to the laundry to save a lot of work and heavy carrying.
• You get to choose the materials the home is build with inside and out. The colour scheme is your choice and so are the light fittings and window treatments.

What to do with your Unused Swimming Pool

Most kids love to have unlimited access to a pool; they would be in it for hours every day if they could. However, parents are not always the same. As you get older, it takes more effort to go swimming in the backyard pool and you probably have many other things you would like to do instead. So now that the kids have left home or are more interested in their hairstyles than swimming, is that backyard pool gathering metaphorical dust? Why not convert it into something else? Something that could become a very interesting hobby. What?

A fish pond! This is not only ecologically sustainable, but you will have a great supply of fresh fish on hand for dinner.  We tend to think of a fish pond as something about knee high holding rarely seen fish only a few centimetres long. If your swimming pool was converted to a fish pond there would be no reason not to grow fish to eat in it. It is deep and big enough that many fish would thrive.

The Easy Way to Choose A Colour Scheme for the Living Room

It’s not that difficult to work out an amazing colour scheme for your favourite room.  You don’t have to be an interior designer like Sam Sorgiovanni to have a home that pops with all the right colours. It can be quite an easy job to choose colours for any room if you have a pretty mat or even a piece of artwork you really love and intend to use in it. Here’s what to do.

• Choose the main colour in the artwork and use a colour chart to find a paler or lighter version for the walls of the room. This will usually be a background colour, not the part that pops out at you.
• From the wall shade, choose a slightly darker hue for the carpet.

7 Gardening Ideas to Make Your Garden Pop

Are you tired of your old garden that seems to be more weeds and dirt than anything else? Having an attractive garden around the home can add value and aesthetics and enhance your lifestyle. Everyone needs something pretty to look at and if you are constantly surrounded by dreary, half-dead plants it will eventually get on your nerves and poison your mood. So here are some tips to not only make your garden pop, but to brighten up your mood as well.

• Spend a little more on organic fertiliser to ensure your soil is healthy. Few plants can grow well in soil that cannot provide the nutrients they need.
• Start again with your basic garden shapes and add different plants for a better look. Do a little research so you know what their growing habits are and can plant them accordingly. There are many great gardening makeover books available you can learn from.