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What’s Hot: 2018 Bridesmaid Robe Trends

If choosing your bridesmaids isn’t hard enough, picking their outfits such as bridesmaid robes for pre-wedding events, and the big day, will be. Not only do you have to cater for your tastes and the theme of your wedding, but you’ve also got to think about what they will like. Who wants to be known as the bride who made their bridesmaids wear the most horrific outfits?

Instead, think outside the square for the events leading up to the big day, and opt for bridesmaid robes that tick all the boxes. Below, we’ve included robe trends of 2018 that is sure to be appreciated by your bridal party.

Pajama sets

While traditional floral printed wraps are famous for being on trend and exceptionally versatile, pajama sets could very well be the next big thing. As you treat your bridal group to a girl’s day, full of champagne, manicures, and pedicures, why not opt for a silky set of summer PJs to get the party started? You can purchase them in a range of colours and styles, all the while being as flexible as a bridesmaid robe.

Sweatpants

Okay so it’s not traditional, but if your wedding isn’t traditional, why should your bridesmaid robes be? Sweatpants can be customised to include the names of your bridal party, and are a great talking point for a mid-winter wedding. Don’t feel afraid to buck the wedding bridal party trend. Your bridesmaids are sure to appreciate the comfort these pants provide!

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Why A Financial Planner Can Help You Increase The Value Of Your Property

There are several reasons why you might want to carry out improvements and renovations to your home and garden. DIY could be your passionate hobby, you might be bored with how your current home looks or you may want to increase the value of your home. Whichever it is, and especially if it is the latter, you should first get the advice of a financial planner to help ensure everything relating to the financing of your project is thought through beforehand.

This is especially true if the main reason you are embarking on this home renovation project is to increase the value of your property. This applies whether you plan to live there long-term, or are looking to sell soon and want the best possible price for your home.

The multitude of possible home and garden renovations, all come with as many different costs so it is vital that in conjunction with your financial planner you not only establish a budget beforehand, but also consider the return on your investment too. This is where you will want to decide whether you want to see the biggest dollar amount increase in your property value, or the biggest percentage return on investment.

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Thinking About a Security Fence To Protect Your Property?

Secure Protection

Security fencing is erected to either protect items on your property from being stolen, or vandalised, or to protect people from hurting themselves in an accident on your property when nobody is there. Security fences have become a fact of life for most businesses, particularly if they keep anything outside the buildings in the yards, such as heavy equipment. Even churches are having their grounds surrounded by security fencing to keep vandals out. Thieves like to steal air conditioners and copper wire. It seems nothing is sacred anymore.

The Location

If you are contemplating a security fence, you need to work out where it’s going to be erected. If the ground is rocky, or uneven, it might pose some problems come installation. If you don’t mind a bit of labour, you can even out the ground where the fence will be placed, otherwise the contractors will charge you a lot more for that anyway.

Fencing Material

You have to decide what type of fence you want – made of steel, aluminium, steel mesh or chain link, which we call cyclone fencing. Chain link can be cut with bolt cutters, but you can’t cut steel and aluminium so easily. Well, not at all with bolt cutters. Cost comes into play when you are deciding on the materials for your security fence. Weigh up the cost with the level of protection you require.

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5 Ways to Choose a Name for Your Fencing Business

Every business should have a name to make it easy for people to remember, to go on their tax and advertising, not to mention their website. Choosing a name for your fencing business like Fencing Perth need not be that difficult when you take into account the things you want out of it. Top of the list would be that you want to get lots of fencing work; having just the right name can help you achieve this goal.

The name you choose for your business needs to reflect stability and reliability of course, but there are certain other considerations to take into account. Since many lists of things including businesses in a phone book are done alphabetically, having a business name starting with Z will ensure your business is at the bottom of the list. Is this what you really want?

Of course, most people will choose several out of a list to consider, when searching for the right business to deal with. But having your name at the very bottom is not such a good idea. A lot of businesspeople prefer a name starting with A so their business listing will be right at the top of the list. They might choose a name that starts with the word, Acme.

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The Evolution and Effectiveness of Branding

For ages, branding has been defined as the creation of a name, slogan, design or symbol that differentiates you and your products from the competition. Nowadays, a brand has adopted a wider definition.

It is no longer limited to just a slogan or a symbol, it has become a perception – the image induced when a company name is heard, or thought of. Branding can be linked directly to the customer’s behavior.

This can be described as an embodiment of what a company represents from the customer’s perspective and can be influenced by surrounding words, elements and creativity.

The main objective of branding is to view you as the only ones who provide a solution to their problem or fulfill their needs. It is not limited to getting your target audience to opt for your products or services over the competition.

There are 5 goals that a good branding strategy will set itself to achieve:

Delivering your message clearly
Establishing your credibility
Using pathos to create a connection between your service or product and the target market
Provide motivation to buy what you offer
Ultimately create a loyal customer base

The key towards a branding success story is the understanding of who your target customers are at every stage. It is how a company or organisation expresses themselves to others and what they are offering.

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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.

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Complementary/Alternative Medicine: The People’s Choice

I used to think of it as “the underground health economy.” For those of us who have been involved in complementary/ alternative medicine (CAM) for ten or more years, there was little surprise in David Eisenberg’s findings, published in the January 1993 New England Journal of Medicine, that a sizable portion of the public was using these therapies. The surprise was in just how large a portion this was – one in three, or 33% of the population — and the amount of money this group spent out-of-pocket: more than 10 billion dollars, exceeding what was spent on all hospital visits throughout the country.

Eisenberg’s paper unleashed a torrent of reaction. This was one large market! The alternative side beamed and glowed – and grew. Mainstream health professionals and physicians who had long been in the alternative closet came out in droves, now that there seemed to be a demand. “Alternative Medicine” conferences were organized, and journals were born, such as Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, spearheaded by Larry Dossey, a physician who had been paying attention to these issues and writing books on them since at least the early ‘80s.

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5 Tips for Budget Bathroom Renovations

The bathroom is a room that gets a lot of use and so can easily start to look worn out quickly or it may just be old-fashioned. There are many reasons why you may want to renovate a bathroom, so if you are on a budget, here are 5 tips for you.

A bathroom that is tidy and organised will always look better than one than is not. Therefore, additional storage can have the effect of brightening up the bathroom. Closed cupboards are better than open shelving because you can shut the door on the mess – and they don’t get covered in dust. However, make sure that they are easily accessible or they won’t be used as much. You can fit lots more in if you put all those smaller items into a container in the cupboard. Storage in the shower recess may also be possible and will ensure that your grooming products are right to hand.

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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.

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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.

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