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Interior design ideas for the bedroom

After a hard day’s work, the bedroom is usually the part of the house where we go to release our daily stress and recharge ourselves. And in order to achieve this, it’s necessary that our room matches our personality to make us feel the way we want to. However it should also have a stylish design, while avoiding overcrowding it with materials that are useless, as these normally goes against the concept of the special spacious retreat that you may be looking for. By having a spacious and stylish bedroom that suits your personality, you may then relax in this…

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How to Manage Expectation vs Reality at Home

When we look through a furniture magazine or browse the internet for home style ideas, we are presented with images that are very, very far from the truth. Images of perfect homes, gatherings of friends and family sitting around beautifully cooked food and color schemes of perfection. Anyone who has their own home will know that these images of expectations are very far from reality. To highlight the gulf between the two, furniture company IKEA recently did a survey to find out what reality is like versus these expectations and the results were pretty interesting. Spending Time With Family and…

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Get the Smart Home You Want

Even though it is still in the formative years, homeowners planning to make their homes smarter have an increasing variety of smart home improvement products to help boost their households’ intelligence. There are now gadgets that help with the regulation of lights, lamps, temperature, or cookware. These smart devices are available and allow you to manage your home from just one iOS or Android app, much like bundling DIRECTTV and Internet services that use apps to access your home entertainment from your smartphone. Hot or Cold Controlling the temperature of your home is an excellent place to start when looking to…

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5 simple steps to make your boat theft proof

Your mooring of choice may seem idyllic, but here’s a story showing that nowhere is immune to marine crime. Between 27 and 31 May in Brundall, seven outboard engines were stolen from a single marina. Fast forward a few days to the bank holiday weekend and thieves managed to bag a further six motors from nearby Ranworth. That’s 13 pieces of expensive kit snatched within the space of a week in the heart of the Norfolk Broads at peak season… Local constabularies, specialist marine insurance brokers such as Bishop Skinner and most importantly of all, individual boat owners: they each…

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