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7  Expert Tips For Selling Your Property

7 Expert Tips For Selling Your Property

Selling your house this spring? In this blog, styling expert Justine Stedman shares her top tips and tricks for preparing homes for sale. Just a few simple tweaks can be the difference between a mediocre result and a record-breaking sale. Here ...
The Best Plants For Indoors

The Best Plants For Indoors

The best plants to use indoors are hardy, versatile and do not require regular watering. In this infographic, we give you a run down of the top plants to use in the home. Choose plants based on room size, light exposure and the amount of care ...
How to increase the curb appeal of your home in a weekend

How to increase the curb appeal of your home in a weekend

This is a guest post by Dale Vine, former Block contestant and White Knight Ambassador. Whether your goal is to add value to your home to sell, or you’re just looking to get your home entertainment-ready for summer, there are three DIY projects ...
3 DIY Projects Made Using Rope

3 DIY Projects Made Using Rope

Make over homewares with just rope and a bit of hot glue. The trick to getting bright and breezy beach-house style year round in any location is to add colours that evoke coastal living. Light blue and sand tones are key elements of the look and ...
Make Old New Again With These 5 Creative Projects - Flickr

Make Old New Again With These 5 Creative Projects

You’d be surprised what you can make out of the junk in your garage. Get creative with one of these clever repurposed projects to keep your bank balance healthy and to be kind to the planet, preventing excess waste.
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10 Simple & Easy Gardening Tips

Spring is around the corner and most of us will soon be spending a lot more time in the garden. To celebrate the onset of the gardening season we’ve compiled this list of ten gardening tips that will help you get the job done quickly and ...
Prepare the garden for autumn

Prepare the garden for autumn

Sponsored article As summer temperatures soar, autumn may be the last thing on your mind. But it’s time to start thinking a few months down the track and planning for autumn to get the best out of your garden. In this guest post, the garden ...
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3 Amazing Vertical Pallet Gardens

This month we are going crazy for timber pallets! Much like our beloved PVC piping, timber pallets are extremely versatile when it comes to DIY. Yes, they are great for moving things around but timber pallets are so much more than transport ...
11 genius at-home hacks that make life a little easier

11 genius at-home hacks that make life a little easier

Check out these 11 domestic tweaks you can make today to make your life a little easier tomorrow.
15 thrifty last-minute Christmas decorating ideas

15 thrifty last-minute Christmas decorating ideas

Christmas is right around the corner. You have guests coming over and would like to give the house some added flair but cannot justify the expense or be asked to brave the shops again. Plus the kids are now on holidays and you need to find ways ...
12 ultimate DIY ideas for the year ahead

12 ultimate DIY ideas for the year ahead

Make 2019 the year of DIY by making a commitment to complete jobs you have been putting off, and then some. Now we know it’s all well and good to resolve to do more DIY but that doesn’t mean the workshop will be actually be seeing ...
20 Fun And Easy Outdoor And Garden Projects

20 fun and easy outdoor and garden projects that take less than a day

Spruce up your outdoor areas with these fun and easy DIY projects. Each of these 20 projects can be completed in less than a day and require only a small investment. You’ll be surprised at what a big difference small changes like painting ...
Gallery: Plants In The Bathroom

Gallery: Plants In The Bathroom

An easy way to liven up the bathroom is to add indoor plants. Popular bathroom plants include ferns, bamboo, snake plants and spider plants. When choosing plants consider the size of your bathroom, how moisture-rich the room is (how many people ...
4 DIY Projects Using Turf

4 DIY Projects Using Turf

Long gone are the days when fake grass was that plastic stuff in the window at the butcher’s, or that lurid green stuff used for tennis courts and playgrounds. Now artificial turf is a lifestyle choice rather than a cheap alternative to lawn, ...
How To Grow Plants Over A Fence

How To Grow Plants Over A Fence

Growing plants over a fence can conceal an ugly structure or make a decorative fence look even better. Ensure your fence can support the weight of the plants, as certain climbers like passionfruit vine grow quickly and can become very heavy. ...
Ultimate Father's Day Gift Guide

Ultimate Father's Day Gift Guide

Give Dad a Father’s Day he won’t forget and a DIY gift to take care of your home for the rest of the year!
30 of your best energy-saving tips

30 of your best energy-saving tips

When we asked our readers for their best ever energy-saving tips, you did not disappoint! Some of them are devious, some of them are clever – and a few of them are downright hilarious. But what they all have in common is that they can definitely ...
30 top tips for saving space at home

30 top tips for saving space at home

Looking for ways to simplify, recycle, sort, declutter and save space in your everyday life? Here are the Top 30 handy space-saving tips kindly sent in by our readers. How many do you do already, and how many will you be doing from now on?!
Why it’s a good idea to give your daughter a hammer

Why it’s a good idea to give your daughter a hammer

Give a girl a hammer and she might just build you a house! Looking for something constructive for your kids for the next school holidays? Here’s something practical that could lead to bigger and better things…
How to Turn Your Backyard Into an Outdoor Room

How to Turn Your Backyard Into an Outdoor Room

Create additional space in your home without a full-scale renovation simply by turning your backyard into an outdoor room. In this blog, styling expert Justine Stedman shares her expert tips on how to turn your backyard into an outdoor room. ...
10 Of The Strangest Houses

A Builder's Worst Nightmare: 10 Of The Weirdest Houses That Defy Logic

Who says a home has to be conventional? We’ve scoured the web and found 10 novel homes that prove when it comes to home design, getting weird is an option. You may love the design of some of these homes, find some outright hilarious, and ...
Spray fast and easy with JFLEX Spray Shelters

Spray fast and easy with JFLEX Spray Shelters

Sponsored Article Using a dedicated spray booth or spray shelter can turn any simple domestic spray job into one that gets professional results. A spray booth is one of those garage must-haves that pays for itself in results, time and again. A ...
14 Last-Minute Mother's Day Gift Ideas

14 Last-Minute Mother's Day Gift Ideas

Mother’s Day is fast approaching and while some of you will already have your gifts wrapped and ready, others will not have even begun contemplating gift ideas. This blog is for the latter group, the last-minute gift buyers. Here are 14 ...
Garage Sale Makeovers And Op Shop Hacks

Garage Sale Makeovers And Op Shop Hacks

Turn tatty and outdated eyesores into terrific one-of-a-kind pieces. Blogger Melissa Darr turned her hand to restoring a telephone table, a vintage desk and chair and a Queen Anne-style seat.
12 Painting Hacks Every DIYer Should Know

12 Painting Hacks Every DIYer Should Know

Many logistical issues can present themselves during a DIY paint project. Keeping paint rollers wet between coats, unclogging spray can nozzles and storing left over paint correctly are tasks that can become challenges if you don’t have ...
11 DIYers Who Thought They Were Electricians Until They Failed

11 DIYers Who Thought They Were Electricians Until They Failed

Most of the time, DIY electrical work is no joke…but sometimes it is. These handymen made some pretty big mistakes involving electricity, but luckily they all lived to tell the tale.
5 Ways To Cook Chicken Breast

5 Ways To Cook Chicken Breast

Chicken breast is a versatile, easy-to-cook ingredient that features in dishes the world over. If you buy chicken breast regularly but find yourself cooking the same dishes over and over then keep reading. In this blog we list five different ...
6 Expert Space Saving Ideas

6 Expert Space Saving Ideas

This is a guest blog by Justine Stedman, Director and Principal Stylist at Vault Interiors. With more and more of us compromising space for a vibrant inner city lifestyle, it’s hard to imagine that with a few small changes to our living quarters ...
How To Remove 12 Common Stains

How To Remove 12 Common Stains

Removing stains from clothing is easy if you know what you are doing. To assist you in your laundry we created the below graphic with advice on how to remove 12 common stains using everyday household items. Print it out and stick it up in your ...
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