How old were you when you bought your first home?
Tom Flanagan
8 years ago
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Comments (11)I only remove fresh items from fridge but leave jars etc I tidy but don't clean I usually put fresh linen on bed day before we leave so come back to a nice bed I arrange all the blinds / curtains so open but not fully open I set all the light timers I leave a key with neighbours and let a SMALL number of neighbours know As we are about to leave I put bleach in all the toilets If it is a taxi firm we don't know ( try to use same one each time) as I leave I talk to and wave at imaginary children and then discuss imaginary children with husband when we set off "will they remember to ...hope they visit .....etc" As we are about to leave I put bleach in all the toilets...See MoreWhat was the first thing you bought for your home?
Comments (21)I was leaving the marital home for a basement flat and I was feeling a little vulnerable and hard done by. Just me and my little cat so we needed a lovely new bed, just for us. I bought a large wooded sleigh bed from a local family store. They were lovely and came round that afternoon with the bed in pieces. They put it all together and gave me a free new duvet set. My new start....See MoreHow do you make your home stand out?
Comments (28)Yes, but it also take a special kind of arrogance to override an architect's vision for a particular development. For example, my parents' housing estate was designed with no garden walls at the front so that the houses would seem as if they are almost in a park and there would be an expanse of green all the way along the roads. Then a few territorial types took it into their heads to build piddly little garden walls so now the road is a hodge podge of some green with a few silly walls around some gardens. There is no design consensus so the street doesn't look as good as it could look. Anarchy in design doesn't usually work. Usually it looks better when one person makes the design decisions and one, cohesive vision is expressed. For example, would you employ a different interior decorator with wildly different styles for each room in your house? It might work, but there's a greater chance it will look like the hodge-podge that it is. Would you have one dress designer make your whole dress or would you ask for pockets and collar to be cut by someone else? In some cases, a good result can come of an individual resident on a street making their own strong statement with the exterior of their house (we're not talking about subtleties such as colour of doors etc), but they are definitely the exceptions that prove the rule. I can think of many examples of tasteless 'improvements' made by individual residents to their properties (e.g. the one pictured above, frankly) and only a few good ones....See MoreIn your opinion, what is the FIRST priority when decorating a new home
Comments (12)I think priorities depend on the property & your situation, e.g, children or not. With our last property (previously owned by 4 single men in their twenties) the bathroom was an absolute priority. There was no way I was going to use that bathroom with shagpile carpet! The kitchen was also a top priority - the cabinet doors had been painted with textured matt paint & I wouldn’t like to guess what was splattered all over them! The oven also went out the door on our first day! In our current house, (we now have children) we’ve completely renovated with rooms being relocated but bathroom (carpet tiles) & kitchen had mini makeovers to keep us going. However, our main priority was our children’s bedrooms. Our own bedroom has never been priority - we’ve always sorted living areas first....See MoreRoxane Romero
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