We have now opened the DIY MARKET, the online marketplace where you can sell and buy used power tools, gardening tools, decorating tools, furniture, appliances… well, anything to do with home improvement, home decoration or gardening.

For a limited period you can sell your unwanted items free of charge!! But in order to get your free tokens you need to sign up now!

Buying things is free of charge.

Selling your stuff is easy - it’s just like putting up a card on the notice-board in your local shop. You just fill out a card, add or not a picky of your item and wait for a buyer to give you an offer through the DIY Together site.

This is a preview, read DIY Market Announcement in full.

Wabi Sabi

Wabi-Sabi is the latest interior design trend. But what is it?

Apparently it’s an ancient Japanese aesthetic that sees beauty in nature, simplicity, imperfection and impermanence. Wabi is a spiritual path to simplicity and solitude whilst Sabi is a natural process through age resulting in objects that are irregular, unpretentious and impermanent. Isn’t Wabi-Sabi therefore the new name for minimalism?..

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Part 3: Colors & the practicalities

As you’ve read in the previous articles, decorating with color is not just about going to a store and choosing your desired color from a swatch. Colors affect us mentally, physically and psychologically. The same color can make some people relaxed others restless. Furthermore, different tones of the same color can affect us differently. In fact, according to research, it’s the tone rather than the hue of a color that primarily affect our mental and psychological being. So if you choose the wrong tone of your favourite color, it can make you feel just as sad and edgy as your most hated color. This is why you should not copy color schemes from magazines and TV shows!..

This is a preview, read Decorating with color -3 in full.

DIY Project Diary - Week 9

In the world of home improvement things always take longer than anticipated. No wonder builders never finish projects on time - why, knowing this, can’t they be realistic and allow for extra time when they give their estimates?..

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Part 2

You and your space

As you’ve read in the previous article colors affect our mind, our physical and psychological being.
It also seems that it’s not the hue  of a color  that has the main effect but its tone and saturation.
So, before you start decorating with color, instead of asking yourself what color you should use - your question should be what tone & depth you should have..

This is a preview, read Decorating with color -2 in full.

Oriental decoration

Oriental decoration has been fascinating the western world for centuries. Most design movements have been inspired or influenced by them - from the Victorians to Art Deco, from Arts & Crafts to Retro…

The current trend of interior design and decoration is to be eclectic - mixing different styles and artefacts from various cultures and traditions. Oriental elements can thus be successfully used in this contemporary interior design movement..

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During the last decade DIY home improvement shows, interior design makeovers and relocating & property developing programmes have been flooding our TV sets. We either love them or hate them - but either way, they have affected our lives and our perception of home improvement & decoration. Most of us want to live in magazine-style homes and we think we can achieve this with just a little imagination and small amount of money.  Apparently, these days, ‘everybody is an interior designer.’ Most of us are confident that we are able to design, decorate, renovate and develop properties - with little experience or knowledge  - within a short period of time..

This is a preview, read DIY & Home Makeover TV shows in full.

Nursery Decoration

Many parents make a very basic mistake when it comes to decorating a nursery: they create a baby-blue theme for a boy and baby-pink room for a girl. The problem is, babies do not see these colours properly - they see them as grey..

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DIY Project Diary - Week 8

We really should have bought a bench saw.  Having cut 3 MDF sheets we’ve realised that doing it with a circular saw just doesn’t work properly because the MDF is only 6mm thick and 2.4m long! I got bored with cutting all these strips and wasting more material - I just wanted a builder’s merchant to do it for me. We’ve called around and eventually found a company nearby who would do it for a small fee, if we bought the material from them. I calculated that we needed another three sheets – at least. We needed to cover all walls, head board, cabinets, the lids of the boxes, the eaves around the window..

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This section will have articles regarding crafts& hobbies

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