Decorating Ideas for Teen Bedrooms

So your children have become teenagers. They want their own space, their own style, their own identity. Their room needs to be redecorated..

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DIY Project Diary - Week 7

Not much progress this week. We demolished the useless built in cabinet between the bedroom and hall - it opened up the whole floor. This cabinet was built like a mini-room – it had proper stud-partition walls – with insulation and everything. No wonder there was no space left inside it for anything much!..

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I went to the Urban Gardens show in London yesterday  - it was quite disappointing. Not enough plants and not enough new ideas..

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Carpentry and wood-working

Under this category we’ll be writing about  interesting wood working projects - until then you’re very welcome to talk about your own project by adding a comment here (just below) or go to our wood working forum to discuss your ideas and problems!

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On the 1st Jan this year new UK building regulations were introduced regarding electrical work carried out in the home. The aim of these rules is to protect people from cowboy builders and bad electrical workmanship - also to limit electrical DIY work done by amateurs. Those who don’t comply with the new regulation could be prosecuted and fined up to £5000. There are also implications as to insurance should anything happen to you or your home..

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Home Improvement versus Property Development

DIY Home improvement has been popular for decades. As more and more people wanted to modernise their homes, less and less tradesmen were available to do it for them and were charging more and more. This created a necessity to do the work themselves and a growing market for DIY stores..

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DIY Project - Diary Week 6

The bathroom is finished - at last! The newly mirrored door arrived; the mirror wasn’t broken this time en route. It took almost a day to install it into its sliding gear – but we’ve made it! Whilst waiting for the door, I cleared out the bedroom, which has been used as a dressing (and junk) room since January. This took me a couple days. Unfortunately our office is no longer clutter-free. I had to locate a few boxes of clothes there – making it almost impossible to get to the cabinets. But there was nowhere else to put things…other that the garden which is already full of junk: the old bath suite, doors and dozens of boxes full of our kitchen gadgets and utensils – which, it seems, we can live perfectly without..

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