MEN AND THEIR SHEDS
Posted at 9:41 PM | Filed Under Home Design
It’s Saturday afternoon and it’s raining. I trudge into the house. Vanessa and her sister are in the kitchen, analysing our daughter’s degenerating behaviour as they cut out a pattern for another frilly dress for their already frilly mother. I wonder at the intensity, speed and dexterity of their sisterly conversation.
Polite greeting from me: “Hello [...]
Polished concrete floors
Posted at 1:35 PM | Filed Under Home Design
Come on, I know you’d love a concrete floor…….
Polished concrete flooring is one of the most sustainable, funky and durable building products on the market and we’re not talking boring concrete slabs here.
Concrete lasts forever and has been used for decades to produce some of the most interesting polished concrete floors, kitchen and bathroom bench [...]
Prefab and modular building
Posted at 9:18 AM | Filed Under Home Design
How to build faster and cheaper without compromising quality.
In the last few years, both building materials and building labour have risen dramatically. Steel has gone up by 200%, transport costs have risen, and some plumbers, somehow, now cost almost the same as doctors! The expense of on-site labour and materials has been one of the main [...]
The financial Crisis, oh please can’t we talk about something else!!!
Posted at 3:31 PM | Filed Under Home Design
I’m sick of listening to the news, everyone is absorbed with the financial crisis …….
Media hype has scared the construction industry into a freeze in the middle to upper end of the market but many families and business are still living, working and growing. Currently the construction industry is seeing significantly reduced levels of designed [...]
Privacy screens and fencing
Posted at 2:06 AM | Filed Under Home Design
WHAT SORT OF FENCE DO I BUILD?
So you have just finished building your nice new house and it’s time to think about a fence. What sort of fence do you build? The first question to ask yourself is “What’s it for?”
A “Friendly Neighbour Control Fence”
This fence will keep friendly neighbors at bay and also stop [...]
New article: Lighting inside and outside the home
Posted at 2:28 AM | Filed Under Home Design
This lighting article has a very funny and captive first liner “Most light is delivered by the Sun Corporation and is thankfully free of charge”. Ha, ha.
But our writer has a lot of serious stuff to say about residential lighting, what it is, how you should use it, as well as the big “do’s and [...]
Rangehoods unmasked
Posted at 10:42 PM | Filed Under Home Design
What a range there is in rangehoods. I thought doing an article on rangehoods would be fairly dull but I have been pleasantly surprised. Recently there have been significant changes to kitchen exhausts. Listed below are 6 different systems available on the market.
Canopy and Island Canopy rangehoods: A Canopy range is the most expensive, but [...]
Wild and weird architecture
Posted at 2:10 AM | Filed Under Home Design
Given the doom and gloom the world’s media and governments are overwhelming us with these past few months (thanks to the misdeeds of a pack of idiotic and greedy bankers) I thought I’d end the year with a lighthearted look at some wild and weird architecture from around the world. Enjoy…
The crooked house in Poland…
…would [...]
Colorbond roof sheeting
Posted at 4:17 AM | Filed Under Home Design
Become enlightened!
You may think that you know plenty about this age old and well used product but many people are still in the dark about the various types, applications and profiles of this product.
What is Colorbond?
Colorbond is a steel sheet product coated in a zinc and aluminium alloy coating with a baked on top coat [...]
Funky Claddings
Posted at 8:42 PM | Filed Under Home Design
Claddings may not seem like an interesting blog subject but brace yourself, we’re gonna get ‘funky’…
I’m guessing when you think claddings fibre cement, brickwork, render and horizotal timber claddings come to mind. Well that’s all fine but lets not be boring.
Cladding can be fun, durable and classic; you just need to be careful in [...]
