Insights

The hallway is one of the most important areas of your home. The first impressions of your home are made as someone enters the hallway. All too often halls are used for storage of items to be transported upstairs at a later date, as an overflow for coats and shoes or the walls are used for pictures/shelves/ ornaments no longer required in any of the main rooms of the house. In other words, many halls are filled with clutter.

Read our review of the ‘Bosch PMF 10.8 Li’ is a multi-purpose all round tool, the cordless cousin of the ‘Bosch PMF 180 E Multi’.  Offering more flexibility by ditching the power cord in favour of a 10.8V 1.3Ah Lithium Ion battery.

Any work involving your roof may bring to light all sorts of defects and weaknesses, so be prepared to spend more money than you think. Depending on the authorities in the part of the country where you live, you may have to build a permanent staircase to your attic if it is going to be ‘habitable’ – that is, a living room or bedroom.

Bunnings, the leading home improvement and outdoor living retailer in Australia and New Zealand, has welcomed customers after opening its first warehouse store in the UK.

Home security and connectivity around the house were some of the biggest takeaways from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world’s biggest technology exhibition held each year in Las Vegas.

A skills shortage that hit bricklayers and carpenters has now spread further across the construction industry, driving up the costs for small firms, according to the Federation of Master Bricklayers (FMB).

Put your keys away – opening your front door may soon just be a tap away on your smartphone. Yale has released details of a new lock that allows homeowners to configure, control and unlock your door via a Bluetooth app.

It’s a striking shade of green that is said to symbolise ‘new beginnings.’ Now Pantone 15-0343, or Greenery as it’s better known, has been named Colour of the Year 2017 by the colour designer.

With the football season heading rapidly towards its conclusion, watching the beautiful game has become the perfect excuse to avoid DIY – but which fans are most likely to dodge their household chores?

Most bathroom renovations are designed to add value to a property – but some have exactly the opposite effect, especially if they happen to be the colour of an avocado.