A few more tips for your home

A few more tips for your home

Let’s start the week off with a few more tips on making your home a great place.

Hang a lower bar
To get more space in your cupboards, add an extra bar, so that you can hang tops on the top bar and pants from the lower bar. You might have to move the existing bar up a bit, but doing this will increase your space a lot.

Increase the lighting
Dark corners are difficult to work in, and installing a light can dramatically change the way you view your house. Lighting can make a lot of difference, especially in dark cupboards or dark corners of the home.

Painting
A fresh coat of paint on walls will make them good as new. You don’t always have to do the whole home, instead you can just do those places that get dirty quickly, like where the dog rubs himself or where the kids keeps on bumping into walls.
Wooden furniture can also be given a new lease on life by simply sanding them down and applying the correct coating.

Replacing those tiny features
Go through your house and make a note of all missing damaged or missing or even mismatched moldings, and replace them.

Check those switch plates and switches
Because switches and the plates that cover their electrics are often touched, they are often dirty. Sometimes they can do with just a bit of cleaning, sometimes they need to be stripped and repainted. In the worse cases they might have to be replaced. Whatever your case may be, making sure your switch plates are clean will improve your house a great deal.

Knobs and pulls on drawers
Like switch plates, these tend to get greasy and grimy with use, so check to make sure they are clean, and clean or replace them if needed.

Window shades
Check your window shades regularly. They live in an environment where steam and water are abundant, cooking oil splashes around and other so does other foodstuffs. Make sure they are clean and neat, and replace if needed.

Coat racks
Coat racks are great things to have near the front door, as they keep the place neat. If you have one, check to make sure that there are not unnecessary stuff hanging on yours though, as they do tend to get cluttered up with things that are only used once in a month. If it is summer, make sure the winter coats are not still hanging there, and check that the kids aren’t using it as an easy place to put their football togs or other gear.

Entry paths
If you have a front lawn between your parking area and your front door, make sure there is something for people to walk on so that they don’t ruin your lawn. Choose your pavers carefully though, because you will have to mow the lawn between them. For big areas, a paved walkway might be a better idea.

Door hardware
Clashing or poorly operating door hardware can be easily replaced, and will make your home so much more comfortable to live in.

Remove Kludges
A five minute fix can look bad for years. Make sure you don’t have any unsightly kludges around the home.

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