Extending the footprint of your home brings great physical, emotional and financial rewards. More space for you and your family and increased equity in your home are only two of those benefits.

We spend more than half our time in homes but we almost always go somewhere else for our health and wellbeing – the gym, a spa, a massage clinic. Why? Have you ever stopped to think about how your home could better support your family’s health? Here are our tips on revitalising your own space so you can revitalise yourself.

We’ve all done it – seen a piece of furniture or kitchen we like in a showroom, only to find when we get it home or install it that it just looks wrong. Or have you made a massive decorating mistake without even realizing it? There are lots of common mistakes to avoid. Here are 10 of them.

We’re not just talking about adding value here – but also that special something that adds your own distinctive style and personality to your home. In other words, making your living spaces come alive!

Renovating your house can be a great way to get your dream home and climb the housing ladder, but it can also be a trap for the unwary. It’s all too easy to make innocent mistakes and find yourself in a bottomless money-pit, as Tom Hanks and Shelley Long did in the hilarious 1986 movie, The Money Pit . When you renovate as many homes as we do, you get to spot many traps that unsuspecting homeowners have fallen into. Here are some of the most common renovation traps and how to avoid them.

Once upon a time, doing the laundry used to be such a time-consuming chore that it warranted its own room. Not any more. Today, labour-saving devices have made the laundry an embarrassment, relegated to hall cupboards and the corners of garages. We look at the latest ideas on beautifying and organising your laundry space.

As the year starts to speed up as we get closer and closer to its end now is a great time to start thinking about where you want to spend your summer days, and of course those summer nights! If you ask us the best place to spend summer is your own outdoor living space! If you're dreaming of a backyard makeover the time is now to get things started so they are ready for Christmas lunch, backyard cricket, and endless BBQs once summer arrives. To help inspire and motivate you we've put together a list of the top five features to include in your new or upgraded outdoor living space - enjoy the read and we look forward to hearing how we can help make your outdoor living space come alive!

The idea for this article came from a funny article we read called “Creating Needed Distance Between Me and My Kids” . We can all relate to it. Having a sense of your own space is a healthy thing. But how can you get that in your family household? Often in a busy home, it’s difficult to find a place that’s special to you where you can get away from it all and unwind. Here are some of our best suggestions for creating that special place you can go when you need to:

Master bedrooms deserve just as much care and attention as any other room in your home. Possibly more in fact, because it is your retreat, your relaxing child-free space, and even your romantic getaway room! To help get your master bedroom redesign journey started we have curated our top five tips for a beautiful master bedroom.

Who is your home built for? Traditionally, homes have been built for Joe and Jill Average and their family of 2.5 kids. But what happens if Jill’s elderly mother comes to live with them, Joe is disabled by a car accident and the kids leave home? More and more of us are now realising that our homes should be designed for access and use by everyone, regardless of age, lifestyle or physical condition, and that it actually pays to take Universal Design into account when renovating.

According to the rash of so-called ‘reality’ shows, renovation can be done by anyone. But in this age of leaky homes and tightening building legislation, is that still the case? We look at five renovation myths that are damaging the industry – and potentially your home.