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Tara’s Tips

Tara Dennis helps you sell your home for the best price and in the fastest possible time by using the Check List (see our fact sheet) which is full of great tips and advice. Using the checklist Bedroom The bedroom shown in our segment looked okay, but Tara wanted...

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Pet Tips

Thinking of selling your home? If you own pets, these tips from Rebecca Harris will help increase the selling potential of your property. Move pets out Animals can be seen as a distraction during open home inspections, so make arrangements to move pets off the...

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Sell Your Home For More – Check List

This check list is a general guide and will help you consider those points that are applicable to your property. Exterior Garden / terrace / balcony Choose plants to complement the style of the property, for example ‘Iceberg’ roses around a cottage, or...

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Lazy Tile Tips

Tara Dennis showed how to makeover old kitchen tiles, without going to the trouble or the expense of retiling. Tile transfers Tile transfers can be applied to plain tiles for a stylish new look. They are inexpensive, easy to apply and there are many different designs...

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Rocking Dinosaur

Christine Whittenbury, from Redwood Park in South Australia, wrote to Scott Cam asking how to build a simple, rocking horse suitable for a little child. Scott went one better, and came up with a fabulous rocking dinosaur! Tools power or hand saw jigsaw drill spade bit...

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Cabinet Conversions

Tara showed three ways to take a plain cabinet and give it a great new designer look. For the makeover she used Aneboda cabinets from Ikea, priced around $169 each. These are 1810mm tall and 400mm wide, and are a good way to add lots of storage to a room when space is...

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Small House

Terry Wilson showed Don around his inner city home. Although the house is very small (5m x 28m), its clever design makes the best possible use of available space. Originally a 1950s warehouse, the property was used as a boxing gym in the 1960s and then a warehouse...

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Small Balcony Makeover

Don and Scott madeover a small apartment balcony using design ideas that are practical, use space efficiently and look good too! Design elements Mirror wall feature This has a duel purpose

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