home improvements

Traitors

Live like a traitor and transform your home into a castle

From on-edge round table meetings to vicious murder plots, Traitors has become a hot topic, even when thinking about our interiors. To help get your home into that medieval vibe, MyBuilder.com lists ways to incorporate castlecore into your modern-day home.

Castlecore is an aesthetic and lifestyle trend inspired by medieval times, focusing on gothic architecture, rich fabrics and...

Flooring

Top Autumn Flooring Trends

As the seasons change, so too do the ways we style our home. This autumn, interiors are all about making spaces rich in colour, comfort and character. Flooring is playing an important role in this seasonal shift.

Rather than simply providing a practical foundation, flooring is becoming an integral piece of the interior design puzzle, with homeowners searching for a way to implement...

Luxury bathrooms

UK's highest-rated Airbnbs analysed: The features behind five-star guest experiences

These are the bathroom features behind Britain's highest-rated holiday stays.

Luxury bathroom specialist Nôsa bathrooms analysed the UK's top-rated Airbnbs to reveal the design choices helping properties create five-star guest experiences.

"The bathroom is part of the stay and not just part of the room," says Neil Thompson, Showroom Manager at Nôsa. "It's where many guests...

Kitchen Design

Kitchen Trade Expert Shares How Kitchen Design Is Evolving to Meet Modern Living

ONS data shows that 42% of UK workers now do at least some of their job remotely , up from around 10% before the pandemic. The kitchen felt that change more than any other room. It absorbed the home office, the dining room, and in many households the main social space of the house. The design brief arriving at studios and trade partners today reflects all of that.

Here, the experts...

Natural Stone in the home

How Natural Stone Accents Elevate Interior and Outdoor Spaces

Finding the perfect balance between lasting quality and striking visual appeal is often a challenge in property renovation.

As a result, homeowners tend to look for materials that combine strength with design flexibility. Natural stone meets both needs; moreover, it adds a sense of elegance and character that synthetic alternatives often struggle to match.

In turn, it...

Replacement driveways

Thinking of Replacing Your Driveway? Here's What to Weigh Up Before You Commit

A driveway is one of those parts of the house you stop noticing. Until you do. A cracked slab, a puddle that won't drain, a surface that looks tired against a freshly painted front door. Then suddenly it's all you see.

Replacing a driveway is a bigger decision than most homeowners give it credit for. It costs real money. It affects how your home looks from the street. It can help or...

Herringbone Flooring

Why does everyone want herringbone?

Some trends come and go, but others stand the test of time. Herringbone may be one of them.

Once gracing the floors in grand European homes and historic palaces, the distinctive patterns of herringbone flooring have made a confident return to modern interiors, bringing with them a sense of effortless luxury that today's homeowners are increasingly seeking. With brands like LeoLine...

Mouldy property

TWO-THIRDS OF HOUSEHOLDS STRUGGLE WITH DAMP AND MOULD AS HIGH ENERGY BILLS CAUSE A THIRD TO TURN DOWN HEATING

As winter comes to an end, more than 18 million homes (64% of households) are struggling with the repercussions of condensation, damp and mould[1] according to new research by energy comparison experts at Uswitch.

One in three households (36%) say the problem has been worse this year[2], and four-fifths of people (81%) have had to use at least one cleaning product or tool to tackle...

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