Bathroom Design

Modern Bathroom Design: A Complete Guide to Successful Renovation

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Modern Bathroom Design: A Complete Guide to Successful Renovation

Through my 16 years in construction and running Northside Developments, I’ve overseen numerous bathroom transformations. Today, I’ll share comprehensive insights about creating modern, functional bathrooms based on real project experiences.

Client Success Story

Karrina Ranauro’s bathroom renovation experience perfectly demonstrates our approach:

“James and his team did an amazing job renovating our bathroom. The team were prompt, professional, and provided great design ideas. We absolutely love the end results.”

This successful project highlights key elements of professional bathroom renovation:

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House Design

How To Evaluate The Financial Feasibility Of A Solar Energy System

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How To Evaluate The Financial Feasibility Of A Solar Energy System For Your Business

As Australia, and the world as a whole, moves towards a more sustainable future, many businesses are considering solar energy as a viable option for powering their operations and are therefore installing a solar system to generate electricity for them.

Whilst there are certainly environmental benefits to making the switch to solar, it is also important for businesses to consider the financial factors that apply to such a move which we will explore in some detail in this blog post.

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Bathroom Design

7 Shower Screen Ideas That Will Transform Your Bathroom

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7 Shower Screen Ideas That Will Transform Your Bathroom

One of the most popular ways in which homeowners upgrade their bathrooms is with the installation of shower screens.

Apart from the main benefit of no longer having to use inferior shower curtains which seem only to attract dirt and grime, and do a poor job of stopping water from getting onto the bathroom floor, shower screens are also highly attractive to the extent that they add a touch of style to your bathroom, the same way an internal glass balustrade elevates a staircase in comparison to an old fashioned wooden stair-rail.

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Garden Design

7 Reasons You Should Use A Professional Landscape Designer To Design Your New Garden

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7 Reasons You Should Use A Professional Landscape Designer To Design Your New Garden

There are many ways in which you can have a design created for a landscaped garden, but if you want it to be done as it should so that the finished garden is one you are delighted with, then you must entrust the design to professional landscape architects.

Whilst professional gardeners and others with design skills might be able to offer suggestions and tips, ultimately the design of a newly landscaped garden requires the skills and experience of landscape designers.

We are not just saying that because they are the best person for the job, but because there are several reasons why you want a landscape architect to design your new garden.

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Exterior Design

How High Pressure Cleaning Can Remove Mould From Your Home’s Exterior

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How High Pressure Cleaning Can Remove Mould From Your Home's Exterior

One of the worst organic substances that can attach itself to the exterior of your home is mould, and this is why many homeowners require the services of a high pressure cleaning company to get rid of it.

One of the main reasons you need to remove mould from your home’s exterior, apart from how unsightly it makes your home look,  is that it is destructive. In addition, it can also cause several health issues too.

As for its destructive properties, mould causes issues ranging from discolouration and staining of surfaces to rotting the materials on the outside of your home to the extent that they need replacing, which could result in huge costs being incurred.

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Kitchen Design

6 Kitchen Design Mistakes You Must Avoid

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6 Kitchen Design Mistakes You Must Avoid

When trying to design your kitchen, there are lots of things you can do to make the process and the result the best it can be.

However, there are also several ways in which you not only make it more difficult for yourself but also have a design that is nowhere close to what you need or want.

We could probably create a list as long as this page contains what you should and should not do when trying to design your kitchen, but as we assume you do not wish to spend the rest of the day reading, we have kept it to just six mistakes you should avoid making when designing a kitchen.

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Garden Design, House Design, Pool Design

5 Reasons Why Homeowners Absolutely Love Glass Balustrading

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5 Reasons Why Homeowners Absolutely Love Glass Balustrading

If you were to carry out a survey of homeowners and ask them what their favourite improvement to their home has been, we are certain that many of them would reply that it was the installation of glass balustrading.

It is also true that if you were to ask several homeowners about glass balustrading there will be some who have no idea what it is or may know it by another name

Just in case you fall into that second group, we should explain that you are more than likely to have seen glass balustrading in your office building, in public buildings you have visited or even in the homes of your friends, probably without releasing what it was called.

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Pool Design

Swimming Pool Designs That Stand Out

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Swimming Pool Designs That Stand Out

Coming up with swimming pool designs when you’re renovating your property and installing a pool can be hard work. You might have only ever imagined having a swimming pool – not actually thinking about all the potential design options you have to choose from.

If you need a helping hand with this process, you may be able to gain inspiration from some of these design ideas below. Before long, you could be enjoying the swimming pool of your dreams.

Child-Friendly Designs

Some homeowners decide to install pools in their backyards so their children can swim as a fun pastime, especially in summer. If this is one of the main reasons you have decided to install a pool, consider the child-friendly elements your pool can include.

You might have a small shed for all their pool toys and floaties, safe decking or tiling around the outside, and a fun slide next to stairs for getting into the pool. Of course, you will also need safety measures in place, such as fences, self-closing gates, pool covers, and pool alarms.

Eye-Catching Entry

Many homeowners try their hardest to make their swimming pool blend in with their landscaping, but why not take the opposite approach? Make your pool the star of the show by creating an eye-catching entry leading to it.

Craft a stunning pathway that leads to the pool area and consider the use of strategically placed plants for symmetry. When you landscape with purpose, you may find it much easier to tie in the look of your swimming pool while also helping it to stand out in its own right.

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Interior Design

5 Tips To Protect Your Carpets From Damage

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5 Tips To Protect Your Carpets From Damage

There are many who pay little attention to their carpets and simply replace them whenever the need arises. For others, they prefer to care for their carpets properly and with carpet cleaning are able to prolong the life of their carpets for some considerable time.

If your thinking is closer to the latter group but are unsure how you could prevent your carpets from being damaged and thus last longer, then you are in the place. Below, you will find 5 of the best tips for protecting carpets from damage and helping them stay as good as new for longer.

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Beauty, Fashion

How to Pick the Perfect Anniversary Piece

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How to Pick the Perfect Anniversary Piece

It can be challenging enough to pick an engagement ring for your bride or groom to be. You have to think about metals, the setting, the diamond, and much, much more. It’s more than just your average piece of jewellery.

But what can be just as challenging is picking an anniversary gift. What are you supposed to get for the love of your life that tops a wedding or engagement ring? Here are some tips on how to select the perfect anniversary piece from www.diamondsandpearlsperth.com.au

Think About the Anniversary

How long have you been married? The number of years can dictate the type of gift or piece of jewellery you buy. For example, if you’ve been married for two years, then a necklace or bracelet with two stones in it can signify that milestone.

You can also align anniversaries with material types. For example, a sixth anniversary is iron, the seventh is copper, and the eighth anniversary metal is bronze. You may be able to incorporate these materials into your gift of choice.

Focus on a Theme

Every wedding anniversary has both traditional and modern themes. While you don’t have to follow these, they can help you choose a suitable anniversary gift for your significant other. For example, a second anniversary has a traditional gift of cotton and a modern gift of china. It also has a representing gemstone of garnet.

Many people purchase red garnets to signify a second wedding anniversary, so you’re bound to get a lot of inspiration.

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Garden Design

5 Reasons You Should Hire A Landscaping Designer

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5 Reasons You Should Hire A Landscaping Designer

If you have been considering redeveloping your garden, and if one of the thoughts you have had was to incorporate landscaping into your plans, then we congratulate you.

Landscape designs can completely transform what some would classify as an ‘ordinary garden’ into a stunning and joyful area within your property.

Where many people’s dream of having a stunning garden ends is when they sit down to try to actually design it. Turning some of the ideas you have into a viable landscape design is not always easy, and questions may arise as to whether any of your ideas can actually work out.

The solution to you giving yourself a headache trying to work it all out yourself is to pass the responsibility for the landscaping project, to a professional landscape designer.

While this may obviously add some costs to the project, these should more accurately be described as an investment in the project, given all the advantages that a landscape designer can offer you, 5 of which we outline below.

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Beauty, Fashion

Designer Smiles: Which One Would Suit You?

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Designer Smiles

Do you know the differences between Dental Implants, Porcelain Veneers and Dentures?

Here is an overview on how to choose what is right for you to get that designer smile!

What is a Dental implant?

A dental implant is commonly known as a titanium post (similar to a tooth root), which is surgically placed underneath the gum line (into the jawbone) to allow your dentist to mount a bridge or replacement teeth into that area.

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Interior Design

10 Benefits Of Epoxy Floor Coatings

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Epoxy Floor Coatings

Were we to ask 100 business owners where the floor is on their list of priorities, 100% of them would probably say that the floor is beneath everything else.

That is, until there is a problem, and they then decide that as a priority they need the offending floor refinished with an epoxy floor coating.

If you are reading this because you have a floor that has become a priority or you want to find out a bit more about epoxy floors, then read on, as we are going highlight 10 of the top benefits of epoxy floor coatings.

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Interior Design, Marketing Advice

5 Tips To Boost The Performance Of Your Furniture Design Studio’s Website

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If you have noticed that your furniture design studio’s website has not been generating as many leads and sales as it did previously, or if you have never really been satisfied with its performance, then it might the time for you to consider giving that website a new lease of life.

The professional web design experts often see clients’ returns from their website given a massive boost, simply from implementing a few updates and improvements.

By updating, we are not simply talking about the updates you might be alerted about with regards to WordPress or plugins on your website, and we are not talking necessarily about a completely new website being built.

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Garden Design, Pool Design

How Can Glass Pool Fencing Design Improve Your Quality Of Life?

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Glass Pool Fencing Design

Choosing the right landscaping elements for your lifestyle is extremely important when it comes to making sure that you’re living the best life possible.

People throughout Australia include swimming pools in their landscape plan, which means that they need to include at least some form of pool fencing.

A lot of people would agree that glass pool fencing is probably the best option out of all the different pool fence styles.

Glass pool fences are stylish, relatively easy to maintain and keep clean and very durable.

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Beauty, Fashion

The Ultimate Guide to Choosing Bridesmaid Robes

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The Ultimate Guide to Choosing Bridesmaid Robes

If there’s one thing that you can’t forget to do when planning your wedding with your bridesmaids – it’s organising bridesmaid robes.

These are gifts that are often given from the bride to the bridesmaids and are sometimes customised for each bridal party member. But what do you need to know before you buy one? Read on to find out.

Who Buys the Robes?

There can often be some confusion over who organises and purchases bridesmaid robes. Some people say it’s a job for the maid of honour, while others say it’s on the bride’s shoulders. In most cases, this job falls to the bride.

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Beauty, Fashion

How Gum Contouring Can Enhance Your Smile

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How Gum Contouring Can Enhasmilence Your Smile

While most people visit their favourite dentist primarily for the well-being of their teeth, it should be noted that gums are equally crucial to oral health.

If your gums are unhealthy, it can create even more significant issues than one or two teeth that might have cavities.

It is more than likely that most people consider their smiles.

It is their teeth that they think about most. This is why a massive demand for cosmetic dentistry exists, which whitens, repairs, replaces and straightens teeth.

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Garden Design

Storage Design: How to Create Storage Solution in Your Landscape Design

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Homeowners face one significant problem when they are working on their landscape design space.

You want to pack in as many features as possible, but where are you going to put all your outdoor equipment and tools?

It can be challenging to strike a happy balance. While a landscaper can help work out a plan of attack, you can also consider these storage solutions below.

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House Design

Why Upgrade to a Glass Frameless Shower Screen?

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Glass Frameless Shower Screen

The most crucial parts of your home to renovate are your bathroom and kitchen. They are the areas you spend a lot of time in, and the ones that need to be both practical and easy-care.

When the time comes to add value to your home, then start with the bathroom renovations and, more specifically, your shower.

You would be amazed at how beneficial something as simple as shower screens can be. Read on to learn why a glass frameless shower screen may be the right investment for your bathroom.

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Beauty, Fashion

Design the Perfect Smile with These Techniques

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Perfect Smile

Have you ever looked at a friend or family member’s teeth and thought “wow, how did they get their teeth so perfect?” Believe it or not, it’s easier than you think and doesn’t require a lot of money or magic. Instead, you need a reputable cosmetic dentist with an eye for design. The rest will fall into place with these steps.

  1. A Check-Up

If you want your teeth to look as perfect as a movie star’s, then it’s not possible. Find a reputable cosmetic dentist who can give your teeth the celebrity treatment. The first step is a thorough check-up. During this process, your dentist is looking for problems like tartar, plaque, decay, and possibly cavities. They can also carry out a clean, scale, and polish, and x-rays to pick up any issues.

  1. Caps & Veneers

If you’ve got any glaring cosmetic problems, then here’s your chance to fix them. Dentists are in the profession of design, turning those chips, cracks, gaps, and imperfections into cleverly managed ones you’ll no longer see. Caps and veneers achieve this by being thin layers attached to the surface of your teeth to hide them away out of sight.

  1. Dental Implants

Did you know that millions of Australians don’t have a full set of teeth? If you have a few gaps that bug you, then act now with dental implants from a qualified dentist. Unlike dentures, dental implants are individual false roots with a false tooth screwed onto them. They give the illusion that you have all-natural teeth while functioning as them as well. They are one of many tools in a designer dentist’s kit.

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Garden Design

Why You Shouldn’t Neglect Your Landscape Design

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Landscape Design

After the excitement of landscape design and the final product wears off, you may find yourself spending less time tinkering in your yard than you should.

You may begin to neglect pulling the weeds out as often as you should, or you might not spare a thought for the outdoor furniture wasting away in your fresh new patio area.

Neglecting your new landscaping according to divinelandscapes.com.au is one of the worst things you can do for yourself, your family, and your property.

As most landscaping experts will tell you, it’s one of your property’s most significant assets. Look after it, or the following might happen;

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Yacht Design

Yacht Design – White Rabbit Golf

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Award winning Sam Sorgiovanni Designs are at the forefront of the internal design of the amazing 84 metre superyacht, White Rabbit Golf, as well as the external design. Other accolades for the White Rabbit Golf are that of being

  • one of the largest trimaran superyachts in the world,
  • the largest one to be built in Australia,
  • the largest aluminium superyacht in the world
  • the first diesel electric superyacht to be built in Australia

The White Rabbit Golf will accommodate up to 28 guests in supreme luxury with plenty of room left over for the 36 crew members.  The interior design is everything you would expect in a vessel designed by Sorgiovanni,  one of the world’s leading yacht designers who has travelled the world to design or collaborate on the design of super yachts in many different countries.  With sumptuous entertainment and play areas not to mention dining and living quarters, the guests will be able to relax and simply enjoy their surroundings or sunbathe on the teak decks, enjoying the view.

With a cruising speed of 84 kn and a range of 5,000 nm, this luxury yacht will easily be able to leave the harbour for any number of distant destinations for the enjoyment of those aboard her.

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Kitchen Design

Kitchen Design and Feng Shui

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Kitchen Design

The most important room in your house is the kitchen.

For that reason, the Feng Shui perspective needs to be honoured. Preparation of food to provide nourishment and a healthy and balanced life for the occupants of the home happens in the kitchen.

While mixing Moses and the Old Testament with Feng Shui may seem out of balance, follow the ten commandments of kitchen design set up to ensure you have harmonious and positive energy  flow.

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Garden Design

Landscape Design and our Future

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Landscape Design

Our time in the outdoors is always something we treasure.

It’s a puzzle then as to why we devote so little time to better landscape design.

It’s interesting to work out what value we place on the great outdoors.

If you ask people to talk about their visits to cities like Melbourne, Sydney, New York or Paris, and what they liked most about being there, most would answer that their best experiences involved the outdoors.

Memories of a city visit or a trip into the wild have little in common apart from being outdoors.

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Graphic Design

Why A Proper Business Card Design Is Still Important To Your Branding

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Business Card

In these days of online marketing, you may be forgiven for thinking that having a properly designed business card is no longer an important part of your branding. Well you would be wrong. A business card may not have the high-tech appeal of a Facebook page or a YouTube channel but remember, not every business interaction or meeting takes place online.

As a business owner, it is highly likely that you will encounter potential business associates and customers in the world that exists offline. In these scenarios, if your business card is just a boring old piece of card, or worse if you haven’t even bothered to create a business card, you and your business are at a huge disadvantage to those businesses and business owners who have had the foresight to create a business card to use as one of their branding tools.

So now that you know you must have a business card to help brand your business, here are simple rules in terms of its design to ensure it does so effectively.

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Garden Design

Shade Sail Design For Your Business

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Shade Sail Design for Business

When you have a business it is important for your customers to feel welcomed and to be comfortable when they are there.  In a hot climate, shade sails from Shade Sails Perth can be really helpful in keeping the building cooler and reducing the glare from those large shop windows so customers have an enjoyable shopping experience.

There are many advantages to adding a sail to the outside of your business premises.

  • They cut the glare from your display windows, especially good if they are facing west.
  • By throwing shade over display windows, the goods that are on display are protected from excessive heat and from fading; important for clothing displays, or anything else made from fabric that can fade in sunlight.
  • Shade cloth outside can make a pleasant place for customers to wait, or to sit and enjoy their coffee or cold drink if you have a coffee shop.
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House Design

Security Technologies Designed For Your New Home

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security door design

According to the experts, the need for security technology is also increasing with the increasing crime rate. Installing protective doors, windows, fencing, and screens is a rational decision in such instances, especially when you are investing highly in a new home. If you live in areas where crimes occur every other day, install the needed security equipment and protect your home, family, and yourself from harmful incidents.

Security Doors

When the security question arises, people focus a lot on the doors, as they are one of the outlets from which the burglar can enter the house. This is why security doors play a significant role in reducing breaking and entering scenarios and guarding you against such harm. The security door’s material can range from wood and glass to steel and aluminium.

With different materials, there are also different styles of security doors. These comprise sliding security doors, bi-fold security door, hinged security doors and many more. Some doors come with triple lock systems, whereas others protect you from kick-breaking and shoulder-slamming entries. See-thru doors allow fresh air to enter your house without compromising on security.

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Garden Design

4 Ideas to Make Your Landscaping Pop

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Landscaping Designs

Proper landscaping around your home enhances the street appeal, makes it more attractive and utilises all those small or narrow spaces that are otherwise never used.  By using your imagination and thinking outside the box you will be able to make every part of your garden and lawn look amazing and get the best use out of it all instead of only some of it. Even narrow or very shady parts at the side of the home can be renovated so that they look wonderful instead of like the town dump.

Here are 4 landscape ideas to make your Landscape Design pop.

  1. Add a water feature – there are many water features that do not take much effort or skill to install. Even a small backyard will rock with a water feature installed on the fence or wherever you want it. You can even have one on the back deck. Water features can be as simple as a half a wine keg filled with water, a plant and a fish. It can be a column topped with a glistening ball, a waterfall running into a pool, a statue with a spray of water coming from it or a set of three tipped up buckets that water drips out of. Simple or complicated, water in the garden will certainly make it pop.
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