All things home
Links in this post will contain affiliate links to Amazon and eBay We took our doer upper mentality to our daughter’s Christmas present! There are many ways to hack an Ikea play kitchen to make it stand out and functional for your child. Here are a few ideas: Cheap Ikea play kitchen hack ideas Vinyls …
Hopefully this post can save someone a few pounds with the inevitable drastic price drop that will come Boxing day. A few years ago I made the plunge to further advance my Amazon Alexa network with the addition of a Ring doorbell. After a few years I’m left with a shell of a device that …
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Part of our post wedding renovation included flooring throughout the house. For different rooms we had decided on a high quality laminate downstairs and a thick carpet for the bedrooms. The hallway was an afterthought because I had initially planned to sand down and polish the floorboards. After seeing the state of the cheap floorboards …
I made my decision in retrofitting water underfloor heating! I needed to research the various options available to me in this mental market. You don’t need a new build to install underfloor heating Electric underfloor heating is significantly easier to install in any home project. I got 1 square metre of electric underfloor heating for …
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We have a tiny kitchen. All the walls have kitchen cabinets. There are no spaces for radiators. Plinth heaters lose heat quickly. Electric underfloor heating is expensive. The solution? Wet underfloor heating! Having already modified my central heating a few years earlier by adding drain points and additional radiators, there was little room for messing …
How I split my combi central heating for wet underfloor heating Read More »
This is a high level overview of the smart radiator valve Tado system I’ve utilised to upgrade my central heating system. There are lot of new components and systems I’ve incorporated on this journey. Some deserve their own post but this one intends to go over the general theme on a high level. Looking back …
We have been keeping ourselves insanely busy over the pandemic. The blog had been running for a year and when it came to renewing the licenses I thought I would be writing plenty more. Turns out that wasn’t the case. We had a newcomer to the family, we bought another house for flipping and of …
Flipping great! A real example of how much profit can be made on houses. Read More »
When we first moved in, for our front living room I used Ikea Lack shelves and cut them down for the alcove. It’s a cheap and easy way to get a fitted look but you couldn’t expect to store too much up there! The benefit of the Lack shelves is a clean finish face on …
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The LED controller is the crucial connection made between a dumb strip of LEDs and the Smart home hub. Which LED controller? After deciding to DIY a Hue system myself, Gledopto, looked like the right brand as they produce all the required parts. The Gledopto controller you get is dictated by the LED strip you …
Gledopto – LED controller to customize your LEDs Read More »
Everything is coming together and I’m finding less excuses to not write up the journey on finishing our house. We’ve come to a point that I’ve been looking forward to for years, lighting! I hadn’t realised that it is a bit of a minefield when it comes to lighting solutions. that Once invested in a …
Zigbee – DIY Philips Hue lighting without the small fortune Read More »