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Have a small bathroom? Get a small tub at betterbathrooms

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Do you live in a home with a fairly small bathroom? This seems to be typical of older homes – at least here in North America. My home was built in 1927 and my upstairs bathroom is tiny. It’s only about 8 feet long by 6 feet wide – or smaller. Now imagine a full size bath, toilet and sink in there? There’s barely enough room to walk past the bathroom utilities!

If you have a small bathroom in your home and either don’t have the means to renovate or the space to make a larger bathroom you might want to look at the selection of Small Baths that are available at BetterBathrooms.com.

If I ever redo my bathroom without making it larger I’ll probably get a small bathtub so it will fit in the space better. Some might say why not just convert to a shower, and while I do mainly shower in that bathroom it’s still nice to have the ability to soak in a tub every once in a while isn’t it?

Now BetterBathrooms.com doesn’t just sell products designed for small bathrooms, although it’s nice that they do, they also have a wide variety of regular and large baths, baths with whirlpool or air spa systems and a whole range of shower systems, bathroom accessories and furnishings as well as bathroom fixtures. They actually have over 3,000 products available for purchase at their online store.

BetterBathrooms.com’s business has grown over the years, so much so that now they are able to negotiate excellent deals with their suppliers which of course allows them to offer very low prices to their customers. They actually guarantee the lowest price to their customers, “we guarantee that if customers can find a cheaper like for like deal on any other online store, we will match it, such is our confidence in our prices, and our goal to bring our customers the best deals at the best prices.” Now that’s a great guarantee!

This company is located in the UK and is able to ship products throughout the UK.





Do you ever get the urge to redecorate a room?

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I really enjoy decorating my home and picking out furniture and accessories. I’ve always been interested in decorating.

It goes back to when I was a young teenager. My mom was very handy and she decided that my room needed an update so she took me to pick out fabrics for curtains and a comforter for my bed that she would then make herself. We also picked out wallpaper for my room as well.

Once we’d made our decisions I helped my mom make the items for my room and paint and wall paper my room. Then it was my turn to decide where I wanted my furniture. Naturally with the room having a whole new look I put the bed and other furnishings in different areas than they had been prior to our re-decorating.

After that, at least once a year I’d move my furniture around to give the room a different look. That habit stuck with me when I moved out of my parents home and went on to live in my first apartment and now our house. I still move furniture around or buy new pieces to change the look and feel of the room.

I’m not planning on buying any new furniture in the near future – we still have to finish our renovations – however, the interior decorator in me is jonesing to re-decorate. So, I satisfy that urge by occasionally going out and looking at new furniture with friends or relatives that are thinking of redecorating their home, or I browse online in order to find items that I might want to use in our house once we are done renovating and I can finally start re-decorating!

One online store that I’ve visited a few times is Concept Furniture. They carry a large variety of styles of modern furniture. The majority of their furniture is made in Europe – Italy, Spain, Belgium or Germany – and I think their selection is absolutely gorgeous.

If you are thinking of redecorating a room or perhaps buying furniture for you new home why not take a look at Concept Furniture? You’ll find a large selection of furniture for bedrooms, living rooms and dining rooms including tables, closets, entertainment centers, tv stands and more.

If you are interested in tasteful quality decor visit Concept Furniture.

We need a new mailbox

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Pretty much ever since we moved into our house (2001) I’ve been saying that we needed a new mailbox. I can’t believe that we still haven’t purchased one!

It’s not that I haven’t occasionally looked for a new mailbox when I’ve been in a store that sells them or even looked online – it’s just that I haven’t found the perfect mailbox yet.

I’d better find one soon though because the lid on our current wall mount mailbox creaks when you open it and then stays open unless you push down on it to shut it. It used to fall back in place nicely once you’d removed the mail. It’s just in sorry shape.

So earlier today I did a search online for Mail boxes and I managed to find a few styles that I liked over at Mailboxixchange.com. I seriously thought about getting one of their post mounted Mailboxes as they have some very nice designs, but our front yard is extremely small (10 F x 10F at most) and a post mounted mailbox just wouldn’t look right.

Since we have an enclosed front porch a wall mounted mailbox is perfect for us. We can open the door and collect the mail easily no matter what’s happening with the weather outside, plus the mailbox is protected from the elements as well so it should last even longer.

If you’ve been thinking of purchasing a new Mailbox for your home take a look at the selection at Mailboxixchange. They are a well known distributor of high quality residential and commercial mailboxes. You can select from over 2500 mailbox and curbside products including wall mount mailboxes, post mount, single unit, multi unit, commercial mailboxes, mail slots, address plaques and numbers and many more items. Take a look I’m sure you’ll be impressed with the selection and quality.

Get fresh decorating ideas and share your sense of style at Micasastyle

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Do you enjoy decorating your home? Perhaps you’ve redecorated your bedroom – bought new curtains, bedding, painted the room and added some interesting pieces that brought the look of the room together?

I enjoy decorating the rooms in my home. Heck, if you read through this blog you’ll discover that we’ve slowly been renovating our whole home – tearing down walls, refinishing floors, venetian plastering the living room dining room and many other DIY tasks.

I love the sense of satisfaction I get when I’ve redecorated a room or completed a renovation project. If we get compliments from our friends and relatives when they visit our home that’s just icing on the cake.

If you’ve decorated a room in your house or completed a renovation project – even if you hired someone to bring your ideas to life and do the hard work, you might be interested in showing off your project over at Micasastyle. It’s an online community where you can share your design ideas with others who are interested in home decorating or perhaps visit to get fresh ideas for your next project.

You can registered as a member of Micasastyle for free and add photos of your space. Show off your decorating style and share your ideas.

Members can browse through photos on the site and as they view images of other members decorating projects they can leave comments, rate the images and as I said earlier members can share images of their own home as well.

When members upload photos of their spaces they can add information about where they got certain pieces. For example if you were to upload a photo of your living room you might add information about the cool lamp or wall decor that can be seen in the picture.

When you visit Micasastyle you’ll see the most recently added images, most popular and most viewed images on the front page. You can also search for specific decorating ideas by selecting “explore spaces” where you’ll find all the decorating image categories such as kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms and more.

I think this is a great site to get fresh ideas and to share your decorating style. Plus, if you have completed a decorating project you can possibly enter Micasastyles upcoming contest and win $10,000.

It’s amazing how the right lighting can change the look of a room

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The weather here in Toronto was cool for the month of May, but now that June is here it’s starting to heat up. By Friday it will be 31 Celsius (87.8 F) and we haven’t even put the air conditioners in the windows yet.

Since we’re unlikely to have air conditioning by Friday I’m glad that we have several ceiling fans throughout the house. They stir the air and even if the house is too warm that breeze created by the ceiling fans is helpful.

Actually, we use our ceiling fans year round. We reverse their motion in the winter so that warm air can circulate through the house better, and in the summer we reverse them again so that they can fan the cooler air. We can keep the thermostat a degree or two lower in the winter and save money on our heating bill thanks to the fans, and I’m sure they help when we use air conditioning as well.

All of our ceiling fans are equipped with lights so they provide some of the lighting within our home as well. Luckily all but one ceiling fan can use the low wattage florescent bulbs so we save money on our lighting bill too.

Earlier this evening I was reading a home lighting article on the HGTV website and, as usual, whenever I read home decor articles or watch decorating type TV shows I start thinking of what I can do in my own home. Remember we’re renovating, but when our work is done it will be lovely and I’ll need all kinds of new decor – especially lighting.

I visited the the Littman Bros website and had a look at their lighting products. They have quite a large selection of home lighting. They have just about every kind of lighting product you can think of – ceiling fans, under cabinet lighting, ceiling, wall, bath, lamps and even outdoor lighting.

While I was browsing the site I ended up looking at their forecast lighting. They have some lovely forecast chandeliers – ones that might look beautiful in our dining room when we’re done renovating. Sometimes changing the whole look and feel of a room is as simple as changing the lighting and I’m sure one of those chandeliers would make a huge difference in the look of our dining room area. They’re gorgeous.

If you’ve been thinking of purchasing new lighting for your home, or perhaps buying a ceiling fan to help cool your home on warm summer days (and save on your air conditioning bill) take a moment to visit Littman Bros, I’m sure you’ll be pleased with their selection. Oh, and they’re having a sale on landscape lighting right now too – 40% off. That’s a good deal!

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