Recent content by LindaDellar

When I think about recycling I used to think about sending things to the right recycle bin instead of trying to recycle things myself. I have come to realise that the garden is a wonderful way to recycle. You can reuse what you have in your garden in practical ways or in artistic and fun ways...

As you are preparing a room for a newborn and redecorating for a growing child, finding storage space I would say is essential. It is amazing how much can be accumulated to provide a child with clothes, toys, books, hobbies etc. For the baby, you will need space to put away clothes...

Thank you both for your advice. Because it is such an old house, each individual tile is extremely heavy. If we had extremely bad weather and the roof ended up coming down it would definately kill us all instantly. Because our climate is changing so radically I was thinking that the...

Thanks for that. I need to think long and hard about this because the last thing I want to do is change the whole street appeal of the house. It really is a nice looking house from the outside. The individual rooms are just so big. You could quite easily make two bedrooms out of the one but...

Some great ideas on recycling! You have definately got me excited to look and to find ways of incorporating recycling into our lifestyle. Thanks for the great tips and ideas!

I think this whole idea of collecting rainwater to use in your garden is an excellent idea! Putting a barrel under each down pipe or gutter is a pretty simple thing to have to do. I am definately going to work on this. Thanks for all for the information. :)

We have an old house with very big and spacious bedrooms but unfortunately there are just not enough rooms. :( It is very difficult to change the shape of the house by adding on more rooms on the outside. We have a very big and spacious roof area so we are thinking about getting some rooms...

We have a very old house and the roof leaks very badly. We are wanting to replace the roof completely. At the moment it has a tiled roof - the tiles are very old and very heavy. We are thinking about changing to a corrugated iron roof. Which is better - tile or corrugated iron roofing...

My husband and I with our two children live in a very, very old house in Pietermaritzburg. The house does have a lot of potential and we are wanting to do some home improvements but do not know where to begin! We have all these great ideas but just do not know how to go about implementing...