Get your home ready for visitors
Get your home ready for visitors Last updated:22ndMar 2022 2022-03-22T12:30:50+00:00 2022-03-22T12:26:23+00:00 MyBuilder
The great thing about having your own home is that it’s yours - whether you want it to be a relaxed, low-key space, or you want to decorate it to look like the Starship Enterprise. When it’s yours, you can do what you want, and your only limit is your imagination and the skill of any tradesperson you hire.
But for all the joy having your own space brings, it’s also nice to share it from time to time. Given the past couple of years, many of us haven’t had the opportunity to have as many visitors as we’d like, but with Easter and summer looming, now is the time to make plans.
If you’re dreaming of throwing open your doors, here are some things that you and your guests are sure to appreciate…
Fresh paint
There’s nothing that gives a room a new lease of life like a fresh coat of paint.
It’s amazing how much you can change the mood and feeling of a room with a new colour or shade, whether it’s a dark green or red to create a sense of drama, or gentle pastels to make a space calmer and airier.
Painting is a job you can tackle yourself, but it’s also one that rewards details and dedication, whether it’s sanding down and finishing the skirting boards or guaranteeing perfect edges around windows and door frames.
Professional painters and decoratorscan ensure a finish you’re happy with - and one which guests are sure to be impressed by.
Perfect paving
Impressing guests doesn’t start when they walk through the door - it begins when they roll up to your home in the first place. As the old saying goes, you only get one chance to make a first impression.
你可以做很多事情来美化你的房子，以确保它在访客面前井然有序，无论是修篱笆，油漆前门，还是整理你的前花园。
One thing that’s often overlooked but sure to have an impact is fixing up your driveway. Cracked, patchy or weed-choked drives make a home look unkempt and uncared for, whereas a fresh, well-maintained driveway is a sure sign of a put-together home.
With infinite options, from brick, to slab, to poured concrete, to modern resin driveways all available, speak to adriveway specialistto see what will work for your home.
Great gardens
Let’s assume perfect spring weather for Easter and a glorious summer of sunny days and warm evenings. If we end up with that dream scenario, then your garden will become the place to be, so it’s worth making sure now that it’s ready for its starring role.
Landscaperstend to get booked up at this of year so it’s essential you get started as soon as possible.
Think about your garden as another room of your house, consider how you want to use it and the things that will make it more useful and give it more versatility - whether it’s decking or a patio, a dedicated barbecue or fire pit, or just simple planting to help create a more welcoming environment.
Killer kitchens
Whenever there’s a party, people tend to gravitate towards the kitchen. Perhaps it’s just because that’s where the food and drink are, but whatever the reason, if you’re having guests round, you’re sure to end up hovering somewhere around the fridge and the sink.
With that in mind, make sure your kitchen is the kind of space where you’d be happy to hang out, guests or not.
Whether it’s just upgrading your worktops to something more stylish, or a wholesale change of your units, akitchen fittercan help you transform the heart of your home.
Better bathrooms
让我们面对现实吧，我们都喜欢偷看别人的浴室。对于这样一个私密的地方，浴室可以很好地反映一个人的性格，无论他是那种一切都保持冷静和简约的人，还是那种在马桶圈上有一个毛茸茸的盖子和一整个书架的读物的人。
If you’re concerned about the message that your bathroom might be sending out into the world, then abathroom fittercan help renovate your space and give it a public facelift, so it’s ready for even the nosiest guests.
