Many new homeowners are asked by their builders to select the colours for their cabinet bench tops and doors for the kitchen, laundry, bathrooms and many other areas before they have chosen the colour and type of flooring they will have.

What better way to start the year than with a newly decorated home.

Summer can often be the time when timber strip floors start groaning and squeaking.

There are no strict guidelines on what you must use or do in regard to interior design, but the designer can usually make his or her own rules.

We are surrounded by colour all the time and while we don’t always think about it everyday, we sub-consciously choose to be around colours that we prefer in our life.

While most people associate using paint to change the interior of a room, it is a great and often under-used decorating tool which can bring new life to old or out dated furniture or individualise new pieces.

Interior painting is the most popular home improvement job for Do It Yourself enthusiasts.

Most people have heard of the saying 'prevention is better than cure'. When applying this statement to tile laying it would be more accurate to say that 'prevention is cheaper and there will be no need for the cure'.