A Time of Magic

Everyone generally concentrates on the major house improvements like the new conservatory or the like.

However, there are a number of equally impressive smaller improvements that you can make too. These range from simple slipcovers through to decorating (which can almost equate to a major house improvement). In the middle ground are easy upgrades like adding a nice set of garden furniture for the summer or simply redoing the arrangements of plants in your garden to create a totally new look.

These don’t need to be expensive improvements either. Whilst you can certainly look towards expensive furniture shops for your garden furniture, often you can find ranges that are just as impressive by looking through a DIY store (garden shops tend to be on the expensive side).

We’re in the process of a forced upgrade to our bathroom which is a bit of a nuisance really.

It does have the advantage that we are getting to go through a major update of the bathroom which definitely needed one. So far, we’ve the choices out with the builder who’ll be coming back with a quote for the work after Easter.

Next up is the kitchen where we also have effectively a forced update on our hands too. That’s at an earlier stage so we’ve not even looked at kitchen faucets as yet but we did have a bit of a glance at some things whilst choosing things for the bathroom.

Now, “all” we need to do is get the money for it all

We all know that electronic things have been going down in price for a long time and that house prices have been going down for a year or two but what about everything else?

You might not think of books as something that would go down. After all, they need authors to write them and their salaries aren’t going down, plus they need seemingly perpetually increasing amounts of paper to print them on. Yet, whilst way back in 1981 the Encyclopaedia Britannica retailed for £600, you can buy the latest one (if you look around) for £450.

Houses might be dropping in price but surely house improvements would be more expensive? Well, we’re in the process of updating our kitchen and bathroom. Both are around the same price as the original cost some 30 years ago. And the new one will be much higher quality too.

It seems almost a case of looking around for things that aren’t decreasing in price.