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What to do if you’re affected by flooding

Advice, Build & Renovate, DIY, Practical Advice, Promoted

With many parts of the west of Ireland and the midlands caught up with flooding at present and more heavy rains scheduled for this weekend, MyHome.ie decided to look at a few tips you can take to secure your home against water damage. Water in…

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Dress to Impress The Sherry Fitz Way: Top tips to maximise the value of your property

Advice, Bathroom, Bedroom, Build & Renovate, Buy & Sell, Design & Decorate, DIY, Doors, Floors & Windows, Extensions & Renovations, Garden & Outdoors, Improving, Kitchen, Living & Dining, Practical Advice, Promoted, Selling

Sherry FitzGerald have launched a video in conjunction with RTE’s Design Doctors Denise O’Connor and Catherine Crowe on how you can maximise the value of your property by showing how to make the most out of the main areas of your home. The Design Doctors…

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10 uses for your old Christmas tree

Advice, Build & Renovate, Design & Decorate, Design Inspiration, DIY, Eco Build, Garden & Outdoors, Grow Your Own, Living & Dining, Practical Advice, Promoted

We all look forward to decorating our Christmas tree but now that Christmas is over it’s time it comes down. Real trees are as popular as ever but rather than just bin it why not recycle your tree to get some extra use out of…

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Ireland’s first shipping container home completed in just three days

Advice, Blog, Build & Renovate, Building, DIY, Eco Build, Home, Promoted, Self Build

Ireland's first shipping container home was completed at the weekend. The project took just three days to build and will now be donated to St Vincent de Paul. It will most likely be moved to Deerpark in Co Cork to home a family in time for Christmas.…

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The new home renovation tax relief could be worth exploring if you’re carrying out work on your home

Bathroom, Bedroom, Build & Renovate, Design & Decorate, Design Inspiration, DIY, Doors, Floors & Windows, Eco Build, Extensions & Renovations, Garden & Outdoors, Grow Your Own, Kitchen, Living & Dining, Practical Advice, Property News, Self Build

When the Budget was announced last October, it’s fair to say that people didn’t have a lot to look forward to in it. One definite positive was the new home renovation tax relief, which offers people savings of 13.5% for work in their homes.…

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Safety Tips – Problem of Blinds in the Home

Build & Renovate, DIY, Improving, Property News

Home improvements and adding nice touches to the family home, seem to be at the top of every home owners list of things to do around this time of year. Usually, what a person is looking for is to add elegance, style and character…

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Home Grown Plot

Build & Renovate, DIY, Eco Build, Property News, Self Build

When you’ve put down roots and raised a family it’s very hard to leave after 40 years, especially if you built the house yourself. But life moves on, the house is now too big and not ideal for retirement living, it’s time to think about…

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Unfinished Symphony

Build & Renovate, DIY, Eco Build, Extensions & Renovations, Self Build

Alan Molloy and his partner Sharon Daly didn’t have to look further than the field next to Alan’s family home in Co Down for a place to build their family home. There was an old farm steading Alan had played in as a child…

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Family value

Build & Renovate, DIY, Extensions & Renovations, Property News, Self Build

Estate agents are right when they say location is everything. Even in the 21st century we still don’t stray far from our childhood homes when the time comes to put down roots. There is a problem though, how do you find a house you…

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Make your house immune to pests

DIY, Improving, Landlords, Practical Advice, Property News, Rentals

A house becomes a wonderful place to live in once all the impurities are over. The impurities in a house can be bad respiration system, lack of clean and tidy environment and insects. Focusing further on the pests we come to know that having pests in…

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