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

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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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Create a garden paradise

Design Inspiration

A back garden paradise isn’t out of reach - stylish furniture and leafy plants can work wonders. Just choose your style: classic, oriental or contemporary-chic. Words: Kay Kinsella and Sarah O’Hegarty Source: House and Home Magazine May/June 2011 Issue The Classic Look They say you…

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Prepare Your Home and Garden for the Summer Season

Design Inspiration, Garden & Outdoors

Even if the sun doesn't always have his hat on, IKEA's Liz Johnston provides ideas to help you make the most of the inside and outside of your home this summer. Green fingered or not, we love our gardens. Whether you love to sunbathe,…

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Buyers Guide: Top Tips on shopping for your garden furniture

Design Inspiration, Garden & Outdoors

There is a lot to consider before buying, but the right choice is worth a little time and planning. Think about what best suits your lifestyle and also reflects our taste. Do you want a calm space for reading, an entertainment space or both?…

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Outdoor Living: Prepare your Garden

Design Inspiration, Garden & Outdoors

As many of us know all too well, after working all day indoors there's no where better but in the 'outdoor' room to relax. Unless you use your garden as nothing more than a convenient storage area, you are more likely to share the…

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Outside Interests

Design Inspiration, Garden & Outdoors

It's time to emerge from our indoor cocoons and step out into the sun. Foreign hotspots are all well and good, but where better to enjoy the outdoors than right at home with none of the fuss that accompanies taking trips away. Enjoy a…

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Alfresco Living

Design Inspiration, Garden & Outdoors

With the recent sunny weather, we are all thinking about outside living and dining, having neighbours, friends and family around for barbecues, creating outdoor spaces to entertain our guests and providing kids with a great space to play in the garden. It only takes an hour…

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Outdoor Living – Extending Your Home to Your Garden

Design Inspiration, Garden & Outdoors

Outdoor living has become a reality for most people with a garden space in recent years, instead of a vague magazine aspiration some years ago. We don't always get the ideal weather in Ireland, but when we do, we are out there making the…

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Make a Room in Your Garden

Design Inspiration, Garden & Outdoors

These days there is no question that we could all use more living space. Whether you need a home office, a home gym or just a room to get away from the commotion in the house, an extra room would make all the difference.…

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Planning your small garden

Design Inspiration, Garden & Outdoors, Practical Advice

You've just moved into your first home and are toying with the idea that the garden should be as much of a showpiece as your new house - or after years of looking out into an urban wilderness or your children's muddy and scarred…

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