How to Add Value to your Home | Beverley Outdoor Furniture Blog

Looking to sell your house? Well with the right home improvement, you can make your home more marketable while significantly increasing its value.

Most homeowners expect to make a profit ? no matter how small- when it comes to selling up and moving on. But some home improvements can add more value than others. So with these useful tips, you can find out which developments will help you to increase the price of your property.

1. Try to increase the space in your house

The general rule is that more square footage means more value for your home. Recent research by HSBC reveals that, on average, a loft conversion will add ?20,876 to your property, making it the single biggest means to increase the value of your property.

Garage renovations are also highly coveted at the moment, as they are a great way to increase your living space without have to extend your property.

Converting this space into a living room, bedroom, or study may cost approximately ?10,000, but it will certainly add value to your home by increasing that all-important square footage to your living area.

Additionally, basement extensions are currently very trendy, and have been known to help encourage the sale of a house. But the reality is that these conversions can cost a significant amount of money, and it is unlikely that the renovation will increase the value of your house enough to be worthwhile.

But if all else fails, a new conservatory will certainly increase the price of your property. The HSBC study discovered that a standard conservatory can add up to ?12,000 on to the value of your home.

2. Brighten up the place with some more natural light

Lighting up a room will make is look and feel bigger, brighter, and better. The best way to do this is to improve the natural lighting.

Fitting new skylights are a great way to achieve this, as is replacing any curtains with Venetian blinds. If your budget will permit, installing some classy French doors will also improve the amount of natural light in your home.

3. Fit in a new, squeaky clean bathroom

A downstairs loo can be an extremely cost effective means to add value to your home. The HSBC survey revealed that a new bathroom can add approximately ?3,300 to the price of your home.

A basic bathroom suite can cost as little as ?500 to ?600. You may not get an incredible stylish or luxurious bathroom, but you will probably get to choose from a range of colours that can look great your original tiles.

4. Sort out your outdoor living areas

Outdoor living spaces are a fantastic way to be able to enjoy the beauty of the outdoors within the comforts of your own home. Creating the perfect outdoor space that is inviting, comfortable and peaceful can be extremely useful when looking to sell your property.

To make your outdoor living areas shine, you should try and fit some new paving stones, planting some flowers, tidying up your lawns, purchase some new garden furniture, and install some new exterior doors.

Things not to do

Do not put a swimming pool into the garden of a house that you are trying to sell. They are the least wanted home improvement, as they take up space and are costly to maintain.

As previously mentioned, a well maintained outdoor area can help you sell your house. But there is no need to spend a significant amount of money on new decking or landscape gardening, as this will not add too much value to your property.

Avoid dark or garish shades of paint, as they can make the interior of your home look dim and gloomy. Keep your walls neutral colour and the place will look much better to prospective buyers.

via How to Add Value to your Home | This is Surrey.

Home improvement comes in all shapes and sizes, and with the summer approaching what better way to improve your home then add a beautiful extra room, your garden.

Adding a new look to your garden by getting rid of the all paving stones and adding some stylish decking is always a great improvement. After doing so you can really do whatever you like with it, add some stylish outdoor furniture will make your garden?sophisticated while giving off a homely feel to it.

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14th June Boat Trip around Plymouth Sound ... - Network Plymouth

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?Network Plymouth Business Club invites you to a meeting with a difference ? on a boat trip around Plymouth Sound . You will have the opportunity to meet with other members of the business community from ?Plymouth and the surrounding area.

We are a friendly platform for growing businesses, where like-minded people meet to inspire; share experiences; strengthen and grow though trusted relationships; and exchange referrals.

?Presentation on ? Exercising Mind and Body? from Chris Menlove-Platt of CMP Coaching & Training.

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School Bus Field Trip at 37 wks Pregnant?

School Bus Field Trip at 37 wks Pregnant?

No, I?m not a pregnant high school student. I am a school mental health therapist, and on 10/20 (by which time I will be 37 wks 1day), my school will be going on a field trip, and they need chaparones. I signed up, because it is one of my favorite trips of the school year, and probably the last one I?ll have an opportunity to go on before I take my 12 weeks maternity leave. Some of my coworkers don?t want me to go because the place is about an hour away from our school, and in the middle of no where and fear that I will go into labor, and they will have to deliver my baby in the woods. Some don?t want me to go because of all of the walking that is involved with the trip. My husband is just concerned that I?ll be uncomfortable on a bumpy school bus for an hour to get there, and an hour back to school.

Here have been my responses to all of their concerns. Even if I did go into labor while we were there, we all have cell phones or can use the office phone if we don?t get any reception up there to call an ambulance to take me to the nearest hospital, where I?ll have my husband come pick me up and take me to my hospital. Babies don?t come that fast. As for all of the walking and other physical activities that we do on this trip, I can sit out on the activities that aren?t safe for me or that I just can?t do at this point, and if the walking gets to be too much, I can always go back to the main offices and wait for them to be done. As far as being comfortable on the bus goes, I just take a seat to myself, and stretch out my legs, and I?ll be fine.

What do you all think? Should I go? I?ll be seeing my doc next week, befor the trip, and will get her opinion, but I?m curious about what other pregnant women think. I?m currently 35w3d with baby #2.

I think you should go..the chances of going into labor are prolly real slim.
the walking is also good for you to

Is this your first baby? There is a *very* good chance you will have a very long labour. So even if you did go into labour you will more than likely have lots of time to get back. An hour away isn?t that far?Just make sure you have your cell phone and it?s charged and there is reception where you?ll be

I would feel okay about going?but like you said, you?ll be asking your doctor, they?ll have the best advice.

One of my babies was born at 35 weeks, and the other was born at 37 weeks ? both of whom took about an hour or so to be born. I have two people in my life who have given birth to babies at home ? not because they wanted to, but because the babies came that fast.

On the one hand, odds are that you won?t deliver the baby. On the other, they do come that fast. Before I had my first premie I would have just assumed I could go on such a trip. After having him arrive almost too fast for the doctor to be there, I think differently.

Why are some of the women leaders in the conservative moment such hypocrites?

They just love to write books, show up on TV talk shows and travel the nation to criticize feminists and feminism and they are endlessly preaching to all with ears about what they think women are doing wrong in having careers vs having so-called ?traditional? family values and staying home to be wives and mothers?.and insisting that if women ?knew their place? their families would be perfect?.

but yet MOST of those women also are well educated and have high powered careers and they aren?t homemakers by any stretch of the imagination! In fact, some of them live more like feminists than the actual feminists do?and some of their families are far from perfect!

Examples of some high profile conservative women hypocrites:

Kate O?Beirne, author of Women Who Make the World Worse, editor at a major newspaper, has kids.

Phyllis Schalafly, head of the Eagle Forum and trained as a lawyer, has six kids (one of them gay)

Sarah Palin?Gov. of Alaska. yet has several kids one of ?em with special needs?and don?t get me started on Bristol (abstinence works? HAH!)

Dr. Laura Schlessinger ?. she?s a pychologist and has kids, yet she has a shady past and has been divorced!

Ann Coulter ?neither married nor has kids, but is a lawyer

Beverly LaHaye, head of Concerned Women For America, has several kids (one of them gay?despite her anti-gay stance)

Why is it ok for them to have careers and families but no one else? Are they afraid to compete with other women?

If they really feel the way they do re: traditional family values, then why don?t THEY go home, stay barefoot and pregnant and mind their own business?.instead of trying to hold other women back and telling them what to do all the doggone time?

I could ask the same thing about many feminist leaders?

Edit: We are all hypocritical from time to time.

There are some women that sacrifice their happiness to teach the world about the wrongness of feminism. I didn?t read your list because it was too long and boring But I assume they were anti-feminist protesters.

Sacrifice a few to save a lot.

You misunderstand, they are not saying that women shouldn?t have the choice to have careers they are saying that feminism should stop trying to force all women to have careers because the majority of women want to do the traditional thing.

Feminists need to learn to accept that most women just dont want what they want.

Same reason some liberal women are hypocrites. People of all political leanings hang on to certain ideals, no matter what their previous actions are. That?s why they?re known as ?ideals.? Nobody?s perfect, even liberals.

These women have made a career for themselves in spite of feminism not because of it and why should they thank a bunch of dykes moaning and criticizing every single little thing????

Imagine Margaret Thatcher thanking feminism???

Feminism is an excuse for failure not a route to success, whatever that is in your personal life. There have always been powerful women throughout history and many of them made it on their own merits not on the back of a half baked hate movement.

More proof that nobody is perfect.

At least Bristol didn?t murder (abort) her child.
Abstinence does work. I know several virgins in their 20s and even 30s.

How are they trying to hold women back?

Hypocrisy is commonplace when pushing ones own agenda.

I would like to point out that Ann Coulter has said that if she did get married, she would quit work completely. (It is therefore our responsibility to find her a husband as soon as possible.) But she has also said that ?women have no capacity to understand how money is made,? yet she has made millions just by shooting her mouth off.

You know Dr. Laura the great all knowing how to raise sons lecturer?own son went cookie..not like he did a little drugs like the military put him in a mental hospital with arm straps to keep him from hurting himself and others cookie.

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Switched On: Not weaned from Windows

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

This recent announcement that Dell would not be pursuing new smartphones for the time being following the retirement of its Venue Windows Phone devices raised the spotlight on PC companies -- at least those other than Apple -- and why they have struggled so mightily in the US smartphone market. Virtually every major PC company, including HP, Dell, Acer, Lenovo, Toshiba and ASUS, has either passed completely on entering the domestic market or released only a handful of models without much carrier support behind them. HP, of course, made the largest investment in mobile with the purchase of an ailing developer of devices and operating systems. But even before that Palm slapped its forehead, HP had only casually flirted with smartphones, releasing a few token Windows Mobile smartphones.

PC companies have been fighting the battle with some heavy handicaps.

To be fair to these companies, the investment demands of the ultra-competitive smartphone market have proven formidable for many companies, including many, like Motorola, Nokia and RIM, that were once considered masters of the game. Even companies that have not seen such a prolonged decline, like HTC, can find the tables turned on them in the course of a financial quarter. But PC companies have been fighting the battle with some heavy handicaps.

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