homeimprovements Tag Posts Index

Our (Almost) Heavenly Cantina 😋

It is very hot. And quite hard to reason, plan or focus. For those of us in very hot climes, without air conditioning or the like, it is time to pace ourselves and

The Un-chimneying Of Our Medieval Home

The chimney issue had been raising its ugly head for several months, periodically for much longer, as particular seasons, weathers, temperatures, qualities of wood

Coffee Nook decorating 2023 vs 2024

Here I made a comparison on how I decorated this part of our parent's house during a Christmas season 2024 vs 2023 December 2024 This is the most recent decoration

Securing Boundaries!

Hi, Hive Diyers.... Here's some deep Do-It-Myself-ing, as I make further improvements to my chapel room balcony doors, in my Italian medieval quarter home. note:

Repairing and reinforcing my doors and boundaries!

Gorgeous human creatives! Here is a presentation about the repairing and glorifying of my doors: the job took a couple of days, and is connected with a general

Transforming my medieval cellar room.... part 2

Ciao DIY friends.! My door and room are progressing - with much effort and concentration! For the past few days I've been wrestling with lots of smaller jobs and

fixing a very old electrical socket

Hallo DIY friends! This project has been hanging off the wall quite precariously for some time, since one of the screws that held it to the wall broke through the

DIY: The family-sized toothbrush holder. If you can't find it on the shelf, then build it yourself!

Good day guys and girls of Hive and especially to the DIY people out there. My name is Zak Ludick from Cape Town South Africa. Today I am going to share with you

house renovations in the medieval quarter

Dear DIY friends, Here are some snaps of this particularly messy process to remove a large work surface, which I began spontaneously this afternoon. I'm cleaning

Fixing a door which drags on the ground

Beautiful friends-who-love-building, Here are some snaps of a quick project which has made a massive difference to everyday life at the arthouse: There are three

The chaos of prepping my medieval quarter house for selling....

Hallo dear DIY-lovers! I thought that you might enjoy some snaps from my medieval quarter home, which I'm currently in the full-on chaos of pulling together for

Guest bedroom: quasi finito!

Beautiful creative friends! My guest bedroom is coming to completion: I am SO happy! The spongey mattress pieces ended up fitting perfectly, as did the two blue

The bed-base!

The base is mostly secured now, in my beautiful new guest room sleeping extravaganza!! Now I have to just stabilise the board which will sit on top of this part,

Room transformation...

Ciao dear Building-enthusiastic friends! Today I acted on an intuition and inspiration, to change one of the rooms at the back of my art studio - from a materials

INSTALATION OF ENGINEERED VINYL PLANK FLORING IN THE SUNROOM

You know when you start installing the floor, the project you're doing is nearing completion. We have used this type of flooring throughout our home. Using vinyl

Heart-Art-Hearth - part two

Beautiful Soul Friends! This is the visual part two of the podcast post I just did via Aureal, on Heart-Art-Hearth: I wanted to post this part directly in the Natural

BEFORE AND AFTER - Sanctuary Room Finally Repaired and Beautiful!

This is my most treasured Sanctuary Room, in my Italian Arthouse - which I bought for a song 11 years ago, when the medieval quarter was almost totally abandoned...

Working on Some Repairs in Mother-in-Law's Room

In previous posts I talked about the medical emergency my mother-in-law had. She is doing better now. One of the issues that was affecting her respiratory conditions

Counter Improvements

Hi fellow Ranters, The other day we got our counters swapped out! Counter Improvements It's remarkable what something like a new countertop will do to improve an

Ideas in the corner for your home

I want to share you my diy projects ,before i start my project I always make some drawings to see what will happen and what ideas/design need to improve. My clients