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How To Create A Wellbeing Corner In Your Landscaping Design

November 20, 2023February 4, 2023 by Las Vegas Woman

You can include multiple features in a landscaping design, and many of them will depend on what you want to achieve within your garden. You might want it to be a kaleidoscope of colours. Or you might wish to grow lots of natural foods. You could prefer to have lots of manmade features such as walkways and patios. Or it may be the case that you want a garden with as little maintenance required as possible.

At your first consultation meeting with PrincipalLandscapes, these options and many others can be discussed along with your preferences for your garden. If you are someone who wants to have a quiet spot within their garden where they can relax, do yoga, or meditate, for example, that will require what is commonly known as a well-being corner to be included within the landscaping design.

Let us first point out that it need not necessarily be in the corner of the garden so the reference to “corner” is merely a turn of phrase. What is not in doubt is the fact that this spot is to enhance the well-being of those who use it, so let us look at some ideas as to what needs to be included.

5 Awesome Kitchen Organisation And Labelling Tips

April 8, 2023June 21, 2022 by Las Vegas Woman

When it comes to organising a kitchen, some think it takes nothing more than a few personalised kitchen labels. As helpful as kitchen labels are, they can only help create an organised kitchen if the process is done correctly. Otherwise, simply sticking kitchen labels on items is akin to having a store that has price tags on every item, but everything is randomly located within that store and similar items are at opposite ends of the store.

For kitchen organisation that works, including the use of kitchen labels, you need to follow a plan. Granted, there are a variety of ways to organise a kitchen, and you should choose a way that suits you. However, there are also some generic tips that can help, and if you read further you will discover five awesome kitchen organisation and labelling tips.

Start By Decluttering

One of the first things you should do before even thinking about what labels you need is to take the opportunity to declutter your kitchen and your kitchen pantry in particular. If there are foods that you know will never be eaten even though they are still within their use-by date, get rid of them. You can also take this chance to get rid of old containers, boxes, jars, and other items that are either surplus to requirements or need replacing.

5 Factors You Must Consider Before Deciding To Clean Your Carpets

November 22, 2023February 22, 2022 by Las Vegas Woman

When someone decides it is time for carpet cleaning to take place in their home, they rush into it without much, if any, thought whatsoever. With carpet cleaning, as with many jobs in a house, just running into it will not produce the best results.

Carpet cleaning might not seem like the most complicated work you might do around your home. However, there are enough variables that impact it that warrant some thought. Simply ‘going for it’ with some carpet detergent and a scrubbing brush not only makes the work more difficult, but worse, it can lead to your carpets being ruined and needing replacing.

So, we ask you to pause before cleaning your carpets and take some time to ponder some of the factors that will influence how and when you clean your carpets. Here are five essential factors from carpet cleaning experts Brilliance Carpet Cleaning Perth that can help make your carpet cleaning more effective.

Factor #1 – What Is The Weather Forecast?

You might question why you have to check the weather forecast for outside when your carpets are inside. Well, as the weather will impact those who live in your home when they are outside, it will also influence how clean or not their shoes will be when they return home. Wet weather can mean wet, muddy shoes being walked across your carpets, so logic dictates saving carpet cleaning for a sunny and dry day.

How To Ensure You Employ The Best Landscape Architect

April 12, 2023January 18, 2022 by Las Vegas Woman

Even if you regard your garden as relatively small, should you wish would give it a new lease of life with some landscaping from martincuthbert.com.au, then you need to ensure that you choose your landscape architect with care. This applies even more so when you have a very large garden and the amount of work that is likely to be required is going to be significant.

When we say that you need to use care, that is not to imply that the landscape architect sector is rampant with cowboys and rogues. It is quite the opposite with the vast majority proving to be diligent, dedicated and highly skilled professionals capable of designing incredible landscape designs. However, there will be the odd bad apple as there is in every industry or business sector

More importantly, you want to ensure that the landscape architect you employ is one you have confidence in, that seems to understand your preferences fully and is happy to implement them where they can, and is someone that you feel you can trust to complete the work as agreed. To get to that point there are several steps you can take and questions you can ask to ensure that the landscape architect you employ is the best one.

7 Ways Landscape Designers Can Overcome The Limited Space In A Small Garden

February 5, 2022December 15, 2021 by Las Vegas Woman

“Size isn’t everything” is a claim you will often hear being made. In certain circumstances it may well not be “everything”, but it can have a significant role. This certainly applies when you have a small garden, and you decide to employ a landscape designer to make the most of its less than generous dimensions.

Thankfully, with the skills and experience that professional landscapers have, they will know multiple ideas, techniques, and tricks that will allow them to create for you a landscaping design that maximizes the potential of the limited space which your garden offers. Here are 7 of those ways it might be achieved.

#1: Using Their Imagination

It is hard to put a quantifiable value on this but one of the greatest talents that many landscape designers have is the means to use their imagination to create solutions where others cannot think of any. That is invaluable when they are trying to design a garden where the amount of space is extremely limited. However, do it they can by triggering their creative juices and seeing pictures in their mind’s eye of how everything is going to fit in the available space.

#2: Creativity With Respect To Shapes And Sizes

Part of the design skills a landscape designer will be able to offer is utilising unconventional shapes, design attributes and customisations where possible, to create a garden design that maximises the space and allows everything to work within that design. Examples could be reshaping a small lawn, using smaller paving stones, or resizing existing features.

How to Create a Sustainable Landscape Design

January 18, 2022March 4, 2020 by Las Vegas Woman

Sustainability has been on many people’s minds in recent years. We want to use less energy and chemicals, and we want to spend less money. This is all possible with a sustainable landscape design.

What does a sustainable landscape design look like, and how can you create one for yourself? Read on to find out.

Understanding the Principles of Sustainable Landscape Design

Before you can create a landscape design that emphasises sustainability, it helps if you know what it is. Sustainability in a landscape design incorporates many things, such as water saving, energy saving, biodiversity, produce growth, and pollution reduction.

You might incorporate all of these factors into your design or simply a few. However, having an awareness of them all can allow you to put more thought into the design process to make sustainability your priority.

Step 1: Measure

For accuracy and precision when purchasing products for landscaping, and the landscape process itself, make sure you measure everything. Draw the shape of your property and its boundaries on a piece of paper and measure along the edges.

Measuring the positioning of plants and trees that you’ll be keeping in place can also help you decide how to work around them and make the most of the space.

5 Steps To Planning Your Ideal Kitchen

January 18, 2022October 4, 2019 by Las Vegas Woman

If you intend to have a new kitchen designed and fitted in your home, the process to go from the initial decision, through to the kitchen’s completion, can either be a smooth or a rough one. In the case of the latter scenario where things do not run smoothly, there will several reasons which lead to this, all of which are easily avoidable.

Some of the main issues will be a failure to determine what the priorities are for your kitchen, will include a lack of proper planning, not setting a timetable for the whole process, not establishing a budget, and probably the biggest fault, will be not seeking out professional advice.

Of course, if you do the exact opposite of what we have just described, your new kitchen project should run smoothly, run to schedule, be within budget, and the finished kitchen will be something which is a pleasure for you and your family to cook in or eat meals. To help you further, here are some more detailed outlines of the five main steps you should take in planning your ideal kitchen.

Determine Your Kitchen Design Priorities: One of the fundamentals that will help the process go well is to establish the main priorities you have for the kitchen. By this, we mean the style, the layout, what appliances you want including and the colour scheme. By deciding these at an early stage, the rest of the design process will ensure that the main goals for your kitchen are met once it is completed and in use.

Think About Practicalities Such As Power And Plumbing: A well-designed kitchen is not just about the visuals and by that we mean choosing the cabinet door design and worktop colours. Given the nature of what is done in a kitchen, the practicalities must be considered, with the most important being plumbing, electrics, and gas. There is no point in having a beautiful kitchen if it does not function properly due to oversight relating to the basic utilities.

Best Landscape Design Elements for Entertaining

January 19, 2022May 4, 2018 by Las Vegas Woman

While some people put time and effort into their gardens and landscape design to enjoy a picturesque garden, others want a space that’s far more functional. A garden doesn’t have to be just pretty; it can also be an extension of your home’s interior where you spend time with loved ones.

The hardest part about creating an outdoor area for entertaining is coming up with a winning landscape design. If you need a helping hand, any of these elements can be worth incorporating into your sketches.

Hardscape Elements

The more hardscape elements you have in your backyard, the less gardening you will have to do. Hardscapes incorporate features like pathways, retaining walls, benches, water features, and even swimming pools.

If you prefer a more ‘lock up and leave’ style property for minimal maintenance, you may choose to include a combination of many of these elements into your landscape design.

Partitioning & Shelter

When you plan on spending a lot of time outside, protection from the elements is crucial. Most homeowners aim to create a space that will be just as comfortable in warm weather as it would be in cold weather.

You may be able to create such a space with the use of partitioning and shelter. Privacy screens, pergolas, and simple structures can provide both shelter and privacy while giving your entertainment area a dedicated space on your property.