Budget Basics: kitchen renovations costs
$25,000 is a good starting point for a basic kitchen – here’s how that plays out across materials and labor. You have a fair amount of choice in deciding what to spend on some material aspects of a kitchen renovation, but there are other costs that are less obvious, labor-intensive, and tremendously critical to the work overall, no matter how high or low you go on materials. Straightforward Costs Take a quick walk around your kitchen or any home appliance store and you can st
The truth about IKEA vs. custom cabinets
Cabinet construction may well end up being the single biggest expense of your entire renovation, and the results are the most obvious visual proof of your investment, so this can feel like a heavy decision. The challenge (and opportunity) is that your choices are endless, but if you focus on a few key factors, you can find the right cabinets for your new kitchen. While it’s tempting to assume that your budget is the only consideration and while it’s true that custom cabinets
Foodie Friday: Lamb Chops with Feta-Pomegranate Topping and Roast Squash
While your BBQ buried under snow, this is a great, tasty and simple way to produce delicious lamb chops in the oven – especially since you’ll already have it preheated from roasting the acorn squash. It saves on cleaning up, and is a handy recipe to recall come wintertime. Lamb Chops with Feta-Pomegranate Topping and Roast Squash. Serves 4 Ingredients 12 lamb rib or loin chops, each about 2 cm thick (about 1.25 kg total) 5 Tbsp (80 ml) olive oil Grated zest and juice of 1 lem
Top tile trends for 2017
It’s less about which tiles and more how we put them together. earth This trend may be designed by man but has the earth very much at its heart. It’s a return to nature, the original masterpiece, where you surround yourself with the art of the ages. The stone look is very big in this trend and using natural tones that actually bring the outdoors inside. The earth trend is working in cohort with nature, rather than enforcing another style on it. It’s about a calming, relaxing
Bang & Olufsen adds warmer touch with new brass collection
The new Cool Modern Collection combines the iconic design and cool Nordic minimalism of Bang & Olufsen with gleaming, brass-toned aluminium structures and dark beautiful textile colours to create a warm, polished ambience. Inspired by the Art Deco movement of the roaring 20s (also the same time as Bang & Olufsen was founded), the collection introduces an entirely new style choice to the B&O universe, by presenting a line of its most popular sound systems, speakers and televis
