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Adding the X-Factor to your home
15 Nov 2014
If renovating or building from scratch, why not add an exciting element to your home that family and friends will drool over. The ideas below will provide convenience and may be the X-factor element when looking to re-sell years down the track! Get in quickly before everyone has them installed!
Some of these ideas will need to be added to plans before renovation begins yet others can be installed on a DIY basis. Think about all these possible ideas and how each one could enhance your life!
Building a platform for your bed will raise you out of the mess of your bedroom and provide oodles of storage opportunity!
Why not start your fun on the walls? The timber panels were always intended to be painted over however when the owner saw them, she fell in love!
Create an ominous and spooky effect with the addition of a simple lighting fixture!
Never feel like you are in your office again! Work Monday to Friday with sand between your toes.
Scare your guests by installing an infinite bathroom floor…or what seems to be..
Why settle for a couch when you can lie in limbo all day long on a swinging hammock. You're bed will soon become a place of the past!
Install some pretty intelligent storage and never complain of mess again. So much space is saved with this genius stair storage system. Everybody in the family can have their own cupboard to store coats, boots, school bags and sports equipment. Or better yet, this is the ideal pantry or cellar in an otherwise small home.
Turn your sons bedroom door into a ping pong table a simple installation of specialised hinges! Taking up no space at all, the family can now be entertained for hours!
Make a splash with this clear bath! Bath time was never so much fun for the youngsters plus your bathroom will now look bigger and brighter when either full or empty!
Add some spice and flavour to every dish with your fresh herbs now at hand! Easy to maintain and water, the possums will never get to your veggie patch again!
Feel like you're at a beach party with a load of sand spread out around your outdoor entertaining area! So simple yet so unique!
Simple but genius! Preparing dinner has never been so easy
Hide all the cords and mess of your electronic gadgets away
This simple desk design can be permanently left out or folded away when not in use to look no more than a medicine cabinet
How about creating another living zone by recessing the lounge room floor and turning it into a cosy conversation pit. NO BOYS ALLOWED
Take your living space from indoors to outdoors with the installation of these brilliant sliding windows. Why not install matching doors too?
Make the most of all your space with these genius kick board draws. Store your cupcake tins and baking tray all out of view
Complete two living areas for the price of one with a double sided fireplace
Add some much needed storage and interest to an otherwise long and bland hallway
If your garage is conveniently placed besides your kitchen or pantry, install a little grocery door which will make unloading the car 10x easier!
Never worry about positioning furniture in front of power points again! With recessed power points and speaker plates, it will make no difference at all!
Some of these ideas will need to be added to plans before renovation begins yet others can be installed on a DIY basis. Think about all these possible ideas and how each one could enhance your life!
Bed platform
Building a platform for your bed will raise you out of the mess of your bedroom and provide oodles of storage opportunity!
Wooden panel walls
Why not start your fun on the walls? The timber panels were always intended to be painted over however when the owner saw them, she fell in love!
Chandelier forest light
Create an ominous and spooky effect with the addition of a simple lighting fixture!
Sand in toes
Never feel like you are in your office again! Work Monday to Friday with sand between your toes.
Glass floor
Scare your guests by installing an infinite bathroom floor…or what seems to be..
Living Room Hammock
Why settle for a couch when you can lie in limbo all day long on a swinging hammock. You're bed will soon become a place of the past!
Stair storage
Install some pretty intelligent storage and never complain of mess again. So much space is saved with this genius stair storage system. Everybody in the family can have their own cupboard to store coats, boots, school bags and sports equipment. Or better yet, this is the ideal pantry or cellar in an otherwise small home.
Pingpong door
Turn your sons bedroom door into a ping pong table a simple installation of specialised hinges! Taking up no space at all, the family can now be entertained for hours!
See-through bath
Make a splash with this clear bath! Bath time was never so much fun for the youngsters plus your bathroom will now look bigger and brighter when either full or empty!
Kirchen herb garden
Add some spice and flavour to every dish with your fresh herbs now at hand! Easy to maintain and water, the possums will never get to your veggie patch again!
Backyard fire pit
Feel like you're at a beach party with a load of sand spread out around your outdoor entertaining area! So simple yet so unique!
Chopping board over bin
Simple but genius! Preparing dinner has never been so easy
Power points in draw
Hide all the cords and mess of your electronic gadgets away
Fold out desk
This simple desk design can be permanently left out or folded away when not in use to look no more than a medicine cabinet
Recessed conversation pit
How about creating another living zone by recessing the lounge room floor and turning it into a cosy conversation pit. NO BOYS ALLOWED
Slide Open Kitchen Bar Windows
Take your living space from indoors to outdoors with the installation of these brilliant sliding windows. Why not install matching doors too?
Kickboard Kitchen Draws
Make the most of all your space with these genius kick board draws. Store your cupcake tins and baking tray all out of view
2 sided Fireplace
Complete two living areas for the price of one with a double sided fireplace
Long Hallway Shelf
Add some much needed storage and interest to an otherwise long and bland hallway
Garage to Pantry grocery door
If your garage is conveniently placed besides your kitchen or pantry, install a little grocery door which will make unloading the car 10x easier!
Recessed power outlets
Never worry about positioning furniture in front of power points again! With recessed power points and speaker plates, it will make no difference at all!