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5 Ways to Make Your House Feel More Like a Home
A clean and welcoming home sure is refreshing after a long day at work, but there is something missing. You still don’t feel ‘at home’ just yet. You’ve gone through the process of buying a house…

3 Steps to Throwing a Successful Housewarming Party
You’ve done it! You’ve been successful in selling your house and hopefully upgraded into your dream home. You’ve just finished spending the last few months unpacking boxes, putting décor up on the…

How to Choose the Right Home for Your Kids Childhood
When you're shopping for real estate, there are so many aspects of a home and neighborhood to reflect upon—how much maintenance does the house require? How long will the commute to work take? When…

How to Plan the Perfect New Years Eve Party
We’ve put together this article for those extroverts who love to please and enjoy being around friends and family during holidays. New Year’s Eve is coming! Yes, it’s the holiday season is upon us…

Top 3 Real Estate Books You Need to Read Before Buying a House
Buying a home, choosing where to settle and put down roots is critical to how you will raise your family and part of developing your career. Many people only buy a few houses in their lifetime, so…

The Impact of Acid Rain on Painted Surfaces: Signs, Prevention, & Remediation
Acid rain, caused by pollution, can seriously damage painted surfaces, causing them to wear down and lose their shine. This harmful rain can lead to peeling, cracking, and fading paint. Recognizing…
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Decoration & design

Bedroom design for better sleep, light, sound and layout
Design a bedroom around darkness, quiet, temperature and clearances, with bed sizes and wardrobe depths that make the room work at 3am and at 8am.

A layered lighting plan you can build room by room
Build a three-layer lighting scheme with the right colour temperature, switching and lamp positions, starting with what you can change this weekend.

Living room layout dimensions that actually work
Set out your living room with real clearances, walkway widths and seating distances so the furniture fits the room instead of fighting it.
Projects & practical fixes

Bathroom ventilation and waterproofing done properly
Stop bathroom damp at the source with correct extraction, real tanking behind the tiles and the falls and fixings that keep water where it belongs.

How to choose a kitchen layout for your actual room
Match a galley, L-shape, U-shape or island kitchen to your real room dimensions using clearances, work zones and honest trade-offs.

Renovation order of work and where the budget goes
The correct sequence for a home renovation, from surveys to snagging, with the decisions that must be locked before each trade arrives on site.

Meet the owner
Chandan Banerjee
Owner & Publisher · Home Designing Idea
Chandan Banerjee is the owner and publisher of Home Designing Idea. He created the publication to bring design inspiration, practical improvement guidance and clearer home decisions into one useful place.
Useful beats merely beautiful
A good home article should help you brief a contractor, compare a product or avoid an expensive mistake—not just save another image.
Read our standardsSpecific, not generic
Dimensions, materials, maintenance and trade-offs are included when they change the decision.
Costs framed honestly
We use ranges and relative cost because the same project can price very differently by place.
Written to be used
Every guide turns inspiration into the next practical step, from a shopping list to a contractor brief.
Corrected in the open
When something is wrong or outdated, we amend it and explain what changed.
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