The Star: January 26, 2017

52 Thursday January 26 2017
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Trish Lawrence -
Open homes this weekend...
Avonside: 23 Dunarnan Street
Kick out the Landlord: 3 double bedrooms, updated
kitchen, bathroom. Negotiation.
Saturday & Sunday 11.45am-12.15pm
Casebrook: 44 Cavendish Road
Development site: 1,537m2 site with a solid 4 bdrm
home generating income. $598,000.
Saturday & Sunday 2-2.30pm
Dallington: 41 Strathfield Avenue
Check out the letterbox: 3 dble bdrms, 2 living,
conservatory, triple garaging. Negotiation.
Saturday & Sunday 12.30-1pm
Linwood: 4/42 Trent Street
Idyllic Setting: Gorgeous 2 bdrm rear townhouse.
Single garage & extra parking. Negotiation.
Saturday & Sunday 11-11.30am
Redwood: 50 Dunbarton Street
Delightful Townhouse: A perfect retirement option.
2 dble bdrms, large living, single garage. Negotiation.
Saturday & Sunday 1.15-1.45pm
Rangiora: 31 Melford Close
Executive home: 5 bdrms, 2 bthrms with work from
home opportunity. Double garage. Negotiation.
Saturday & Sunday 4-4.30pm
Do you know what the current value
of your home is? Find out, call Trish
now for a free appraisal.
Trish Lawrence
ph 0800 874 745
"Successfully selling real estate
city-wide since 1993"
Initial Realty Ltd
Licensed Agent REAA 2008
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Home
& Property
Good storage ideas are abundant and all
manner of products are available to make
homes more minimalistic. While it’s nice to buy
your storage from designer homewares stores,
the likes of The Warehouse and Kmart sell many
simple products for masking clutter. Fabric
storage cubes are a great start for disguising
the clutter. They fit neatly into shelves and
wardrobes and thanks to competition from the
big department stores, can cost $10 or less
each. You’ll also find wicker, felt, cotton, woven
and metal baskets for a song.
Another clever idea, is to buy a cheap set of
melamine shelves for use in your wardrobe. A
set of shelves does much the same job as an
expensive wardrobe fit out. You can move the
shelf heights to accommodate shoes and boots.
It looks good, but costs little.
Another wardrobe organisation is a Wardrobe
Starter Kit from Hardware stores. While you’re
there, check out bicycle storage hooks as well.
As well as being practical, storage products
can make a design statement. The important
thing is to be consistent. don’t, for example,
buy storage cubes in different colours. If you’re
looking for really clever home storage ideas
take a tip from the tiny home movement.
Catherine Foster who wrote Small House Living,
downsized her life to under 90sq m and has
interviewed Kiwis who live in architecturally
designed homes of that size or smaller.
Each and every house in Foster’s book uses
storage effectively to tame their belongings.
Some have done it on the smell of an oily rag,
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Selling your property?
First impressions count,
get rid of the clutter.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ll know that getting rid of clutter
is one of the keys to selling property fast and at a good price. Good storage
systems can look cool in their own right, and help organise your clutter.
sometimes buying pre-cut heavy duty plywood
that only has to be screwed together, she says.
Garages and lofts are house vendors’ friends.
The garage is one of the few places in the house
that buyers won’t be put off by a little extra
stuff, but the more that can be hidden away in
stacked crates the better. Consider using flat
pack cupboards that can be taken with you.
“The most effective way of using these is to
find a wall where the whole area can be covered
floor to ceiling,”
“Simple carpentry like this is dIY level if you’re
handy, or get a handyman in for a few hours, but
make sure it is excluded from the list of chattels
on the sale agreement.”
Loft spaces are often wasted space in Kiwi
homes. A relatively cheap way to open up
the space is to install a loft ladder. You will be
amazed at what people use the additional
storage space for, once they’ve installed it.
Cheap clever storage ideas aren’t just limited
to the interior of the house, garage and loft. The
Warehouse, Mitre 10 & other hardware stores
sell garden storage to hide away things usually
left outside.
Foldable garden storage boxes that cost
from around $99 can be used to store garden
tools, outdoor cushions and pool paraphernalia.
The next step up is a cheap garden shed for
around $200 upwards from Mitre 10, Bunnings
Warehouse and other stores.
Finally, if you’re looking for more inspiration
Google “storage ideas”, search the same on
Pinterest, or check out books on the subject
from your local library. You’ll be amazed at how
many everyday items can be repurposed for
storage at the same time as adding design
excellence to your home.
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