We caught up with Jackie about her experience of buying, moving and living in a brand-new Genesis Home at Sanders Brow in Armathwaite… Why a new build/Genesis Homes? I had spent 37 years in a farmhouse heated by a Rayburn and an open fire. Throughout the years I had chopped a sufficiency of kindling and […]
Our team have been working hard from home for the last couple of weeks now – here’s some of our top tips to make sure you have a productive and healthy working day: • Get up, get showered and get dressed; you’ll feel more professional – and you don’t want to get a Skype call […]
Coronavirus updates are currently dominating our news, social media feeds, conversations and interactions. The World Health Organisation has issued some advice on how to protect your mental health during the outbreak. Some key things we can all do to help ourselves and each other are: • Limit the news and be careful what you read. […]
The working hub of the house is often the hardest room to tackle so lets get cracking! Many of us spend hours cleaning the kitchen only for it to look like it hasn’t been cleaned a few hours later. The first job is to tackle the oven. There are lots of products on the market […]
We spend between 8 and 9 hours in our bedrooms so it’s good once in a while to give them a good clean and airing. Get those windows open, move the bed so you can vacuum behind it, strip the bed and give the mattress a hoover too before putting on clean bedding (got to […]
Another unpopular room for cleaning is the bathroom… If it’s been a while since your bathroom had a good clean, then try something like ‘vamoose’ which is a foaming spray that lifts dirt (available locally from Lakeland Plastics). Tiles and grout can be freshened up with a mix of 3 x cups of bicarbonate of […]
As the clocks change and we get lighter nights, the options for outdoor living are greater so get your self ready! If you’ve got outdoor furniture then wipe down your chairs (minus the cushions) and tables with a mixture of warm water and a squirt of washing up liquid, wash off and then let them […]
THERE’S NEVER BEEN A BETTER TIME TO SPRING CLEAN YOUR HOME! With so many of us now at home, we’re all looking for ways to entertain ourselves. Who’d have thought that our thoughts would be turning to giving the house a thorough Spring clean? We’re running a series of cleaning tips and focusing on some […]