Home Beautiful

Home Beauty

No matter how the economy is doing, people will always want to look their best. There is however costs associated with running a salon that can really mount up in difficult times. This has seen a rise in home beauty salons being set up to offer beauty treatments to the local community in the homely surroundings of the proprietor's front room.

People are offering beauty treatments not only in their own home salon, but treatments where they travel to your home. Their mobile beauty therapists offer a more affordable and for many people more convenient service. The lower costs of not having to maintain costly premises are passed on in savings to the customers. This means that the customers can get the same level of service for less and even have money to spend on extra treatments.

As more and more beauty products become available on the market, there are more treatments that can be offered from home. This includes a wide range of tanning options, hair styling, manicures and pedicures, to name but a few.

This home based business is gaining popularity and is certainly the type of industry that benefits more from word of mouth advertising than anything else. People in communities talk, and when people get to know that their friends and neighbors have access to high quality beauty treatments from home they want to know more.

For the owners of such businesses the benefits are numerous, but one of the main things that these people enjoy is flexibility. They aren't chained to the required opening hours of a shop front business and can tailor the hours they work to fit in with their other commitments

Dream Home

A dream home is one of the most common wishes of humanity and most people struggle their entire lives to make fortunes and afford a dream home of their own. But having a dream home doesn't necessarily mean that you have to spend fortunes and search for years just to find what you're looking for. In fact there are a few outlines that can convince anyone that a dream home can be both affordable and luxurious and that buying cheap can often turn into a successful financial risk.

There isn't one person who, on his/her way to purchasing the dream home doesn't think about money. Even those multi-millionaires who don't know what to do with their money try to make deals a bargain. So what do you do to get yourself a lovely dream home and keep your accounts on ship's waterline? Your first step is to adopt an intelligent investment strategy. Whether you choose to build your dream home on your own or purchase it through real estate agencies, having a good starting plan will make a difference. This way, making sure that you explain your agent what a dream home means to you and negotiating on the commission could be a good tip.

What is more, making your dream home affordable and luxurious could also be achieved by acquiring estates that have large gardens and spacious surroundings. This way, if your freshly purchased dream home isn't quite dreamy, you can solve the problem by expanding the building and decorating it the way you like it. Not only does this allow you to expand your accommodation unit, but you can also turn your dream home into a two-winged territory, thus making it more spacious. Your dream home could also be theme-centred. This means that you should transform one or several rooms into places that share a common motif, be that butterflies, Japanese style or a fairy tale- trend. A theme oriented dream home is very original, let alone that it says a thing or two about your own lifestyle and, this way, makes your home reflect your personality.

Eventually, it can't exactly be said that a dream home has a fixed meaning. For some, the dream home can be a luxurious contemporary style mansion in the heart of the city, while for others it is the equivalent of a rustic, back-to-nature mountain holiday home. But the essential when we come to talk about any dream home is that it must be in perfect harmony with the owner and with the surroundings. So, be original and daring, your own dream home could be around the corner without you even knowing it!

Think I will have a break from this blog for a while ....

you can still find me on instagram

Bye for now

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LATELY AT HOME

very hot days ....

nice shadows ....

overgrown vines ....

salad experiments ....

pot planting ....

..... and a very nice magazine.

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Joan Didion by Annie Leibovitz ...

love this photograph

via here

COFFEE & LIGHT

I first came across this beautiful photo series on Instagram ....

Coffee & Light

think the photos speak for themselves ....

..... these photos are via the tumblr page here

ALMOST THERE !!!

The School of Life in Melbourne is nearly ready to open it's doors ...

very exciting ...

isn't this space amazing

I could happily live in it !!!

more info here

A LITTLE CHANGE

I always love visiting my friend Georgina's apartment, I always leave so inspired, wanting to re-decorate or re-paint furniture or something ....

I've always loved her bed against the wall in her bedroom, so I decided to try ours like that and I LOVE it, amazing how nice a small change feels ....

and it makes the room feel so much bigger ....

.... Elvis seems to like it too !!!

I'm in the process of having a big clear out, I have lots of great pieces left over from a few jobs I have done lately, as well as some stuff of my own, furniture, vintage pieces, lots of kids things ....

not sure which way to go about it, ebay, an online store ? ....

any suggestions ???