Now is the time to invest in the perfect outside space

If you have decided to invest in transforming the outside of your home, then now is the best time of the year to get started.

Plan your dream designer garden now if you want to have it in place during the summer months. Garden design has taken its place alongside the all-important interior of the home, not only to enhance the style and value of your property, but also for the many lifestyle advantages.

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Bring the birds into your garden

There must be very few people in this world who don’t enjoy the beautiful sounds of birds singing outside their window. Perhaps we don’t get to hear them as much in the winter time, but they brighten up the place when invited.

Just like people, birds won’t keep coming to the same place unless they feel they are wanted there, or something attracts them. If you feel like a little bird company, you can show them you want them in your garden in a few simple ways. A good start is to build or buy a few birdhouses that you will be then filling with food and water on a regular basis. If you leave out food and water once in a while, the birds might not keep coming back, knowing the food will not always be there.

Johnstone’s in Galway now stocking wallpaper

Johnstone’s decorating centre in the Tuam Road Retail Business Park now stocks more than 200 wallpaper lines in store. The store was opened in 2008 and has a full range of Johnstone’s paint, decorating tools, and accessories in stock.

Wallpaper has become fashionable again and the feature wall market has seen a huge increase in the use of wallpaper in decorating homes around Ireland. Johnstone’s has introduced a full range of wallpaper into its store; the current selection consists of more than 200 stocked wallpapers which are now available, together with hundreds more patterns available to order from patterns books.

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