With all the stress and mess of scrambling to get everything in order and making sure nothing gets left behind, moving can get intense. It’s also a very physical and labour-intensive process, when it comes to hauling your heavy furniture and goods. Missteps and bad practices can result in damage – to your goods and…
Do you often find yourself living with uninvited ‘guests’? No matter how many mothballs, ant bait, and cockroach traps you deploy, they keep coming back! You need to keep your home clean and safe by making sure pests don’t come to stay. Start by paying attention to these common things in your house that…
Written by Jason Zhang Are you planning to buy a new house soon? Or are you already planning to build your own? Then, you must think about the interior of the house too along with the architecture. If you take a look around the other houses in general, you will see a tendency to decorate…
Are you in the dark about light bulbs? We’ll decode the words you need to know when buying light bulbs. Lumens Lumens are a measure of the total amount of visible light the human eye can see, from a lamp or light source. If the lumen rating is higher, it means the light source/lamp is…
This is a list of the most common prints and patterns that you may have seen but can’t quite name. It’s important that you know prints and patterns, so when you have a print you’re looking for, you know what it’s called and you can look smart. So, basically, useless information, but fun to know!…
Have you been feeling creeped out in your own home? Whether you’re a believer of the supernatural or not, we at Gawin are skeptics and we are always ready with a solution for you. It’s Halloween season and of course, the mind gets creative when you’re alone or when it’s dark. Imaginations run wild, scary…
Written by Jeson Pitt Are the electrical outlets gracing your walls doing their job perfectly? Do you know that there are many different outlets you can install in your house, each outlet for a different purpose? If you are planning on an electrical upgrade in your house or if you just want to know if…
When one first hears about “Scandinavian,” the first thing that pops up is IKEA. IKEA is a Swedish furniture store that sells ready-to-assemble furniture, and they’re the budget Scandinavian furniture store all over the globe. But Scandinavian Interiors is more than that. It’s more than white pieces of furniture and minimalism. It’s more about form…
Written by Sophie McKinley The first idea that probably strikes us when we hear about luxury homes is a lot of expenditure on high-end furniture, expensive kitchen and bathroom fittings, and so on. But what if we tell you that luxury is not always about opulence but about certain choices that you make? Let us…
Do you feel like your walls are looking dull and boring right now? If you’re not the sentimental type, you probably don’t have a lot of photographs to put on your wall. And if you’re not the artsy kind, you’d probably be confused about the dozens of different painting styles and you might be scared…
