Balance Boards Understood – why you need one in your home
What are balance boards? A balance board is a piece of fitness and training equipment – flat on one side, domed or a roller on the other.
From Voice-controlled Speakers to Home Automation – Your Options Outlined
If you’re the type who’s resisting the digital age and still not allowing your fridge to order your milk, you might find the idea of your house becoming autonomous a little challenging! However, the future is now and with driverless cars just around the corner, this fancy home automation era will feel old hat before […]
The Problems with Sonos One & How It Compares with Echo Plus
The much anticipated “work with Alexa” update by Sonos for its existing multi-room wireless speakers has arrived together with Sonos One, the company’s own take on an Echo alternative. A smart speaker that inherently supports Alexa’s skillset with built-in microphones.
Ideas for Optimal Living in Small Spaces: Living with Less
Tiny house, #vanlife, minimalism. These are the latest buzz words when it comes to having a stress-free home life. There’s a movement establishing itself and it’s gaining momentum as people begin to realise that ‘lack of stuff’ trumps ‘lots of stuff’.
Amazon Echo Alternatives: 5 Best Speakers with Alexa Voice-controlled Assistant Built-in
While the new Echo, Echo Plus and Echo Dot are staple from Amazon as smart speakers go, these are not the only speakers powered by Alexa Voice Service. More and more Echo alternatives are becoming available spotting the same intelligence and skills. Here are your options.
Essential Kitchen Tech under $30
Search ‘essential kitchen tech’ on the internet and there are millions of search results. Unsurprisingly people’s ideas of what kitchen tech is, seems to vary quite considerably. Where you live is as important as how you live when it comes to kitchen appliances – from the bijou one-room apartments of Paris to the sprawling open-plan […]
Coffee Tables with Storage: Ideas for a tidier living room
Coffee tables, while not often given as much time or thought as the sofa or couch, actually form the main focal point in many living rooms and lounges.
Indoor Gardening Kits – Grow your own herbs and veggies whatever the weather
If you live north of the 49th parallel, you are well aware of the short growing season in your garden. You love your fresh herbs and veggies in the summer and fall and adore spending time in your beautiful garden. Now, you can do all that even in the winter months with indoor gardening kits.
Home Craft Projects the Whole Family Can Enjoy
Very soon, the kids will be home for the holidays and be looking for something to do. The ‘I’m bored‘ mantra gets tired, very fast, but you do not want to have them turn into couch potatoes in front of the TV or on their phones/tablets the whole time. You want a more convivial, social […]
Chasing Away Winter Blues with Light Therapy: 10 Best Light Therapy Lamps
While shorter, cold, dark days and longer nights, snuggling in front of a warm fire with hot cocoa are all hallmarks of the cold season, less talked about are the winter blues
Top 10 Tips for a Peaceful Nights Sleep
You toss – you turn. You cannot seem to get comfortable or fall asleep easily. This happens night after night and you are feeling exhausted all the time – often nodding off during the day at work. Chronic lack of sleep is the major cause of high blood pressure, heart conditions and stroke.
Cozy Christmas Traditions: Incorporating Hygge into your Christmas
When we think of Christmas traditions, we often think of the warmth and contentment experienced in our decorated and seasonally embellished home. Of our desire to bring friends and family together to share in the joyousness of the season and to look toward all the possibilities for the approaching new year.
How to Create More Space and Abundance in your Home
The feeling of vastness and space is at once linked with peace, serenity and abundance. No surprise then that every time you clear out the clutter and the junk that somehow manages to accumulate of it’s own accord, there is a distinct feeling of accomplishment, followed by a sense of relief, openness and calm.
Safeguarding Your House While You Are On Vacation
You are on a comfortable deck chair in the Caribbean, a fruity ‘adult drink’ next to you; the sun is high above, kissing your well-oiled skin. Suddenly, you cannot remember if you left the radio on, or if you locked the patio door.
Creating Your Smart Home on a Budget – Essential Kits
So … you are at work and cannot remember if you locked your front door when you left for work. You wish you could somehow remotely lock it or least check to see if it is indeed locked.
Stylish and Contemporary Glass Coffee Tables with Gold Frames
Coffee tables say a lot about the space in which they inhabit and few exude style and assert themselves as well as glass coffee tables with metallic gold frames.
How to Choose the Best Games Console – Which one should I get?
Gamers come in many forms. From the casual gamer to the serious expert gamer, there are many consoles available from which to choose that will satisfy even the most serious, ‘Is it morning already?‘ gamer.
Smart Lighting on a Budget: Philips vs Hive vs TP-link vs LINX
Electric lighting is as old as electricity itself, it’s about time they get smart. Smart lighting is the easiest and cheapest way to get on the smart home bandwagon. It is as easy as screwing a bulb, literally.
Tea Mugs with Infuser – best teapot free tea brewer for one
If you like the ease of making your own cup of tea for one from fine loose leaf teas without the hassle of cleaning up the teapot afterwards, one of these tea mugs with a built-in infuser is your perfect answer.
Best Wireless Headphones for 2018 – Hottest & best selling Bluetooth headsets
Since Apple removed the 3.5mm stereo socket on the iPhone 7, Google and HTC did the same. But, who needs it anyway when you can have one of these wireless headphones? Not only are they stylish, cable-free and sleek, they are convenient and offer better sound quality too.