Household Links & Resources

Household Links & Resources

Good Homes
As with all the Beeb's sites, this is a well presented and informative supplement to the BBC's TV decorating offerings.
www.goodhomes.beeb.com

Homearts
Homearts takes the content from one of the top US home magazines and adds extra projects and features that are exclusive to the website.
www.homearts.com

Homebase
The site is a doddle to navigate, and very brightly coloured. Well worth a visit for some decorating inspiration and for information about Homebase products.
www.homebase.co.uk

Interior Internet
If you're looking for advice on decorating or for suppliers of decorating products then you should point your browser at this directory service.
www.interiorinternet.com

Doityourself.com
Why pay ridiculous sums of cash to a dodgy builder, when you can do it yourself? Here there are a huge archive of how-to tutorials plus a useful bulletin board where you can get the answers to your problems, or maybe help others.
www.doityourself.com

Buy.co.uk
Avoid domestic crises by ensuring that your gas, electricity, water, and mobile phone bills are the lowest possible with this site's comparison tools. They're simple to use and could save you a packet.
www.buy.co.uk

Learn2
Teach yourself everything from mixing cocktails to making stained glass.
www.learn2.com

Idrink
There's a drink for every occasion. Get all your knowledge about booze here.
www.idrink.com

Recipexchange.com
Discover the secret of Mum's apple pie, and numerous other tried and tested recipes.
www.recipexchange.com

Ask The Builder
Seek home improvement answers from this nice American man.
www.askthebuilder.com

Hamilton Acorn
Go to your local hardware store, work out what you want, then order it cheaper here.
www.hamilton-acorn.co.uk

Screentrade
Make sure that your house, car, computer, and holiday are covered by some nice cheap on-line insurance.
www.screentrade.co.uk

A2Z Carpet.com
As brilliant as it is funny. This website allows you to 'select a stain' and find guidelines for treating it. Essentially carpet-focused, it also has 'A Consumer's Guide to Oriental Rugs', 'Carpet Woes' and plenty of articles about the stuff you walk on. You'll wonder how you did without it.
www.a2zcarpet.com/stain.htm

The Toilet Papers
A good name, and a useful site. This lists the most common plumbing problems encountered with toilets and gives possible solutions to each. Simply click on the problem and you get a link to a diagram that helps you solve it.
www.members.home.com/doug.graham/toilet.htm

The Security Net
Exhaustive resource on every security-related topic you could think of - and plenty that would never cross your mind. Lots of links.
www.mopa.org/

UK Mums
Don't go mad at home all day alone with the children - meet other parents in this thriving on-line community.
www.ukmums.co.uk

That Home Site!
"Dedicated to those with a less than perfect home", this has forums on every subject under the sun, from cooking outdoors to the refrigerator door.
www.thathomesite.com

Feng Shui Society
"Reclaiming the ancient path to harmony"... This site lists regional points of contact and events, but is essentially a promotional vehicle.
www.fengshuisociety.org.uk/

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