Home improvements If you’re thinking of selling your home, a staging session with RE/MAX Malta’s exclusive home stylist could make all the difference. Here, Fiona Caruana Carabez offers her tips on how to make your home stand out from the crowd through fantastic styling and photography.
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Home improvements Small it may be, but it is likely to also be your one and only kind of personal open space – that protruding bit of floor, just out of the balcony door, surrounded by stone wall, metal railing or glass, that allows you to walk out without falling from a height. It also allows you to look outside, see the world and acknowledge it.
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Home improvements In Malta, cooling off is taken very seriously. When the heat starts crawling in over the islands as early April, the first sea-testing toes are dipped, most warm clothes hibernate and the ACs start flexing their cool-blasting muscles. For many it is also time to switch on the pump again and clean out the water, and lo’ and behold, the ultimate heat-beating phenomenon – the swimming pool! At RE/MAX Malta, we have an interesting selection of properties with swimming pool, but if you prefer to build your own on your property (and thus make it more saleable), read on.
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Articles Thinking of one colour to make your home stand out? This year it must be Ultra-Violet, the ‘Pantone Color of the Year 2018’.
Home decor dictates that colour is high on the list of things to tweak when you are transforming your property into a trendier space. The wise owners of varied kinds of properties are more likely to choose to use very specific colours and colour schemes in order to create important statements that speak of bold style and design know-how.
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Home improvements High humidity is a fact of life in Malta. Whether temperatures drop or rise, humidity is felt all year round but indoors one tends to feel it especially so it winter. Contrary to what one may be led to believe, it is not only old houses which tend to harbour humidity. Some newer apartments may also feel humid to the point of being insupportable to live in comfortably.
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Malta We don’t get frigid temperatures in Malta but our winters do give us a fair share of cold winds blowing in from the sea around us with temperatures feeling much nippier than the numbers on the barometer. Needless to say, Maltese homes tend to feel chilly exceptionally cold with numbing temperatures having to be endured both indoors and out.
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Articles We all have heard about feng shui when it comes to decoration and arrangement of spaces; but what is behind this exotic concept? How does feng shui work? For starters, let’s begin by pronouncing it the right way by saying Fung Shway, which is strange for us Europeans when we read something like Feng Shui. To satisfy further curiosities about feng shui, we talk with Irish expert Nina Kati.
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Articles In the first part of this post, we went into some reasons as to why green fingers are not always green and why your plants tend to disappoint you. If you are ready to go…
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Articles Wouldn’t it be glorious to have your own garden? One of those large green affairs with trees and flower shrubs, an aviary of chirping birds in the far end, a pond of lilies with dragon…
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Articles Although the kitchen is the room we spend the most money on, did you know that it actually has some very humble beginnings? The phrase ‘the hearth is the heart of the home’ is very…
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Articles From clever design tweaks to simple life hacks, there are many great ways to keep your house cooler in the summer… and all that will save you money and help you live more green! As…
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Articles As technology becomes ever more affordable and attainable, it is no wonder that one of the latest trends to hit the home sector is having a lift at your disposal. Going up? Stair chair lifts…
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Buying property in Malta Throughout the time I’ve worked in real estate in Malta, the property topic has come up in several conversations I’ve had with many acquaintances, friends, business partners and so on. Inevitably, these acquaintances always know someone,…
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Buying property in Malta In this first blog post in a series dedicated to Lifestyle Changes, I am tackling an aspect linked to one extreme end of life. Just like infancy and early childhood, old age must be considered…
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First time buyers Although tiny, Malta often gets divided into ‘the North’ and ‘the South’ – but does this apply to real estate market? Back in 2009, a National Statistics Office study confirmed that the divide in Malta…
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