<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33376938</id><updated>2011-12-14T19:12:24.677-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Design Your Own Home</title><subtitle type='html'>How to design your own home and make your own home design suit your lifestyle, budget and site</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://design-your-own-home.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33376938/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://design-your-own-home.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>architect-insider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13928928019642381229</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33376938.post-115659488415114893</id><published>2006-08-26T05:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-26T20:52:45.376-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Design Your Own Home</title><content type='html'>Title: &lt;strong&gt;Home Design&lt;/strong&gt; - needing some inspiration?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Author: John Gibb&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Article:&lt;br /&gt;You will spend the vast majority of your life in your home -&lt;br /&gt;yes, sure, much of it will be sleeping, but there will also be&lt;br /&gt;plenty of times where you just sit and relax, in the evenings&lt;br /&gt;and at weekends. With that in mind, don't you want your home to&lt;br /&gt;be nice to look at?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's difficult to underestimate the importance of good home&lt;br /&gt;design when it comes to your overall quality of life. Your home&lt;br /&gt;should be a place where you can relax, but at the same time get&lt;br /&gt;things done that you want to get done. If you're always fighting&lt;br /&gt;against your home's design to do simple tasks, it can seriously&lt;br /&gt;affect how happy you are with your life overall. More than one&lt;br /&gt;couple has broken up only to find that it wasn't really their&lt;br /&gt;partner that was bothering them at all - it was the shabby home&lt;br /&gt;they had together.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most people think that they can design their home perfectly well&lt;br /&gt;themselves, but in reality few can. You have to have a very&lt;br /&gt;specific idea of what you want, be able to accommodate everyone&lt;br /&gt;who lives there, and then actually follow through and get the&lt;br /&gt;job done quickly and to a high standard. If you miss one of&lt;br /&gt;these things out, then you end up spending years on home&lt;br /&gt;improvements, or with a finish you're not happy with, or simply&lt;br /&gt;with a compromise design that no-one really wanted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you want your home designed properly, you should probably&lt;br /&gt;bring in a professional, who will take everyone's needs into&lt;br /&gt;account and design an elegant solution to your problems. It can&lt;br /&gt;be truly shocking just how much homes improve with a minimal&lt;br /&gt;amount of professional design - it's like the difference between&lt;br /&gt;an amateur newsletter and a real newspaper, or a landscape&lt;br /&gt;garden compared to a random set of plants. The best part is that&lt;br /&gt;you only really need to have it done once (at least until you&lt;br /&gt;move), meaning that it's a very worthwhile investment that will&lt;br /&gt;likely improve not only the quality of your life but also the&lt;br /&gt;sale value of your home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;About the author:&lt;br /&gt;John Gibb is the owner of&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33376938-115659488415114893?l=design-your-own-home.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://home--design.blogspot.com' title='Design Your Own Home'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://design-your-own-home.blogspot.com/feeds/115659488415114893/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33376938&amp;postID=115659488415114893' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33376938/posts/default/115659488415114893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33376938/posts/default/115659488415114893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://design-your-own-home.blogspot.com/2006/08/design-your-own-home_26.html' title='Design Your Own Home'/><author><name>architect-insider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13928928019642381229</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33376938.post-115659375369082305</id><published>2006-08-26T04:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-26T05:02:33.700-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Design Your Own Home</title><content type='html'>Welcome to my Design Your Own Home blogspot. Here I will give you some useful professional advice on how to design your own home. I will provide great resources that will enable your own home design to be perfectly suited to your lifestyle, budget and site.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/33376938-115659375369082305?l=design-your-own-home.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://design-your-own-home.blogspot.com/feeds/115659375369082305/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=33376938&amp;postID=115659375369082305' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33376938/posts/default/115659375369082305'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/33376938/posts/default/115659375369082305'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://design-your-own-home.blogspot.com/2006/08/design-your-own-home.html' title='Design Your Own Home'/><author><name>architect-insider</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13928928019642381229</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
