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Ideal Home
Ideal Home
Natasha Brinsmead

My home’s kerb appeal needs a boost — so I’ve stacked up these 6 easy DIY tasks to do in a weekend

Old light in porch.

Have you ever noticed how, once winter is done with and the sun starts shine, tempting us out into our gardens to lounge, that it is at this exact moment all the jobs that need doing in order to make the outside of our homes look their very best become the most obvious? Instead of enjoying hours whiling away the weekends and evenings relaxing, we feel guilty, looking up from our chosen reclining spot, about all the tasks we should be tackling instead.

Once the clouds drift away and the sunbeams appear, it is difficult to ignore all those small DIY jobs that needed doing during the colder months, but now is exactly the time to shake off the cobwebs and get the outside of your house looking shipshape – after all, many of these tasks rely on good weather to be a success.

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