Home & Garden Magazine May 24

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Home & Garden FRIDAY, MAY 24, 2019

INSIDE: SIMON STEVENSON’S HOME IMPROVEMENT ADVICE

Let it

GROW INSIDE: THE B WORD Y UZZ BE HEA OU’LL THIS W RING INTER

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INTERIOR STYLE

JO PULETUA INTERIOR STYLE & DESIGN CONSULTANT AT HARII.COM.AU @HARII.BOHEME

As the weather cools down and winter interior trends start to filter through our favourite interior magazine and blog pages, there’s one term you’ll start to notice interior writers love to use to describe the season.

‘Hygge’ (pronounced hue- guh) is a Danish term used to acknowledge a feeling or moment as cosy, charming or special.

Whilst there is no single definitive word that Hygge translates to in English, it is more like a notion, or a way of life that is welcoming, invites kinship, simplicity and contentedness. Hygge was created by Danes to overcome the chilling cold, boredom and mundaneness of the often long and drawn out winter seasons in Denmark.

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The new WINTER TREND

Whilst Hygge is not something you can actually buy, elements of it are guiding the creative direction of many beautifully photographed homes and homewares.

Hygge’s focus on slow and conscious lifestyles attract more environmentally friendly, purposeful and sustain able brands that are hand made or made with well considered materials in clever, thoughtful ways.

Living the Hygge way could be as simple as lighting a candle during dinner each night. Or brewing and enjoying a nice cup of your own personal homemade blend of tea leaves as part of your morning ritual.

Whatever it is, the essence of Hygge is the simplicity of enjoying all elements of the moments

shared or alone. What can you add onto your lifestyle at home to make it more Hygge this winter?

Give us your thoughts and ideas for inspiration: Email news@ westernweekender.com.au.

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NEWS FEATURE

SOUND MATTERS

Winter is a time to get cosy and creative, to pick up an instrument you haven’t touched in months, to watch family movies, to play indoor games and to entertain.

With the whole family back under one roof, however, it is important to maintain a respectful and enjoyable home environment.

CSR Gyprock offers a number of wall and ceiling systems that work in with their plasterboard product options, designed to keep noise in check. Gyprock’s Good Environmental Choice Australia accredited (GECA) Superchek plasterboard is the premium choice for noise control, allowing you to reduce noise transfer within your home as well as effectively resisting damage caused by soft and hard impact.

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Superchek has a reinforced core and is designed to reduce the damage caused by rough play as well as delivering better sound absorption for a quieter more comfortable home.

Another choice is Gyprock Soundchek, Australia’s first acoustic plasterboard, designed to reduce the transfer of unwanted noises through walls and ceilings.

Sounchek’s lightweight design means it is easily attached to single or double- stud walls or masonry walls.

Gyprock Soundchek features a specially formulated dense core to increase its sound transmission performance and provide a higher level of soft and hard body impact resistance. Soundchek provides effective airborne noise and

impact noise insulation. Higher levels of noise control can be achieved by including bulk acoustic insulation in the Soundchek wall cavity.

“Home theatres, entertainment rooms or other special purpose rooms with high noise levels, such as music and rumpus rooms, are typical areas that need to be considered for noise transfer,” said Therese Tarlinton, Gyprock Marketing Communications Manager.

“With some basic understanding of building acoustics and careful consideration of the room use and layout of your home or extension, you can create quiet zones where you need them and keep noise contained.”

An entertainment hub is the

ultimate relaxation zone and on many home-owners’ wish lists, but modern sound systems have the potential to noise-pollute the entire house. Walls lined with Superchek provide a 15 per cent reduction in perceived loudness compared to standard plasterboard and Soundchek cuts it down by between 50 per cent and 70 per cent, meaning you can keep noise in its place whilst enjoying your favourite movie.

The Gyprock plasterboard range has many purpose- built options providing enhanced performance to create a more comfortable, quiet and durable environment for your family and to help you get the most from your home.

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SIMON’S HOUSE

Pools IN WINTER SIMON STEVENSON SIMONSHOUSE.COM.AU

You may not feel like taking a dip in your pool during the winter but just because you’re not swimming in it doesn’t mean you should forget about it for three or four months.

Regular maintenance, including water testing, is really important and means a lot less work to do next summer!

Test your chlorine and PH levels every week. Since the demand for chlorination is less during the cooler months, levels may not be enough to keep it clear of bacteria.

Algae can grow during winter as well if it’s low on the right chemicals. Testing and making sure the levels are right can protect the pool coating too.

Run the filter and cleaning

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Pool covers are great if you want to keep leaves, bugs and other debris out. They also keep the water and pool chemicals from evaporating as quickly. Just

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