DIY Ideas for your Bathroom - Black & Decker, India

The bathroom tends to be a much-neglected space sometimes, especially where décor is concerned. You will find though, that with just a few DIY ideas, you can liven up this area and make it a pleasure for yourself and guests to walk into at any time. Here they are:

Look for space saving items: Especially in bathrooms where you may not have too much space, it’s a good idea to not get it too cluttered with décor items, and instead to look at compact and multi-functional items. An example would be a cabinet that has a mirror attached to it, so that you don’t have to arrange for separate storage space for your toiletries. Attaching the cabinet to your wall or tiles will be a breeze using a drill kit like Black & Decker’s.

Light up the space: Even if you decide to use darker floor tiles, it is a good option to paint your walls a lighter colour as it makes the area look much brighter and pleasanter. Even if you use professional help for the tile laying, painting the rest of the area can be made approachable if you use the right tools.

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Create storage: As a beginner, you can buy the ready to assemble kits from your local store and try putting it together and hanging it up yourself, with the help of the drill kit. As you gain experience however, you can look at options such as creating a simple one from scratch using water proof plywood and a paint such as Duco to keep it well protected.

Add a décor item: It could be a lovely framed picture or painting, or a plant in the right place – keep it simple, but elegant. When leaving plants in the bathroom, do remember that they need to be aired out every few days or the quality of light and air may not be sufficient for them to thrive. Flowers in a vase have an additional effect of acting as a freshener too.

We hope that by being hands-on about each decision, you can make the bathroom as elegant as all your other rooms. Do check out our appliances and other details on our website: http://www.blackanddeckerindia.in

DIY Ideas for your Kitchen - Black & Decker, India

Who says DIY is only for the men? Women too can try their hand at a variety of DIY projects, with the easy-to-handle tools now available. There are so many ideas for DIY all over our home, let us try to go room by room to see what all we can accomplish. This week, we’re looking at the kitchen space and all we can do there:

First step – Appliances: From citrus juicers to food processors to our microwaves and ovens, we tend to crowd our kitchens with gadgets and most of these are not always required for day-to-day use. Make simple stands for gadgets like ovens and microwaves to move them off your kitchen slab, and put away the rest into cupboards to take out when needed.

Check your walls: We often find that how much ever space we plan for in our kitchen slab, somewhere along the way it becomes a storehouse for all our pots and pans and cleaning apparatus as well. The simplest way to tackle this would be to put up rods and hooks or a similar arrangement on the free wall space so that many of our pans and spoons can be hung up and free up our space.

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Use the ceiling space too: If you are lucky enough to have space for a kitchen island type of arrangement, then make sure to use the space above it for hanging your pans and other odds and ends too. This kind of frame can easily be made with DIY, or even scrounging the old furniture shops for a similar arrangement and then up-cycling it with some polishing can give lovely results.

Paint a wall: When painting our entire home, it gets tough to concentrate on specific areas and sometimes you may not be completely satisfied with the end result. It’s easy to remedy it using tools like the Black & Decker Rapid Roller that makes paint jobs so much less messy. You can give this task another twist by painting parts of your wall or cupboards in blackboard paint that gives you easy and reusable writing pads too.

The next time you enter your kitchen, do look over it with a critical eye and I’m sure you’ll get many more ideas too. Do check out our range of tools at Black & Decker that can support you well in this task:

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What goes in a DIY Home Utility Kit? - Black & Decker, India

If you are anything like me, the first time you go out to buy a home utility DIY kit, you would definitely be wondering what all those little pieces need to be used for. So here’s a short introduction to the basic tools and pieces in a home utility kit, I am using the one from Black & Decker as an example:

Drilling machine and drill bits: A drilling machine or a drill for simplicity is a powerful substitute for a hammer, and is suitable for most simple drilling tasks around the house. This one can be used for drilling into masonry, which means it can be used for tasks like hanging up a painting or photograph with ease. The drill bits would help with making holes of different sizes as well as for different materials. If you are looking to drill into something unusual, check if the required drill bit is supplied.

Wrenches: The kit contains a Hammer Wrench that is specially designed to hold on to nails or screws while using a hammer for additional force, as well a Combination Wrench that can be used similar to a spanner.

Pliers: This tool is very useful for holding on to objects that cannot be gripped easily by the fingers, especially when force needs to be applied to them. An example would be when pulling out a nail from wood or masonry, where the firm grip helps in applying the force required.

Accessories: This kit comes loaded with a wealth of other accessories from a hacksaw blade to a measuring tape that is all necessary for any DIY activity. A lot of screw-driving and drilling attachments are also a part of this, which you would need while dealing with different sizes and heads of nails and screws.

In short, an ideal home utility kit should provide you with all the necessary tools and accessories required to perform simple DIY tasks at home such as hanging paintings and assembling small pieces of furniture, without having to run to the hardware store for something or the other all the time. Do check out this kit and our other tools and appliances at our website:

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