If you’re at the stage of dreaming about a reno or exploring ideas, these small choices are a good place to start to warm your heart and set you up to truly enjoy winter indoors.
Imagine enduring the coming winter without your gorgeous gas heating, perfect pumpkin soup and hot showers before bed….actually, don’t! The mere idea is enough to make you shiver. Don’t risk freezing all through winter! There’s still time to sort some small changes that will keep the chill from coming inside. Here are a few easy home reno ideas that you can get up and running before the cold winds really start to blow.
SORT YOUR WATER:
It can be easier to improve your enjoyment indoors by making sure the little luxuries in your home are all sorted for winter. That means making sure you have instant hot water on tap at all times, and a good heating system. Maintenance matters! If you have creaky, unreliable hot water, and you want to make those ghastly mid-shower blasts of cold water a thing of the past, go for an instantaneous natural gas hot water system. Gas hot water gives you soul-warming hot showers before you snuggle into fresh PJs and head to bed, the chance to have a hot spa whenever you’re feeling the chill, or a daily soak in a beautiful bubble bath - perfect for when the temperature is in the single digits.
WARMER, WARMER:
What kind of warm winter is possible without a heating system? The best reno you could go for this year is a whole-house system you can control, and that you can use for heating and cooling all year round. We like Natural Gas ducted heating, which allows you to set the temperature in different rooms (the bedroom for those chilly nights, or ease it off in the kitchen when you’re grilling up a storm!). And yes, they have those coveted cooling options for those hot summer months when you're kicking back with an iced lemonade and watching Netflix. Check out ducted and hydronic heating systems and warm those cockles for now, but know you can cool them down when summer comes around.
THE GREAT (WARM) OUTDOORS:
In winter, it’s tempting to shut the door on the world and stay under your doona, never venturing past your front door unless you have to. But this winter, what about making the most of your outdoor spaces too, with some simple reno ideas that’ll have you loving the idea of leaving the house (albeit just by a few steps!). Think about connecting to Natural Gas so your BBQ never runs low, expand your outdoor area with instant gas heating, and take the chill out of the water so you can keep using your pool all year round! If you only use your pool a few weeks a year, now’s a good time to investigate natural gas pool heating.