Giving your home some easy TLC is a great way to brighten the gloom of January and February as we trudge on through the final stretches of a tedious winter. The great news is that you don’t have to move heaven and earth, reinvent the wheel or scale mountains – there are simple, straightforward, easy-to-adopt ways of sprinkling magic dust over your Surrey house or flat, breathing some life into it while simultaneously giving your own emotions a much-needed lift. Here are some of our favourite ways of working wonders so that the place you call home once again merits that term, becoming a haven from the outside world and its attendant pressures, a place where you can seek refuge and relaxation in equal measure.

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Whether it was the plethora of celebrity deaths or the political shockwaves that ruptured the UK, Europe, the US and beyond, 2016 was certainly memorable but many people are, understandably, glad to see the back of it. While that January 1st feeling of newness and optimistic possibility is still with us, there’s plenty we can focus it on, and that includes are homes. Here’s just a small sample of ways to get going:
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