home improvements

To launch our new ‘Fix Up, Look Smart’ campaign, we asked our friends on social media to tell us about their home improvement plans for the next few months.

It probably won’t surprise you to hear that over 80% of people told us that they planned to carry out some work on their garden in the next few months. 54% of people told us that they were planning to bring in the professionals for a project, and 59% of people told us that they were going to try a little DIY.

Whatever your next home improvement project, and however you plan to do it, we can help you.

Our teams of experts at our branches in Ellon, Inverurie, Stonehaven, and Westhill are ready to share their experience and knowledge, whether you are one of our valued trades customers or are dabbling in DIY for the first time.

Are you working on a home improvement project that is worthy of featuring in our Spring/Summer campaign? Do you have before and after photos of your project, that show how you transformed your home, and that you are happy to share?

Our new campaign is now well under way, but there is still time for your home to feature in it! Whether you’ve been working on your garden, or creating new living space indoors, we really want to see your work – you never know who you might inspire!

We are a nation of DIY lovers and with programmes such as Grand Designs which has been running for over a decade, more people are becoming inspired to tackle one of the biggest DIY projects possible and build the bespoke home of their dreams.

You might not be aware that the Scottish Government offer a Challenge Fund (CF) designed to support the development of projects that demonstrate and promote the value of self and custom build housing as an alternative mainstream housing delivery model. Following a recent and very successful pilot in the Highlands, a new £4 million self-build loan fund will be made available from Autumn 2018 to support people throughout Scotland over the next three years.

The fund is open to everyone and applications are welcomed from projects which demonstrate an innovative approach to the delivery of homes, from small-scale and individual, to community projects and ideas to support the scaling-up of the custom build sector.