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How To Make A Small Bathroom Look Bigger In 7 Ideal Steps
While we’d all love a bathtub we could take a swim in, or a toilet seat which does all the dirty work for us, the reality is that for...
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How To Dress Your Hallway To Make A Great First Impression On Guests
Your home’s hallway is the first place that guests interact with when they walk through your door, and its aesthetic value can make a huge first impression - both...
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Post-Pandemic Engagement & Wedding Trends That British Couples Are Loving
In the least surprising news of recent times, it’s been reported that the pandemic and ongoing cost of living crisis has caused couples to re-evaluate their finances, and has...
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How To Prepare Your Car For A Family Road Trip: 6 Ideal Checks
There’s something wonderful about a long family road trip and the unbridled sense of freedom and adventure that it brings. Heaven knows we need some relief after the two...
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How To Make Your Rental Flat Feel Like A Home In 7 Steps
Just how to turn a rental flat into a home? Rather than being an existential essay question which might get you into Oxford university, this is a very real...
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8 EXPERT-APPROVED WAYS TO BECOME A MORNING PERSON
Struggling to find the motivation first thing? Taking a long while to get going in the morning? Casting covetous glances at that early bird with the worm in its...
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5 Practical Considerations When Building Your Garden Room
Not to be confused with sheds or conservatories, garden rooms have soared in popularity due to the architectural and aesthetic edge they give to outdoor gardens and open areas....
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Where To Eat Near Tottenham Court Road: The Best Restaurants
With a shiny new stop on the Elizabeth Line cementing its status as a TFL headlining act, Tottenham Court Road is now the eminent focal point for those wanting...
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The Best Things To Do In Leeds On A Girl’s Weekend, Whatever Your Tastes!
Planning a weekend away with the girls but unsure where to go or how to get there? While there are plenty of lively, happening cities to choose from in...
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7 IDEAL MORNING COFFEE REPLACEMENTS TO KICK YOUR DAY OFF RIGHT
Not coffee. Anything but coffee. Is nothing sacred anymore?
We hear the desperation in your voice, and rest assured; we feel you. We’re not here to make sweeping statements about...
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6 Home Maintenance Tasks That Are Best Left to the Pros
A good home maintenance routine can enhance your living environment, avoid the need for costly repairs and even increase the value of your property, but that shouldn't mean that...
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Accessorise In Style: 7 Purchases To Make Any Outfit Pop
Welcome to 2022, and the first summer of (relative) freedom after two spent in the grips of a global pandemic. Sure, we all want to be stepping out on...
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How Decluttering Can Improve Your Life
We know what you’re thinking; another article about decluttering. Isn’t the internet starting to look a little, shall we say, cluttered with articles on the streamlining practice.
But we could...
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What Are Some Safe And Effective Tattoo Removal Methods?
If you have a tattoo that you’ve ended up regretting, whether that’s because it no longer boasts the same symbolism, it’s a reminder of different times, or you’re simply...
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From True Crime to Kanye: Our Favourite Documentaries On Netflix Right Now
If you’re of a nervous or startled disposition, perhaps it’s best you manoeuvre that cursor to the back button now. But if you’re looking to take a vicarious look...
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Why Everyone Should Learn A Second Language
Aside from our worship of a cuppa and our dedication to the art of queuing, a shameful monolingualism is perhaps the most prevailing stereotype associated with being British.
Indeed, language...
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What’s In Season: 7 Of The Best Fruit & Vegetables In June
And some great ideas on cooking them!
With so many stuck indoors struggling to know what day it is, let alone the month, recognising the passing of time is perhaps...
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7 Ideal Pizza Restaurants in Brighton & Hove
Until recently, Britain’s favourite seaside town (don’t @me Blackpool) wasn’t exactly blessed with fantastic pizza restaurants. With the popularity of fish’n’chips on the pebbles permeating every lunch and dinner...
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HOW TO MAKE RISOTTO IN 7 EASY STEPS
Let’s get something out of the way before we begin. To suggest the existence of a ‘right’ way to cook risotto is a dangerous, contentious claim. Italians with grandmothers...
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How To Show Your Kitchen In Its Best Light, Whatever The Time Of Day Or Occasion
Bad kitchen lighting can lead to all manner of mishaps. Perhaps you’ve struggled to notice the fly swimming in your soup as you serve it unknowingly at a dinner...
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The Ideal Weekend Destination: What To Do In Bilbao
Located in northern Spain, Bilbao sits in the heart of the Basque Country and is a city that seamlessly blends the old and the new. From Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim...
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Where To Eat Italian Food In Brighton: The Best Italian Restaurants In Brighton
Ideal for the best pizza and pasta in Brighton.
Sure, fish’n’chips on the pebbles, perhaps with a plastic pint in hand, is a great way to spend an afternoon in...
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The Only Guide You Need To Maintain Beautiful And Healthy Hair
Perhaps it’s no coincidence that you can spell ‘tresses’ from ‘stresses’. Hair, let’s face it, is a fragile thing, prone to damage from diet, heat, pollution and friction, both...
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THE BEST RESTAURANTS ON WESTBOURNE GROVE, NOTTING HILL
Straddling the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to its west and the City of Westminster to its east, Westbourne Grove was once named the ‘Bond Street of the...
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Where To Watch The NFL In London: 5 Of The Best Places
There used to be a joke in the UK’s American expat community, that NFL stood for ‘Not made For London’.
How times have changed. Though the American expat community may...
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5 IDEAL WINE PAIRINGS FOR THE UK’S FAVOURITE TAKEAWAYS
Us Brits love a takeaway. It should come as no surprise, then, that during lockdown takeaway service revenues have soared, with online food delivery declared as being ‘one of...
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How To Determine If A Cleaning Product Is Indeed Eco-Friendly
As you may well know, traditional cleaning agents tend to use strong chemical substances to get rid of dirt on the surfaces they’re used. In recent years and in...
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7 TIPS ON FREEZING FOOD PROPERLY
Ideal for avoiding waste and making ingredients last longer.
These are unprecedented times indeed. And suddenly, a new perspective on our store cupboards, fridges and freezers is forming. Wasting even...
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Wine + Hiking = ‘wiking’: Wike Your Way Through These 5 Incredible Wine Destinations
Hands up who participated in a wildly popular virtual wine tasting session during lockdown? Oops, perhaps use the other hand...you’re spilling claret down your front.
Joking aside, activities normally reserved...
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How To Turn Selling Clothes Online Into A Lucrative Home Business
Fashion might be considered a luxury, but clothes are a necessity, which is why going into fashion retail can be a good move for someone who feels inspired by...
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Revealed: The 5 Most Instagrammed Honeymoon Destinations In The United States
With weddings finally going ahead as normal after a heartbreakingly long period on the sidelines, many newlyweds are on the hunt for stunning honeymoon destinations to start off married...
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5 IDEAL SPRING VEGETABLES AND HOW TO COOK THEM
Spring has well and truly sprung (finally) and with it a whole host of new fruit and vegetables are coming into season, at their peak and tasting truly vital...
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5 IDEAL THINGS TO DO WITH YOUR LEFTOVER ONIONS & SHALLOTS
Wondering what to do with a glut of onions or shallots? You’d only need to have a passable interest in cooking to have experienced a vegetable drawer so stocked,...
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How To Make Your Rented Home Décor Come To Life
Whilst still keeping your deposit…
Let’s put things mildly; Generation Rent are certainly facing their fair share of pitfalls in 2022. Chiefly, the structural obstacles in place to buying a...
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WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THE BEST SPARKLING WINE
As if it wasn’t expensive enough, the average price of champagne has recently broken the £25 barrier for the first time. And this was before recent issues with lorry...
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8 OF THE WORLD’S BEST COFFEE & ALCOHOL COCKTAILS
IDEAL for trying on your next night out, or even making at home.
Calling all java and liquor aficionados! If you are a coffee lover who also appreciates the relaxing...
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SPRING IN YOUR STEP: 4 MEN’S SHOES MUST HAVES FOR S/S 2022
Can you feel it? Do you see it? Dare we say, are you smelling it? Yep, warmer weather is on its way, and we couldn’t be happier. And just...
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Beauty Training Could Open The Door To These 5 Ideal Career Opportunities
Living for lashes? Spellbound by skincare? Wake up thinking about making up? Well, have you ever thought about becoming a beauty therapist? Turning your passion into a career never...
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DO YOU NEED TO HIRE A WEDDING PLANNER? 5 REASONS YOU SHOULD
A warning for those planning to propose; once the question is popped, the knee dusted off and the ring slipped on, that afterglow of warmth and celebration doesn’t last...
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THE IDEAL GUIDE TO A GREAT WEDDING BEAUTY REGIME
First things first, you are beautiful, right now and forever. However, in the lead up to your Big Day, when you know all eyes will be on you and...
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5 OF THE BEST THINGS TO DO IN NORTH MALLORCA FOR FOODIES
Once associated with a ‘dos cervezas por favor and a packet of ready salted’ kind of holiday, in recent years Mallorca has shed its reputation as being a bastion...
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FROM ROYAL TITLES TO A SURVIVAL WEEKEND: 9 IDEAL GIFTS FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE EVERYTHING
Gift shopping for someone who has amassed everything that they could possibly want in life is tricky, even at the best of times. But after the gift-giving revelry of...
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6 DIY & CRAFTS TRENDS SET TO BE HUGE IN 2022
Hey you! Yes, you! Put down that Bosch Power 4 All 18V (nice drill, by the way) and listen up. I can’t hear myself think over here.
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How To Drink Less Wine But Enjoy Drinking It More: The Ideal Guide
Following the UK’s first lockdown, Alcohol Change reported that the nation had been drinking more, with over a quarter of respondents agreeing that they had hit the bottle harder...
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10 SMALL FURNISHING UPDATES THAT MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE TO THE LOOK OF YOUR HOME
We’ve all read the home improvement columns about the best renovation projects for adding value to your property. Hey, we’ve even written a few of them. From extending the...
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5 OF THE BEST WAYS TO TO DOCUMENT YOUR TRAVEL ADVENTURES IN 2022
If there was a way to condense travel during the twenty-tens into a single quote, it would probably be ‘’collect memories, not things’’.
This decade (do we have a snappy...
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6 IDEAL WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR GUT HEALTH
We’ve got a gut feeling that the health of our digestive tracts is going to be the next big thing in the world of wellness trends. Oh wait, it...
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7 IDEAL TIPS TO HELP YOU ON YOUR JOURNEY TO VEGANISM IN 2022
Veganuary is well and truly upon us, but this year, for many, the decision to go plant based may well last beyond January 31st. Indeed, veganism has never been...
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8 GREEN NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS TO HELP SAVE THE PLANET
Phew. In the midst of the mayhem of coronavirus, Trump, Boris, Brexit et al, you could be forgiven for forgetting an even more serious, impending doom.
But climate change is...
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NEW YEAR, NEW YOU: DAILY ROUTINE HACKS TO ADOPT IN 2022
New year, new you? But I liked the old me just fine, we hear you cry. We like the old you/me/everyone just fine, too, but as a new year...
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5 IDEAL WAYS TO FUTURE-PROOF YOUR BATHROOM
It’s only natural that most people want to stay in the house that they’ve built, nurtured and loved well into their retirement and beyond. But as our bodies, brains...
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8 CURLY HAIR CARE TIPS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR WINTER
Beautiful curly hair comes in so many shapes and sizes; 3a, 3c, 4a to name just a few. So, when it comes to hair care, it’s not a one...
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6 EFFECTIVE WAYS TO INCREASE YOUR ECOMMERCE SALES
The eCommerce industry is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world. There were an astonishing 2.14 billion people expected to purchase goods online in 2021 and this number...
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KIDS GOODIE BAGS: IDEAS TO AVOID THE PLASTIC TAT
Ideal for making your child’s birthday party a plastic-free one
A divisive subject on parenting forums if ever there was one – to party bag, or not party bag, that...
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WHY PROBIOTICS COULD BE AN IMPORTANT PART OF A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE
In recent years, scientific understanding of the power of probiotics has increased. A broad range of research has been carried out regarding the health benefits of probiotic foods and...
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9 IDEAL THINGS TO DO IN CARRICK-ON-SHANNON, IRELAND
Known as 'the Marina Capital of Ireland’, Carrick-on-Shannon (in Irish, Cora Droma Ruisc, which translates as the Weir of the Marshy Ridge) lies on the shores of the River...
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CHEAP TRAIN TICKETS: HOW TO LOWER THE COST OF YOUR RAIL FARE
Have you just bought your train ticket for Christmas and gawked at the prices? Do you feel increasingly irate at the fact you could fly to Berlin five times...
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AN EASY GUIDE TO PROPERLY PLANNING YOUR FINANCES
Planning properly for your finances is the best way to ensure success. A lot of people think they can just wing it, but this will lead to more problems...
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SMART IDEAS THAT WILL HELP YOU CURATE THE IDEAL CLOSET
We know we’re prone to hyperbole here at IDEAL, it’s a writer's prerogative after all, but did you know that a disorganised closet is bad for your health and...
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6 IDEAL TIPS FOR PUMPKIN PICKING THIS AUTUMN
Could there be a more quintessential autumn activity than pumpkin picking? Ideal for creepy Halloween carving, delicious desserts, creative curries and even those fabled pumpkin spice lattes, this versatile...
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WHY DO YOUR EYES LOOK TIRED? REASONS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH SLEEP
“Are you okay? You look so tired”. It’s a comment no one ever wants to hear; sympathy that can be mistaken for snooping, concern for criticism.
Unless, of course, you’re...
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6 OF THE BEST PLACES TO VISIT ON YOUR COACH TOUR OF THE JURASSIC COAST
The Jurassic Coast is a stretch of coast, sand, pathway and road that boasts some serious natural wonder.
The UK’s first and only natural UNESCO World Heritage Site, recognised...
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DIY FASHION: 6 WAYS TO CHEER UP OLD CLOTHES THIS AUTUMN & WINTER
Ideal for giving your wardrobe a custom look this cold season.
Ways to cheer up old clothes? We’ve got just the idea; tell them a joke!
Hmmm, extremely bad jokes aside,...
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5 VITAMINS & NUTRIENTS YOU NEED IN AUTUMN
The changing of the seasons and the arrival of autumn heralds many things; a nostalgic pining for spring and summer, an increased intake of pumpkin spice lattes, a renewed...
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HOT TUBS AT HOME: YOUR FAQs ANSWERED
There’s something deeply therapeutic about the idea of slipping into a hot tub, steam rising and bubbling water enveloping. In fact, it’s not just the idea that offers a...
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5 HEALTHY EATING TIPS FOR AN AUTUMN SPENT INDOORS
Hunker down, it's hibernation time. As the days get colder and the nights draw in, our eating habits change too, with dishes heartier and more comforting. That shouldn't mean...
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HOW TO HOST A WICKED HALLOWEEN PARTY
IDEAL for the ultimate ghoulish gathering
The last couple of years have played many a trick on us but here at IDEAL, we’re yearning for treats, and what could be...
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5 GREAT WAYS TO MAKE THE MOST OUT OF YOUR UNUSED GARAGE SPACE
Perhaps you’ve decided to do your bit for the environment and have ditched your car in favour of your feet? Maybe you’ve repeatedly failed your driving test, and decided...
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8 GREAT REASONS TO RENOVATE YOUR HOME
A big home renovation project represents one of the most ambitious, aspirational undertakings a property owner can make. But words like ‘ambitious’ also hint at the difficulties involved; nothing...
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A NEWBIE GARDENER’S GUIDE TO THE BEST GREENHOUSES
Gardening is perhaps one of the best hobbies you can try. It helps keep you active, provides you with a daily dose of sunshine, and lifts up your mood....
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THE BENEFITS OF SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING TO YOUR BUSINESS IN 2021
It is not a secret that eco-friendly materials have become increasingly important in today's retail market, both to brands and to consumers.
Incredibly, the global sustainable plastic packaging market is...
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6 ALTERNATIVE THINGS TO DO IN BRIGHTON & HOVE POST-LOCKDOWN
Ideal for something a little different in everyone’s favourite London-by-the-Sea.
A stroll along Brighton seafront, skimming pebbles and checking out cheesy souvenir shops, fish and chips in one hand, plastic...