Light is the final touch that can enhance or degrade even the best interiors. And lighting is a complex issue because it’s about: how many lights you have and where/how they’re positioned. what sort of bulb you choose (white, warm, etc) and its power. what lighting fixture to choose. Let’s see how you can tackle [...]

Light is the final touch that can enhance or degrade even the best interiors. And lighting is a complex issue because it’s about: how many lights you have and where/how they’re positioned, what sort of bulb you choose (white, warm, etc) and its power, what light fitting you choose. Let’s see how you can tackle [...]

For the first time this year and thanks to a half-American family who organised it, we celebrated Halloween the Trick or Treat way. My children are still young so we mums went along with them and knocked at each-others doors. To avoid eating too much sugary stuff, each family had a menu of “spiders” (meat [...]

When renovating a house, the electrical installation is one of the things that has to be redone 90% of the time. Now it is also a legal obligation in Belgium: once you buy a house you have eighteen months to request a certificate of conformity. This seems quite obvious and normal but what most people [...]

In Belgium, if you buy a house whose electrical installation was done before 1981, the seller will have to give you a certification of an electrical inspection performed for the sale. The certification will either state that the installation is compliant or not compliant. In the latter case the reasons will be described and you [...]