Selling a Vacant Home: 7 Tips to Attract Buyers
Why do empty rooms leave buyers cold? Discover seven practical tips for selling a vacant home, including professional photography, virtual staging and ways to help buyers imagine the possibilities.
Entries by Jocelyn Watts
Fraser Coast Food Industry: A Future Worth Growing
Could the Fraser Coast become Queensland’s next great food region? Exploring how local growers, sustainable agriculture, new industries and smarter infrastructure could create jobs, support small businesses and shape the region’s future.
Your First K’gari Trip: Prepare Before You Cross
K’gari rewards a little preparation. From sand driving and tides to Wongari, permits, medical supplies and groceries, here’s what I’d want every first-time visitor to know before crossing the Great Sandy Strait.
How Many Days Do You Need on K’gari?
One day gives you the highlights. Two lets you explore. Three gives you time to slow down. Here’s how to plan a realistic K’gari itinerary without turning your island escape into a race.
Hervey Bay: Your Gateway to a K’gari Escape
Planning a K’gari escape from Hervey Bay? Discover your options for taking barges, tours, our own 4WD, day trips and overnight stays, plus why slowing down around Kingfisher Bay can be part of the experience.
How a Childhood Friendship Shaped My Life
A childhood friend’s simple question, “What’s news?”, stayed with me long after our school days ended and helped shape my path into journalism, storytelling and a lifelong desire to help others.
Mary Valley Rattler Silver Bullet High Tea Experience
There are train journeys, and there are high teas. Put the two together and send the whole affair rattling through the Mary Valley.
Small-Space Coastal Living: 9 Apartment Ideas
Transform a small apartment into a relaxed coastal retreat with nine achievable decorating ideas. See how light, colour, texture and clever styling can create a resort-like feeling without a major renovation.
9 Ways to Make a Small Outdoor Space Feel Bigger
Make Your Small Outdoor Space Feel Bigger and More Inviting A SMALL balcony, courtyard or patio can be one of the most enjoyable parts of a home. It can also become one of the most cluttered. Add a table and chairs, a barbecue, a few pots, perhaps an outdoor lounge and somewhere to store the […]
What Ancient Wisdom Can Teach Modern Home Design
Feng Shui in Western Homes: Modern Design or Ancient Folklore? FENG SHUI has a reputation problem in the West. It’s dismissed by some as superstition and embraced by others as an interiors trend, often without much thought about what lies behind it. But strip away the mysticism and some feng shui principles start to look […]