In the episode "Welcome Party", the Napier's turn an empty dirt lot into a peaceful little park, while the Marrs tackle the home of Arnold Aker and Huffa Akpamori, affectionately known as Fort Morgan's Mom and Dad.

The family moved here from Benin in West Africa with their five children many years ago and once they had settled in they began to welcome other newcomers to the area, hosting dinners and parties to make everyone feel more at home. The Ma's aim was to make the family's house feel as welcoming as its inhabitants.

As these design experts worked to touch up their respective areas, they gave us some tips and tricks that will help us make our own homes feel more inviting every day. Take a look at the ideas we've learned this week.

Akele and Akpamoli had a small front porch that couldn't accommodate many people and they wanted a larger welcoming space at the front of the house.

But the obvious solution, which was to enlarge the front porch, was not an option.

You could be at the front setback of the house," says Dave, referring to the distance that the law requires their house to be "set back" from the street.

So when it comes to the house and the front porch, "we can't expand it or grow it," he explains. But he did have another idea.

"You're on a corner," he says, "so we could use the side of the house and maybe make a gathering place here.

They cleverly achieved this by landscaping and laying paving stones, rather than building an extension on the house or enlarging the front porch. This is a great way to use the space in the front yard.

In addition to the new seating area in the yard, the Marsons added a cool steel print pattern to the stairs to make the house even more welcoming.

"These front steps, everyone can see them," says Jenny." I just needed to focus on making these steps more inviting. I wanted to have this really eclectic, unique pattern that gave it some character. So I added steel stamped tiles to these front steps. All we needed was the formwork and some concrete paint to make it look like tiles."

At Aker and Akpamoli's home, Jenny is renovating the kitchen.

"We've tripled the prep space and storage space with new Shaker cabinets," she explains.

They had greatly expanded the kitchen and saw no reason to spend the time and expense of customising the cabinets, as perfectly sized prefabricated cabinets were readily available. To make them look bespoke, they painted the cabinets the same colour as the surrounding walls, which helped them blend right in.

Meanwhile, the Napiers had a unique idea to fill an oddly shaped piece of land in downtown Fort Morgan: they would build a prairie maze.

"A prairie maze is kind of like a hybrid of a corn maze and a Zen garden," explains Ben." When I was growing up, I went to a church camp that had a prayer labyrinth. You could walk around it and meditate or pray. It was really just a path on the ground."

Ben and Erin have added landscaping and benches where people can sit, meditate, chat and do whatever interests them.

Like the idea of wind chimes, but you (and your neighbours) can't stand those tinkling notes playing all day and all night? Ben has a novel solution to this.

"It would be a quiet wind chime," he explains as he ties on his apron and considers some of the wood in his workshop.

"Wooden wind chimes make a very different sound to clanking metal," says Erin." I don't expect that. It's like a much softer sound."

Ben builds these unique wind chimes from "good wood from all over the world", cutting them to "random lengths, random thicknesses, random sizes, and then we'll drill holes in them and attach cables to them. When the wind blows, they touch each other and form a community of sound".

The bottom line: "It's not a loud sound - it's almost imperceptible," concludes Ben." Which is good, because if you're there and you want to have a quiet moment, you don't want something very loud to distract you."