Home & Garden
H&R Johnson tiles the tenants choice
When Shoreline Housing Partnership needed to improve tenants’ homes across North East Lincolnshire it turned to the expertise of leading UK ceramics manufacturer H&R Johnson Tiles Ltd.
Space theme emerging at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
The planetary system, cosmos, time travel and star gazing are set to take the world’s most famous flower show to another dimension! For the first time in its’ 84 year history of being held in the grounds of the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, space, astrology and science fiction is a significant theme at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, sponsored by Marshalls plc.
Live the dream with Liniar
Now is the perfect time to be thinking about creating your own outdoor oasis, with the innovative range of PVCu fencing and decking from Liniar. Imagine relaxing in the peace and privacy of your garden, enjoying a refreshing drink in the warm sunshine or entertaining friends on a summer’s evening.
New Abacus illuminates designer radiator potential
Aeon Radiator Heaven has added an exciting new dimension to designer radiators with the incorporation of a non-toxic paint containing special pigments that absorb energy from any light source, converting it into a soft-tone glow at night or when a room is in darkness.
Affordable designer products for the deck and garden
The essential kit for your garden and deck this summer, Hotspot offers a range of products for the garden all designed by professionals. Real fuel and gas BBQ’s, portable grills, firepits & braziers, food and wine cooler, patio heaters, gas lights and torches all combine quality manufacture with affordable prices.
Summer heat - kitchen cool
Just because the temperature rises outside, doesn’t mean you can’t use your range cooker on the inside. Everhot has some useful tips for keeping your cool this summer while making the most of your range cooker.
Work from home in style - Home offices don't have to be boring!
Now with most households owning a PC and with over 3 million people using their home for work there is an increasing need for home offices that are both super stylish and well designed.
Aeon’s Speira provides the perfect focal point for architectural spaces
With cues drawn from the symmetry and beauty of a DNA strand and engineered to heat the largest of spaces, Speira from Aeon Radiator Heaven is a sculptural installation designed to be centrally mounted in modern open plan rooms.
In Design graces the brightest star
Located in North London’s Park Royal is a design studio with a host of innovative and beautiful products for kitchens, bathrooms and bedrooms. In Design discovers the very best products and utilises them within each design specification. The latest addition is a range of captivating cooker hoods by Elica. Adorned with a beautiful glass shade, Star and Grace are just two in the range of beautiful extractors to revolutionise the market.
Redefine the bathroom
Tucked way in the heart of North London is In Design, an exclusive design studio supplying only the very best names in the kitchen, bathroom and bedroom industry. One of those names is Burg.
Bathroom makeover
It is a well-known fact that updating the bathroom is a great way of adding value to your property. Potential purchasers will pay close attention to the condition of your bathroom before deciding whether to put in those all important offers. Here, a B&Q adviser gives you a few handy hints and tips on how to give your bathroom that all important pre-sale touch-up – it could make all the difference.
Water butts running out
As freak rainfall continues across the country, with many counties releasing flood alerts, the UK’s leading home improvement retailer has seen stocks of water butts fly off the shelves as customers look to capitalise on the extreme wet weather.
Smart but affordable
The term Smart Home can conjure up the image of a top premiership footballer and his current WAG blasting music and movies throughout their country pile, whilst operating their lighting, heating and even their curtains at the push of a button. That’s just one end of Smart Home technology spectrum, however visitors to the T3 Smart Home Show at the NEC from March 22 – 25 can see an array of products to suit every pocket. Here are some of the products which can be snapped up at the show which wont break the bank.
Alcove sofa for Vitra Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
The Bouroullec brothers’ latest design for Vitra is a capacious sofa which embraces the needs of both home and work.
Polder XS Sofa from Hella Jongerius
With typical quiet irony Hella Jongerius named her new sofa for Vitra ‘Polder’, in reference to the tracts of land reclaimed from the sea in Holland by creating dikes and drainage ditches. With an emphasis on the horizontal, the elongated form of this asymmetrically arranged sofa is similarly low and flat, consisting of a wooden frame cushioned with upholstered polyurethane foam. This ‘platform’ holds four voluminous, elongated cushions which are securely positioned in a depression in the frame to form the seat.