Home & Garden
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.
Grilltech – The designers’ choice for alfresco entertaining
Don’t let your garden down this summer! Created by award winning designers, Grilltech is an exclusive range of ingenious luxury outdoor cooking and entertaining equipment that guarantees both style and quality.
Hot on being green
Introducing the ultimate combination: cast-iron range cooking with an A-rated central heating boiler.
The pull-out spray tap comes of age
The benefits of the pull out spray kitchen tap are well documented, and latest range from Blanco clearly demonstrates the progress which has been made over recent years in terms of design, functionality and performance.
Introducing the new Rayburn 800 Series
The new Rayburn 800 Series from Aga is causing quite a stir. With six attractive colours and the solid reliability that sets Rayburn apart as a kitchen icon, the 800 Series cookers offer everything one would expect from a Rayburn, only on a larger scale.
A unique finishing touch for your home
If you are fed up with mass-produced furniture and artefacts for the home, and are seeking something truly individual to provide that ‘just so’ finishing touch, choose from literally hundreds of handcrafted treasures at this year’s Living Crafts at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire.
Creating new possibilities for open plan living
The trend for more open plan living spaces in our homes shows no sign of abating and, increasingly, the definition between our living, cooking and eating areas is deliberately blurred. Key to ensuring that these flexible spaces really work is an efficient extraction system to remove unwanted cooking smells and moisture from the air.
Spot the difference! The Eurus from MHS radiators
The Eurus, the latest addition to the MHS portfolio of designer radiators, is set to knock spots off the competition.
No two alike: Self-adjusting shelving system
Make/Shift – a self-adjusting shelving system - is the latest piece of contemporary design-led furniture to be launched by the cutting-edge online retailer movisi. Designed by RCA graduate, Peter Marigold, Make/Shift is a brand new shelving unit that makes a stylish and functional addition to the home or office.
Carbon footprints in the snow
Whilst snow is creating havoc across the country, the extreme weather can be a useful tool to establish how energy efficient your home is.
Pillow talk with a difference for Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise
Aside from a $20m aeroplane and a Vacheron Constantin watch reputed to have been the wedding gifts bestowed on one another by Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, among the more unusual presents was a beautifully crafted handmade wedding pillow.