Home & Garden

Show your home some love this Valentines Day
With Valentines Day approaching, it’s easy to turn your home into a romantic retreat by making a few small changes in the way you decorate, furnish or light your rooms. Here, a B&Q advisor shows you how to turn your home into a love nest and to create the perfect setting for a romantic evening.

Bedroom furniture range appeals to lovers of darker woods
Hammonds – the fitted bedroom, closet and home office people – has continued to lead the way with the new trend for darker, warmer tones for 2007, with the launch of a new bedroom finish in Walnut.

Kitchen style from Kludi
Leading German brassware manufacturer Kludi, renowned for its bathroom collections, also offers a range of kitchen brassware solutions designed for the busy modern kitchen to offer the perfect blend of versatility, design and function.

Alberca at C.P. Hart
Renowned for bringing the most exclusive and interesting products in the bathroom industry into the UK, leading bathroom retailer C.P. Hart has just launched the Alberca basin for sale.

Mini bathrooms from Ambiance Bain
The Mini range of bathroom furniture from Ambiance Bain is a stylish addition to any small bathroom or cloakroom.

Don’t forget spring cleaning includes the outside of your homes
Gardens are fast becoming an extension of the home with more and more people eating, relaxing and entertaining outside. But when it comes to DIY projects and sprucing up your abode during spring, why is it that the exterior of the house often gets neglected? It does need a bit of TLC too!

Aestus sets the benchmark for radiator design
Designer radiator and heated towel rail manufacturer Aestus has extended its offering of bench style radiators with the Oslo. Way ahead of its time in chrome and Wenge wood, the Oslo coordinates perfectly with other bathroom fixtures and furniture in the same popular materials.

The Piano Integrato Basin from NIC Design
Bathroom distributor Aquaplus Solutions offers a beautiful selection of contemporary, design led products for the bathroom from Italian manufacturer NIC Design, and the Piano Integrato basin is the latest addition to the range.

Chromotherapy in the bathroom from Puro Design
Puro Design, London’s newest kitchen, bedroom and bathroom showroom, announces the addition of Verdi Lighting to its stunning array of luxury brands.

Kährs introduces new Linnea Ten Collection
Kährs has introduced a new, thicker version of its popular Linnea floor to its wood flooring range. Featuring a multi-layered construction, glueless Woodloc joint and UV prefinish, Kährs Linnea TEN is a durable, stylish real wood floor that can be laid quickly and relocated if necessary. It is available in a variety of different finishes and is offered with a 20-year guarantee.

Smeg complements ‘Classic’ oven range with CT21X Warming Drawer
Italian kitchen appliance manufacturer Smeg has developed a stylish built in warming drawer designed to complement the ovens in its popular ‘Classic’ range.

Light up your home
Leading lighting supplier Fritz Fryer has built their reputation on providing beautiful antique and period lighting to grace and enhance any home. A vast array of shapes and styles in both contemporary, reproduction and antique lighting is offered, from chandeliers to table lamps, exterior lanterns to standard lamps, wall scones to rise and fall dining lights, the choice is endless and quality unquestionable.

Store in style!
Stylish storage solutions needn’t cost the earth and can make a real difference to your lifestyle. Interior Designers Porous Designs know exactly how to ensure every metre counts in your bedroom and offer these tips to help make the most of your clothes storage.
Fashion forward: What will the well-dressed window be wearing in 2007
Following her visit to the Heimtex exhibition in Frankfurt, the world’s largest international trade fair for textiles, Sarah Quilliam, head of product design at Hillarys, gives us her predictions for major trends in window dressing in 2007.

All hands on deck with MHS
It’s hip to be square with the Deck, the latest cutting-edge design from MHS Radiators. Newly launched, the Deck comprises four brushed stainless steel panels, arranged into a pattern reminiscent of a classic Greek design or the ancient Soloman’s Knot. A small polished square makes up the centrepiece of the frame.