Interiors & Furniture
Chinese lanterns to celebrate Olympic flame
With the Chinese Olympics only weeks away, it’s time to think ‘Chinoiserie’ when it comes to decorating your home for summer parties. Step in Nouvelles Images whose fantastic Home Stickers range includes a design called Lanterns. The design is colourful, stylish and versatile so you can string your Chinese lanterns any way you want. Along with the rest of the range, these are brilliantly bold ‘decoupage’ stickers that glide on with ease and remove with no damage to your existing walls.
Home is - Bold colours and feature walls
The longer days of early summer bring with them fresh energy for revitalising our homes. However, if the current climate is making you hold back on big decorating jobs then why not take a leaf out of Delia’s book and cheat? A current trend is to highlight just one wall in the room. Using wallpaper on just one wall can be highly effective, and to make the job easier, Nouvelles Images is leading this fashion for interior wall decoration with its new Home Stickers range.
Mortgage misery means it's makeover time
Falling house prices, plummeting home loans and a stagnant housing market can only mean one thing - most of us either can't or won't be moving in the near future. So staying put and doing up where we currently live is now top of most the agenda for most people.
Interior accessories with a twist
Polly & Prince launched just this month and present a beautiful collection of hand picked accessories for both you and the interior of your home. Whether your home is traditional or ultra modern you will find something special to give your favourite room an instant facelift. Try the Plain Jane bedlinen with contrasting piping to create an impact, or be bold and experiment with hand illustrated design and ensure you are never boring in bed!
New homes harvest latest technology
Harvest Country Homes’ latest development of 35 showpiece houses in rural Monikie, near Dundee, ooze quality and craftsmanship, but while the exteriors boast solid traditional quality materials and the interiors display carpentry and design at their peak, these homes also have high technology coursing through their walls. The houses are equipped with the latest smart home technology from Square D, a brand of Schneider Electric.
Complement your stove with a stylish floor plinth
After taking the time to choose the perfect wood-burning stove for your home, stylish accessories are key to completing the look. Leading heating stove distributor Euroheat recommends its range of floor plinths to complement stoves and protect the surrounding flooring.
A bathroom with a view
We all love lazing by a pool, sunning ourselves on a beach watching the world pass us by. Why not recreate this tranquillity at home with Allposters.co.uk the world’s largest online art and poster store.
Back home with the 70’s
2008 has seen a revival of 70’s style across the board. High-waisted, wide leg trousers and floaty, floral maxi dresses litter the fashion magazines, while Eagles and Led Zeppelin concerts are selling out nationwide.
An end to broken wall tiles
Arctic Products is promoting an innovation in affordable diamond drills, specially designed to enable every plumber, tile fixer, bathroom and kitchen installer to quickly and safely cut holes through expensive porcelain tiles and mosaics without the need for drilling rigs or cooling water and with no risk of damage to the tile.
10 tips to renovate your home
The outlook for the housing market may be getting gloomier by the day but homeowners need to stay positive. Whilst recent research suggests that, this year, improving rather than moving is the focus, clever homeowners know that the right home improvements can add real value to a property - and often don't require a big financial outlay or months to complete. The organisers of The Scottish Homebuilding & Renovating Show, which is at the SECC, Glasgow on 17 & 18 May, have got some great tips for anyone who is looking to improve their home with a view to selling in the near future.
Inspired living at Grand Designs Live
Visitors to this year’s Grand Designs Live will step inside a world of opulent indulgence as premium flooring designers, Amtico International, return to showcase their most inspirational collections to date. The stand has been designed in zones to demonstrate the different facets of the world-renowned firm.
Therapy for the shoe fetish
Keira Knightly, a self confessed footwear addict, admits to owning shoes that don’t even fit her. The “Carrie Bradshaw” effect has seen women fill up their wardrobes with fabulous footwear. Two and a half million British women claim to own at least 30 pairs. And if you’re going to indulge in something as beautiful and extravagant as sequin-covered ballet pumps, they should be treated with due respect!
Eco luxury launches at Surface Design Show
Texture, warmth, originality, beauty and nature: Omarno’s 2008 Palm Panel Collection embodies all of these qualities in this Eco-friendly material. Originating from the coconut shell, these handmade palm panels are produced from a completely biodegradable and renewable resource.
Icon of British style turns her hand to Italian furnishings
From the 16th to the 21st of April, Vivienne Westwood will open the doors of her boutique in 25 Corso Venezia on the occasion of the International Furniture Exhibition 2008 to present the new collection of chairs with limited-edition fabrics developed in collaboration with Molteni&C. The collection promises to be an interpretation of classic with a typically British irony, exclusive, but not elitist, cosmopolitan and on the cutting edge.
Inspirational living
True to their philosophy of creating complete lifestyle solutions of great design pedigree, French specialist Hardy Inside offer their Tivoli concept as a holistic and seamless blend of living space between the kitchen and dining room so that the homeowners can spend as much quality time with guests.