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Monthly Archives: June 2007
Gooseberries & Gondolas Will Inspire You At Tatton
If fun, friendly and relaxed is how you like it, then visit the RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park (18th – 22nd July), which has plenty of treats in store for garden lovers.
The Show gardens will endeavour to inspire you with a plethora of creative and fantastical designs:
Tatton Park’s own flowerbed in conjunction with Cheshire County Council, will be using a gondola as its centrepiece to pay homage to Venice and the estate’s Italian gardens.
Read more about : Garden Plants, Gardening Advice, Leisure, Shows and Events
Style In Living Spaces With bulthaup b3 Monoblock
bulthaup, renowned for its innovative leadership in modern kitchen design, has become a pioneer in the industry for minimalist kitchens.
With the development of the bulthaup b3 monoblock, the company has laid a further milestone in the evolution of sculptural kitchen architecture.
The seamless stainless steel body represents the logical continuation of bulthaup b3’s minimalist design; the precise, high-quality finish and the lack of joints between the rear panel, side panels and worktop give the design a particularly purist appearance.
Read more about : Bespoke Kitchens, Fitted Kitchens
The New Pernille Vea ‘Time for Tea’ Set From Menu
A nice cuppa is welcome anytime of day and night and it is extra pleasurable to serve it in a beautiful, unusual teapot, which prepares it just right.
Menu the design company, has introduced Pernille Vea, a novel new tea set that forms part of a new generation of their popular Black Contour tableware series.
Tea connoisseurs know that the best taste and aroma is achieved if the tea floats freely in boiling hot water; therefore, the tea is placed in the supplied large tea-egg, which lifts up into the lid when the tea is ready, stopping the infusion from getting too strong and bitter.
Read more about : Tableware
Villeroy & Boch Introduce NewWave Ethno Tableware
Following the ongoing success of NewWave tableware, Villeroy & Boch has launched NewWave Ethno, a fun collection decorated with a contemporary pattern of freestyle circles and loops.
NewWave Ethno follows the trend for graphic prints, using colours in varying shades of fashionable basic colours and neutral browns; the asymmetrical style of Ethno tableware makes it ideally suited for modern interiors.
 NewWave Ethno includes a variety of dinner plates such as the gourmet plate for presenting platters of food to share and deep plates perfect for pasta dishes.
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The collection also introduces a new cup and saucer design, featuring a circular saucer, available with NewWave cups for the first time.
Read more about : Tableware, Villeroy & Boch
PC World Announces The Digital Wedding Of The Year
It is the season for marriages and this month sees a long-awaited wedding in the technology world; after years of courtship, the first Mass-Market marriage between a PC and a television has taken place.
The Philips Easylife LX2000 living room PC & HDTV package is exclusively available at PC World, the leading UK computing superstore, priced at less than £850!
This complete home entertainment package includes a 26†Philips HD-ready LCD TV plus a compact glossy black and silver Philips PC.
Read more about : Home Automation, LCD TVs
The Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2007
Family, food and the environment take centre stage at Hampton Court Flower Show this year from 3rd to 8th July.
Key themes include inspiring children about all things horticultural, growing your own fruit and vegetables and sustainable gardening for today’s world.
The show champions the RHS campaign to ‘Grow Your Own and many of the show gardens reflect this:
Read more about : Leisure, Shows and Events
Add Sparkle To Your Life With Luna Lighting
Luna Lights have evolved out of a personal search to fuse the cool clean lines of modern design with a need for warmth and sparkle.
Designer maker Anna Perring has created a unique range of evocative and sparkling lights that are highly desirable and make wonderful gifts.
Anna explains her inspiration as a balancing act between the head and the heart: ‘My head wants a clutter free clear space to think in, my heart wants something softer and more fanciful and my aim was to craft unique ceramic lights for creative individuals.
Read more about : Home Lighting, Table Lamps
Habitat’s Spring/Summer VIP Range For Kids
The Habitat Spring/Summer catalogue highlights their new VIP For Kids range, with contributions from leading fashion designers such as Paco Rabanne and Christian Lacroix to model cum actress Sophie Dahl and Muppet legend Miss Piggy, who were asked to start thinking like kids!
You can click on each celebrity’s name on the Habitat website to view their exclusive input.
Pictured here is Fort Fantastic – The enchanted shed, which features some of the extensive and lively kid’s collection including:
Read more about : Bedlinen, Beds, Childs Furniture
Marks & Spencer’s Exclusive Pure One Digital Radio
Marks & Spencer has launched an exclusive edition of Pure One DAB radio, so that Jazz fans can lounge in style this summer and listen to all their favourite tunes at the touch of a button.
Exclusive to M&S, the radio is priced at £49.50 and has a special button, which connects listeners direct to ‘theJazz’ – a new sister station of the enormously popular Classic FM.
The sleek white radio with chrome controls, is both mains and battery powered and also offers a rechargeable battery pack (optional at £29.50), to enable listeners to enjoy around 20 hours of portable DAB listening.
Read more about : Leisure, Marks and Spencer
Self Build With Potton For A Better Environment
Climate change, CO2 emissions, thermal efficiency, carbon footprints and recycling are all hot topics on today’s environmental agenda.
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Following the recent Kingspan Group acquisition of Potton Homes, the company will now offer a range of contemporary house designs, featuring smart eco-options, to provide first class environmental efficiencies for both self builders and developers alike.
Potton the leading UK self build company, is best known in that market for it’s award winning range of Tudor style Heritage house designs.
Potton’s timber frame packages already comply with the Government’s building regulations for thermally efficient homes, however, this year Potton will be increasing it’s eco-offering with products from the Kingspan Group.
Read more about : Building Services, DIY Advice