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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Create A Custom Kitchen With La Cornue
Luxury range cooker experts La Cornue have not only mastered the creation of exceptional cookers, but also truly understand the architecture of kitchen design.
Custom made furniture is available for any kitchen shape or size and encapsulates every possible requirement needed to make your kitchen the heart of your home.
With kitchen furniture design proving a huge success, La Cornue has even created their very own architecture office, Cuisines de Château:
Read more about : Bespoke Kitchens, Fitted Kitchens, Kitchen Furniture
Dress Your Windows With Style From Digetex
The new bespoke printed roller blinds from Digetex, offer the perfect solution for a quick and affordable mini make-over, with a new collection of images to their already extensive library of dazzling prints, featuring city skylines, graffiti murals, Vintage florals, Fine art prints and pictorial landscapes, any of which will add a touch of gallery style to your home and turn your windows into works of art.
However, rather than just using blinds to cover up a bare window, or keep out the light, Digetex has turned their blinds into stylish window art.
No matter how small the room there is always a window where you can create a relaxing ambience or add drama.
Choose from the new designs titled Spectrum, Ash, Henna, Tokyo and Wham, or pick from Digetex’s extensive collection of 7000 images to date and transform your home with a gorgeous view.
Read more about : Vertical Blinds, Window Blinds
What Does Your Rug Say About You?
For many people, their home is a reflection of their personality; whether it’s in their choice of wallpaper or their style of window dressing – everyone likes to put their own stamp on their home and that’s particularly true when it comes to choosing a rug.
So what design should you choose to match your personality?
Choose animal prints if you consider yourself a world traveller. Tiger or zebra prints are particularly bold and eye-catching, suiting home-makers who are keen to make a statement.
Read more about : Home Interiors, Rugs
Fashion Conscious Wine Cooler From Menu
Menu has turned things upside down; now wine needs a coat to stay cool! Cool Coat, Menu’s creative wine cooler, lives up to its name.
It’s really cool! A fully innovative, ingenious alternative, to the traditional wine cooler with ice that leaves melted water on the table, every time you take the bottle out of the bucket.
Cool Coat is the invention of designer Jakob Wagner, who is also the man behind many of the items in Menu’s Vignon series, which consists of an array of accessories for handling, storing and serving wine.
Read more about : Tableware
Frustrated Homeowners Become Homebuilders
Britain’s housing market is one of the biggest casualties of the economic turmoil, plagued with falling house prices, repossessions, a collapsed house-building industry, mass redundancies and restricted mortgage lending.
In the face of such problems, self-build and renovation specialist BuildStore is reporting a huge rise in demand for its services, as the nation’s frustrated homeowners take matters into their own hands.
BuildStore has noted a significant increase in demand for self-build land and renovation properties through its land database, PlotSearch; current subscription levels to the online service are up over 140% on levels six months ago; in the last three months, since January 2009, subscription levels are up almost 50%.
Read more about : Building Services, DIY Advice, UK Wide Property
White Rabbit Company’s Bunny Rabbit Night Light
Take a nostalgic trip down memory lane with the gorgeous white rabbit night light, from children’s company, White Rabbit England.
The White Rabbit England was started by two sisters, who as children had loved their hand painted earthenware nightlights, yet were unable to find anything similar, when they tried to look for their own children.
So the White Rabbit England was born and they have now launched their White Rabbit Night Light modelled on their adorable rabbit logo:
Read more about : Home Lighting
Comet Predicts: Goodbye Celebrity Chefs, Hello Virtual Chefs
A new report by electrical specialist Comet, predicts that our kitchens will take a dramatic turn for the better by 2014.
In five years we will be experiencing new technology developments in our home kitchens with the addition of “virtual chefs†and “intelligent fridges†that can suggest bespoke recipes based on its contents.
Soon the celebrity chef will be phased out in favour of personal virtual culinary assistants, who will be a permanent fixture in each of our homes.
Read more about : Fridge Freezers, Home Automation
ASPACE Unveil A Gorgeous New Spring Collection
Whilst we all wish we could fast-forward through this uncertain economic period, leading children’s furniture company Aspace recognise that some things are worth savouring, especially the precious hours of childhood spent learning, playing and dreaming.
The new Aspace spring brochure is crammed full of brand new products with vibrant colours, luxurious textiles and exclusive furniture designs.
Of particular note is the sleek new Camden; an excellent value range constructed from solid beech and veneers. In addition to their signature beds and coordinating bedroom furniture, the spring collection is chock-full of fabulous accessories and bedding, such as striking Pirate and Dinosaur appliquéd quilts and cushions with rugs and curtains to match.
Read more about : Childs Furniture
Haddonstone’s Cost Effective Improvement To Any Home
Current economic conditions in the housing market have meant that many people are looking at simple and cost effective ways to improve their homes, to give it that something extra – either to create the perfect home or make it stand out to house buyers.
An entrance is arguably the most important feature, as this is the first impression a potential buyer will have.
One of the simplest but most effective ways in which to improve an entranceway is to build a portico on the front of the house; whilst obviously providing shelter from the elements, porticos can also be used to embellish an otherwise dull and uninspiring entrance.
Read more about : Building Services, Garden Ornaments, Planters
The DotcomGiftShop’s Summer Garden
Spring seems to be with us at last, and it won’t be long before we’ll be spending long summer afternoons in the back garden or chic urban balcony.
After a morning spent planting, using the Flowerpower gardening tools, festoon your oasis with Dotcomgiftshop bunting and decorations in preparation for the afternoon feast – cooked slowly over one of their colourful BBQ buckets.
Then sit back and savour the summer sun on one of the bargain metal chair and table sets – all at really affordable prices:
Read more about : Garden Furniture, Garden Lights, Garden Ornaments, Ornaments, Planters, Tableware, Web Sites