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The Kitchen & Bathroom Show at Harrogate & Top Tips

 The Kitchen & Bathroom Show at Harrogate & Top Tips

Upgrading the kitchen is currently the most popular home improvement and the organisers of The Kitchen & Bathroom Show, at the Harrogate International Centre from 5th to 7th November, have come up with some great top tips to help you create that dream kitchen.

Also if you’re looking to extend, improve, enhance or even build your own home, then pay a visit to the co-located Homebuilding & Renovating Show with over 200 exhibitors.
Tickets to The Kitchen and Bathroom Show give entry to both Shows.

Create a Personal Storyboard
Start by imagining yourself in the kitchen and think about the way you like to cook, entertain or spend time with friends and family. Cut out pictures of kitchens that inspire you, collect samples and build up a storyboard of styles, appliances, colours and materials. Add an outline plan of your kitchen with dimensions and positions of windows and doors. Now you’re ready to speak to the experts.

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Wonderful Wood From Aston Matthews

 Wonderful Wood From Aston Matthews

Aston Matthews is bringing the beauty of real wood to the bathroom.

The new Artline is a comprehensive collection of solid teak furniture, including consoles for both single or twin basins, mirrors and shelf units.

There are both floor standing and wall-mounted options with a choice of door style, wood or stone countertop.

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Roca’s Most Luxurious Bathing Experiences

 Roca’s Most Luxurious Bathing Experiences

Taking a bath goes back as far as ancient Rome and has always been regarded as something of a luxury.

Soaking in the tub lowers your stress levels and gives you a chance to take a deep breath and put things into perspective.

Roca is presenting four of its most luxurious bathing experiences, to fit every home and bathing style, from the latest in technology to the most classic centre-piece.

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Introducing… The Alternative Bathroom Company

 Introducing... The Alternative Bathroom Company

The Alternative Bathroom Company is a new business – with an impeccable heritage.

For over 30 years, the people behind it have headed up leading bathroom companies and developed reputations for sourcing and designing great products.
 
Now they have formed The Alternative Bathroom Company, bringing together all their matchless expertise and design credentials.

Initially, the company is launching with two showrooms; one in North London and one in West London.
 
With everything from simple, no-frills ranges to high-end architectural products, which would do justice to a Schrager hotel, both shops offer an exceptional choice of quality bathroom ware and accessories.

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Drummonds’ Spey Cast Iron Bath Is The Classic Roll Top Bath

 Drummonds’ Spey Cast Iron Bath Is The Classic Roll Top Bath

With inspiration drawn from period pieces and traditional manufacturing techniques, Drummonds’ classic bathroom collections are perfect for today’s eclectic interiors – where old and new sit happily together.

Drummonds’ Spey cast iron bath is the classic of all classic roll top baths: The largest and most elegant of its type, it makes a magnificent center-piece to the bathroom – and with Drummonds’ floor mounted Skye bath mixer, there is plenty of room for a truly luxurious bathing experience. The outside is finished to individual requirements – raw, primed, painted or polished and lacquered to a mirror-like finish.

It is shown in our picture, painted in Little Greene Company’s colours from the ‘Rolling Fog’ range:

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Now On! The Fired Earth Summer Sale

 Now On! The Fired Earth Summer Sale

The Fired Earth summer sale runs from June 19 to July 17 and they are offering up to 25% off selected wall and floor tiles, kitchens and bathroom and even 50% off special purchase and discontinued tiles.

Kitchens Fired Earth’s kitchens are handcrafted from the highest quality, responsibly sourced materials and work well in contemporary and traditional spaces. Now is a great time to think about updating yours, as there’s 15% off all freestanding and fitted kitchens – including the new fitted Bastide (in our picture) and Moderne collections by Charles Smallbone – and rising to 25% off if you spend more than £10,000. (Offer excludes worktops and appliances for fitted kitchens.)

Tiles

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Lose The Cloakroom Clutter With Dolphin Bathrooms

 Lose The Cloakroom Clutter With Dolphin Bathrooms

As the space most often used to store all the unnecessary household clutter, the cloakroom is usually one of the most neglected areas of the house, despite the fact it offers great potential.

For those looking to upgrade their downstairs space to a fully fitted, downstairs washroom to be proud of, Dolphin has a number of stylish options to choose from:
Under stairs cloakroom (In our picture.) Stunning in its simplicity, the understairs cloakroom makes the most of a limited space. It features the gorgeous Esta wash station, complete with an integrated basin, which offers fantastic storage to hide away those everyday essentials. With its stylish solar mirror, this cleverly designed room manages to look classic yet contemporary; the mirror has a high-tech infra-red switch fitted, as well as a demister pad to prevent the mirror from steaming up. This understairs solution is also fitted with an attractive 300×800 heated towel rail, which adds a practical yet stylish touch. Combined with the gorgeous Dados blanco tiles to give the illusion of space, this design will give neglected cloakrooms an instant wow factor.

Cloakroom

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A Shower To Wake Up For

 A Shower To Wake Up For.

Fed up of the rushed morning shower ritual to help wake you up for the day?
Now, you can shower in style with the new Atreo wet room concept from Jacuzzi UK, designed to be both beautiful and adaptable.

With fluid shapes that embrace the body and stimulate the mind, the Jacuzzi® Atreo, featured here is something to wake up for rather than pass through.

There are two sub categories within the Atreo luxury shower range:

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Bring Colour Back To Bathrooms With Golden Black

 Bring Colour Back To Bathrooms With Golden Black

A growing trend towards dramatic and decorative stonework has opened a new colour palette for traditionally pale bathrooms.

Embrace the look with Limestone Gallery’s Golden Black marble, part of a wide portfolio of exotic stones offered by this luxury stonework supplier: The vanity top in Golden Black marble (in our picture) is part of a complete refurbishment of a former Ambassadors residence in South West London, where Limestone Gallery supplied and installed 5 luxury bathrooms in a range of stones. This stone is available in tiles, slabs and blocks for all types of stonework. Applications: Interior and exterior. Exterior use is assessed on a project by project basis. Golden Black marble is priced from £450.00 per sq metre plus VAT cut to size.

Colourful and exotic stones such as onyx and marble are very much in vogue.
There is plenty of scope with these exciting materials to either create a focus, such as a vanity top, or a major feature such as book matched walls or even a solid carved bathtub.

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Villeroy & Boch Launch Arpeggio and Modern Grace Cutlery

 Villeroy & Boch Launch Arpeggio and Modern Grace Cutlery

Villeroy & Boch have launched two new cutlery collections for 2010. Arpeggio and Modern Grace, both feature clean lines that look at home in any stylish environment.

Villeroy & Boch’s cutlery designs range from the classic through to the contemporary and have been designed to work in unison with the wide selection of table and glassware on offer from the company.

Modern Grace cutlery is a minimalist collection that has taken inspiration from urban architecture:

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