Children love to play and have fun, but all too often it causes chaos around the home.

To make it easier for children to accumulate and play with their toys, IKEA’s clever designers have created the ultimate range of bedroom storage – STUVA, to help create a happier home for all the family.

Launching across all stores this August, STUVA is a unique clever storage system with endless possibilities to suit every child’s needs:

• Designed with rounded corners and edges for increased safety and available in a range of sizes and colours, you can create different storage formations to suit every need, style and personality.
• Easily assembled, the storage can be used for clothes or toys and with the included wall anchors it will be safely secured for any type of play.
• Coming in a range of large and small draws, cupboards, a toybox, shelves and a pull out bench, all sold as separates, you can really create the perfect play area for any child and adapt it as they grow and develop.
• STUVA children’s storage furniture is priced from £85 for a 50×50, H90cm storage bench in white.

Take a look at the full range of STUVA storage products by visiting the IKEA website.

IKEA has conducted a Playreport to continue to listen and learn from their customers:

They were so curious about play that they conducted the largest ever study on child development and the state of play in the world.

With the Playreport, IKEA engaged 10,000 parents and children from around the world, to participate in a conversation about child development and play.

The aim was to increase awareness, start meaningful discussions and hopefully, get parents and children to play more together in the process.
What they discovered might surprise you…!

While it’s great if people simply want to read the survey results from the Playreport, more than anything, IKEA wish to start an open dialogue about play.

Hosted on both Facebook and YouTube, you can now view and discuss the results through these great social media channels.

Playreport
Interact with the Playreport on Facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/playreport

View the video on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyBfWRW72VA

Savvy space saving shoppers will be hopping to Bensons for Beds this season, for the best selling Hip Hop bed with an all-new storage system.

A contemporary wooden bed frame, Hip Hop’s crisp clean lines have continually made it a hot favourite, but the availability of an ottoman lift up bed option, is set to further its appeal amongst hoard-aholics and neat freaks.

The bed works by raising the entire slatted base through a hydraulic system, to reveal a massive storage area - ideal to stow bulky items such as out-of-season bedding, suitcases or even the once-a-year Christmas decorations.

“Storage is an ongoing issue for many of our customers,” says Simon Williams, marketing manager of Bensons. “Smaller bedrooms and less built in cupboards, results in more bedroom clutter but you should never underestimate the potential storage space beneath your bed.

“At Bensons we aim to offer creative solutions, which is why we’ve taken one of our most popular bed frames and engineered it to incorporate maximum storage space.”

Made from a combination of solid ash and ash veneer, the Hip Hop is available in double and king sizes and retails around £399.99 for the double (excluding mattress).

Customers can now order over the phone using Bensons’ new Order Line Service on (0808) 144 6160 (Mon-Fri 9am-10pm, weekend 10am-8pm).

For further information about Bensons beds or for a store locator, please visit the website.

The Children’s Furniture Company, run by husband and wife team, Charles & Sarah Codrington, has been designing and making ‘only’ children’s furniture for over nine years, and now has the most fabulous collection of seven exclusive ranges.

Their tag line ‘Better Children’s Furniture’ comes to life in unique, sturdy pieces made from oak, ash and beech, or finished in your choice of up to 12 different colours or in soft white.

Each range has at least eight or nine matching items, including bunks, high beds, cabin beds, desks, bookcases and much more.

Their furniture graces the bedrooms of children all around the country and many come back to add a desk or a bookcase, as they grow.

Featured here is the gorgeous Victoria 4-poster Bed:

• What little girl wouldn’t adore this magnificent Victoria 4-Poster - a magical place to play and chat with your friends?
• With elegantly sculpted legs and posts, plus delicate pink chamfered detailing, this bed comes in a 3ft. width to fit in any bedroom.
• Available in soft white, the posts can be removed if ever necessary.
  (Curtains not included). Size: L 204cm x H 210cm x W 102cm. Priced at £495.(Sale price £450.)
  The Summer sale runs until the end of July.

This Autumn the company will be introducing even more new pieces to their collections.

To view the fabulous children’s furniture collections, visit the Children’s Furniture Company website.
Tel:   (020) 737 7303.

Is your new Westwood gown bigger than you bargained, or the vintage pom-pom skirt flattened at the back of your wardrobe? Maybe you don’t even have space to hang a full-length dress?

A touch of wardrobe bespoke is just what the fashion doctor would prescribe, and it needn’t cost as much as your Jimmy Choos with Furniture Village’s new wardrobe configurator:

The configurator tool gives customers a World of Choice when it comes to designing and creating bespoke bedroom furniture, with a choice of size, interior and exterior finishes.

With seven sleek finishes available in Matt White, Birch, Walnut, Cherry, Cream Gloss, Black Gloss and Mirror, it’s easy to coordinate with beds and other furniture.

For the ultimate organized wardrobe experience, choose from 50 pre-designed arrangements and interior additions such as tie and belt racks, drawers, hanging rails, shelves, shirt racks and lights.

System 300 is a stylish and practical solution for an affordable bespoke bedroom.

Top tips for a tidier wardrobe:

• Clear out clothes you haven’t worn for more than two years.
  Roll jumpers to avoid creases and save hanging space.
  Sort clothes into order of length – long dresses at one end short skirts at the other.
  Clear space at the bottom of your wardrobe for shoe storage.
  Sort clothes into seasonal wear.
  Zip that expensive designer dress into a protective dust-bag.
  Utilise a tie rack to hang scarves.
  Clip strappy tops to trouser hangers to stop them slipping off.

Prices of the System 300 bedroom wardrobe range currently from: £279.

More details on the choice of colours and sizes can be found at any of the 38 Furniture Village stores nationwide, or online at System 300 wardrobe.

Raines & Willow has introduced its White Glass furniture collection.

Specialist new bedroom furniture company, Raines & Willow, has sourced a gorgeous new range, designed and handmade exclusively in England.

With Wimbledon upon us the whites are out! Therefore, supporting our great British tradition at the oldest tennis championship, Raines & Willow proudly presents its dazzling Oxford White Glass range; a clean, fresh style, guaranteed to be a winner in the bedroom.

Exclusively designed and manufactured in England, the remarkable Oxford White Glass collection is a truly modern design, with solid frames surrounded by heat proof and stain resistant white glass.

The dramatic sheen of this contemporary and elegant range reflects light from the high-gloss glass, filling the room with sunshine – even when the roof is drawn over Centre Court!

The Oxford White Glass range from Raines & Willow includes; chest of drawers, bedside table, dressing table, and Tallboy – all with practical deep drawers, subtle bevel detailing and soft closing runners.

This brilliant white range is perfect for avid tennis fans…or for simply bringing a sense of tradition to the home. The stunning range also includes the Cheval mirror; solid white glass surround with bevelling detail; this flattering full length mirror is a real must-have.

Raines & Willow’s winning collection also includes elegant beds and mattresses, plus coordinating dressing tables, bedside cabinets, chests of drawers and mirrors.

Featuring stunning and unusual materials, such as the alluring smoked glass panels of the Camille Silver Leaf, luxuriously upholstered armchairs and the sumptuous Ella Silk; the collection boasts “game, set and match”!

To view this striking new range, visit the Raines & Willow website.

Tel: 01628 476291

Luxury bedroom specialists And So To Bed have launched their new website.

Bright, easy to navigate and packed with essential information, it’s the ultimate user-friendly guide to their exclusive collections of beds, furniture, mattresses, linens and accessories.

Designed as a complete online showroom experience, each product can now be viewed in perfect detail.

The site features dimensions, prices, helpful links and a unique video of inspiring lifestyle images.

This range of products and special features makes And So To Bed’s website, a brilliant way to put together a total bedroom look including;

• Bedlinen.
• Accessories
• Bedroom furniture.
• Beds.
• Mattresses and Divans.
• Duvets and Pillows.

Featured here is the Juliet Bedsead:

• And So To Bed’s beautiful Juliet bedstead, inspired by the elegant rococo styles of 18th Century France, has been given a romantic look in a gilded finish.
• The period detailing and intricate carving of the caned head and footboards, is hand gilded for a bed so splendid, it is guaranteed to be the centre of attention in any bedroom.
• The Juliet is also available in other finishes, including hand painted and upholstered in gold finish.

And So To Bed has twenty-four showrooms across England, Scotland and N Ireland.

To view the inspirational ranges please visit And So To Bed’s website.

Tel: (0808) 144 4343 for brochure and branch details.

Breaking the mould of the mainstay quality furniture websites, a new interactive online showroom has been launched by Areaz, providing a great choice of high quality contemporary furniture from some of the world’s most respected manufacturers and designers.

The website has been designed to offer users a fully interactive experience and boasts a multitude of features that enhance the search and buy process.

“From the outset we decided to be stylishly different from the rest,” said Philip Wilding, Director at Areaz. “We took a considerable amount of time working on the many different aspects of the site, to ensure it provides the best online experience possible.”

The site has more than 30 brands and 100’s of designers from countries such as Italy, Germany and Denmark to name but a few.

The interactive portal is intuitive and allows users to select the furniture, see detail with the powerful zoom, view swatches of the available materials and colours and, for the space conscious, view a 3D schematic of the furniture with all measurements.

Featured here is the Bontempi Casa Barone Round Dining Table:

• The round-shaped Barone Dining Table is sleek, stylish and completely practical.

• With three top diameters: 120cm, 130cm, and 150cm. Height: 75cm. Retails from £1149.

Areaz is also encouraging interior designers to look at the site, which offers fantastic combined deals through a unique trade portal, where the site automatically adjusts pricing to reflect discounted prices easily ‘on the fly’.

“However, our service doesn’t end online. Our price match, free delivery, installation and removal of packaging service, means that the customer need do virtually nothing at all.” “Our website truly is a step change in the way modern furniture is presented and sold online,” concluded Philip Wilding.

Visit the Areaz website to view the exciting ranges.

Tel: (0113) 2442288

There is an enduring appeal to the classic lit bateau, - now And So To Bed give it even more charm in a pure and simple white painted finish.

The ‘Rubens’, a Louis Philippe style sleigh bed, is one of And So To Bed’s best loved designs and although still available in solid mahogany, it is now right up to date in its new painted finish.

Available in the full range of Farrow & Ball colours.

The Rubens is a traditional lit bateau that has a timeless, captivating look, with flowing lines that rise up into hand-carved scrolls.

You can also match the Rubens with its full range of furniture, including a bow chest of drawers that echoes the curved form of the bed.

Available in many sizes, the 5’ Rubens bed shown here painted in Farrow & Ball ‘Clunch’ is priced at £3,500.

And So To Bed has twenty four showrooms across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

To view the elegant Rubens bed, please visit the And So to Bed website.

Tel: (0808) 144 4343 for brochure and branch details.

For an elegant way to introduce Oriental styling into the bedroom, look no further than Supatra’s stylish Kyoto Bedroom Range in elm wood that comprises of bed, chests, wardrobes and bedside tables.

The Kyoto range is part of Supatra’s Japanese bedroom furniture collection. Its style mimics the gently tapered shapes and elegant lines of the pagoda for a unique yet classic look.

The collection features the Japanese bed and a range of storage chests and wardrobes that can be matched to suit your storage needs. Each item is crafted from solid elm wood in a rich colour with gloss finish:

• The perfect dramatic center-piece to your bedroom, the Kyoto Bed has side rail beams, slash cut rail tops, hand tapered struts and gently tapered solid upright supports and is available in 3 different sizes.

• This elegant Square Corner Elm Wardrobe has been adapted with two removable shelves, a clothes hanger and two drawers below. It also has an elegant metal oriental style lock and handles and has ample storage space.

• The Low Chest of Drawers has 6 broad deep drawers that provide a generous amount of storage for clothes. Each drawer has a Japanese style dark enamelled brass handle, in keeping with the overall style. If you don’t have as much space then you can opt for the Tallboy Chest of Drawers instead.

• Featuring the classic pagoda shape, the Elm Bedside Table has one tiny top drawer and a slatted wood magazine rack below. A practical table, yet it’s small enough not to take up too much space.

• The Curio Stool is a small occasional chair that could be used at a dressing table and makes a lovely addition as a multi-purpose stool.

This range works well as a whole collection, or mix and match with your existing furniture for a more personal style.

Prices:
Kyoto Bed – from £1150.00.
Kyoto Low Chest of Drawers - £690.00.
Kyoto Tall Boy Chest of Drawers - £645.00.
Curio Stool - £70.00.
Kyoto Elm Bedside Table - £245.00.
Square Corner Elm Wardrobe - £890.00.

To view this stylish new collection visit the Supatra website.

Tel: (0175) 858 885

Forget what’s behind those smooth-running, space-saving, practical and robust Sliderobe doors, because sliding door wardrobes will never be the same again.

Sliderobes has launched a spectacular new collection:

• It features textured faux fur, crocodile skin, leather, über chic concrete-effect and stunning metallic and high gloss wood effect.

• There’s a brand new black “Starlight” glass that simply sparkles and adds instant glamour to any room.

• And a damask flocked gloss pattern on matt doors - a very contemporary take on an older theme.

Sliderobes’ marketing manager, Niamh Boyle said,

“Forget the traditional image often associated with bespoke – this is a made to measure storage solution, for those who really want to make a serious style statement.”

“These finishes are chosen to please all tastes – from the clean and contemporary, to pretty or modern romantic looks. They are perfect for creating dramatic, masculine, classic, country or chic retro styling. Yet they are all very practical and hardwearing.”

“Our customers can make their Sliderobe entirely their own with our CAD on screen design service – where customers see every detail of their design before buying.”

Sliderobes are ideal for bedrooms, but are equally at home in stylish living rooms, or to create hallway storage.

Sliderobes designs to fit around awkward sloping walls and chimney-breasts, to create everything from Hollywood style walk-in wardrobes, elegant dressing rooms and en suite bathrooms, to small and neat closets.

Inside the Sliderobe, everything is designed to each customer’s own requirements to reflect their lifestyle. There’s a combination of tall and short hanging spaces, shoe and tie racks, drawers and shelves, to accommodate all their clothes, shoes, bags and accessories.

The new collection, like all Sliderobes, comes with a 10 year guarantee.

Also available is a wide range of freestanding coordinating furniture to go with most Sliderobes, for those who want a complete matching bedroom look.

Prices from: £1500 dependent on choice of interior and finish.

Visit the Sliderobes website to view the options.

Tel: (0800) 454 465