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Top Lighting Tips For Kitchens
Sally Storey, Design Director of John Cullen Lighting kindly offers her top tips for lighting your kitchen:
Of all the rooms in the house, the kitchen has the widest range of functions and needs the most versatile lighting scheme. It needs to provide a bright, general light for the day – especially in dark kitchens.
To create an intimate and more atmospheric light for evening meals, it is essential that you can control the mood with dimmers.
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A Garden Makeover Inspired By Chelsea Flower Show
Why not treat your garden to a makeover, encouraged by the superb gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show?
For an immediate landscaped look with minimal effort, topiaried hedges are a quick way to significantly change your garden.
Jim Kirkwood, garden tools expert from Worx Power Tools, offers advice on how to introduce some of the newest topiary trends from Chelsea into your garden:
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A Completely Wireless Light Switch Launched
A new entirely wireless remote control light switch (RTS 2020W) is announced by Retrotouch, the manufacturer of innovative lighting solutions and home automation products.
The Wireless 2 Way Touch light is simply fitted to your wall with concealed fixing screws, without the need for any live wires, and you get an additional light switch anywhere you wish to put one. Priced at £84.99. Just the thing for placing a light switch in your conservatory, porch, loft, or wherever you need a switch, but formerly thought to be tricky -without expensive re-wiring. The wireless switch can also be a great benefit for disabled people, who may find existing switches in their home difficult to reach. The 2 Way Wireless Touch switch needs to be paired with a wired Touch & Remote switch, making it work in the same way as a remote control, with a range of up to 20m.
The Wired Touch & Remote switches (priced from £41 each), are also easy-to-install – a DIY job that uses existing wiring, to create a remote-control switch in any room of the house.
Read more about : Home Automation, Home Lighting
B&Q’s Novel Vertical Polanter
Growing your own vegetables continues to grow in popularity and the latest innovative trend is vertical gardening.
B&Q’s new Vertical Polanter is making it easier for everyone to have green fingers, no matter the size or shape of their garden space.
The planter can be easily hung on walls or fences (as pictured here) and has twelve planting holes with extra space at the top, to enable you to grow as many flowers, vegetables and herbs as possible.
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John Cullen’s Products And Tips For Lighting Your Garden.
These days, thanks to advances in external lighting technology, even a sizeable garden can be brilliantly lit, using less energy than a 60w light bulb. Therefore gardeners needn’t feel guilty about enjoying their garden night or day, thanks to the latest 1-watt products from John Cullen.
John Cullen, the leading UK lighting expert, has developed two new energy efficient LED garden lights, which are ideal for lighting your plants, pathways, steps or even a small tree:
The first new energy efficient garden light is the Kew – a flexible 1w LED spotlight on a spiked fixture – making it easy to move around.
Read more about : Garden Lights, Home Lighting
Funky Nightlights For Boys From White Rabbit
Nightlights are a great way to relieve childhood fears about sleeping in the dark and supply security as well, keeping the room softly lit for any night time bathroom visits.
Nightlights for babies and children and a Dog Lamp, or delightful Mushroom Robot Lamp offered by White Rabbit England, are an ideal selection for a boy’s bedroom.
The Mushroom lamp features painted figures of robots, cars and planes along the base and the dog-shaped lamp even has whiskers. Both are made from white fine bone china.
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Magical Interior Design Now Accessible Online.
The Design Fairy, a pioneering new interior design company has just got under way, with a novel mission – to bring affordable and supportive design right to the client’s door.
In these tough economic times, DIY and refurbishment projects are on the increase and people now prefer to “improve rather than move homeâ€.
Some people would welcome a little guidance with their project but can’t afford the substantial fees of a traditional interior designer – just the job for The Design Fairy!
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John Cullen Lighting – Sally Storey’s Top Lighting Tips
Britain’s leading lighting specialist John Cullen Lighting, established in 1981 offers a comprehensive service for all aspects of interior and exterior lighting.
Sally Storey is Design Director for John Cullen and is one of the world’s leading lighting experts.
Here are Sally’s Top Lighting Tips:
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Dremel’s Guide To Adding Lights To Your Garden Decking
You can produce an ambience for your garden decking area – simply by adding some moody lighting.
The deck lights will throw pools of light in several directions, thus producing a sophisticated and stylish environment at night, just right for parties, entertaining friends, or a romantic dinner for two.
Here is Dremel’s step-by-step guide to enable you to achieve your desire for a stylish garden decking area:
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Spaceslide’s Easy Additional Rooms For Homes
Research shows that today’s families would prefer to create additional rooms, rather than demolish walls to make open plan living areas, which was a popular trend in the nineties.
Spaceslide UK surveyed more than half of UK parents (with children under 18), who said that they would prefer to have an additional room in the house for kids toys, home working, games consoles and students’ study. This survey is supported by a 36% increase in sales of room dividers in the last 12 months.
Construct a home office, family study room or playroom in under three hours for less cost.
Spaceslide, the online supplier of DIY Room Dividers, has also compared the cost of creating an additional room using its room divider system, versus employing builders.
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