In the Chinese calendar, 2012 is the Year of the Dragon and it is recognised as one of the most hallowed years of the Chinese New Year calendar.

Spring Festival festivities are held for two weeks prior to the 23rd January, when the lunar New Year begins.

The Dragon symbolises fearlessness and vibrancy, and these strong character traits (with the additional features of ‘friendliness’ and ‘cuddliness’ of course!) can be found in leading online children’s retailer, Kids’ Rooms extraordinary range of colourful Dragon accessories and soft furnishings.

These are sure to brighten the home and bring smiles to children’s faces throughout 2012 and for many years to come.

Products include: Davy Dragon Backpack (£25), Davy Dragon Pouffe - pictured here (£119.95), Davy Dragon Height Chart (£31), Davy Dragon Apron (£20).

To view the complete range of the Kids’ Rooms Dragon accessories and furnishings, please visit the website.

Tel. for Stockist: (02380) 675941

Kid’s Rooms the specialist children’s retailer has launched a brand new collection of children’s bedroom furniture.

Kids’ Rooms think that our childhood recollections last a lifetime, so it’s important to create a comfortable, fun and stimulating environment for the children in the family home.

Whether playing, studying or sleeping, the bedroom can be an exceedingly inspiring place for children to grow and develop, emotionally, physically and mentally.

The comprehensive collection includes furniture, accessories, crafts, games and much more, to blissfully take kids all the way through childhood, from babyhood to teenager and beyond.

Kid’s Rooms can present a bedroom set to suit every little personality:

• Such as the Roses Four Poster Bed for fairy princesses. (Pictured here).

• A Pirate Boys Bedroom for cool ‘seafarer’ sleepovers;

• The Fun double bed roomset for teenagers that need a little extra room to stretch;

• And the Treehouse Bed for kids that love the ‘great outdoors’!

Kids’ Rooms undoubtedly offers a magical childhood to remember, with its diverse range of children’s furniture.

Kids’ Rooms launched in 2004 and is committed to providing an exceptional level of customer service. enabling them to offer a personal service to every customer and their individual requirements.

To view the exciting Kid’s Rooms new collection of childrens furniture, please visit the website.

Tel: for stockist: (02380) 675941

Izziwotnot, have been very successful previously in designing various gender specific nursery collections, which have focused on the use of colour to create some stimulating ranges for boys and girls.

For their latest designs they have teamed up with Forever Friends, to produce Little Star and Beautiful for boys and girls.

Charmingly boyish, Forever Friends Little Star featured here, appeals to bright little boys:

• A fresh white backdrop is teamed with a zesty palette featuring striking shades of lime, aquamarine and tangerine.

• Colourful text embroideries and snazzy stripes, combine with charming checks and starry prints for a truly boyhood feel.

Forever Friends Beautiful delightfully elegant, speaks for itself, a design to be adored by little girls everywhere:

• A crisp white backdrop is teamed with a warming palette featuring soft shades of blush and pink, shot with a gentle green.

• Delicate blossom embroideries and velvet trims combine with damask and lace prints for a charming vintage feel.

The snugly and soft Forever Friends bear appliqués in Little Star and Beautiful, make both truly indulgent designs for the nursery; a room for sharing the warmest of hugs with your little one, boy or girl.

The Little Star and Beautiful collections offer everything you could desire for your nursery:

Moses Baskets available in Maize and Natural/White/Dark Wicker.
Bedding for cot beds from Quilt, Sheets, Bumper and Blankets to Luxury Coverlet Bale.
Nursery decor including Curtains, Fabric Lantern and Canvas Arts.
Sleepsuits available in two sizes and two tog ratings.
Storage items such as Cot Tidy and Nappy Stacker.
Bathtime accessories including, Changing Mat Cover and Cuddlerobes.
Cuddly Forever Friends Plush Bear and Cushions.

To view the charming Izziwotnot nursery ranges for little ones and to find your local stockist, please visit the website.
Tel: (0161) 830 1919

BeanBagBazaar, the leading UK designer and retailer of bean bags and bean-filled furniture, has announced the launch of a unique and exclusive range of two-in-one chairs.

The company’s new design in bean-filled furniture takes space-saving, adaptable furniture to a whole new level.

The Do2 Home range of bean bag chairs can be quickly altered from one product into another, with a novel system of transferring the bean filling:

The Do2 Home in our picture

• Features a bean-packed ottoman that unzips in seconds to become a squishy, bean bag seat.

• The Do2 is one of the first two-in-one products of its kind to hit the UK marketplace.

The classic XL bean bag doubles up as a full size lounger mattress, ideal as a spare bed for guests.

Mark Dolder, managing director of BeanBagBazaar said, “This flexibility in shape and function is increasingly in demand, as consumers look for adaptable furniture to suit open-plan living and a more fluid lifestyle.

“With half of all new UK homes now being built as flats or maisonettes, we know there is a lot of competition for space in the home. Consumers increasingly want products that ease the pressure.”

The Do2 Home range is now available to buy online, exclusively from the BeanBagBazaar website, priced from £89.99.
Both new products are demonstrated with videos on the website.

About

BeanBagBazaar is part of The Bazaar Group of furniture designers who have taken the original 1970s beanbag concept, and transformed it into a range of innovative bean-filled furnishings for adults, children, babies, pets and gaming enthusiasts.

To view the complete ranges of BeanBagBazaar’s bean-filled furnishings, please visit the website.

The new ‘Grow With Me’ collection of bedroom furniture at Dreams, is sure to be very popular with parents for years to come, as its design and purpose can be changed as children grow and have different preferences.

Each piece in the range is styled to be attractive to toddlers, but can be easily altered into something a little ‘cooler’ as they grow up. Also the ‘Grow With Me’ range is robust and well constructed, since kids’ furniture has to be hard wearing.

For budding racing drivers…
If you have a car-mad boy, or a girl who prefers engines to fairy wings, the Cars ‘Grow With Me’ range should set their hearts racing.

• The Cars ‘Grow With Me’ single bed (£299) in our picture, features dynamic Disney Cars graphics on the printed headboard, which can be reversed to reveal a plain red headboard.

• What they are unlikely to grow out of, however, is the track perimeter which runs around the bed, and the ramp and parking lot built in at the foot end – all likely to see hours of fun with races for everything from cars to Lego figures to dinosaurs.

• The Disney Cars top plinth panel on the wardrobe (£289) can be rotated for a smart look, and the double hanging rail changed to a single rail for clothes for the growing child.

• And the Cars chest of drawers (£199) and bedside table (£59) have cool wheel-shaped handles and back panels that are easily reversible to reveal a plain red backboard, for a more sophisticated look as teenage years beckon.

Also available is the bed for little – and not-so-little – princesses.

• The Disney Princess ‘Grow With Me’ single bed (£299) comes complete with a printed fantasy castle headboard with toy storage. This can be removed and used as a free-standing dolls’ house and storage unit, leaving a smart white curved headboard, designed to appeal to older girls.

• The solid trundle bed underneath can be equipped with a mattress to become a pull-out spare bed for sleepovers, or provide invaluable storage for all those girly bits and pieces.

The new ‘Grow With Me’ range made its debut at Dreams’ new Milton Keynes bed superstore in mid-June, and will also be available on the website.

bloom the international contemporary baby brand, has introduced the alma papa, to produce the perfect crib and bed for children up to the age of four.

Adding to the original Alma Cot’s many attactive features, this next generation of cot design easily converts, via the removable bed rail into a smart bed for toddlers and young children:

• Made from solid, sustainable wood and strong stainless steel elements, this crib provides a touch of contemporary style suitable for any nursery or home.

• Open slats on all sides maximize the all important air-flow, while its simple fold system, makes the alma papa easy to store in a cupboard or behind a door.

• The alma papa offers two mattress heights, combining the benefits of a newborn cradle with a crib or cot that can be used from birth to age four.

• The cot can be quickly assembled and is reassuringly strong and well made while being easy to move from room to room due to its four lockable castors.

The stylish and contemporary design of the alma papa is already proving to be a popular choice with parents.

Featured here is the alma papa with frost grey frame, £480 , change tray, £150, mattress, £170. Also available in coconut white.

• Specifications: Age range – from birth to four years; net weight – 39 kg.

• Dimensions – unfolded 64.5cm/25.5 ins X 124.4cm/49 in X 90.3cm/35.75 ins.

For further information about bloom’s Alma Papa collection and stockists, please visit the website.

Making homework and bedtime much more fun, Bensons for Beds has launched its new children’s bedroom range called Mi-Space.

From the well-known Stompa brand, Mi-Space includes a high and mid-sleeper, and electric blue and bright pink futons, exclusive to Bensons.

Said Bensons marketing manager, Simon Williams: “Children spend an increasing amount of time in their bedrooms and it needs to be somewhere where space saving solutions can combine with a cool and funky look.”

“Children tend to have a lot of clutter, so this range nicely hides all those CDs, pens and board games out of the way. The ladder design also makes it much easier for kids to climb up and down from the bed.”

• Offering a selection of heights with the option of cupboard space, desks, and drawers, the range comes with flat stepped ladders that go easy on the feet.

• With a white lacquered finish, Mi-Space is easy to clean, looks fresh and will match any décor.

• The single size mid-sleeper retails at £339.99 and the hi-sleeper is £479.00.

• All ranges can be teamed with a pull out desk (£99.99), a clip on shelf (£29.99), cube drawers (£99.99), futons (£119.99) four-drawer desk (£179.99) and matching two-door wardrobe (£239.99).

For further information about Bensons new children’s bedroom range, or to download the Bensons for Beds-Sleep App for iPhones, please visit the website.

Tel:    Bensons’ new Order Line Service on:   (0808) 144 6160 (Mon-Fri 8am- 6pm, weekend 10am- 2pm).

Silver Cross, Britain’s much-loved pram and nursery brand, has just unveiled its first ever collection of traditional children’s furniture and bedding.

There are three classic styles of furniture – all of which include a cot bed, a wardrobe and a changing unit, which can be bought individually or as a complete nursery suite.

There is something wonderfully reassuring about well made furniture, especially when it is of such quality that it can be handed down from one generation to the next:

• Silver Cross places great value in the trust that customers put in the brand, and whether you opt for the timeless Devonshire range with its tongue and groove detailing, the elegant Shaker styling of the Porterhouse range, or the comforting simplicity of the Nostalgia range, every piece is handmade.

• Each piece of furniture has been created with the needs of parents as well as children in mind – combining intelligent design with traditional craftsmanship – to make life easy as well as comfortable.

• There is plenty of storage space – even the cots incorporate drawers to take your child’s nursery essentials – and every piece is built to a quality that will guarantee long and distinguished service.

• For anyone ordering two pieces or more, there is even a free white glove delivery service; a Silver Cross team will deliver and build your new furniture in your home.

Sweet dreams are made of this…
Featured here is the Porterhouse Furniture Set Cot/Junior Bed £350, Wardrobe £500, Dresser/Changing Unit £400 & Cherished Bedding £150 for the set.

The Silver Cross Textile Collection provides a three-stage bedding solution, to take your child from birth right through toddler-hood in cosy and comfy style. Premium fabrics, trims and embroidery, ensure that each range is both beautiful and durable.

Each of the three ranges: Classic, Sooooo Pretty and Cherished, have been designed to complement the three furniture ranges, creating an impeccably co-ordinated nursery for your child – and the perfect place for them to have the sweetest dreams.

For further information on the Silver Cross product ranges, please visit the website.

Tel: (01756) 702 412

The New Year may mean a whole host of New Year’s resolutions for many of us, but it can also mean the start of a series of positive changes to others.

To encourage you to stick to your promises, why not ring-in the changes to create a renewed energy in your home?

A change in your surroundings can change your mood and what better time of year to do something about it…?

• Colours and patterns are like energy drinks for the soul. They inspire us and give us ideas. They can make us warm, glad and eager, or calm, relaxed and sleepy.

• Take the time to strip your room back to the bare essentials. Even rearrange the furniture. Then, think about the colours you feel will create the right mood in the room for you.

• Simply by adding textiles, lighting and decorative items, you can make a big impact. Start with the larger blocks of colour or bolder patterns first, finally adding those finishing touches to create the perfect room for you.

At IKEA, you can make big changes with a small wallet as featured here:

DVALA quilt cover and pillow cases, £19.99.

ANDRUP rug, £24.99.

RITVA pair of curtains, £24.99.

PJÄTTERYD picture, £25.

SALONG vases, from £8.99.

LJUSÅS UVÅS table lamp, £34.99.
All prices are subject to V.A.T. changes.

Take a look at the bedroom room-sets at IKEA online - they all feature the same furniture as pictured here, but the different accessorising creates a different atmosphere every time!

http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/categories/departments/bedroom/
Then click ‘How To’ and  ‘Revive Your Room’

ASPACE, renowned for its fun and stylish collection of children’s bedroom furniture, accessories and carefully selected gifts; has a brand new look at www.aspace.co.uk.

Its easy-to-navigate website has categorised tabs to search by collections or specific products, making Internet shopping enjoyable - and with a last order date of 22nd December for guaranteed Christmas delivery, it’s the perfect antidote to frenetic high street shopping.

With a number of exciting new furniture designs, gorgeous accessories, and over 200 carefully selected gifts, ASPACE offers the perfect one-stop shop for children’s furniture, gifts and accessories - from the comfort of your sofa!

Featured here is the Candy Floss Fairy & Daisy Costumes.

ASPACE is offering UK Home Ideas visitors a unique discount of 10% off gifts, toys and accessories from 11th October to 14th November.

Click here: http://www.aspace.co.uk/pages/landing_pages/ukhi?discountCode=UKHJ01&utm_source=simpler&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=UKHI

The exclusive ASPACE range includes:

The new autumn/winter collection from ASPACE epitomises the finest in children’s furniture, accessories and gifts. The new 112-page brochure is available by post, in store or online.