Soon we will all be spending more time indoors as Autumn slowly approaches and the evenings become darker and more chilly, which may be a good time to update and add some bright and cosy colours to our home.

The bedroom might be an ideal place to start, by considering at IKEA’s latest brilliant textiles range:

New to IKEA this August is the EVIOR collection. Designed by Kajsa Aronsson; the textile range features original designs with a sense of humour, place and culture, which is seen in the EIVOR LEVA, quilt cover and pillowcases.

Below Kajsa talks about her inspiration behind the design pattern of the EIVOR LEVA bed linen. As part of the EIVOR line launching this August, Kajsa has also designed a quilt cushions and curtains.

“Sometimes I use the texts in the patterns and sometimes I keep it for myself and make the designs more as a picture of my ‘hidden’ story, I think that EIVOR LEVA is very much an image of my own life, with associations and threads to memories, people and events that I like and love.

The images of people, lamp posts, buses, plants, scooters, buildings—they are the reality I experience and see in the district of Södermalm, Stockholm, where I live and work.

I really like to sit and look out: small birds that I’m feeding, the water with sailing boats and kayaks during summertime and skaters and skiers during the winter, people walking with their dogs, etc.

One image in the pattern I particularly like, is the line of people queuing for the bus. I think that’s kind of a view of everyday life.”

To view IKEA’s stimulating new EVIOR textile range, please visit the website.

IKEA has announced the launch of their curvy new ISALA range, which has been motivated by Swedish furniture of past-times, with modern details like thicker legs for a fresh appearance.

We all try to add our individual style to our homes, to gratify our desire to live with beautiful fashionable furniture.

IKEA has the perfect pieces to help you realize your ideal style, whether you’re adding a new coffee table to the living room or a laptop table in the bedroom:

• The ISALA colours are of soft and muted lilac and grey tones, which work well with white and various wood finishes. ISALA also co-ordinates well with their HEMNES range of furniture.

• Some pieces in the collection have feature details such as locks, or deep and adjustable shelves and soft-closing drawers.

• The tall legs make cleaning easy and thanks to the additional floor protectors, your floor will be safe from wear and scratching.

• The ISALA range is designed by Johanna Asshoff and Hanna Brogård and would fit easily into any area of your home, from the living room to the hallway.

Prices for ISALA: From the left in our picture are the ISALA cabinet, £179.00; laptop table, £149.00; side table, £159.00; sideboard, £220.00; coffee table, £179.00; another side table, £159.00.

Available from August 2011.

Visit the website to view more of IKEA’s trendy furniture ranges.

Buying a kitchen is a big investment and for many people it can be a daunting prospect. Some people like to take on the entire project themselves, while others require help through the whole process.

That’s why IKEA is making the process of buying a kitchen easy for all customers, by offering a choice of services, depending on the amount of help needed!

From in-home planning, installation to delivery, IKEA offers all the services you may require, to help you achieve that kitchen you’ve always dreamed of.

Featured here is the Faktum Aktum/Tidaholm oak kitchen, £2145; plus VAT.

Planning
When it comes to planning your kitchen, you can become your own interior designer, by either planning it yourself using the free online IKEA kitchen planning tool, or with assisted planning in-store, or pay for IKEA to plan your entire kitchen in the comfort of your home.

Installation
Professional kitchen installation can save you valuable time, especially when it comes to the trickier tasks like worktops, appliances, the sink and tap or even unit installation.

You can choose one or all of the items from the installation menu, depending on how much of the work you want to do yourself.

The Ikea installation service includes, a pre-installation visit to check measurements and the accuracy of your order, certified gas and electrical service providers and your order pre-checked and consolidated prior to delivery – plus a free three year guarantee on workmanship and installation.

You will get a fully coordinated service with a personal case handler, all at the usual IKEA low-price!

Delivery
Most of IKEA products are designed and packaged in such a way that you can easily get them home in your own car; that’s why there are 15 kitchen ranges that are available to take home straight from the IKEA store if you choose.
Alternatively, IKEA can arrange for your kitchen to be delivered straight to your home.

Visit IKEA’s specialist kitchen website, for some great tips and ideas to help you through the kitchen buying process.

Swedish interior designer Mikael Berryman has worked for IKEA since 1998, completing stints in Sweden, New York, China and Russia.

He is now IKEA UK & Ireland’s interior design expert. This season IKEA is launching three new stylish and on-trend kitchen ranges.
Here he gives us his insider tips as to the kitchen trends for Autumn/Winter:

• “If you want to vary the style in your kitchen and use colour combinations to create a contrast, then the new RUBRIK turquoise glass accent doors and drawer fronts are the perfect addition to inject exciting colour and materials into the room.

• Combine them in any way you like - it’s a simple way to create a kitchen with originality that expresses your personality. Turquoise is a colour that most people respond to positively.
  It’s universally flattering and appeals to both men and women.”
• Featured here is the RAMSJÖ white with FAKTUM frame-kitchen.
  Priced at: £3575.00.

• “Light pink is a shade not often used in kitchen design. But the cool tones of the new APPLAD pink doors and drawer fronts make for a very subtle use of a colour.
• It goes well with high-gloss or matt white finishes, such as the ABSTRAKT high-gloss white kitchen range, but also well with darker tones because the classic nature of the colour.
  The colour can be seen coming through in everything from fashion to interiors this season, so why not impress your friends with this on-trend style.”

• “Finally, in our more traditional style group, we see the launch of the RAMSJO range, available in white and black finishes. Having listened to our customers’ feedback, we developed a traditional looking Swedish kitchen, which was also suited to UK and Irish customers. On the traditional front, it’s a breath of fresh air because it’s simple and
  classic without being fussy.”

Top tip:
Don’t forget – IKEA kitchens are easy to update by simply replacing doors and drawer fronts.
With the RUBRIK and APPLAD ranges, you can think about changing the style of your kitchen , without replacing the whole thing and having to spend a fortune.

To view the new stylish kitchen ranges visit the Ikea website.

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

The living room is meant for living in, so it really needs to be a comfortable, functional and flexible space.

A space where you can just relax, socialize or maybe watch TV - a place where you can express your personality.

When it comes to creating your perfect living room, IKEA offers a wide range of products; from textiles, seating, storage to TV solutions, in a variety of shapes, sizes and colours to match your style and budget.

Featured here are:

• 1 ARLID leather footstool £224.13.
• 2 ARLIOD 3seater sofa £733.06.
• 3 IMFORS coffee table £68.41.
• 4 LERSTA reading lamp£7.82 each.

For more inspiration and solutions online visit:

Web: http://www.IKEA.co.uk/livingrooms

Introduce influences of spring into your home and garden using pastels of pink and green against a crisp white background.

One of the quickest and most effective ways to do this is by using textiles to refresh an area around your home.

The new Våren textile collection will bring a light and airy feel to the dullest of rooms and has been inspired by the wood anemone, one of natures early indicators that spring is on its way.

Featured here are just a few of the stimulating spring products on offer:

• Våren cushion 65×65cm in white and green £14.99.
  Varen round cushion in green pink or white £7.99.
  Våren knitted throw 130×170cm in green £13.99 (also available in
  white and pink).
• Varen Rug in green or white £39.00.
• Agen rattan chairs in white £19.99; stackable in order to save space when not in use.
  Complete with Agen chair pad with anemone design in white £9.99 for increased seating comfort.
• Agen round coffee table white £35.00; handwoven with extra utility surface e.g. for magazines; plastic feet; protect the furniture if in contact with a moist surface.
• Agen Triple Hanging basket set white, handwoven £13.99.

Web: http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_GB

Tel: (0845) 355 1141

Ikea believe in Everyday Dining together, as some of the best moments at home occur when people sit down as a family to eat, talk, share the day’s experiences, or make plans. Also when they can snatch some time alone to enjoy a cup of tea, read the paper and be with their own thoughts.

It is for that reason Ikea offer versatile and sturdy dining furniture that can be dressed up for special occasions, but most importantly is built to be used everyday!

The company presents a wide range of tables in a size to fit your available space be it big or small; there are tables with smart ways of folding, or extending to accommodate family or friends and that unexpected guest.

There is a style to suit everyone, with co-ordinating comfortable chairs and practical storage solutions- for example the striking new Torsby Range pictured here:

Dining Table with tempered glass top and steel legs £125.
Sideboards featuring a foil finish £175 each.
Linus Rattan Chairs with steel legs £29.90 each.
Skimmer Glass Candlesticks £6.99 each.
The Slatthult Wall Decoration (4 pack self adhesive paper) £9.99.

Enjoy and Bon Appetite!

Web: http://www.ikea.com

Tel: (0845) 355 1141

Successful lighting can totally remodel your home.

Scandinavians appreciate the vital role that light plays in our lives, due to the long hours of darkness they endure.

Mixing different kinds of light can create a cosy and welcoming atmosphere so that we enjoy our homes even more.

Ikea offers an extensive range of intriguing lighting solutions to help you light up your life at home.

Visit the interactive screens on the Ikea web site, to see how you can furnish every room in your home with light to brilliant effect.

To furnish a room with light, you need to combine three main types:

• General Lighting should focus on definite features in the room, thus creating a cosy atmosphere and adding personality.
• Task Lamps can reduce strong contrasts between light and shade, by blending them together and spreading a unified light over the room.
• Mood Lighting requires you to think about the main activities in a room, enabling you to choose lamps to suit every pastime. A bright concentrated light is suitable for most tasks.

Web: http://www.ikea.com
Tel:   (0845) 355 1141

The Ektorp corner sofa bed in traditional style from Ikea would enhance any living room during the day and readily converts into a very comfortable extra bed for two when required.

The removable covers are 100% cotton, machine washable and come in a range of attractive colours or patterns.

The seat cushions, which are filled with land fowl feathers and highly resilient polyurethane foam just mould to your body and immediately regain their shape when you rise.

Reversible back cushions filled with polyester fibres provide a comfortable back support.There is a pull out drawer underneath for convenient storing of bed linen.

The sofa bed easily combines with other sofas in the Ektorp range and a choice of coordinated covers makes it easy to change the look of your sofa in the future.

Assembled size: width 243cm x depth 88cm
Bed: width 144cm x length 200cm

Retail price £815

Web: http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_GB