Thomas Sanderson and Laura Ashley have announced the launch of a fabulous, new and unique collection of conservatory blinds.

As one of the UK’s leading producers of window blinds, Thomas Sanderson are always looking for new concepts, so a design collaboration with the very popular Laura Ashley brand is a great opportunity.

The outcome is an eye-catching and refined choice that will add a stimulating new look to any home:

• The new range of conservatory blinds, is the first to offer customers the prospect of bringing pattern to the conservatory, by harmonizing interior furnishings with the soft warming colours from the Laura Ashley design ranges.

• The new blinds combine luxurious patterns with practical design and purpose, to create an elegant living space suitable for use throughout the seasons.

• 21 new fabrics are offered, consisting of three patterned and one plain design, enabling customers to combine different fabrics to create their desired effect.

• Each blind in the Laura Ashley range is individually handcrafted and designed to be as practical as it is stylish – fitting neatly into every window, roof panel or door of your conservatory.

• Thomas Sanderson’s advanced fabric technology, ensures that each blind will react to the demanding climate of a conservatory, helping to reflect heat and glare on hot sunny days, whilst providing essential insulation during the colder winter months.

The new collection is available from April 2011. Prices start from £750.

The Thomas Sanderson designers will liase with each customer, to ensure they find the perfect mixture for their conservatory.

To view Thomas Sanderson’s new Laura Ashley conservatory blind collection, please visit the website.

The Fabric Box, are dreaming of sunnier times; of balmy summer evenings, sipping wine in the garden and warm days that last forever.

It’s hard to imagine a home interiors product that demonstrates this free and easy approach to summer living, more than the free-flowing Vertical blind from the new range by The Fabric Box featured here.

Vertical blinds can be pulled to one side to reveal a seamless transition of inside and outside spaces.

Because it’s not weighted at the bottom, it hangs freely and can even catch a passing breeze. This creates an informal, relaxed living environment.

Without the bottom weights more usually associated with Vertical blinds, it’s much less of a trip hazard too. Excitable children (and dogs) can run in and out of the house in safety!

Prices start from £45.28 for the Vertical blind shown above in ‘Bella’ colour ‘Kiwi’.

The Fabric Box range can be purchased from your nearest stockist.

The Fabric Box aims to revolutionise interiors with an inspiring combination of fabrics and finishes in a range of vibrant colours.

Their sensational range of blind fabrics sees understated sophisticated weaves, merge with bold colours and contemporary designs to form an eclectic mix of roller, vertical, panel, roman and roof fabric blinds.

Comprising of 8 collections in 67 fabrics ranges, with 316 colour options, there is something for even the most discerning customer.

For more information about the Fabric Box blind collections, please visit the website.

Tel: (0844) 8118280

Large Glass areas in the home are a passion these days, making intelligent shading solutions for conservatories, skylights and atriums, as well as other glazed areas an absolute necessity.

Silent Gliss Wintergarden systems are guided roman blinds - soft and elegant, with superior hardware and a vast range of fabrics, they guarantee a shading solution fine tuned to your individual needs.

Silent Gliss have a complete range of Skylight shading solutions, with a vast range of technical fabrics catering for all shapes and sizes of glazing and shading requirements.

The Silent Gliss Skylight system featured here, is a unique solution to shading large areas:

• The parallel fabric panels can be moved to provide an innovative and extremely elegant way of shading.

• Maximum light and glare management is guaranteed through gradual tilting of the fabric panels.

• And the systems maximise daylight on a dull day and reduced heat and glare on sunny days.

About Silent Gliss
Expecting the best includes excellent service - The Silent Gliss Customer Service Team and Dealer Network, provide an extensive range of services, including technical advice, fitting and maintenance.

To see the Silent Gliss Winter Solutions, please visit the website.

Stockist Tel:   (01843) 863571

The winter months provide the perfect opportunity to bring fresh life to your conservatory.

It’s also time to perform a few maintenance tasks to prolong its longevity and pristine appearance.

Jonathan Hey, MD of Westbury Conservatories shares his top tips for extending the enjoyment of your conservatory throughout the winter months…..

•  Wash down the paintwork and roof glass at the start of winter.
• Clear leaves out of the gutters, hoppers, and outlets regularly in autumn to avoid leaks and water damage.
• If your timber threshold points are not varnished, than apply Linseed oil to renourish the wood after the dry heat of summer and to protect it from any bad weather.
• Consider rearranging your conservatory furniture to maximise the best use of space taking advantage of closed doors.
• Adding temporary drapes creates warmth and provides privacy to avoid a ‘fishbowl’ feel.
• Invest in lighting in the garden using it to create focal points or to create a new view and to bring renewed enjoyment to the garden.
• When choosing paint colours or accessories for the interior of your conservatory, remember that darker colours will instantly add warmth.
• Colourful rugs, blankets and candles can also add to the overall feeling of a warm and cosy conservatory.
• Lighting at low level behind furniture and plants adds background light and warmth.

Visit the Westbury Conservatories website to view their impressive ranges of garden buildings.
Tel: (01371) 876576

Venetian blinds give sleek style with ultimate control over light and glare; as the day goes on small adjustments enable maximum light and visibility.

Each system within the range offers different benefits:

• The Silent Gliss 8300, with either 16mm or 25mm slats in a choice of 77 different colours, is controlled with a single metal chain for raising/lowering of slats and tilting. A series of 8300 blinds can be fitted side by side with minimal light gap.
• Systems 8100 and 8110 have integrated control wands with brake for user friendly, precise opening and tilting. System 8100 has 16mm slats and can be positioned within narrow frames because of its small headrail.
• System 8110 has either 16mm or 25mm slats. Privacy feature is standard for the 25mm slats, allowing no direct light to penetrate when in the closed position. Both systems are available in 77 different colours.
• Silent Gliss also offer a cord operated system 8900 with 25mm or 50mm slats in real wood or 50mm aluminium slats, suitable for larger applications. The 8950 system is an electrically operated version, also available with real wood or aluminium slats.
• The Silent Gliss 8500 is motorised, offering quiet and smooth operation at your fingertips. Add a remote for flexible control over the system. Available with 16mm and 25 mm slats.

Most of the 77 colours are available in the 16 and 25 mm slats.

For the 50mm there is a choice of 30 wood slats and 5 aluminium colours.

Many of these venetian blinds systems can also be fitted to sloping windows (up to 15 degree incline from vertical) using guide wires.

For more information and to see the range of Silent Gliss blind solutions, please visit the website.

Tel: (01843) 863571

Thomas Sanderson a leading UK supplier of bespoke blinds and shutters has announced the launch of shaped shutters to their extensive collection.

This new addition to the Thomas Sanderson bespoke window shutters range, has been designed with beauty and function in mind:

• Unlike conventional shaped shutters where the louvres are fanned, Thomas Sanderson has developed a slat system where the louvers are all horizontal.

• By using a step technique and designing the shutters this way, Thomas Sanderson have been able to maintain the beauty and functionality of their traditional bespoke shutters.

• The shaped shutter is kept in place by magnets; a standard tilt wand operates the slats, so you can control the amount of light entering your room.

• With over 50 different painted finishes and colour match options available, you can compliment your existing interior without the need to redecorate.

Ian Bayne, PR Manager, commented on the launch, “With the launch of shaped shutters added to our already extensive range, we are now able to offer customers a solution for their entire window shading needs.”

The new range of shaped Shutters by Thomas Sanderson is available online now.

Since 1991, Thomas Sanderson has grown from a family run business to an international company, offering products and services throughout the UK and Ireland.

Visit the website to view the extensive range of window shutters.

Tel: (0800) 056 2929

We all love displaying photographs of our high days and holidays, nearest and dearest throughout our homes; coffee and dressing tables, window sills and mantle shelves, are all popular places to exhibit our pictures, but why limit your options?

A roller blind can provide a perfect blank canvas to shed a little light on your favourite subject:

Choose from a range of exciting designs online; - how about a roller blind printed with a food related image for the kitchen or dining room, a colourful, fun design for a child’s bedroom, or a scenic view for the living room or conservatory?

For a completely unique finish, visit Web Blinds online and upload your own image, enter your roller blind measurements and your wonderful new vista will be yours in just ten working days. Also makes a quirky gift idea.

Some suggestions for a theme:
Blind Love - Who says wedding photos are just for the album? Have your favourite shot from your special day digitally printed onto a roller blind, to project the love into the room!

Monkey Business - Ever wished you could bottle your favourite holiday moment and relive it whenever the mood takes you? Instead of hiding your photos in various albums, remind yourself of that family holiday every day, with a digitally printed roller blind.

Blind For The Dog - As a nation of animal lovers, our pets are part of the
family; so present your faithful friend with pride for all to see.

Prices start at £143.50 (80cm wide x 120cm drop) made to measure.

Web: http://www.web-blinds.com

Thomas Sanderson has introduced TecNeat, an exclusive and innovative blind system especially for conservatories.

The new system allows the fabric to take centre stage, with the hardware discreetly hidden so that the visual impact comes only from the material to enhance the beauty of your room.

The arrangement is suitable for all shapes and sizes of conservatory and is especially ideal for the roof, where the sun’s rays can often seep through so that blinds are a must.

Adding Thomas Sanderson’s PowerPleat remote control to TecNeat, enables you to control the light and heat from the comfort of your armchair, transforming your surroundings swiftly and easily, at the touch of a button.

There is no need for pull cords or rods to operate your blinds – it’s all done electronically, with each blind having its own miniature motor.

Only available from Thomas Sanderson, The PowerPleat and TecNeat combination, provides state-of –the-art technology and the ultimate in ease of use and convenience.

Web: http://www.thomassanderson.com

Tel: (0800) 220 603

Luxaflex®, one of Europe’s leading window-covering brands, has announced the launch of their Japanese Design blinds; an exciting new collection of oriental style window blinds, made from a unique material called ‘washi’.

Washi, literally meaning ‘Japanese paper’, comes in eight natural colours giving the appearance of clouded paper panels in the window; seven fresh and bright colours including red, lime and blue are also available.

The colour of each segment within the blind can be selected individually, providing ultimate flexibility and choice.

To complement the paper style panels, there are also four woven washi choices, in two-tone natural wooden colourways.

The Japanese Design Collection is available as three different product styles - roller blinds, panel track and vertical panels; all of which, feature panels intersected with trims in seven unique native wood colours, or in grey aluminium; there are three different trim widths 10, 20 or 40mm to suit your style.

Featured in our picture is The Panel Track Blind with wood trim:

Made to measure panel track blinds are available in the whole spectrum of washi colour ways and can be used either as a window covering or as a room divider; hanging from rails (in either grey or white), the washi panel track blind comes in ten configurations, allowing even wide rooms and windows to be screened effectively.

Retail prices for the Japanese Design collection start from £142 for a roller blind measuring 900mm x 1000mm.

Web: http://www.luxaflex.co.uk

Tel: (0800) 652 7799

A conservatory can be an unpleasant heat-trap during the hot summer months; why not install Thomas Sanderson conservatory blinds to keep you cool and comfortable?

Hand-crafted from SolarTex coated fabric, these blinds are specifically designed to help control the temperature inside the conservatory, making it the perfect, temperate location for your summer living.

Choose from a palette of over 200 colours and fabrics, tints, tones, naturals, neutrals, plains and prints; however you wish to dress your conservatory, Thomas Sanderson can supply the right colour.

For Patio Living with sophistication and shelter this summer, install a Thomas Sanderson Patio Awning (The Ultima is featured here), to make the most of your garden; they are ideal for al-fresco entertaining, or sheltering the family from unexpected rain showers and even protect your plants from the scorching sun.

These fashionable awnings are remote controlled, allowing you to move smoothly from sun (or rain) to shade from the comfort of your sun-lounger or dining table.

Web:  http://www.thomassanderson.com
Tel:   (0800) 220 603