Interior Design

Spaceslide’s Easy Additional Rooms For Homes

 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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Window Shutters Now In Trendy Pink

 Window Shutters Now In Trendy Pink

Pink is now one of the newest colours around in the latest window shutter trend, for a daring new look in the home.

The New England Shutter Company designs and manufactures genuinely bespoke solid timber shutters.

They are also offered hand-painted in a remarkable assortment of colours, or even covered in faux suede or faux leather.

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New Wall Sconces Designed For Period Properties

 New Wall Sconces Designed For Period Properties

The versatility and functionality of wall sconces makes them a popular lighting format; in a period property.
The dilemma is how to integrate the lighting with the soft furnishings and furniture, whilst being sympathetic to the architecture of the property.

Christopher Hyde, the classical lighting designer, has introduced twelve new wall light designs, which are inspired by key decorative eras and then adapted to modern day living and style preferences, to ensure timeless, classical appeal:

The Restoration sconces: two wall sconces featuring the lavish decorative influences of the French Court of the late 17th century. Retail prices: WL633 £2,736 (in our picture) and WL 210 £912.

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Online Interiors Boutique Occa-Home has Total Redesign

 Online Interiors Boutique Occa-Home has Total Redesign

Occa-Home has announced the re-launch of its website. This leading UK online luxury interiors boutique, brings a world of stunning interiors to your fingertips.

The new expert website has been redesigned to make it simpler to navigate and is jam-packed with professional design advice.

Kate Mooney, founder and Managing Director of Occa-Home comments: “The concept of opening our interiors style and experience to a wider audience was key in the development of Occa-Home and the new web site does this with real flair. It’s a great place to browse, ask advice and to develop your own unique style.

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Create a chic, ‘Inside Out’ Living Space this Summer

 Create a chic, ‘Inside Out’ Living Space this Summer

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.

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Read more about : Conservatory Blinds, Venetian Blinds, Vertical Blinds, Window Blinds

B&Q Home launches…

 B&Q Home launches…

B&Q Home launches…

B&Q, the leading UK DIY retailer, is launching a new monthly customer newspaper, called B&Q Home. The free newspaper style publication, which will focus on everything for the home and garden, includes ideas for making DIY easier, new products, as well as advice and tips on how to approach specific projects: This newspaper is a fresh approach for B&Q. Using modern editorial style and techniques it will put home projects, services and products in an exciting immediate context. Every piece of content will inspire, motivate and drive action, and it will offer invaluable practical information and wise words from the experts currently working closely with B&Q; Alan Titchmarsh, Kirstie Allsopp and George Clarke. Some extended content is available through QRs, which link smartphone users directly to online information about that product or how to use it. B&Q Home is being created to address homeowners on a budget, a demographic that’s looking for pound-savvy ideas and projects they can do on their own. Every issue of the newspaper will contain editorial features including Splurge vs Steal, What’s Hot, Now’s the time to…, garden tips, Kirstie Allsopp’s advice for fast facelifts for every room, as well as the amazing value and promotions customers expect from B&Q.

Lorraine White-Read, Head of Advertising at B&Q said:
“B&Q Home is dedicated to providing readers with simple, easy ways to personalise their homes.”

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Loudest Alarm Clock – You’ll Never Sleep Through It!

 Loudest Alarm Clock - You

The Amplicom TCL 200 is, at 90 decibels, one of the loudest production alarm clocks on the planet. The ultimate alarm clock for heavy sleepers, is also ideal for people with hearing impairments – flashing LED lights and a cordless vibrating pillow pad, ensure that anyone will wake up to the TCL 200.

Just how loud is 90dB? It’s as loud as a lorry. It’s the next best thing to having a Vuvuzela player on your bedside table.

And on top of the ear-splitting wake-up call, the Amplicom TCL 200 is packed with the latest technology, to help wake people who are deaf or hard of hearing; bright LED lights on the top flash when the alarm goes off and a cordless vibrating pad can be tucked under the user’s pillow to ensure there’s no chance of snoozing through the alarm.

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Vanessa Arbuthnott’s 2011 Brochure Is Now Available!

 Vanessa Arbuthnott’s 2011  Brochure Is Now Available!

A one-stop showcase for all Vanessa’s fabrics, wallpapers, rugs and furniture, the latest brochure is an invaluable resource, packed with aspirational images and practical flat shots, as well as detailed information on all the available products – a veritable compendium!

Inspired by her love of the countryside and her rural life in the heart of the Cotswolds, Vanessa has been designing and producing enchanting fabrics and wallpapers for more than ten years: She currently stocks nine collections: Hand Printed (new for 2011), Meadow, Earth, Cockerel, Wildflower, Seaside, Garden, Woodland, and Sky, all designed in her relaxed signature style and understated colour palette. Featured here is the delightful Seaside collection. Priced at £41 per metre. Vanessa’s collections are responsibly sourced and produced with respect for the environment, and she uses only organic cotton.

About
Vanessa started her business on her kitchen table 10 years ago. For the first few months she worked after her 4 children (8/10/12/14 years) were tucked up and before they came down in the morning…cutting all the samples with her pinking sheers and rolling out the first orders on a table tennis table!

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Read more about : Curtain Fabric, Cushions, Home Interiors, Rugs, Upholstery Fabric, Web Sites

ATG Media’s 7 Reasons To Visit www.Selling Antiques.co.uk

 ATG Media’s 7 Reasons To Visit www.Selling Antiques.co.uk

ATG Media is a company with a long and proud record of anticipating the needs of the industry it serves. When it was launched in 1971, the Antiques Trade Gazette transformed the sector, bringing auctioneers and auction buyers together more efficiently than ever before.

Here are seven reasons to visit the Selling Antiques website as presented by ATG Media: 1. Sellingantiques.co.uk is the UK’s largest antiques website which gives you a huge variety of options to choose from. 2. You can enter your price range so that you’ll only see antiques on budget – all other antiques are hidden from view. 3. Each antique is assigned to one of 350 categories (yes, by a human being), which makes the website neat, tidy and well organised into relevant sections. 4. You contact the antique dealer directly by telephone or email to ask questions and make the purchase. 5. A keyword search tool that actually works! 6. All antiques for sale are presented with large clear photos alongside the buying price, so you can see exactly what you’re buying clearly and simply. 7. Rather than searching through 100’s of dealers websites, the UK’s antiques dealers upload their stock to this one central website, which saves you hours or trawling time!

ATG Media offers a wide range of services to the auction community, from the highly respected Antiques Trade Gazette newspaper, to a wide range of online services, including world-leading online bidding platforms at the-saleroom.com and i-bidder.com.

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Read more about : Bedroom Furniture, Bookcases, Clocks, Console Tables, Dining Chairs, Dining Room Furniture, Dining Tables, Home Interiors, Ornaments, Web Sites

A Revolution In Room Design From Silent Gliss

 A Revolution In Room Design From Silent Gliss

Another world first from Silent Gliss – the perfect combination of panel glide and room divider system.

Silent Gliss 2760 not only enables the installation of panels in rooms with uneven ceilings, but also offers endless new ways to separate, decorate, and design your room!

Its ability to be bent down to a narrow 15 cm radius allows the system to be used in countless variations.

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Read more about : Vertical Blinds, Window Blinds