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Keep Your Home As Pristine As A Palace
1001, the magic number for carpet and upholstery cleaning, has joined forces with Katherine Dewhurst, ex-Buckingham Palace housekeeper, to provide top tips on how to keep your carpets and soft furnishings fit for a Queen.
Follow Katherine’s hints and tips below, to make sure your home remains your castle, regardless of whether it’s a baronial pile or a suburban semi:
A technique employed in some of the most regal of residences is to use a stiff, clean outdoor brush and sweep the carpet in the opposite direction of the grain so the pile stands up straight, making it look as good as new and ready to welcome the grandest of guests.
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Unique Personal Gift Pottery From Emma Bridgewater
Find a present for a special person or occasion, with a striking piece of pottery from Emma Bridgewater, for friends or relations to treasure.
There are lots of really attractive pieces on offer at Emma Bridgewater stockists or online, for birthdays, baby showers, anniversaries, house warming and weddings.
Pictured here is Men at Work, a fine hand painted clock from Emma Bridgewater; also available is Dancing Mice to add an element of fun to a child’s bedroom; or in a classic Black Toast design and pretty Polka Dots.
Moresque’s New Home Décor With Moorish Artistry
The rich artistic tradition of the Islamic world, is the design inspiration behind the launch collection of Moresque, a new on-line retailer specialising in contemporary home decorating accessories, tabletop, bed linen and soft furnishings.
Tas Rahman, founder of Moresque, has combined traditional Moorish designs from Turkey, Egypt, Morocco and beyond, with a modern-day approach to decorating the home; the collection offers unique, hand-crafted decorative products, with broad appeal and can be purchased on-line.
The eye catching Ever-Lasting Candles featured here, are hand-made in Morocco, from wax with inset arabesque motifs, in copper or thuya wood, and are inspired by traditional Islamic art and architecture.
Read more about : Cushions, Home Interiors, Ornaments, Vases
Fishy Tales – A New Service From Herend
The new service VMES from Herend, brings the magic of the sea right to the table; once you set the table, you can almost smell the salty sea and feel the sand.
Prepared specifically for the 2008 Frankfurt Fair, this Herend decoration successfully captures a romantic moment of feeling free by the sea.
This is an opportunity to marvel at the magnificence of starfish, crabs, turtles or various snails, all beautifully hand painted by skilled craftsmen.
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Get A Degree In Interior Design From Home
For the first time ever in the UK, aspiring interior designers, or those already working in the industry, can study for a degree in interior design from home via distance learning.
The National Design Academy, in partnership with Staffordshire University, is offering the UK’s only flexible distance learning Interior Design Foundation Degree course, which leads to a Bachelor of Arts Degree (BA) / BA (Hons).
The degree is a practical, practice-based interior design course, taught by specialist interior design practitioners through Virtual Learning Studios. The VLS is easy to use, like clicking onto a website and tutors are always available to speak to.
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Royal Albert Celebrates 100 Years
It isn’t often that a brand reaches a landmark as significant as 100 years, which is why Royal Albert, known for its quintessentially English floral style, has chosen to mark ten decades of the company, with a very special collection of fine bone china tea ware.
Royal Albert 100 Years features ten charming designs , which have either been taken directly from, or been inspired by, past Royal Albert collections.
Encapsulating each decade from the 1900s to the 1990s, the ten sets of teacup, saucer and side plate illustrate significant English and world events through distinctive pattern and design.
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Instant Nutritious Meals With LG’s SolarCUBE
LG Electronics has launched a stylish all-in-one oven that integrates both microwave and grill functions; the SolarCUBE oven can cook nutritious meals, up to four times faster than a conventional oven.
This is good news for families and professionals, enabling them to spend less time in the kitchen, providing healthy meals, using half the energy in half the time.
The SolarCUBE oven is unique as it uses a combination of four heat sources including a halogen light, which ensures that the outside is crispy whilst keeping the inside moist and tender, sealing in all the flavours and nutrients:
Transparent Architecture Online From CANTIFIX
CANTIFIX the award winning specialists in glass structures, now offer a superb range of products, along with comprehensive advice, and a help guide, from it’s easy to navigate on-line shop.
Whether you are looking for folding doors, sliding doors, hinged doors, windows, glass roofs or glass floors, a visit to their new website will both inspire and inform you.
The featured glass floor has been engineered to allow people to walk and stand on it.
These floors are both practical and stylish and permit light to be transferred between floors in your home, without restricting the floor space.
The glass floor is available in either clear, sandblasted or low iron glass.
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MyHammer Launches New Trades & Services Portal
Building on its success as the market leader in Germany, MyHammer means to revolutionise the UK trade services market and has now launched its interactive website, which aims to take the hassle out of home improvement, for consumers.
From putting up shelves to fitting a whole new kitchen, MyHammer offers a one-stop-shop for any home improvement job.
Through its approval process, users are assured in the knowledge that all tradesmen’s qualifications are verified, and the customer feedback mechanism provides further reassurance, when selecting the right tradesman for the job.
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Evo-Stik Anti-Germ Puts The Seal On Clean
Evo-Stik has put the seal on bathroom and kitchen cleanliness with Anti-Germ, the first antibacterial tile adhesive, grout and sealant range.
Even though you clean your kitchen and bathroom surfaces rigorously, it’s impossible to get to the grime that lurks in the gaps and cracks between your tiles – unless you replace it regularly, or do a deep steam-clean – who does that?
Even worse, that pure white surface sealant you used to finish the job
becomes a breeding ground for ugly black mould and home to bacteria within days of application.
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