Hammonds’ Glamorous New Willesley Wardrobe Range

Thursday, January 24th, 2013

Introduciing the new Willesley fitted wardrobe collection from Hammonds, offering a glamorous Hollywood style finish with an array of brilliant storage solutions.

The Willesley spacious wardrobe interiors enable you to conveniently store all of your clothing attire and shoes, beautifully concealed behind the stylish mirrored doors, which tend to create an airy and light bedroom. The iron finished handles add a classic touch to the design.

  • Upon opening the wardrobes you will find LED lights thoughtfully fitted to the rails, so that no article of clothing can ever be lost in this exclusive and wonderful wardrobe.
  • The Willesley dressing table is just perfect for any glamour puss to apply her makeup, as well as providing ideal storage for any bottles, jars, or jewellery collections.
  • Willesley is offered in six colours, to cater for all tastes, making the range one of Hammonds’ most resourceful and chic collections ever.

If the brisk white finish isn’t for you, there is also a choice of Avola White or Odessa Oak finish, so that you can create your own bedroom style.

The Avola White has a textured finish and a range of matching furniture, which includes a boxed headboard – an ideal place for photos and vases; also the corresponding bedside cupboards supply ample storage for books and personal effects.

Alternatively, the Odessa Oak range offers linen pressed doors,

so that you can put a preferred fabric behind the glass to harmonize with the rooms décor, whilst hiding your stored items.

For more information, or to view Hammonds’ entire new Willesley wardrobe collection, visit the website.

Tel:    ( 0800) 021 4360

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New House Textiles Launch New Kitchen Blind Designs

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013

New House Textiles, well known as an innovative power in blinds, has now introduced a striking new fabric and accessories range.

The wide range features patterns created by the in-house team, including brand new patterns that are ideal for the kitchen.

‘Tea and Coffee’, features an assorted collection of cups and pots.

Also available is ‘Peartree Avenue’ presenting pears of all varieties.

Both designs were derived from designer Charlotte Farmer’s hand drawn illustrations.

They can be used together or on their own, teamed with bright braids and blind pulls from the collection, to express a fresh kitchen style.

Pictured here is ‘Tea and Coffee’ in Poppy colours with the ‘Lewes’ pull in Graphite Grey.

The blind fabrics vary in price from £60 a metre and the collection is widely available in the UK.

For more information and to view New House Textiles extensive collections of beautiful fabrics and other homeware products, visit the website.

For local stockist details: Tel:   (01989) 740380

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The Eco Friendly InSinkErator® Food Waste Disposer

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013

The one drawback to having a great meal at home with friends and family is the messy ‘slopping out’ that follows it.

This term refers to the ghastly job of clearing the food waste and ensuring it’s put in the right containers, which is not what anyone would prefer to be doing, on a busy evening in the working week, or on a comfortable Sunday afternoon.

There is a wonderful and very capable solution to this dilemma:

InSinkErator® is an International principal in food waste disposals, which present many advantages in saving, valuable energy, personal time and needless food waste. These very efficient and competent products are also extremely environmentally friendly.

  • Disposing of food in the traditional way increases the household bills and contaminates the valued ground around us. Food waste amounts to about 20% of household refuse and it is estimated that local authorities might save about £33¹ per house if we all used a food waste disposer.
  • When food waste is disposed of instantly and hygienically, less of it goes to landfill where it creates methane as well as other greenhouse gases.
  • Food waste disposals are easily installed discreetly and easily under the sink, where the disposer grinds the waste into tiny bits and immediately flushed away down an ordinary kitchen drain and on to the local waste handling system or a septic tank.

It is simply operated by turning on your cold tap, adding the food scraps to your sink and feeding them into the flange of the InSinkErator that has replaced your normal plughole. Then by pressing a button the food waste is ground and flushed away, quickly, efficiently and quietly.

InSinkErator’s food waste products are inexpensive, convenient, and extremely efficient. They are available in a range of models to suit various capability requirements.

Visit the website for further information and to see the various types of InSinkErator® food waste disposers.

Telephone for stockists:   (0800) 389 3715

1 http://www.food-waste-disposer.org.uk   For more information.

Tel: 01536 414555

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Protect Your Home Against Frost With A Dimpex Coldwatcher

Monday, January 21st, 2013

As the UK continues to be affected with snow and frost in the current bout of cold weather, it’s a good idea to check the protection of your pipes in garages and lofts.

The Dimplex Coldwatcher versatile heater, tested and approved to the British Standard for frost protection, makes it the perfect solution for protecting these problem areas from damp and frost.

This durable and compact heater ensures frost protection, or low level localised heat, nearly anywhere in the home, including greenhouses and sheds providing real peace of mind. It can also protect motor homes and caravans from damp.

The Dimplex Coldwatcher is made of durable steel and can be wall mounted either vertically or horizontally, or freestanding.

It is splash-proof enabling you to water your greenhouse plants with ease, and also has an adjustable thermostat to give complete control and energy savings.

Coldwatcher can help by stopping pipes freezing, thus preventing a burst, or a boiler failure as a result of frozen pipes, which can prove to be both time consuming and expensive.

Additional benefits include:

  • Mineral filled element with 1000W or 500W output.
  • Hard wearing powder coat finish in white with birch grey trim.
  • Comes with a fitted plug and 1.8 metre cable.
  • Safety Cutout for safety and peace of mind.
  • Three-year guarantee. Priced from around £62.00.

For further information on the Dimplex Coldwatcher multi-use heater, go to the website.

Tel:   (0844) 879 3588

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Drummonds’ Fabulous Bath Collection With Fine Art Finishes

Saturday, January 19th, 2013

Drummonds have announced a design alliance with Costello & Welch the furniture makers, who are well-known for creating fine art finishes.

Drummonds’ cast iron bathtubs take a number of weeks to craft before finishing by hand to order.

They are foundry-cast and meticulously enameled using the conventional dry frit method.

Drummonds commissioned Costello & Welch to produce new finishes, and used their characteristic combination of design sensibility and technical know-how, to find outstanding new textures and special effects.

Sam Costello commented that creating the process for the finishes required he become “part artist, part alchemist”.

For instance, the Humber bath with Verdigris Aged bronze in our picture is accomplished by spraying copper solution over a coating of bronze powder combined with resin.

The chemical effect, which produces the Verdigris effect takes place gradually, giving exclusive results each time.

Creating exciting combinations between contemporary and classic shapes and finishes, these innovative effects are offered to special commission for all Drummonds’ freestanding bathtubs.

Drummonds’ baths are priced from £3210.

The four new finishes created by Costello & Welch solely for Drummonds include:

  • The Tamar having a ‘Gold Leaf’ finish.
  • The Usk has a textured ‘Concrete’ finish.
  • The Humber presents a ‘Verdigris Aged Bronze’ finish. (pictured)
  • The Tay has a ‘Red & Gold Bronze’ finish.

For more information and to view Drummomds’ baths with the new specialist finishes, go to the website.

Drummonds Tel:    (0148) 237202

Costello & Welch: http://www.costellowelch.com

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Flannel Bed Sheets Are Back In Favour

Friday, January 18th, 2013

Debenhams latest sales figures have shown that flannel bed sheets are becoming really popular again, as they were during World War II, when millions of British people were kept warm by them.

Demand for bed linen consisting of naturally warm and cosy fabric is rising quickly, due to the current expensive heating bills, according to Debenhams the high street store.

So flannel sheets are now selling more than many silk varieties, which have for some time been regarded as vital for seduction achievement in the bedroom.

Clearly people in the UK are once again keen to snuggle up to a part of British history and it’s the first time in nearly 60 years that flannel sheets have returned to popularity in Britain.

The Flannel sheets’ natural texture holds little pouches of air between the sleeper and the bed, which is an ideal way to trap heat, despite the freezing outside temperature.

However,the popularity of flannel sheets began to give way in the 1960s, due to the new man-made materials, resulting from post war scarcity of natural products.

The crease proof Nylon, became popular when working mothers had no available time to iron.

Cotton sheets became fashionable in the 1980s as increased production of the material world-wide, made even the fine weaves affordable.

The advent of central heating encouraged demand even more, as people then preferred cooler bed linen.

The vibrant colours of silk sheets made the bedroom message very clear and they became the accepted trend in the 1990s.

The increasing demand for flannel sheets corresponds almost exactly, with the ever increasing prices of gas and electricity, which are about 80% more expensive than five years ago.

The Debenhams flannel bed linen is obtainable in their stores nationwide as well as online. Priced from £12.

For further information about Debenhams bed linen, visit their website.

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Affordable Professional Surveyors’ Advice Now Online

Thursday, January 17th, 2013

No doubt you will have heard somebody complain about cracks or damp patches in walls, repaired by a local tradesman that have come back.

Now affordable help is at hand, to help you avoid costly blunders:

A new online service enables you to obtain professional advice from an experienced, qualified surveyor, if you are worried about the structure of your house, or planning a building project:

AskASurveyor.co.uk will send your query plus uploaded images and documents to a member of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, who will aim to answer within 48 hours by email, for just £40 per question.

As a registered service user, all of your documents, questions and answers will be stored by Ask Surveyor and password protected, for your reference in future.

The company presents totally impartial, independent advice without sales pitches or catches.

Ask A Surveyor’s aim is to reject the myth that surveyors’ advice is too expensive, or only important when selling or buying property, when in fact not having advice can prove to be a lot more expensive.

Contacting Ask A Surveyor before you order building work, or a repair will will help to give you peace of mind that the main cause of the fault has been established, or the possible danger of work planned.

The new service is the idea of Robert Desbruslais, who owns Desbruslais Chartered Surveyors. Robert is an RICS member with more than 25 years’ experience.

For more information about the new Ask A Surveyor service, go to the website.

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Halo Launches The Versatile Bayswater Furniture Collection

Wednesday, January 16th, 2013

Halo the leading British furniture maker, has launched their new Bayswater Collection – a skillfully matched collection of classic furniture for living, dining and the bedroom.

The Bayswater furniture units include extending dining tables and beds that co-ordinate with adaptable chests, cabinets, dressers, chairs and occasional tables.

These furniture elements provide for many uses, either separately or used collectively, particularly in multi-use living spaces. The shapes fit easily into a broad range of settings either contemporary or traditional.

Handcrafted in solid wood, this is genuine furniture, with quality details like the dovetailed drawers.

The Bayswater Collection is offered in two gently distressed matt paint finishes, Charleston Grey and Chalk White with solid ash top surfaces that have been whitewashed then waxed. Priced from £265 (a nest of tables).

Halo is a leading UK craft furniture maker, exporting its typically British look world-wide; its designs are all handmade, using traditional materials and construction.

Halo’s furniture is obtainable from stockists around the UK.

Visit the website for further information and to view the entire new Halo Bayswater Furniture Collection.

Tel:    (0161) 923 0500

Read more about : Bedroom Furniture, Beds, Dining Room Furniture

Le Creuset’s Heart Shaped Products For Valentine’s Day Celebrations

Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

Le Creuset is presenting its Heart range of products and recipes, in time for Valentine’s Day 2013 — providing an ideal opportunity to demonstrate how much you care for your personal heartthrob.

This charming Heart range of cookware products is offered in pretty pinks, romantic reds, and appealing cassis including:

 

  • A beautiful stoneware heart shaped baking dish, for creating the perfect pie, or making a romantic pudding or cake. Priced at £28.
  • The stoneware covered heart casserole is colourful and fun, yet hard-wearing and strong with a rimmed edge for easy handling and a convenient lid. £42.
  • Stoneware heart-shaped ramekins are just perfect for Valentine’s Day, or another occasion when you wish to tell someone just how special they are. 10cm priced at £9. Check out the Heart Chocolate Cakes recipe online – The perfect end to any romantic meal served in these ramekins.
  • Petit heart-shaped casserole also ideal for Valentines and just the thing for making tantalising starters, desserts or spicy dips. The lid makes it suitable for heating sauces in the microwave and keeping desserts fresh in the fridge . £18.

None of the above is suitable for hob use.

Le Creuset Cast Iron products are guaranteed for life and the Stoneware has a 5year guarantee and is crack, chip and stain resistant,as well as being dishwasher safe.

Le Creuset products can be obtained from UK department stores, cookshops and the company’s Retail Stores, as well as online.

For more information on Le Creuset Cookware and recipes, go to the website.

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Ercol Introduces The New Artisan Desk

Monday, January 14th, 2013

Ercol the renowned quality furniture manufacturer has added the striking Artisan Desk to its home office collection.

This desk combines stimulating design with functionality and will add a grand statement to an important space in the contemporary home, for those who are looking to create an agreeable working environment with style:

  • Hand-made in solid oak, finished in a clear matt lacquer, featuring subtle details, chamfered legs and clean smooth lines.
  • The desk top can accommodate a keyboard or laptop and cables can be put through the cable control opening at the back, so that everything is kept tidy.
  • Two drawers are situated on the desk and there are two big drawers underneath. Priced at £1195.

A matching Artisan chair is also available.   Priced from £325.

About

ercol was founded by Lucian Ercolani OBE, an Italian designer in 1920.

The ercol brand ercol has a sound British design tradition and the brand has become famous for excellent design and functionality.

The design studio located Princess Risborough creates the patterns and the furniture is crafted in the ercol factory in Buckinghamshire, as well as by their global partners.

For further information and to take a closer look at ercol’s Artisan furniture range, visit the website.

Read more about : Contemporary Furniture