The Eco Friendly ‘Vax ev’ Cardboard Vacuum Cleaner

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

The Eco Friendly ‘Vax ev’ Cardboard Vacuum Cleaner Following up on lots of interest Vax has received in their ‘Vax ev’ cardboard vacuum cleaner, they have now launched a dedicated website at www.cardboardvax.com.

In the UK we are rapidly running out of landfill space to deposit around 100 million tonnes of waste produced here every year.
Therefore it’s important that we find new eco friendly manufacturing methods, for products that reduce this waste and our impact on the environment.

Enter The ‘Vax ev’ greener cleaner:

  • The Vax ev vacuum cleaner has been constructed for optimum sustainability, using recycled and recyclable materials including cardboard that reduce the burden on landfill.
  • The Vax ev was developed by industrial design student, Jake Tyler, with the support of Vax’s new product design team.
  • Jake worked with the team, based at Vax headquarters in the UK, for a year under the student placement scheme.

Currently the Vax ev is a fully functioning prototype and Vax is considering limited production in Europe and also plans trials in people’s homes within the next six months.

So if you’re interested in taking part in one of these trials, please register your interest via the website.
http://www.cardboardvax.com/get-in-touch.

For further information about the ‘Vax-ev’, the world’s first cardboard vacuum cleaner, please visit the website.

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Style Advice For Fitted Wardrobes From Julia Kendell

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

Style Advice For Fitted Wardrobes From Julia Kendell Julia Kendell, interior designer, well known for her dramatic room schemes on TV makeover programmes such as DIY SOS and 60 Minute Makeover, has teamed up with Spaceslide, the sliding wardrobe door supplier.

Julia demonstrates how fitted wardrobes offer more than just a practical feature for a bedroom, but can become the main focal point to achieve some of the hottest home interior design trends for 2012.

Reflective And Relaxing (In our picture.)
A wall of mirrored wardrobe doors doesn’t have to be dreary –, but certainly makes a room feel twice the size.

The furniture is the lead feature of this room, where the doors complement the look and are just ideal for a spare room.

White and mirrored surfaces have all round, timeless appeal, so you can play around and update with coloured walls and accessories.

This calming mint scheme has a touch of glitz – where the metallic element in the wallpaper complements the wardrobe doors. This room delivers a New England feel with a contemporary twist. The use of reflective surfaces adds perspective and dimension.

Julia’s top tips for this room:
Mirrored doors make a room look bigger, but a sandblasted/mirrored mix gives the impression that there is a room behind the panel – adding another dimension.

The wallpaper panel adjacent to the feature wall provides a balance to the room and is an inexpensive alternative to artwork.

You can use either door architrave or a mitre block to create a frame that’s then glued to the wall, or wallpaper a strip of wallpaper to the wall and stick the architrave around it.

Other styles available include:

Contemporary Asian Style
The Asian influence of the Oriental Bar design on the sliding wardrobe doors led the theme for this room, and this is going to be hot look for 2012 predicts Julia

Catwalk Cool
Ideal for cool couples and sexy singletons, the frameless sleek lines of this mix and match wardrobe, provide a great backdrop to other design elements in the room.

Playtime
Keep playrooms clutter free to let fun feature walls take centre stage with the clever and practical use of sliding door wardrobes.

Spaceslide.co.uk is one of the UK’s largest online stores for made-to-measure sliding wardrobe door systems and wardrobe storage solutions

Julia Kendell’s six exclusive designs for Spaceslide can be viewed online, and clearly show how sliding wardrobe doors can suit all styles of bedroom interior, whether classic, traditional or trendy in design.

Tel: (0800) 9803499

Read more about : Contemporary Furniture, Custom Furniture, Home Interiors, Wardrobes

Emma Bridgewater Introduces New Sampler Pieces

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

Emma Bridgewater Introduces New Sampler Pieces Emma Bridgewater has added to her popular Sampler Collection in the new Autumn catalogue, with a handy large dish, an elegant comport and some pretty kitchen textiles to name but a few.

Sampler is easy to fall in love with for collecting, but it’s also a pleasure to use every day, as it represents everything that’s cosy about being at home.

The pattern is one you’ll want to use for breakfast before school, with your children as you help with homework, or enjoying a chat with a girlfriend over a big mug of tea on a cold afternoon.

The Sampler Large Dish is a really useful piece, decorated with Emma’s favourite pattern, Sampler, which echoes her love of Victorian hand sponged pottery. The dish is just right for serving your favourite foods over lunch, or at an impromptu dinner party. £49.95.

Sampler Comport echos Emma’s love of Victorian sponge ware and is just ideal for holding a Victoria sponge cake. £59.95.

The Sampler Double Oven Glove is as practical as it is pretty. £13.

The cosy Sampler Cocoa Mug easily provides for a really generous cup of hot chocolate. Decorated with the sweet romantic lines of Sampler, this is a piece to treasure and would make a lovely and thoughtful gift. £21.95.

Visit the website to see the complete range of Emma Bridgewater’s charming Sampler Collection.

Tel: (0844) 243 9266

Read more about : Kitchen Accessories, Tableware

Unique Felt Cushions From The Mountains of Heaven

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Unique Felt Cushions From The Mountains of HeavenThe Nomadic peoples of the remote Tien Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzstan are renowned for creating brightly coloured wool rugs for over two and a half thousand years.

Known as Shyrdaks, the rugs have a tough flattened felt base sewn with striking geometric patterns and are available from the Felt Rug Company.

Felt also supplies Shyrdak cushions… offered in a vivid array of colours and patterns, they make brilliant unique gifts and provide superb décor pieces, suitable for both traditional and contemporary interiors.

  • The felt shapes, which symbolize the birds, animals, mountains and rivers that are part of the nomads’ lives, are stitched together with hand-spun twine and embellished with a hand-woven braid, made from the same indigenous wool.
  • Felt’s cushions and floor cushions are available in the latest colours including hot brights and subtle neutrals, or can be commissioned to order.
  • Each cushion contains an ultra comfortable extra-stuffed duck feather cushion pad. The tribal women cut each set of geometric shapes from a single sheet of felt, creating a ‘positive and negative’, and therefore part of a mirror-image pair (but can be bought separately).
  • Backed with linen or felt, Shyrdak cushions measure 50cm square and are priced at £120 each. Naturally, the cushions look great teamed with Felt rugs!

To view the Felt collection of unique Shydrak rugs and cushions, please visit the website, or you can view by appointment at Felt’s London showroom in SW12.

Tel:   (020) 8772 0358

Read more about : Cushions, Home Interiors

Bosch Launches A New Premium Food Mixer

Monday, September 19th, 2011

Bosch Launches A New Premium Food Mixer Bosch has launched a new premium food mixer to enable home bakers to perk up their baking and master the mixing process.

The white/anthracite (MUM52120GB) mixer will grace any kitchen with its extra smart compact design and offers extra power and intelligent design to make the job quicker, easier and better.

  • The enhanced, 700W motor now supplies the power to mix heavy pasta and bread doughs with ease, but also provides optimum speed for cream, egg whites or biscuit doughs, with four drive speeds plus a pulse setting.
  • Bosch’s dynamic new “MultiMotion Drive” boasts a 3.9 litre stainless steel bowl, making it more thorough than ever before.
  • A smart gear system sweeps the specially designed beaters in three directions as it mixes, ensuring every scrap of the ingredients is mixed in and the bowl wall is left clean, enabling extra thorough mixing.

“This was one of the things customers always remarked on: that mixers often left a lot of mixture on the bowl walls that had to be manually scraped-in,” commented Bosch consumer products sales director, Ian Nicholson.

“Our engineers decided to find a solution and came up with a clever redesign of the beaters, bowl and gearing so every bit of the mixture was folded in and the resulting mix beautifully consistent: no lumps!”

An EasyArmLift system allows the swivel arm to move up or down, making tool changes and alteration to the blender easy and bowl removal conveniently simple.

This ultra-powerful, ultra-versatile mixer comes with a blender unit and nine other attachments for mixing, beating, stirring, grating, whisking, shredding and slicing. There’s an generous 1.25 litre liquidiser and both it and the main bowl benefit from a see-through lid.

But the MUM52120GB, comes with even more:

  • An accessory bag for keeping mixing and disc tools together, an interactive recipe DVD to help put the mixer through its paces.
  • A wide range of optional accessories are available, such as overload protection and a safety shut-off, a cable compartment for neatness and suction feet for steady working. All the accessories are dishwater safe. RRP £249.99.

For further information about the Bosch new premium food mixer, please visit the website.

Read more about : Kitchen Accessories

Luxury Beds Exclusively For John Lewis Launched

Sunday, September 18th, 2011

Luxury Beds Exclusively For John Lewis Launched Vi-Spring the British bed maker has produced a collection of eight new beds, exclusively for John Lewis.

The remarkable new divan and headboard designs are available in a choice of excellent quality fabrics; from natural, muted brushed cotton linens, soft wool, and sumptuous velvets in strong, earthy tones.

Every mattress has been carefully hand crafted to partner its matching divan base. Filled with a choice of naturally deluxe fillings, they are available in a choice of four spring tensions, to give support that accurately matches your body weight and provide Vi-Spring’s signature comfort:

  • The Highgrove with Viceroy Divan: (featured here) The sumptuously deep Highgrove mattress partners the Viceroy divan and is upholstered using a selection of the finest natural materials, from supremely soft cashmere and alpaca, to pure cotton, silk and Platinum Certified real Shetland wool. The mattress features 2,812 pocketed springs (in the 150 x 200cm size), and is covered in a soft silk blend and finished with hand-tied silk tufts.
  • The Blenheim, Cliveden and Stowe with Sovereign Divan: These three new mattresses have been designed to partner the Sovereign divan. Each one is filled with an indulgent selection of Platinum Certified real Shetland wool, cotton, horsetail and silk.
  • The Gatcombe with Wool Prestige Divan: A sleek, tailored, all-wool bed, the Gatcombe is filled using an abundance of the finest quality Platinum Certified British fleece wool and real Shetland wool.The Gatcombe is covered in 100 per cent wool fabric and hand tied with woollen tufts.
  • The Chatsworth and Heligan with Prestige Divan: Natural, sustainable and exceptionally soft pure bamboo is used in both the Chatsworth and Heligan mattresses, which partner the Prestige divan. A blend of Platinum Certified British fleece wool and horsehair is also used in hand-filling the mattresses, which are covered in a bamboo blend fabric and finished with woollen tufts.
  • The Hanbury with De Luxe Divan:Supremely comfortable, the Hanbury contains a mix of the softest cotton with Platinum Certificated British fleece wool. Covered with cotton fabric and finished with felt-tufts.

Every bed in the John Lewis collection is hand-filled and stitched by Vi-Spring’s master craftsmen in the Devon workshop.

For your nearest John Lewis stockist of the Vi-Spring range, or to order a brochure please visit the website.

Read more about : Beds, Custom Furniture, John Lewis

Purple Is Brabantia’s Latest Trendy Colourway

Saturday, September 17th, 2011

SecurityCAM Ltd Offers A “Best Protection Guarantee” Brabantia is going for purple, as its latest trendy colourway, for their Get Together tableware, as well as coloured kitchen bins and corkscrews – they feel that there’s something deeply reassuring about the colour, a hue that exudes luxury, quality and success.

Or possibly it’s the warmth it produces that is so appealing, especially in the depths of winter when it’s cold and wet outside.

Purple is proving to be an extremely popular interiors look right now, so Brabantia has introduced the colour to a number of products in its collection this season.

Get Together
Brabantia’s important announcement this year was its launch of a complete tabletop collection for casual dining called Get Together.

The range features three contemporary colourways – purple. white and grey, as well as a range of materials – porcelain, stainless steel, wood, textiles and tactile silicon, making it effortless to ‘mix and match’ the colours, shapes and materials, to achieve the right look for your table.

  • Featured here for Breakfast – a wooden party plate, purple table runner, porcelain bowl, silicon and steel egg cup, coffee mug, napkin ring, napkins and candleholders.

Porcelain
From dinner plates to breakfast bowls, cappuccino cups to tea mugs and even oven dishes to serving platters, there are 56 items to choose from, so no matter what the occasion, you’ll be confident serving any meal with this first-rate porcelain tableware. Prices start from £3.50 for a purple Dip Server.

Textiles
The Get Together collection also offers a wide selection of fine quality textiles including table linen and towels. Tablecloths, runners, napkins, kitchen and tea towels Etc. are all available in the three co-ordinating colours. Prices start from £5.95 for a purple napkin.

Cutlery
A modern-look set of cutlery (24-piece) in brushed steel is offered, as are a selection of serving spoons, salad servers and a cake server.
Flatware prices range from £11.50 for a cake server to £69.95 for a 24-piece set.

Accessories
Brabantia has brought together a collection of 24 stylish accessories. Stainless steel salt or pepper mills and crushers, napkin rings, candle holders and serving bowls Etc.
Price for a purple egg cup with matt steel dish, £10.95.

To view the complete Brabantia Get Together collection, please visit the website.

Tel: (0845) 602 4877 for stockists.

Read more about : Kitchen Accessories, Kitchen Bins, Tableware

SecurityCAM Ltd Offers A “Best Protection Guarantee”

Friday, September 16th, 2011

SecurityCAM Ltd Offers A “Best Protection Guarantee” SecurityCAM Ltd a leading UK security solutions provider. has announced that it offers a ‘best protection guarantee’ with its ADT Home Security System.

This is an effective burglar alarms system that provides Police protection (response during emergency call outs), Smoke / Fire detection, plus Key holder response.

This security set up comes with ADT monitored alarms that give 24×7 protection to home, family as well as business assets, 365 days of the year with immediate Police response during emergency call outs.

Some key features of the ADT burglar alarm systems are:
The premises will be watched over 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
Police, Key holder and Fire Response during emergency call outs.
4 hour Response times to the premises in the event of faults.
Access to a 24Hr ADT Service Bureau for assistance.
Instant deterrent to potential threats.
Routine Inspections of the ADT burglar alarm include minor adjustments.

Priced at £397.

Commenting on the need for the ADT Home Security System, Mr. Idris Shara, CEO, SecurityCAM Ltd. says, “The number of security violation incidents have increased over the last couple of years and people have now become extremely concerned about their safety.”

“Security is one of the most important fears for home and business owners.
To prevent burglary, people need to install comprehensive home Security Systems that provide a comprehensive range of security services.”

“Our ADT alarm system is the latest security device that not only alerts the owners in case of a break in, but also sends immediate alert signals to the Police.”

In addition to offering ADT monitored alarms, SecurityCAM also provides other security systems such as Access Control, Video Entry, hardwired and wireless burglar alarms plus CCTV Systems.

The company offers state-of-the-art security equipment that complies with the British and European Standards prEN5031/PD6662 and DD243:2004.

For further information about SecurityCAM’s ADT Home Security System with Best Protection Guarantee, please visit the website.

Tel:   (0845) 644 9321

Read more about : Burglar Alarms, Security Cameras, Security Services, Wireless Alarm Systems

Exciting New Collection Of Children’s Bedroom Furniture.

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

Exciting New Collection Of Children’s Bedroom Furniture. Kid’s Rooms the specialist children’s retailer has launched a brand new collection of children’s bedroom furniture.

Kids’ Rooms think that our childhood recollections last a lifetime, so it’s important to create a comfortable, fun and stimulating environment for the children in the family home.

Whether playing, studying or sleeping, the bedroom can be an exceedingly inspiring place for children to grow and develop, emotionally, physically and mentally.

The comprehensive collection includes furniture, accessories, crafts, games and much more, to blissfully take kids all the way through childhood, from babyhood to teenager and beyond.

Kid’s Rooms can present a bedroom set to suit every little personality:

  • Such as the Roses Four Poster Bed for fairy princesses. (Pictured here).
  • A Pirate Boys Bedroom for cool ‘seafarer’ sleepovers;
  • The Fun double bed roomset for teenagers that need a little extra room to stretch;
  • And the Treehouse Bed for kids that love the ‘great outdoors’!

Kids’ Rooms undoubtedly offers a magical childhood to remember, with its diverse range of children’s furniture.

Kids’ Rooms launched in 2004 and is committed to providing an exceptional level of customer service. enabling them to offer a personal service to every customer and their individual requirements.

To view the exciting Kid’s Rooms new collection of childrens furniture, please visit the website.

Tel: for stockist: (02380) 675941

Read more about : Bedroom Furniture, Beds, Childs Furniture, Four Poster Beds

The Novel Infra Red Sauna For Less Than £1500.

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

TheAcknowledgment has always been given to Saunas for their weight-loss and skin healing properties, as well as for alleviating the effects of coughs and colds.

However, they are usually too expensive for most people, due to the cost of installing and running them.

The very latest home sauna now available in the UK for less than £1500, uses infrared radiant heat rather than hot stones; it warms up in just 10 minutes and only uses the same amount of energy as a standard toaster.

Many medical professionals are now recommending Infrared saunas for their ability to penetrate the skin tissue more effectively, making them more effective at treating muscle or joint stiffness and more pleasant to use.

Featured here is the Infrared Hemlock FIR Sauna, priced at £1499 (including VAT), is now available from Boundary Bathrooms and can comfortably seat three to four people together.

Features
Infrared Hemlock FIR Sauna.
Made from Canadian Hemlock-Fir wood.
Carbon fibre emitter panels.
Tempered glass windows.
Capacity: 3 – 4 person.
Power: 2100W.
Height:1940mm, Length: 1460mm, Depth: 1460mm.

Delivery is available anywhere in the UK from Boundary Bathrooms.

For further information about Boundary Bathrooms’ Steam Showers, Saunas and Steam Shower Enclosures, please visit the website, or visit the Warrington or Lancashire showrooms.

Tel:  (0800) 2061680

Read more about : Bathroom Suites, Shower Enclosures, Spa Baths, Walk-in Showers