Look within for inspiration
If you’re in the process of redesigning your home, it may seem the most natural thing in the world… [more]
Home-grown meals
One of the best things about gardening and producing your own home-grown vegetables is being able to… [more]
Furniture video inspiration
When we’re looking for interior design inspiration, most of us go the web or to design magazine for… [more]
Home-grown meals
One of the best things about gardening and producing your own home-grown vegetables is being able to… [more]
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Home-grown meals
May 16, 2012 By Georgia Mc
One of the best things about gardening and producing your own home-grown vegetables is being able to make tasty dishes for your friends and family using ingredients straight from your garden. You can’t get fresher than that! There are loads of easy recipes you can try out using home-grown fruit and vegetables, so you [...]
Pump up the volume, pump up the volume
December 18, 2012 By Georgia Mc
As the song says, it’s time to “pump up the volume, pump up the volume,” but not through the speakers – this is all about your shower. Yet plain truth is that many of us in the UK are putting up with old-fashioned, weak showers, blissfully unaware that power shower technology has moved on [...]
Furniture video inspiration
September 2, 2012 By Georgia Mc
When we’re looking for interior design inspiration, most of us go the web or to design magazine for a few ideas and a little inspiration. It’s interesting to look at examples of perfection in a certain area of interior design, after all, but it’s also important to temper one’s dreams with a little practical reality. [...]
Look within for inspiration
September 27, 2012 By Georgia Mc
If you’re in the process of redesigning your home, it may seem the most natural thing in the world to look around for inspiration. Whether it’s via the web or interior design magazines, or friends’ homes – we’re all influenced by external factors and ideas, some of which we like, and some of which we [...]
DIY and Home Improvement
Pump up the volume, pump up the volume
As the song says, it’s time to “pump up the volume, pump up the volume,” but not through the speakers – this is all about your shower.
Yet plain truth is that many of us in the UK are putting up with old-fashioned, weak showers, blissfully unaware that power shower technology has moved on apace in recent years and that a brand new power shower can be yours for just a few hundred pounds.
Have a look, for example, at a Mira Platinum shower. This has both remote control and programmable shower functions which help make sure that your shower is always exactly as you want it to be; you choose from a range of settings with ease. There’s even a digital clock to help make sure you don’t linger too long – because you can guarantee you will want to do just that – and there’s a ground-breaking “warm-up” mode that you can pre-set the shower to, to make sure you don’t waste any time – or money – each morning.
There’s also an “eco”-setting which ensures you don’t waste water, as well as thermostatic temperature stability which makes sure the shower is safe for everyone to use, including very young and old people.
Add to that the Mira Platinum’s 360 shower-head with four different spray settings and you really have it all in one powerful shower that won’t break the budget. What’s more, you can change all the settings with just a flick of the switch. All you need to do is choose between the chrome and the black models, then either do-it-yourself or let a professional fit the shower for you.
The Mira Platinum also includes the options of high-pressure valves for mains-pressured systems or combination boilers – or a pumped valve unit for low pressure or gravity-fed systems. And it’s very straightforward to install. So there’s really no excuse anymore – not to pump the volume.
Home Appliances
Get Set For A Housewarming Party
When you first move into a new home, you need a little time to get things organised and just how you’d like them. However, you shouldn’t let the grass grow under your feet in terms of finding time to get the new neighbours round and having a little housewarming gathering.
If you delay too long, people might think that you’re unfriendly, and start to build up a false impression about you. Sometimes, people hold off holding a housewarming until they have everything perfectly organised and decorated, but this can take months – especially if you’re busy with work and normal life at the same time as moving in.
Instead, why not hold the housewarming while you’re still unpacking? You can make a couple of the downstairs rooms presentable for an evening and close the door on any unfinished rooms so that your guests don’t need to see all the packing boxes and bubble wrap lurking in the rest of the house.
Of course, how much space you need depends on how many people you’re going to invite. But for an informal gathering of your new neighbours, it’s probably a sensible idea to limit the catering to drinks and a few snacks. Dinner parties can wait until you’ve really got settled in and you’ve got one of those lovely new dining room sets that you’ve been looking at online!
Most polite newcomers will just want to pop in for half an hour and say hello, and they’ll know not to stay too long as it’ll be obvious that you’ve still got plenty to do. It’s just nice to be able to put some names to faces relatively quickly when you move into a new street or estate.
And inviting people over early will hopefully mean that you’ll be invited over to see their places relatively quickly too. You can great decorating inspiration from stores like Harveys Furniture on YouTube, but sometimes seeing what the neighbours have done can be even better!
Products
Winchester Tap Pack With Bath Shower Mixer
Available to order in store for home delivery, Contains: Winchester basin mixer tap & Winchester bath shower mixer tap
Opera Single (3′) Goal
The Opera is a simple modern headboard with delicate stitching to create panels. Thanks to the simple design and wide variety of fabric finishes the headboard will suit almost any bedroom. Plus struts make fixture to a divan or bed easy.Please note, this headboard is shown in Velour Stone which is no longer available on [...]
Shiplap OSB FSC Apex Shed – 7×5
This Shiplap OSB Apex Shed has 4 fixed styrene windows a single door and oriented strand board (OSB) solid sheets on the floor and roof making it both robust and durable. Manufactured using FSC-approved timber this quality garden shed is constructed around 27mm x 32mm framing and 12mm shiplap tongue and groove cladding. With an [...]
Quill Fabric Single (3′) Mocha Faux Suede
The Quill headboard from New Design’s Contemporary Collection is a medium height, extremely simple headboard which enables it to match into any decorative scheme. Available in a choice of colours, this sleek headboard would look fantastic at the head of any bed.