homewares
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How To Make An Open-Plan Kitchen Feel Warm And Inviting
Open-plan kitchens can look lovely in photos. Then real life turns up. School bags land on the island. Someone leaves a mug near the sofa. Dinner prep happens while homework spreads across the table. That’s not a failure of design, it’s just how homes work. The trick is to give each part of the room a job. Cooking here. Eating there. Chatting, coffee drinking and “where did I put my phone?” somewhere in the middle. A rug under the dining table can make the eating area feel grounded. Pendant lights over an island help the kitchen zone feel intentional, not just bright. A little chair by a window can turn…
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Terrys Fabrics Launches Linda Barker’s Spice Trail Collection
Terrys Fabrics have done it again! Tomorrow sees the launch of Linda Barker’s Spice Trail Collection, a stunning range of fabric designs that have been inspired by ‘the richness, detail and artistry of traditional Indian archive designs.’ This stunning collection is bound to be popular due to the stunning nature of the designs, that are rich, opulent, and absolutely beautiful. Terrys Fabrics have become the place to go when it comes to stunning and unusual designs in fabrics and soft furnishing accessories – curtains, cushions and a range of bedroom essentials. Last year it launched a new Legacy collection with Linda’s ‘Changing Rooms’ co-star, Laurence Llewellyn Bowen, which proved to…
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Aiming for a good night’s sleep
It is no secret that I struggle to get to sleep at night. Since I was a teenager I have suffered from bouts of insomnia which mean I could literally watch the clock go round at night rather than drifting off to the land of nod. I find it difficult to switch off at night, always thinking of what I need to do the next day, and I often have my best ideas in those twilight hours, and then worry I will forget them when I eventually go to sleep. It all adds up to me not getting anywhere near enough sleep, and then feeling sluggish and tired the next…
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Fashionable Staircases
As a staircase is the first thing that a guest sees when they walk into your home, you’ll usually want it to look good and stylish. There are a lot of different ways that your staircase can make a statement, whether it is made out of a unique material, like glass, or you get creative and re-decorate your existing stairs. Spiral Staircases There’s no doubt that spiral staircases give your home the ‘wow’ factor. You can get cast iron spiral staircases, metal staircases or even wooden staircases, to match the decor of your home. However, spiral staircases aren’t always ideal for a home with kids, as they aren’t the safest…
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Create a Perfect space in your loft
Many people have loft conversions on their properties these days, whether it be to create extra bedrooms for an extended family, an home office, an extra upstairs bathroom, even a space for a truculent teenager to exist in without having to see and mix with any other human beings. But if I was to transfer my loft into a living space, then I would love to create a dream haven, just for me. Creating a Living Space We have a rather large loft space that would be perfect for transformation, and what I would most like to make in the eaves of my house would be a personal dressing room,…
