Modern Living Room Ideas UK – Sofas, Coffee Tables, TV Units & Storage
Small Living Room Furniture Ideas
Bedroom Furniture Ideas UK – Beds, Wardrobes, Drawers & Storage Tips
Bedroom Storage Ideas for Modern Homes
Dining Room Furniture Trends UK – Dining Tables, Chairs, Sideboards & Sets
Dining Table and Chairs Buying Tips
Home Office Furniture Ideas UK – Desks, Chairs, Storage & Workspace Design
Home Office Desk and Chair Ideas
Small Space Furniture Ideas UK – Compact, Storage & Space Saving Solutions
Garden Furniture Ideas UK – Rattan Sets, Dining Sets, Sun Loungers & Outdoor Style
Garden Furniture Buying Guide
Furniture Buying Guides UK – Sofas, Beds, Tables, Storage & Room Planning
Furniture Sale Tips and Styling Advice
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Office Furniture Has Come A Long Way
The term “home office furniture” used to translate, almost literally, to “boring furniture”. Today, however, you will find that many of the larger manufacturer’s of office furnishings have come around to the notion that an office can look good as well as provide optimum function. After all, plenty of hard-working office staff spend a great many more hours in their offices than they do in their homes. This said they deserve a place that provides them with both style and comfort. Today’s office furnishings can do just that.
Desks have come a long way since the scribes tables and roll-tops of yore. Today’s desks are fashioned to augment the use of the most important piece of office equipment furniture, the personal computer. Many of them are also designed to work with the body, to limit stress placed on the neck and shoulders, as well as wrists and hands when spending long hours in front of your keyboard. Chairs have evolved, as well. Today’s desk chairs are comfortable and designed to provide healthy support for the seated office worker. The up side is both desks and chairs look better than ever!
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Top Modern Furniture Designers Can Be Classic, Too
So many of today’s consumers find the concept of using this generation’s more contemporarily designed, modern furniture in their homes as too trendy. These are the furniture shoppers who want traditional, enduring styles that will hold up for many years when lovingly cared for and that can be passed down to the next generation. Today’s furniture industry has good news for those shoppers. You can enjoy your modern furniture and still have classic style.
First, it is important to remember that all furniture was once “modern”. In the nineteenth century, having a bed whose mattress was stuffed with feathers and suspended off the floor on ropes was not unusual. That was one sort of “modern” piece that we are fortunate to have replaced with more comfortable sleeping materials. Other pieces, such as the sofa, the sideboard, even head and footboards, were all once very new. Styles that we think of as classic today were once contemporary.
So when you furnish a room in some of today’s modern furniture, you are creating a new kind of classic. Maybe it won’t seem like “traditional furnishing” now, but when you pass that shocking pink slip chair with its...
Hotels across the country are busy redecorating. With current travel trends tending to be directed as much by the economy as by travel reviews, today’s pennywise travelers are finding ways to save on their accommodations, but that does not mean they are willing to compromise comfort. With fewer travelers booking rooms, hotels are feeling the need to update their look. Thus many are installing innovative amenities and updating hotel furniture in order to increase bookings.
Some hotel chains are advertising their new look, going so far as to name the brand of bedding they’ve switched to in order to lock in the comfort-driven traveler. Others are simply featuring improved hotel décor in their ads and brochures. Since more hotels are becoming “suite” hotels (where you get a bedroom, bathroom and a sitting area), the rooms require more furniture, too. No longer can your host get away with a bed, two end tables, lamps and a dresser in the bedroom plus a fold up suitcase rack. Now they need to furnish a settee, a desk with access to Internet connection and a number of other updated furnishings just to complete the room.
While the cost of redecorating a large hotel can be quite...
Whether you are selling off your old furniture to make room for new, or you operate one of the biggest furniture chains in your area, a furniture sale is only as good as the advertising that entices prospective buyers to your store/location. Oddly, effective methods do not differ tremendously based upon the size of the store. Of course, the larger the furniture sale, the bigger and more expensive the marketing will be, but all furniture outlets need the same thing.
Maybe you’re a big local furniture store needing to liquidate surplus to make room for new stock, or you’re a part of a chain and you’ve gotten a mandate to sell off the “old” stock, you both have the same problem. As a matter of fact, even if you’re a homeowner who just redecorated their dining room has old furniture too nice to throw away that you want to sell; you have the same problem as the big stores, but probably a much smaller budget. Each of you needs customers who are ready to buy.
In a rocky economy, you can spend your entire ad budget on television, or a print campaign. Try thinking smaller and target specific. Pop up banner ads...
Conjure up an image of a conservatory. While it’s true that there are buildings called conservatories of music or of art, most would agree the term more often brings to mind a room with lots of glass, plants and an outside-while-inside sort of feeling. That is precisely what I believe a good conservatory should do. It should make you feel like you are in a garden. The advantage of course, is that your conservatory garden can bloom all year long indoors, no matter how cold it is outside. Disadvantages? Well, of course, conservatory furniture does need to withstand a good deal of humidity.
To cope with the humidity generated within a glassed room filled with plants and water, furniture manufacturers have fine-tuned the construction of items designed for use in these specialized plant rooms. Naturally water resistant materials like bamboo and teak work well for conservatory furniture, as do manmade materials like plastic. Metal furniture requires a special paint or coating to prevent rust, and is not used as commonly as it once was. One very good idea is using glass or tile-topped tables like the ones so often found around swimming pools. They hold up to the humidity and can...
Warm weather means cleaning up that deck and, even more scary, taking the covers off last year’s patio furniture. It never ceases to amaze me how dull and lackluster good patio furniture looks after two seasons in the sun and a couple more under wraps. I noticed this spring that a neighbor of mine has had great idea. She went out and bought some real café furniture for her deck this year. Now her back deck looks like a sidewalk in Paris, without the Eiffel Tower, of course.
This made me start thinking and looking. During the spring, a walk down any of the popular streets in the downtown area will show you the sidewalk cafes and coffee shops opening up their business onto the sidewalks. Colorful umbrellas spring up from wrought iron or tile topped tables. The chairs range from simple and somewhat uncomfortable, to elegant and quite comfy. Still, don’t expect you’ll find any of these at your neighborhood home improvement center. Still, if there is a need, some enterprising individual will find a way to fill it.
Fortunately, a quick look on the world-wide-web turned up a number of vendors selling café furniture of varied types and differing qualities....
Today’s salon furniture is sleek, aerodynamic and extra comfortable. Manufacturers are constantly updating the look and the line of salon décor. Customizing your order allows the salon operator to set his or her shop apart from the competition. Whether its stock or you opt for custom work, make sure you salon’s look is as distinctive as the style you want to give your clients.
From station chairs that raise and lower using hydraulics to prevent pumping with your feet, to sink chairs that have elongated neck cushions to prevent discomfort for the client during rinsing, the furnishings for your salon are as much about your client’s comfort as they are your style. Fortunately, most upscale salon furniture keeps both of these factors in mind during their design process. This allows you an opportunity to furnish your salon with the look you like and the comfort they’ll love.
Of course, salons are not all about work. You’ll need a waiting area, too. Be sure the furniture there is as comfortable and chic as the rest of your shop. Don’t, however, go overboard with plush fabrics that are high maintenance. You’re busy enough cleaning your stations and sinks without having to stop and tend...
I know that I take words a bit too literally. It’s probably part and parcel with being a writer. Still, when I am shopping in a furniture store and I see an item labeled as an “occasional table”, I begin to wonder. If it is only a table on occasion, what is it the rest of the time? Lots of furniture names make you wonder. Loveseats are for more than making out, and they look a lot like a small sofa. Why not just call them small sofas? Okay, I am getting carried away. What I really wanted to talk about was all of the fun you can have with occasional tables all of the time!
Of course, let’s set the record straight. I am fully aware of the fact that they’re called occasional because they can have multiple uses and can be used in different sorts of decors. While I might find their name a bit confusing, I really enjoy the use of an occasional table beside my sofa to hold my carafe of wine and a plate of crackers when guests are around and then that same table in the corner by my sewing chair to hold the lamp...
The term “living room” conjures up different images for different people. Some see it as a neat, pristine, lovingly cared for room without a spec of dust. For them the living room has fine furniture and elegant details. In short, it is a room that would frighten both insolent dust and curious small children away. For persons more like me, the living room is a place where you and your family “live”.
Part of what makes a livable living room is as uniquely personal as you. You know what you like and what sort of style you wish to convey. Still, you cannot miss when you shop around and find comfortable, easy-to-care-for living room furniture. While this less formal furniture can be stylish, it should also be sturdy. Find a sofa that is great not only because it looks good. Find one that is great because it can comfortably hold one adult, three six-year-olds and a wimpy dog while they watch a horror movie? That’s a great start.
Of course, kids and dogs, even husbands, can be taught how to behave in the living room. Those who prefer the stiff, more formal look are welcome to that task. I believe that I’d...
During the heyday of Victorian high etiquette, the hall was the area of the house, not dissimilar to a foyer, where guests were greeted by the staff and then either bid to wait or informed that the owners of the home were unavailable. During these days, there was a table for the leaving of calling cards. Today’s halls are a lot less formal and serve more uses than those from the past. Still, the right hall furniture can welcome your callers just the same.
While hall tables have gone out of fashion, you’ll find plenty of antique-lovers have them. Today’s new versions are versatile. Instead of long flat surfaces to display cards, these modern hall tables have slots for mail going in and out, a place for a phone and maybe even a charging station for the plethora of electronic devices that have to recharge somewhere.
Lots of halls have coat trees for hanging coats, jackets, scarves, etc. during chilly inclement weather. Some just use hooks suspended from a mirror hung on a hall wall. This provides a place to check your make up and grab your sweater on the way out. The “hall tree”, the Victorian answer to the umbrella stand...
