The Daily Telegraph / House & Garden Fair 2007 is the UK’s most prestigious event for interior and garden design. From bathrooms to bedrooms, gourmet food to garden furniture, the Fair brings you an unprecedented line up of exhibitors all carefully handpicked by House & Garden to ensure the highest quality products, most of which you will not find on the High Street.
For anyone passionate about interiors and gardens, the Fair is an excellent opportunity to see the very latest classic and contemporary designs from many of the country’s most prominent designers. And with numerous interactive seminars and talks going on throughout the Fair, visitors can gather a whole host of expert tips and advice to take home with them.
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The South West’s brightest design-led furniture showroom uncovers this year’s must have furniture designs
Choosing furniture for your home can prove a tricky business with a number of important factors to consider such as size, shape, colour, style and feel. Not forgetting the very important issues of practicality and comfort, what should be an enjoyable shopping experience can easily become a time consuming and daunting task. (more…)
When it comes to decorating a child’s room, bunk beds and beanbag chairs just don’t cut it anymore.
If giving Junior his own space wasn’t enough, it now must be furnished with the latest and greatest designs. Who’s behind this bedroom bedlam? An army of tiny Braticus Finches demanding better living conditions?
Try parents and grandparents who insist they deserve it and manufacturers happy to accommodate them. (more…)
University of Southern Mississippi interior design students can add building a house to their syllabus this semester.
Thirty-four students from the interior design program will install, chalk, hammer, saw, finish, paint, build and clean their way toward their required volunteer hours, all while helping Hurricane Katrina victims through Habitat for Humanity. Students begin construction Feb. 10 on the home that will be built on Annie Christie Street in Hattiesburg.
The collaboration between the program and organization was a coincidence, said assistant professor Claire Hamilton. (more…)
Converting an old barn into a home seemed like a lofty idea to his co-workers, but Junior Baker didn’t listen.
For 30 years, he had the design all figured out even down to the circular driveway where he’d park his pick-up and the stone wall out front.
“It’s just something I always wanted to do,” said Baker, 54. “I had it in my head. There was no looking in magazines or any of that stuff.”
No blueprints or rough sketches – just an idea and a man willing to work to attain it.
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