Home & Garden Archive
Sep 6, 2024
Sofas & Stuff
A harmonious & bountiful home
Designed and printed in Britain on beautifully tactile 100% linen, these stunning floral designs are now available by the metre for curtains, blinds, cushions, and other soft furnishing projects, as well as across Sofas & Stuff’s range of upholstered furniture, allowing you to create harmonious and unique interiors.
Sofas & Stuff is renowned for its meticulously handcrafted upholstered furniture, produced at their Lancashire factory. Now, the company is broadening its offering by making all its exclusive fabric designs, including those created in partnership with the V&A and th...
May 17, 2024
Dene Wood, Head Gardener at Clumber Park.
Whatever The Weather
There’s a saying that May gets its name because it ‘may’ scorch, it ‘may’ rain or it ‘may’ snow. Monitoring the forecast for late frosts, windy days, and dry spells pays dividends.
Mar 25, 2024
Dene Wood, Head Gardener at Clumber Park.
Spring Sowing
The shortest day has passed, and spring is inbound. While this is soul-nourishing news, do try to savour the winter months. The long shadows and the breath-taking sunrises and sunsets that bookend our day are obvious highlights. Snowdrops, Iris and Daffodil provide most of the flower now, but it won’t be long before the Blackthorn lights up our hedgerows with its blossom.
With longer nights receding and the vernal equinox imminent, we can dream of almost double the daylight hours of December. This warming light promotes the soil temperatures that allow our early garden plants to grow. Arou...
Mar 5, 2024
Sofas & Stuff
Threads Of India
Bespoke British furniture and fabric brand, Sofas & Stuff, is delighted to unveil their much-anticipated Threads of India collection, created in collaboration with the V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum). The collection draws inspiration from the illustrious archive of South Asian textiles at the V&A, celebrating India’s timeless textiles and global influence, and elevating luxury living spaces with a touch of history. It is the company’s third collaboration with the V&A, building on the success of the Brompton Collection and the Drawn from Nature Collection.
Mar 4, 2024
Ripples Nottingham
Bathroom Planning Perfection
Planning Layout & Space Always evaluate available space and determine the best layout for your bathroom. There might be restrictions such as plumbing locations, waste pipes, windows, doors, ceiling hight, etc. Don’t let any of these stop you from designing your dream. There are almost always solutions, and you can even turn those constraints to opportunities! During the creative design process, we take everything into consideration, such as incorporating architectural elements like vaulted ceilings, skylights, or floor-to-ceiling windows to create an airy and open feel.
Jan 12, 2024
Dene Wood, Head Gardener at Clumber Park.
New Year Gardening
The shortest day has passed, and spring is inbound. While this is soul-nourishing news, do try to savour the winter months. The long shadows and the breath-taking sunrises and sunsets that bookend our day are obvious highlights. Snowdrops, Iris and Daffodil provide most of the flower now, but it won’t be long before the Blackthorn lights up our hedgerows with its blossom.
Jan 4, 2024
Ripples Nottingham
The Ripples Effect
What defines a luxury bathroom? To answer this question, first we review the definition of ‘luxury’. Traditionally, we associate a luxury item with the level of its quality, exclusivity and even the price tag.
Although scarcity and exclusivity of a product or service are fundamental foundations on which the idea of luxury is based, this is not what we actually mean in the bathroom industry, as a matter of fact, there are many important characteristics, which define a luxury bathroom.
What are the characteristics of a luxury bathroom? I believe one of the most important characterist...
Nov 7, 2023
Ripples Nottingham
Designing A Shower Space
With so many styles and options to choose from, designing a shower space can be overwhelming.
Sep 8, 2023
Dene Wood, Head Gardener at Clumber Park.
Autumn Gardening
Your soil is now warm enough to encourage root growth and stays consistently moist so is the perfect time for planting most perennials, shrubs and trees. With bareroot season near, think about taking advantage of cheaper plants sold this way.