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• Improving your home September 2, 2020
  September is National Home Improvement month, an initiative, funnily enough, designed to get us to improve our homes during September! Joking aside, a survey of 2011 UK home owners by the British Home Improvement Trade Association, the body behind the campaign, found that 31% had decided during lockdown to update their home’s style. What is […]
• Colourful Floors August 21, 2020
  Adding colour to a room can change it’s look and feel and have a profound effect on one’s state of mind. Vibrant shades create an uplifting mood and when it comes to colour, red is the real ‘diva’. The trend towards warmer tones is set to continue into the Autumn and as well as red, […]
• Shop Local Week August 13, 2020
  Shop Local Week This week is Shop Local Week when shoppers are being urged to hit their high street and support local businesses. Nearly one million shops filled bustling Victorian high streets but the 1980’s saw a big change to ‘out of town’ shopping malls. Some say it is ‘high noon’ on the high street […]
• National Flooring Show to go Ahead July 1, 2020
  The organisers have confirmed that The National Flooring Show will definitely go ahead on 20-22 September in Harrogate – but possibly at the Great Yorkshire Showground as the  Convention Centre has, since April, been converted into a Nightingale Hospital. Although as yet unused, the Government reserves the right to retain the facility to help support […]
• Support Local Businesses June 18, 2020
  As more shops are now open, please support your local high street and improve the local economy. Local businesses are the backbone of the national economy and are at the heart of their local communities. They will play a pivotal role in our economic recovery. You are assured of great customer service from people who […]
• First Impressions Count June 10, 2020
  First impressions count. Stair runners are great for injecting personality to your home as well as reducing the clatter of footsteps up and down the stairs. Eyecatching and welcoming, they are also a way of adding a stylish splash of colour. They do, however, experience heavy footfall, on a daily basis, so you need a […]
• Lockdown Trends June 8, 2020
  We started lockdown with a look at 10 reasons to be cheerful, now, 10 weeks in, how many have these buying trends have you succumbed to? Week One: Loo roll. In spite of no evidence that Covid 19 symptoms required more paper, supermarket trollies bulged with mountains of loo paper! Week Two: Flour. Baking became […]
• Lobbying Government May 13, 2020
  The following letter was sent, individually, on Monday 20th April to Messrs: Gove, Raab, Hancock and Sunak (the lockdown committee Ministers), Mark Garnier (the CF local MP), The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Trade Press. Keeping the UK carpet industry World-leaders is an all too often made claim by organisations.  However, […]
• Children cooking during lockdown April 16, 2020
  Like many, we have got our children cooking one meal a week each during lockdown. Bearing in mind they are 23 and 20 and both at university, one may be forgiven for thinking (or hoping) that they had learnt some cooking skills. Clearly not! All I can say is that it is like being a […]
• Interiors could boom April 10, 2020
  With all of us confined to barracks at the moment, interior decorating could be set for a mini-boom when we emerge from these dreadful times as we see things we would like to change or improve in our homes. Added to that, we will be missing out on holidays this year and some of that […]