When planning your kitchen ideas, your kitchen flooring needs to perform on many levels – durability, safety and ease of cleaning – and of course, it must look great too, so give it as much consideration as your cabinetry. Flooring ideas should always work together with the rest of the room, so a great place to start in the kitchen is taking the look and material of your units into consideration when picking flooring....
While there’s certainly nothing wrong with this approach, you can upgrade even the most simple of gifts you find online into something super special and bespoke-feeling. By choosing an extra, complementary present to accompany the main event, you’re personalizing your gift for the recipient in a thoughtful way that not only suggests effort but love. Here are five of our favorite last-minute personalized gift ideas – they’ll make someone’s Christmas....
If you have, or have ever had, a long, narrow garden, then you’ll be more than aware of the tricky task of finding small garden ideas that make it look wider than it actually is, while desperately trying to ensure every corner looks pretty yet functional. You’ve probably spent hours rearranging garden furniture and trimming back hedges in a frenzied attempt to make your narrow garden space look more square, but in the back of your mind you know that, unless you move house, there’s just little you can do....
While home studies often conjure up images of traditional, often masculine spaces, complete with dark wooden desks and burgundy leather armchairs, our modern home office ideas prove just how simple it is to design a workspace that is in keeping with the rest of your contemporary home. Modern home office ideas Modern home office ideas Whether a permanent shift to home working has inspired a home office redesign, you have recently moved house to allow for a more suitable workspace, or you’re looking for an easy way to fit a workstation into your home, our modern home office ideas and home office design tips promise to provide plenty of inspiration....
Enter Morning, whose coffee maker is trying to change all that. Originally funded through Kickstarter, their coffee maker offers total precision in your pod coffee. This machine lets you control the temperature and length of your coffee to the exact degree. It’s unlike any other pod coffee on the market. Morning go so far as to say that this machine is ’the new standard in the home coffee experience’. We can’t let a claim like that go untested, so we brought the Morning Coffee Maker into the Homes & Gardens test kitchen and put it through the wringer....
In interior design, the areas of a room scheme where there’s an absence are as important as those where there are objects. This negative space allows us to see the chosen pieces clearly, and the eye to rest in between them. To harness the benefits of negative space in every interior, take a look at this room-by-room guide. See: Interior design tips – decorating secrets for the world’s top experts...
On the one hand, Vitamix is synonymous with quality. They’re such good blenders that they’re used in commercial settings. There’s a fair chance that if you sneak a peek over the counter at your local smoothie place you’ll find a Vitamix making your favorite drinks. On the other hand, there’s Nutribullet - a household name offering budget-friendly blending. However, they’re more often associated with infomercials and quick, unfussy blending. Thanks to hands-on experience from our expert testers, I’ll set out the important differences between two of the best blenders on the market, and crucially, which one you should buy....
