Blogs

Your sofa is the heart of your living room, the piece everyone gathers around and the one that sets the tone for the whole space. So when it comes to choosing a colour, getting it right matters. And 2026 is shaping up to be an exciting year, with a clear shift away from the cool, flat greys that have dominated British homes for over a decade. Th...

Velvet has a reputation for being fussy. Pale, plush and unforgiving, it's the fabric people admire in a showroom and then worry about the moment a glass of red wine appears. The reputation is only half deserved. Velvet chair cleaning is mostly about doing a few gentle things regularly and knowing what to avoid. Get that right and velvet is more...

A dining table works harder than almost anything else in the house. It's a homework desk on Tuesday, a laptop station on Wednesday and the centre of a full Sunday roast by the weekend. Add an extension leaf into the mix and you've also got moving parts that need looking after. The good news is that caring for a wooden extendable dining table doe...