Check out Architectural Salvage Yards for otherwise expensive and bespoke items for your home renovation or interior design project. They are full of hard to get, quality one-off pieces that could otherwise be out of reach on a standard home renovation / interior makeover budget. Items that are always in stock and are of superb quality and value for every home project and are easy to re-use, include: Free Standing / Claw Baths – these can be re-enamelled professionally, to come up ‘good as new’; Fireplaces in materials such as Marble and Iron; High Quality Solid Wood Internal doors; St ..read more

If you have been trying hard - but failing at deciding on a tile for a classic and timeless bathroom in your home - one that’s going to last the test of time…then look no further than the ‘Metro’ or ‘Subway’ Tile. Designed in 1904, by George Heins & Christopher La Farge for the first subway station in New York City, they were and still are an instant classic. These perfectly proportioned 3” x 6” rectangular tiles, were originally designed in gloss white ceramic, to reflect maximum light around these dark, underground spaces. The tile was also designed to be hygienic, easy to clean and not ..read more

If you have ever had carpet on a staircase in your home, you’ll know that it wears out faster than anywhere else in the house, due to all that lovely foot traffic and rubbing off the edge of each step. Worse still, when the stairs carpet wears thin, the matching landing carpet has to be thrown out too, often doubling the cost of replacing the carpet on the stairs - unless you can still get the exact match of carpet from your carpet supplier, in the exact same shade. We all know that is unlikely after a number of years.  In this age of sustainability consciousness, it makes sense to future ..read more