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Over winter months mirrors add two essential elements to darker rooms – space and light – a combination of practical and aesthetic qualities which makes mirrored furniture a popular choice amongst homeowners. Homes & Bargains offers a reasonably priced range of Venetian mirrored glass furniture with Contemporary Dressing Table and Stool sets such as the one pictured priced at an enticing £249. Log onto Homesandbargains.co.uk to view the full range.

With over twenty years experience, Kathy Andon really knows her soft furnishings. Hand-making everything from curtains, blinds and pelmets to bed spreads, loose covers and more, her shop in Maida Vale is a real hive of industry. Roman blinds interlined with black out lining start from £135 and curtains lined and interlined from £65 per width. And until the end of November readers can benefit from 20 per cent discount on all curtain and blind orders. To claim just visit Kathy Andon Interiors 45 Elgin Avenue, Maida Vale, W9 3PP (020 7286 1007).Kathyandoninteriors.co.uk

This Fantome Clock designed by Yee-Ling Wan for Innermost combines the feel of an old carriage clock with a modern optical illusion, to give a thoroughly ghostly feel this Halloween. And Post Modern Designs is offering to give one (worth £85) away to each of five lucky readers. Just send your contact details to info@postmoderndesigns.co.uk or click on the link of the homepage at Postmoderndesigns.co.uk before 14 November 2007. The winner will be picked at random and contacted by email on 16 November 2007. Those who don’t win will be able to purchase the clock for a reduced price of £65 until 31 November 07.

Going retro is all well and good, when it comes to your sofas though, you don’t really want some clapped out old model from the 30s – you want something new and retro-inspired. Informed by the furniture designs of the Art Deco period in Europe and America, Retro Sofas offers a wide range of sofas, chairs and footstools based on original designs. Vibrant and unusual, these vintage leather sofas also offer excellent value for money – with selected pieces permanently reduced by up to 40 per cent.

But it's not all about aesthetics - sofas here are built to last with the finest, hand-stitched Italian pull up leather, and a traditional hardwood frame construction. Keeping comfort a priority, each piece is supported by Pirelli, mechanically-tensioned webbing and top quality German springs. Its best selling "Jean Renoir" 1930s style Art Deco sofa (available as one, two or three seater chairs) features swept arms and is available in a choice of colours and contrasting piping.

This armchair is priced at £395 instead of the usual £795, and with a 10 per cent discount across the range for readers, it’s just £355.50. Just call 020 7381 9027, email sales@retrosofas.co.uk or visit Retro Sofas, 225 Munster Road, Fulham, SW6 before 30 November 2007.Retrosofas.co.uk

A fast growing furniture company, David Phillips provides a unique service to the property community offering a next day delivery service (within the M25) for furniture and appliances. Well known in London and Edinburgh among property professionals, all furniture is fully assembled and installed for you, and the team will even plumb in washing machines or take away old furniture.

And David Phillips has just launched a new addition to the company ‘David Phillips Design Classics’. This comprises a range of top quality furniture inspired by the designs of 20th century greats such as Mies van der Rohe, Arne Jacobsen and Florence Knoll. These Charles Eames inspired office chairs (priced from £339) are available in black, chocolate or white and follow the original design as closely as possible.

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Here are just some of the tradespeople you have recommended this week:

• Hallmark Building Contractors, offering a vast range of building, architectural & advisory services. Based in Hertfordshire, covering all London and SE England. Call 01923 270 037 or visit Hallmarkbuildingcontractors.com
• Rae Carpentry Services, experts specialising in bespoke furniture also offering general carpentry. Based in N London, covering all London. Call 020 7359 6484 or visit Raecarpentry.com
• IT 1-4, providing 1st class computer repair and installations for domestic and small businesses. Based in N London, covering all London. Call 020 8444 2299 or visit It14.co.uk
• Jeff Kahane, professional and imaginative site-specific architectural firm. Based in EC London, covering all London. Call 020 7336 0990 or visit Jeffkahane.com

If you haven’t had time to dig out pumpkins with the kids this Halloween, you can pick up these faux-pumpkin tealight holders from John Lewis on your way home instead. Priced at only £4, they are great accessory to take trick or treating, and they won’t be left rotting away on your window sill over the coming week. Call 08456 049 049 or visit Johnlewis.com

In terms of investments for the home, you can’t do much better than a set of quality solid wood shutters. Highly aesthetic and practical, these could greatly enhance the value of your home.

Established since 1982, the Plantation Shutters’ range has evolved to include a number of unique features - hidden fixings, rebated panels and mortise and tenon joints – making them the strongest, most efficient and user friendly shutters on the market. Every shutter receives 7/8 coats of paint ensuring they won’t fade in the sun, and Plantation Shutters can also match any colour for a small additional cost per colour.

These full height white Lockwood shutters with 64mm slats are priced from £240 per square metre, but Craftwood shutters start from just £185. And for all really Useful readers who mention this column when ordering before 31 November 2007, there’s a 10 per cent discount. Call 020 8871 9222/9333 or visit their state of the art showroom at Unit 4 St Georges Court, 131 Putney Bridge Road, SW15 2PA. Plantation-shutters.co.uk

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Stickers don’t usually tend to be associated with glamour – more something you’d tell the kids off for when you find them stuck to your new paintwork. But that all changes with these new self-adhesive wall stickers from Purlfrost. Better known for its window film, its wall stickers come in a choice of patterns, colours and finishes and can be easily applied to glass, metal, plastic or walls. A smart and affordable way to bring liven up your interior, these seasonal Leaves stickers cost £12.99 for a pack of 14 leaves. Purlfrost.com

Interior solutions at unbeatable prices is the tag line at The Furniture Market, where you will find a vast range of furniture styles: Brooklyn Oak, Harvard Oak, Giavellie Glass, Chateau French and much, much more. The prices live up to the promise, and with its ongoing sale you can benefit from added savings with pieces such as this Brooklyn Oak 5ft Panel Bed down from £500 to an unrivalled £259.Call 01829 759 259 or visit Thefurnituremarket.co.uk

We all know the importance of saving energy – it can still seem like a lot of effort though, which is why Thinkinsulation.com is such a great website. Clear and well laid out, it offers genuinely useful information and tips on how to improve your home’s energy efficiency, help reduce harmful emissions and save money whilst you’re at it. Find out how insulation works, why it is the most cost-effective and sustainable energy saving product you can buy and what types of insulation would work best for you. Thinkinsulation.com

Make a donation to charity whilst you do your Christmas shopping with a visit to the Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres’ annual Christmas Fair, taking place at Kensington Town Hall tomorrow. Hand-crafted Venetian glass jewellery, Christmas decorations from Deck the Halls, children’s clothes from Lucky Me, Fairtrade gifts from The Chocolate Elephant and antique fabrics the Cloth Shop will all be available with a collection of delicious food stalls giving you the chance to stock up the cupboards for Christmas. Maggie’s Centres Christmas Fair takes place from 11am to 9.30pm. Entry is free with a suggested donation of £1. Ten per cent of all takings on the day will be donated to Maggie’s Centres. For more information, contact Leah on 020 7381 3270 or visit Maggiescentres.org

With plans for another NASA space shuttle mission to the moon in 2018, and space tourism an ever more likely possibility this century, it’s time to get a piece of the action. This new Indesit Moon washing machine may not take you into space - but it will get your clothes nice and clean. It features a cutting edge design, user friendly technology and choice of 4 different programmes, and Indesit is giving one (worth £299) away to each of two lucky readers. Just send your contact details to moon@bravepr.com before 5th November 2007.The winners will be picked at random and contacted by phone/email by 7th November 2007.If you do not want your contact details to be kept by the company, write NO clearly after your name. Indesitmoon.co.uk

A fun and surprisingly handy website, Yahoo! Answers provides an interactive platform to indulge in one of man’s best virtues; curiosity.

With helpful categories such as the home and garden, health and computers to the more adventurous and opinionated such as politics, social sciences and parenting, Yahoo! Answers can be seen (in most areas) as a little treasure trove of handy tips and information. The premise it is based on is easy, you ask a question and one or many of it’s thousands of users answers the query. Of course you can’t always guarantee the accuracy of the answer, but for most part it is amazing to see how helpful and knowledgeable people are. So whether you are after a solution to get that grease stain out of your dry clean only jacket, the best way to lay carpet or wash your dog, click here to see if you can find it on Yahoo! Answers.

In its sixty years in business, BoundaryBathrooms.co.uk has accrued massive buying power, which it leverages to offer considerable savings to customers. It stocks a huge choice of top-brand bathroom products which can all be viewed online at Boundarybathrooms.co.uk.

With luxury bathrooms so often carrying the luxury price tag, it is refreshing to see BoundaryBathrooms.co.uk offering huge savings on quality products - and that is without accounting for the exclusive discounts currently on offer to readers. A comforting investment over the grimmer winter months, this FIR028 Infrared  two-person SaniSauna usually costs £1,499 but is available at Boundary Bathrooms for just £629. Alternatively, the Sanisteam GL30S Steam Shower - complete with inbuilt stereo and foot massager - offers the full professional spa treatment, and is available at £795 instead of the usual £2,995.

And there is an added 10 per cent discount for readers across the FIR SaniSauna range, just quote this article when ordering online, by phone (0845 223 0421) before 15 November 2007.

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