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Quality wood shutters not only enhance the overall appearance and design-look of your home, but can also add to value to your property. A specialist in this area, Shaftesbury Blinds & Shutters  have options to suit most looks and budgets – and is currently holding a January sale offering up to 50 per cent off selected shutter ranges.

Vancouver Shutters are reduced from £440 to £220 per square metre, Phoenix Shutters are reduced to just £188 per square metre, and the Phoenix Blinds down from £105 to £89.25 per square metre (excludes fitting).

With Christmas just around the corner and the New Year knocking at our door, we just can’t afford to have disruptions around the house. But what about that decorating job that you desperately need to complete?

Competitively priced carpets are available all year round from Gilt Edge Carpets, so it rarely needs sales. A family company with a wealth of knowledge, it provides free advice and an expert planning, estimating and fitting service. Choose from wool, velvets, Seagrass, Jute – even Bamboo or Paper. It can also offer Vinyl, Lino, Rubber or Laminate flooring at prices starting from as little as £10 per square metre.

Good quality doors and windows are paramount to the overall look of your home – especially over winter months. But if you don’t want to pay a fortune, it is worth looking up Frames Direct Ltd. From bi-folding doors and sash windows to garage doors and conservatories, Frames Direct Ltd delivers the highest standards. And with security an every growing concern amongst city dwellers, it is reassuring to know that all windows feature insurance approved multi-locking systems for safer security.

Thinking of selling your home this year?

Whilst you can’t match the charm and appeal of sash windows, they can be cause for headache. But Sliding Sash Solutions aims to help with a complete overhaul service for sash windows that virtually eliminates draughts and rattles, reduces outside noise and increases security. Priced from £225 per window ,  with a reduced five per cent VAT due to its energy saving credentials, the company is offering readers a free set of restrictor locks (£31.50, including fitting) for each sash window overhaul booked - assurance that your sash windows maintain the highest level of security.

The refreshingly simple and well laid out website shuttershop.co.uk makes choosing and ordering your shutters easy and stress-free – and I’m all for home improvements that tick those boxes.

A stalwart in the business for over 18 years, The Shutter Shop is one of the biggest suppliers of traditional interior wooden shutters, offering Basswood (a premium North American Basswood), Lockwood (American sustainably sourced hardwood), and Craftwood shutters (made from engineered timber) in a variety of styles, and in many

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.

For the last fifty years, Northolt Village in North West London has been home to the family owned timber door business, Todd Doors.

An acknowledged expert in its field, Todd Doors has a vast showroom boasting a display of over 300 doors, combined with a choice of over 1,000 ironmongery designs, ranging from the increasingly popular satin chrome finishes to the designer “dual” finish range.