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Perfect timing for getting the house spick and span for Christmas, on Homes and Bargains this month you can win a year's supply of cleaning products from Ozkleen.co.uk. To read more about this competition and to be in with a chance of winning, click here to visit Homesandbargains.co.uk.

If you've had your finger off the pulse, bamboo is in.  So it's a case of right place, right time for Simply Bamboo. Working closely with its manufacturers, Simply Bamboo ensures a colour consistency, standard of product and some of the lowest prices around. Floorboards start from £15.95 per square metre (excluding VAT), and readers can claim a 10 per cent discount across the entire range.

As the clearance warehouse of Sarsen Stone Group, one of the UK’s biggest suppliers of native and imported natural stone, Stoneworth has an unrivalled access to a huge range of floor and wall coverings, and can offer some of the best prices around. Real stone starts from as little as £18 per square metre (plus vat), and if you find a better deal elsewhere, Stoneworth will beat it by 10 per cent. This Fyfield Limestone Flagstones with a distressed finish are priced at £50 (were £75 per square metre, plus vat).

Planning a bathroom re-vamp for the New Year?

A handy website for the building trade especially those who are in the business of restoration, Source4me.co.uk is an online and telephone based builder’s merchant which specialises in sourcing unusual and hard to locate building materials. Easy to use it works by acquiring after a product, either online or by phone, which is then followed up by a member of the team.

A fairly new company already making its mark, The Real Paintbox Company offers real hand painted swatches to help you choose the colour and finish best suited to your home. The paint itself is durable and washable, environmentally friendly and of the highest quality, but sold at high street prices. A swatch box with 295 colour sticks is priced from approximately £76.37 and a 1 litre pot of Matt Interior Paint from £12.93. Next day delivery is available and orders over 15 litres to one address are free.

It is amazing what a difference your choice of flooring can make to the overall look and feel of your home. Whilst carpet will make large rooms feel cosier, wood flooring really opens up the space in smaller abodes. A great place to go for wood flooring, The Natural Wood Floor Company offers an unrivalled range of 160 different types of wood, and it can offer regular deals on job lots of wood flooring.

Roof looking rough? Drains looking damaged? Then Aspect Maintenance is one to put on speed dial. A leading property maintenance company, it covers all trades, enabling it to deal with any maintenance issue you might have in your home or office.
 

A cosy pair of slippers is the usual order over chillier months.  Those hankering after the barefooted freedom of summer, however, should invest in some underfloor heating. Simple and cost-effective to install, DEVI has worked with tape manufacturer, Tesa, to develop the new devimat, complete with a unique ultra-strong adhesive. Helping to avoid the floating or uneven surfaces that can often result from badly secured underfloor heating, the devimat features adhesive on both sides to ensure that the mat stays in place for good.

Whether you are flicking though the pages of a glossy magazine, or scanning an estate agents’ window, your eye is inevitably drawn to the properties with wooden floors.

There are only three days remaining at Surface Tiles' Spring sale, and it's well worth popping down to check out the deals.  New ranges such as this Globe tile (normally £68.09, now £47.66 per square metre) at special introductory prices, and reductions of up to 30 per cent for tiles and mosaics. And, if you order more than £500 worth of tiles, we'll work out how much grout you'll need and give it to you for free. Just visit 60 Queenstown Road, Battersea, SW8 3RY (020 7819 2300) or 3 Central Avenue, West Molesey KT8 2QZ (020 8481 9588). Sale ends 26 May 2007.

I often find that people are so busy doing up their interiors that they completely forget about their exterior – and cracked or faded masonry is not a good look. This Bank Holiday though might be the perfect excuse to get stuck into a paint job. But, if the thought of a paint pot and brush effort seems daunting, Dulux has the perfect alternative in the form of its new Weathershield Easysprayer (£25.99), and its specially developed Easyspray masonry paint (£25.99/ five litres). Easy to assemble and apply, the paint takes just two hours to dry but offers protection for up to 15 years.

Cracked planter? Broken fence? Or is the bracket loose on your hanging basket?

What with MySpace and Facebook and blogging, websites are becoming more and more interactive. But it’s not all about angry monologues and wannabe rock stars. The newly launched Tile Click website marks the start of a new feature, called the ‘Virtual Tiler’. The first online retailer to have a direct link to the manufacturer’s software, this enables customers to design their own tile patterns from the comfort of their own home.