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When you are looking to furnish your new property or indeed re-furnish your property then coffee tables can often be something you may want. They offer a variety of benefits including places to put drinks (coffee!), food, nibbles, you can rest your feet on them if you want and they are also compact. Coffee tables come in a variety of sizes, shapes and materials. Many people think wooden coffee tables suit their home best but then again many people would prefer glass tables. Whichever material table you choose, it will most likely provide you with a handy place to put drinks and anything else you might want to put there.

When you are looking for a new sofa or suite (whichever you prefer to call it) some people decide on the size they want and also a material. Sometimes buying a sofa can often give you benefits such as getting a 2 seat sofa at half price to match your 3 seater, or even an armchair in for free. There are many different options to look at, some sofas come with a buy now and pay in a year offer, so that if you can’t afford one initially you can pay later. Then there is the material to consider, do you want leather? Certain materials are more expensive and the best bit is, the choice is yours!

One of the most exciting things about getting your new place is furnishing for the first time. You may want your dream bed, your dream sofa, a fantastic table and chairs dining set and much more. However if you are on a budget you may want to identify the items you need to be your favourites – and get the best you can, other items you may want to look for cheaper alternatives, often there are swap sites and freebies you can get. Obviously you will want a new bed but in terms of tables, wardrobes etc you could consider second hand stuff unti you can afford something better.

If you are looking to furnish a house then there are so many options available to you. Many people like a modern look to their house or apartment, offering clean pastel colours and striking furniture. One fantastic option is to go for antique furniture for your new place. Antique furniture can come in all shapes and sizes, colours, patterns and materials. There are suites/sofas and couches that are antique, armchairs, cabinets and much more. Wooden chests are my personal favourites along with antique dressers. Dressers can look great in any lounge or kitchen and give the room a fantastic feature to be proud of.

If you are looking to furnish your lounge with a new suite/sofa or whatever you prefer to call it (there are many versions!) then you will need to know what colours and styles will match your room. Maybe you are planning on re-decorating the whole room in which case you can paint the walls and buy furniture to complement one another. Personally I think a lovely dark brown leather sofa looks great with duck egg blue painted walls. Then you can buy extra furniture to go around your new suite including tables, lamps and electrical appliances such as televisions. The choice is yours however!

Im sure we have all done it, sat there dreaming about how we would spend the outcome of a huge Lottery win.

You draw up your list of cars, houses, holidays etc and then it comes to filling the house with a load of trendy furniture. It got me thinking of how the ‘other’ half live and all the interesting things you could have.

Anyway, the two things that really caught my eye were :

1. Magnetic floating bed – costs around $1.5 million and allows the user to sleep on the floating mattress which sits 40cm off the floor and can hold up to 900kg.  Visually its stunning, but obviously comes at a cost.

2. Chair by Pininfarina – the famous Italian car manufacturer has designed what has been described as the world’s comfiest chair.  Again at a shade over $1.5million it comes at a price.

Best start adding to the list though as I am feeling lucky this week, could be time to win the lottery I think !!

I recently found myself lay in bed thinking how boring my room had got and that really i should do something about it.  It seems to happen on a recurring basis and find myself re-arranging furniture just for the sake of it.

So if you are looking at doing your bedroom, what do you look at moving first ??

For me it is all about where the bed sits, its the focal point of the room and everything should really revolve around it.  I would love to say that its something to do with Feng Shui, but its more personal opinion than anything.

Would be good to know what other people’s views are on organisation of rooms.

Where do you start?  How much planning goes into it ?

let me know your thoughts

I hear on the grapevine that retro furniture is the new fad amongst the trendy generation around the country.  But as times change so fast, I have to ask what exactly constitutes being retro furniture nowadays.  If you tap ‘retro furniture’ into Google you come up with all manner of strange shaped chairs.

They vary from Egg and Pod chairs which I am still yet to decide whether they would be comfy, through to American Diner seating which is styled on the 1950’s.

I guess its all a question of taste, I know I personally would cringe at the thought of diner seating in any part of my home, especially when in theory this is a bit of a luxury purchase.

What would be acceptable in your front room ??

The new year has started and many of us will have sat down written our new year’s resolutions. One of the most popular will be re-arranging your house and starting a new year with a fresh look in the home. So if you are going to be undertaking this then I think the following points should be taken into consideration :

• gauge how heavy the furniture is – is it beyond capabilities of people moving it ?
• journey of movement – is it clear?, potential damage to fixtures and fittings ?
• sharp edges covered on furniture – don’t want to catch walls or other parts of house !!

When all this has been taken into account you should also be thinking about yourself when lifting.  Ensure that your knees are bent and arms locked when you are lifting.  Take the weight through your legs and slowly move as a unit if there are more than one of you lifting.

Overall, just take your time and you should eventually get there, with both unscratched furniture and walls, also minus a sore back !!

So being someone who suffers from a bad back, and having recently started a new job where i had a workstation risk assessment, it got me thinking about what would be the best form of seating.

I have seen lots of articles relating to posture, be it the angle that your feet are at to help with circulation or that you use a back rest to ensure you are not slouched in your chair.

But possibly the best I have seen is one of those kneeling chairs that has no back to it. I think it would take a bit of getting used to, but the principle behind it is that you attain the most natural posture while sat at your desk.

Maybe its time I contacted the facilities department, so that they can place my order.