There’s been a fair amount of controversy over outdoor gas heaters and fires and just how unfriendly they are to the environment and global warming.
But now there’s an alternative… established in Australia 2002, The Fire Company have been leading the way in terms of innovation and style when it comes to outdoor open fireplaces.
They are fuelled by a renewable modern energy (Denatured Ethanol - absolute alcohol/ Methylated Spirits), which burns clean and is virtually maintenance free.
Tower fire:
Size: H1403mm x W420mm x D420mm
Price: £3,755
It has a stainless steel burner and a toughened glass surround for safety.
High-end personal plant design service Leaf-it-at-home, has come up with something rather different this Christmas. They’re offering a gift that seems to be the only one of its kind. Their Christmas gift voucher (£275) gives the lucky recipient the chance to experience an ‘interior landscaping makeover’ in their very own home.
This involves a personal design consultation with an experienced plant designer at their home, as well as a bespoke planting plan and pictorial summary of the design plan that they conjure up. They also get a £100 voucher to be spent on plants. The voucher is enclosed in a tasteful presentation gift box so that your loved one has something to unwrap on the big day, and it comes with a luxurious banana fibre notebook so that they can start jotting down their initial ideas. It’s certainly a bit different to your average gift! Leaf-it-at-home is the UK’s leading interior plant design company, offering a personal interior landscaping service.
The company’s experienced designers can create luxury and focal points in a single room, a studio flat to a house or castle! Stunning plants have never been so accessible. For clients it’s a hassle free service! Vouchers must be ordered before December 16th 2008 to arrive in time for Christmas.
Summer is a time for garden entertaining and what better way to do so than in an Evitavonni BeHive. Seating 12 – 20 guests the BeHive provides the perfect garden intimacy for you and your guests.
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Superbly supported, the seating base fabric adapts to the shape of your body and is strong enough to be walked across to any of the four exits.
Shown here with the Corral table inserted into the cut out centre, users can sit straight when dining with their feet on the ground. Alternatively you can lie or sit up against the cushions around the edges. A sense of playfulness and versatility is at the heart of this range as it can radiate different colours using special filters. The Corral table can be bought on its own as a separate table or hung upside down as a light.
The BeHive comprises several parts and has lots of extra options including sun roofs, stairs and curtains. Retail price starts at £11,985 ($23,500).
We stumbled across these little beauties recently and simply fell in love with the design. If there is something the Scandinavians do very well it’s product design!
What you see is a porcelain sundial (that also measures the rain) that is actually 50cm tall and is extremely durable. The simple and elegant dial is made of tempered, see-through glass and in the centre the rain gauge is made of aluminum and frosted plastic (bit of a letdown that bit!).
It costs £99 so certainly won’t break the bank and it will add some character to a garden.
Buy it here.
Garden tranquillity is to be cherished and what better way than in one of these amazing garden retreats designed and built by specialist summerhouse manufacturer Scotts of Thrapston. They’ve teamed up with The National Trust to sell these luxury outbuildings which retail around the £9,495 mark.
There are two designs, the Reading Room, inspired by Virginia Woolf’s garden writing room at Monk’s House, her Country home in Sussex, and the Writer’s Retreat which is entered through a charming stable door and is the smaller of the two delightful buildings; it promotes a rustic and romantic style, with natural stained wood boarding inside and heritage style paints to the exterior.
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