Contemporary Heaven Division

For the majority of homeowners, few things are worse than a bare expanse of wall in a room, especially if they are large rooms. While some people don’t mind, the majority of homeowners like to find some sort of wall décor in order to break up the monotony and add some sparkle and joy to a room Of course, one of the most obvious things that can decorate a wall is pictures, and many people enjoy prints such as Sunflowers by Van Gogh, the Mona Lisa by da Vinci, The Scream by Edvard Munch, or Monet’s Garden at Giverny. However, when you buy a print such as one of those you do not have something original because many other people will have a copy too. There are art galleries galore where, for somewhat more than a framed print, you can buy an original work of art which is unique, so only you have it. Many people like the idea of plates for wall décor and you can find them in charity shops. Most of them are 8” wide and contain pictures of all sorts – many of them ani...

If you thought that clocks were things from the past and that there are no new designs, you couldn’t be further from the truth. The fact is that we always need to tell the time, and there are huge numbers of contemporary clocks that have a very 21st century appeal.  There are pendulum clocks, mirror wall clocks, skeleton wall clocks, electric clocks, world time zone clocks, radio-controlled clocks, modern mantle clocks, modern alarm clocks, digital time zone world wall clocks, and invotis gear clocks, just to name a few. One of the most stunning contemporary clocks is the Invotis gear clock. This is a wall clock that is composed of gear wheels that look as though they might have come out of your car gearbox, and between them these gear wheels drive another big wheel which has the hours printed on it. An arrow at the top points to the hour as it passes the arrow. There is no minute hand, but the clock is large and it is easy to read the time down to the nea...

There is an old saying that you only get one chance to make a great first impression, and it is as true today as it has ever been. This is why many people take such great trouble to make the front of their homes look great and keep the front garden full of beautiful looking flowers and plants, and where they have a lawn ensure that it gets mown once a week in summer with those attractive stripes. In fact, some people will go to inordinate lengths in order to make their front garden look like something that even the Royal Horticultural Society would be proud of. However, the strange thing is that a lot of those same people completely ignore modern house signs or house numbers for their home. There is another old saying - spoiling the ship for a ha’porth of tar – and really, nothing could be more true than when you go to all that trouble with the front garden and still have a tatty old house number on the wall. Read more at Modern house signs