Contemporary Heaven Division

House signs, historically, have been used to personalize a dwelling or turn a house into a home.  In the past, stone signs were famous and it was hard to beat its durability. Modern house signs however come in all different shapes, sizes and materials and can give houses some kind of elegance and distinctive appearance. Choosing a good house sign for you all depends on what you desire to achieve in terms of the personality of your exterior home and how you want people to perceive your home. House signs are available with a wide choice of materials, colors, fonts and motifs so it’s worth having a look at what other people have done to get some inspiration for your own home. Let’s take a look at the most popular types of house signs. Types of House Signs Ceramic Signs: Ceramic signs tend to more expensive than any other house signs. Yet, they give a traditional feel to your home. These signs last longer due to the complexity of the manufacturing proc...

A fireplace highlights the interests and the experiences of the homeowner.   Whether your fireplace is made from brick, stone or metal (and even if it’s not a functioning fixture but merely a design piece), you can find a way to decorate your fireplace just right so you’re guest will love to visit you time and time again.  Most modern fireplaces are designed with minimal styles created to give a room a relaxing ambience without cluttering the space. But has this always been the case? What are fireplaces for? Historically, they were used for purposes such as heating up a room, heating water for laundry and domestic uses and even cooking!  They were also once a place to just warm up your feet and cozy up during a cold day. These days, fireplaces make a stylistic statement, and now they are pieces for center of attention more than for their function. But there’s no reason it can’t be functional as well as having a fireplace is wha...

On a freezing cold winter's night there is nothing quite like sitting down after dinner in front of a blazing log fire. Central heating has its' place, of course, but it doesn't provide the ambience that an open fire does. Naturally, when you have a log fire you need somewhere to store the logs because you don't want to have to keep getting up and going out into the garden to the log pile on a cold night, and at Contemporary Heaven we have got you covered with our range of modern log baskets that will do the job and make your fireplace look great at the same time. Our Norse black metal log holder comes complete with a kindling holder at the top, so you have everything ready for your fire in one place. This log holder is stylish and streamlined and will hold enough logs for an evening's burning, and then some. Read more at modern log baskets

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

While we are still sweltering in the heat of the hottest summer since 1976 it might seem a little strange to be talking about our contemporary fireplace accessories, but it won’t be so many weeks before those of us who still have an open fire or woodstove are enjoying the sheer delight of watching those oak logs burning. Oak is one of the best firewoods as it produces good heat and burns slowly, but it does need a long period of seasoning to be at its’ best. You can store your oak logs – or any other logs for that matter – in one of our Roco Verre curved polished log baskets which will hold enough logs for an evening’s burning. If you need to hold more logs because you are using a wood that burns faster than oak you might prefer the Deco tall log holder with its’ accompanying fireside tools. The Deco log holder has a flat top, so you can use it to display an ornament from our contemporary range. Then there is also the black Vail log holder and carrier ...