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White Bookcases
Posted by Chris Burrin, on May 4th, 2012, under New England News, RSS
Bookcases are a great choice of furniture for displaying your books or accessories and are suitable for any room of your home. Whilst on holiday, sitting outside a beautiful cafe in France, I was looking through the French magazine Maison Cote Sud when I saw a bookcase about four feet high with a drawer at the top. When I returned to my office I designed the Westport White Bookcase with a double bookcase with two drawers above, or a single bookcase with one drawer at the top.
It is great having a bookcase with a drawer at the top for all of those things you want to keep but hide away. It is also suitable for halls where there is not enough room for a hall table and with the drawer at the top it is ideal for storing car keys etc. The shelves can be used to store magazines below. The shelves are screwed in down the sides and along the back with a supporting wooded detail running along the front for extra strength, so you can load the shelves with heavy books and the shelves wont bow.
The New Hampshire Bookcase comes in two sizes the single one being just 52 cm wide is ideal for small alcoves or even bathrooms with towel and toiletry displayed on them.
We have the New Hampshire bookcase in our play room with DVDs on the top shelves and toys in wicker baskets on the lower shelves. With a drawer each at the bottom for our two children.
Please come and visit us at our showroom.
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New England Style White TV Cabinets
Posted by Chris Burrin, on May 2nd, 2012, under New England News, RSS
When our old CRT telly went wrong my husband and I chuckled to ourselves as we had been looking forward to replacing it with a flat screen TV for ages. We had the heated discussion about screen size, then we had to decide how to display it. I was against hanging it on the wall as I hate the wires showing and I didn’t think I’d be comfortable looking up all the time. Then there was the dilemma of how to house the Sky Box, games console and DVD player.
We looked around the internet for inspiration, but having other items of New England Lifestyles white furniture at home it seemed fitting to transform another room into a tranquil white space.
So we painted our walls with Dulux Brilliant White Matt Emulsion and found that our north facing front room became lighter and more homely. The new oak flooring gave the room a natural feel and warmth, complimenting the crisp white walls. We chose a modern style sofa from Ikea in a natural stone shade and accessorised it with New England Style cushions.
The New England TV Cabinet was very appealing with its white shaker style table legs and tongue and groove detailing. It’s a great solution to hide away the sky box and all the wires behind the pull down door.
However, with two young children at home we needed as much toy storage as possible so we thought that a White Rhode Island Dresser Base could be a good solution creating an excellent solution with it’s double cupboard on the left for toy’s in plastic storage crates, and the sky box, blue ray player and Wii console in the single cupboard on the right. This fulfilled our requirements were met! Nigel from our warehouse was happy to make two small holes in the back of the dresser base for the plug’s to go through but that was it! Our TV is now up high enough to be out of little sticky fingers way but at the optimum height for comfortable viewing.
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White Dining Furniture For Small Houses
Posted by Chris Burrin, on April 28th, 2012, under New England News, RSS
Furnishing a small house may, at first seem like a daunting challenge, but with careful consideration, a few pieces of furniture can make a petit room, light and bright and airy.
The dining room was my challenge. Downstairs, in the middle of my Victorian end of terrace home, it felt like a corridor between my lounge and kitchen. I wanted to give the room purpose and make the most of the light coming from the west facing window banishing those gloomy mornings.
So having worked for New England Lifestyle for a number of years I knew exactly where I wanted to start, with a white Dresser. I was immediately drawn to the Rhode Island Dresser for its clean lines and functional storage. It would sit perfectly against the wall leading into the Kitchen. At last I could display my crockery, dust free in the glass fronted cupboards, and I could hide the many Kitchen gadgets that I have accumulated over the years, in the white dresser base, freeing up valuable space in my Kitchen cupboards.
In January the Burlington Dining Table 4ft x 3ft was added to the range. As soon as I saw one in the showroom I knew it would look great next to my white painted Rhode Island Dresser. I really love the styling of the white painted turned leg against the solid oak top. The storage drawer beneath would make a great home for my cutlery, freeing up another of my Kitchen drawers!
Naturally, I had to have a set of the classic cross back white dining chairs Dining Chairs to go with the new table. The Newport White Dining chairs are made of solid oak and are painted in the same shade of satin white as the Burlington Dining Table. My gloomy dining room/corridor now has a purpose and is the talking point whenever visitors call in.
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