The enormous mirror!

An extra large floor standing mirror can be the simplest way to add the wow factor to your home. Placed in the hallway a large mirror can instantly create a light and welcoming entrance to your home.

Standing a whopping 201 cm tall… or 6ft 7″… our grand Nantucket Mirror is a delight in any large entrance hall. It is tall enough for everyone to be able to admire themselves in without ducking and diving!

The enormous New England Style Floor Mirror features hand carved detailing and is finished in bright white paint with a very smooth satin finish. Usually priced at £598, order now to take advantage of our sale offer and save 15%, bringing the price down to just £508.30.

If the Nantucket Mirror is just a little too large for you, our other free standing floor mirrors are the tall Chichester Mirror, or the slightly smaller Baltimore Mirror.

The Chichester Mirror can be used to create the illusion of an extra doorway in your room, with beautiful arched top. The Baltimore Mirror is a beautiful design for a living room or dining room, bouncing the light all around the room.

White Office Area:

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As September looms its nearly time to go back to school. Do your children have the space and facilities they need to make sure they can complete their homework without the distractions of a busy family home?

At New England Lifestyle we have a choice of white desks available to create the ideal homework space. The New Hampshire Desk pictured right is a good choice for a computer desk to use with a lap top or a home computer. This white work desk has three storage drawers on the right, and keyboard pull out. Shown here with our Newport White Dining Chair, why not consider the New Hampshire Bookcase to match as storage for textbooks and files?

The Maine White Desk is a a shaker style table desk, perfect for spreading out to work! A simple style, the Maine Desk looks good in a bedroom combined with other items of white bedroom furniture.

If you are looking for a solution to hide away the home computer and all its wires when not in use, consider the New England Computer Cabinet. Our white computer cabinet features a section to house the monitor, a section for the computer tower, and keyboard pull out. The white cabinet has tongue and groove detail and is finished in bright white paint.

Need a desk lamp to complete to work space? Our Captain Smith Table Lamp is an ideal desk lamp; adjust both the height and angle to suit your own requirements.

We look forward to welcoming you with coffee and cakes to browse at your leisure!

We are closed on Sunday 29th August and Bank Holiday Monday 30th August.

Orders can still be placed via our website at www.newenglandlifestyle.com.

Our Showroom will re-open at 9am on Tuesday 31st August; you can contact us then on 0870 872 6292.

New England Style Kitchen Breakfast Room

The kitchen breakfast room has become the “must have” room of modern homes. It is often the real heart of the home, where Mum can be busy in the kitchen whilst the children play at the other end of the room, always within sight. It can be a real social space – perfect for informal get-togethers with family and friends.

The kitchen diner is always such a busy room in a family home that it is important to design the room in the style that will work for you. Keeping the décor light and bright will always help to create a bright and cheery atmosphere.

Choosing furniture that combines white with oak can add extra depth to the room, and an extra element of style.

A sturdy dining table is a must, and it is worth investing in a high quality oak dining table that will go on to last for years to come. Our New England Dining Table is hand made in solid oak with beautiful fluted detailing to the legs. It is available in the natural oak finish, or for a more modern look choose the New England Dining Table with White Painted Legs.

Our very popular Newport Dining Chairs are also available in the natural oak finish, or painted white. Why not mix and match white and oak for a more contemporary feel?

A spacious kitchen dresser is a must have for any family, and we have a great range of White Painted Dressers to choose from. Why not continue the combination of white and oak by choosing the Large Burlington Dresser? This stylish Dresser combines two substantial storage cupboards with two large drawers and open shelving above.

Complete your room by adding a comfortable white sofa to relax on. Our Chelsea Sofa’s are a great choice, available in 2.5 seater or 3 seater. Handmade in the UK on a beech frame, our sofas have zigzag springs and foam cushions and are upholstered in a linen/cotton Villa Nova fabric. Choose matching plain dye cushions for extra comfort.

We have a part-time position available in our West Sussex Showroom which is located in Ford, near Arundel.

We are looking for someone to work one day a week on a regular basis which will vary between a Thursday and a Saturday, and be on hand to work additional days as and when they arise to cover staff holidays and business trips.

You will be working in the Showroom where duties will include interacting with customers both in the Showroom and on the telephone, processing orders, responding to queries, providing refreshments, preparing brochure envelopes, filing and additional office duties.

The perfect person will be polite, well spoken, computer literate and able to fit in with our friendly team. Retail and/or customer services experience is preferred. A willingness to learn and happy disposition are a must!

Interested? Email an up to date copy of your cv to us at orders@newenglandlifestyle.com or for more information on the job vacancy call Nick or Steph on 01243 555926.

White bedroom furniture

When looking to decorate a child’s bedroom, white furniture is a very sensible choice.

White bedroom furniture is not gender specific. White is a calming, neutral colour that will blend with any accent colour you should choose to personalise the space. White furniture looks amazing in a coastal or nautical themed room for a boy… just as it fits perfectly into a princess bedroom for a girl.

Our Maine Range of white bedroom furniture was originally designed for children’s bedrooms, and as the years have passed we have continued to add products to the range to ensure that the furniture will grow with you and your child.

The white sleigh bed is as popular as ever; the supporting sides make it an ideal first bed whilst the stylish design mean it will still be in use during teenage years. Our shaker style Maine Wardrobe is the perfect dimensions for a child’s bedroom, being just that little bit smaller. The wardrobe comes with a useful storage drawer below, and looks great with baskets or colourful boxes stored on the top.

The Maine Toy Box may start out being used as a toy box, but will develop into the most useful storage box for practically anything you can think of – be it school paperwork, teddy bears, or shoes.

The white bookcase in the Maine Range is such a simple design, great for children’s books of all sizes. Choose the Maine Console Table for your little princess to sit at and make herself beautiful – or use it as a small homework desk. As school work starts to get more demanding, the Maine Desk provides ample workspace to spread out on, or to take a laptop of home computer.

Additional clothes storage can be provided by the addition of any of the chests of drawers in the range, plus there is a choice of three white bedside tables.

The great thing about choosing white bedroom furniture for a child’s bedroom is that it is so easy to maintain!! Yes, the furniture may get chipped or marked as it goes through life with its not so careful owners. Unlike many other bedroom furniture types, white painted bedroom furniture can be simply lightly sanded and repainted, and it is as good as new. White bedroom furniture really is an investment, it is furniture for life!!!

Coast Guard Beach, Cape Cod

By Laurel Housden Photography on flickr

Cape Cod is a sandy peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic Ocean like a crooked arm. The Cape’s first settlers were the Wampanoag people, who lived on Cape Cod for thousands of years before the Europeans arrived.

America as we know it today began along the rocky shores of New England. The Pilgrims first landed on the tip of lower Cape Cod in what is now Provincetown in 1620, but deciding that this land was too sandy to support them they continued to sail across the bay to establish Plymouth. In the twenty years that followed the settlers spread north and south from Plymouth, settling in the bay-side sections of Sandwich, Barnstable and Yarmouth.

The first homes built by the English settlers on Cape Cod with wigwams, copies of those of the Wampanoag people, made of twigs, bark, hides, corn and grasses. Eventually more European style homes were constructed but with a unique New World twist. The Cape Cod Cottage was based on a traditional English house with a hall and parlour, built of wood and covered in wide clapperboard or shingles to protect against New England’s stormy weather. Following Queen Anne’s taxation of houses greater than one storey the Salt Box houses became popular, having a long pitched roof sloping down to the back with two stories and the front and just one at the back. This asymmetry of the unequal sides and long, low rear roof line along with the flat front and central chimney are the distinctive features of this house style. Again the buildings with timber framed and covered in wooden cladding.

The prosperity of Cape Cod has always been linked to the sea, from the arrival of the pilgrims across the sea to the fisherman who have worked the waters for centuries, to the modern day tourists heading for the beach. Today tourists flock to enjoy more than sixty public beaches, enjoy numerous outdoor activities, and to sample the local cranberries, shellfish and lobster.

Photo: Burlington Extended Dining Table

Visit our West Sussex Showroom now to get your hands on some great bargains!!!

In our Sale Area we currently have a selection of amazing discounts on a variety of furniture. These offers are all SOLD AS SEEN so you do have to visit us to take advantage of these huge discounts!

We have one remaining Burlington Extending Dining Table, reduced from £1298 to an incredible £698.60. For this price you are getting the stunning 5ft x 3ft Burlington Dining Table with its white turned legs, secret storage drawer below and solid oak top – plus two extension leaves that will extend the table from 152cm to 252cm. Please note the leaves are most suited to just occasional use – please call us on 0870 872 6292 for further details.

Other great reductions include one New England Coffee Table reduced by 30% from £598 to just £418.60, and one New England Side Table reduced by 25% from £228 to £171. Both of these tables feature a solid oak top with white fluted legs and useful magazine shelf below.

We have one White Burlington Dresser remaining, a product that we have disconi=tinued to make may for the Burlington Dresser with Oak Top. With simple shelving on the top, two large drawers and substantial cupboards below, this dresser is a real bargain at just £840.

For more information – or just to check which prodcuts we have available in our Sale Area, please call us on 0870 872 6292.

And remember – if we don’t have what you are looking for in the Sale Area, order now to save 15% off all new stock excluding accessories and upholstered items!

Westport Dresser Base – image from flickr

A welsh dresser is a great addition to any home. Dressers are both stylish and functional, providing both storage and display space. At New England Lifestyle we have a fantastic selection of white dressers in all shapes and sizes. All of our kitchen dressers are designed by us and hand made exclusively for us, they are not available to buy at any other retail outlet.

If you are looking for a white kitchen dresser, take a look at the Rhode Island Dresser. Available in two sizes, this shaker style dresser has a selection of cupboards providing ample storage space behind closed doors. Standing 182cm high, this white dresser is perfect for a cottage or where ceiling height may be limited.

If wall space is plentiful and you are desperate for storage, the New Hampshire Dresser has to be the one for you. This is the largest of our dressers and has an incredible amount of storage – yet being only 42cm deep it will not dwarf your room.

Perhaps you are looking for a dresser purely for display purposes? Take a look at the Westport Dresser. This very stylish New England Style Dresser combines our classic white with a solid oak top. The Westport Dresser features an open storage shelf below, and open shelves above with three useful drawers.

If you are looking for a compact dresser, take a look at the Small Burlington Dresser or Small New Hampshire Dresser. Both of these white dressers are no wider than 110cm, and stand 200cm tall making them an ideal choice for a living room – perhaps either side of a chimney breast.

Once installed in your home, personalize your dresser by displaying your favourite ornaments and photographs. Keep it chic or simple – or give your dresser a more traditional feel by varying your displays.

A white dresser is a real investment; a versatile piece of furniture that will last for many years to come. White furniture allows you to change your room as you please, always keeping your interior light, fresh and welcoming.

A customer from Fife ordered a wardrobe and four bedsides from our Manhattan Range of white bedroom furniture. She placed her order on Tuesday 27th July, and took delivery on Wednesday 4th August – just over a week later. She emailed us to say “I received my order last Tuesday, earlier than promised, and would like to commend you on an excellent service.I have never had anything delivered so quickly and the furniture is beautiful. The delivery driver was brilliant too. we have access problems here because of parking and he was very patient.  Thanks again.”

A customer from Lancashire emailed us to say “Just wanted to let you know that I am delighted with the Burlington table; it’s perfect! I was also impressed by the great service you and your team provide – from answering enquiries to the lovely delivery man (who arrived on time, and took away all the wrapping!). Wouldn’t hesitate to recommend you.”

Ally Byrom from Guernsey ordered two small Burlington Dressers from us, and used ship2me for the delivery. We usually ship to the Channel Islands using Channel Seaways but were happy to try the alternative company Ally recommended… Ally emailed saying “Just a note to say how delighted I was with our two Burlington Dressers shipped all the way to the Channel Islands. I was slightly apprehensive about having them shipped all the way here having only seen them on the web site and in a home magazine. I need not have worried, they are perfect and look exactly as I hoped they would. Superb quality. I am a very happy customer!”