This week at HomesDirect365 our La Rochelle Black collection is the focus, with a lot of this bedroom range stocked in our warehouse and ready to dispatch. If you’re considering a purchase don’t delay as these popular ranges fly out of the warehouse quickly.

As mentioned before in previous weeks La Rochelle is the original flagship range for us and has been one of the most consistent in popularity. The black gloss finish is a bold choice, it makes a strong statement grabbing your attention and really gives a bedroom unique character.

The La Rochelle collection always ensures elegance and the utmost quality, and as seen in the high resolution images displays smooth curves with intricate ornate design allowing you to achieve that perfect French boudoir feel. Whether you choose to have an entire La Rochelle Black collection or just an individual piece, we guarantee you’re going to be pleased with a completely fresh bedroom appearance.

Be sure to stay tuned next week, as we will have some exciting news about an upcoming appearance at a local wedding fare!

In recent weeks our selection of bathroom vanity units here at HomesDirect365 has expanded to include a lot more variety in the use of colour and design. For those of you out there looking to add class and style to your bathroom with antique French decor, we wanted to accommodate a wide variety of taste with silver, black and white finish available as well as ornate iron units. Not to mention the vast amount of accessories we also have available alongside to accentuate, such as bathroom mirrors, towel racks, and much more.

Choosing a design style for your bathroom can be difficult. Since the ‘age of cleanliness’ when bathrooms first began with the invention of the toilet and bath in 3000BC, there have since been extensive changes in style and function. Roman baths to heated towel rails, the bathroom has seen a lot of variety as an essential part of our day to day living.

To choose a contemporary modern style allows for freedom in decoration choice, allowing you to tailor the overall look of the bathroom with the modern style of the unit. They are often sleek and will match modern appliances and accessories very well. However, to choose antique is valued aesthetically as with care they will last generations and have taken inspiration from hundreds of years of previous design giving unmatched character and history. They are grand and elaborate, hand painted and crafted with elegant wood panels and finished with stunning marble tops and ornate taps that will stand against the rigors of a bathroom environment.

Space is also another consideration, especially for larger families. If you are considering making the switch from a sink to a vanity unit, perhaps consider the double sink variety which allows much more space for children to use. Whichever you decide is best for you, we can guarantee you will be impressed with beautiful selection of vanity units we have available.

A surge in interest for the beautiful and ornate Rococo collection this week here at HomesDirect365 has got us excited to share it with those who may not be familiar with Rococo style.

The actual word Rococo is seen to be a combination of two French words; rocaille meaning stone and coquilles meaning shell. Both feature prominently in classic Rococo design alongside motifs inspired by music, nature and love. As Baroque artists in the 18th century started to rely less on symmetry and became more ornate and playful, this freedom and incorporation of nature and rocaille and coquilles helped to create this distinct Rococo style we know today.

In this period when the Baroque artists were beginning to fully discover the great creativity that can come from artistic freedoms, not sticking to any preconceived rules that everything must be symmetrical, being experimental and florid, creating entire rooms as works of art not just one piece…It led to what many consider to be the Golden Age of French furniture. The Rococo style was frivolous and decadent and the first of its kind.

These qualities and history resonate still hundreds of years later, this is not a passing trend but a well established style. Get yourself a piece of history and indulge yourself with the Rococo collection!

This week at HomesDirect365 we have a fully stocked Victorian collection due to the increasing popular demand. Ever since we had the furniture photographed in a much higher resolution allowing the finer details of the subtle ivory paint finish and the carvings to fully come to life, the orders have been increasing ten fold. With this we wanted to meet demand, and make you all aware that the Victorian collection is ready and waiting to ship out and give your bedroom that elegant makeover.

In the Victorian era there wasn’t one dominant style of furniture, but instead a mixture of Gothic, Rococo, Tudor and many other styles. As you can see with the Victorian Collection it combines beautiful regal and floral design with a slight hint of modern contemporary. Utilising this Victorian idea to fuse and combine styles into a new and interesting piece is abundant and helps to make the Victorian Collection extremely popular.

Every aspect is hand carved with great skill from a combination of Fir Pine and composite woods, and finished in a distressed ivory paint. The sentiments evoked with the individual pieces and as a whole as part of the full bedroom set are of romance and elegance, greatly uplifting to your spirit each day. It’s these reasons the Victorian Collection is the favourite of many, including the #1 favourite collection of many of our staff!

With our new subscribers increasing each week here at HomesDirect365 we wanted to take some time to familiarise our newer customers with some of the original pillars that make up our matching range foundation. We’ve focused a lot these past weeks on the fantastic new additions we’ve made to the website, so this week we shall revisit one of the most popular ranges we have available; mirrored furniture.

Venice would be one of the first locations where successfully experimenting with mirrored furniture pieces would take place, so much so that to this day Venetian furniture is still one of the most popular and it is this style which we incorporate into our own pieces. Their creativity and ingenuity would produce fantastic pieces encompassing floral etching and unique patterns all heavily influenced by the art-deco movement. Venice at this time became the Mecca of mirrored furniture but gradually over the following centuries many craftsmen left, taking their ideas with them to France and England and the rest of Europe.

The impact of these first designs and experimenting with glass in furniture has lasted centuries, and this durability and longevity in popularity is the key to what still makes it one of our most sought after ranges. Be sure to treat yourself to at least taking a closer look at some mirrored furniture, even one piece is enough to transform a room creating illusion of more space and elegance.

This week at HomesDirect365 we continue to introduce new items, with many more stunning new additions to our furniture collections. We always want to offer you the best quality at the best prices, but also important is the variety so you can pick and choose between what suits your needs and taste the most.

The additions this week cover all the rooms in the house and come in a choice of antique white finish, or antique ivory finish. We have a great array of console tables with unique hand carved design, perfectly suitable for both bedroom and hall way. We also have an extensive choice in bedside tables, whichever style or however many drawers you’re looking for we’re sure there will be one to suit your requirements.

In other news this week we also wanted to make you aware of a new way our customers can get in touch with us. We’ve added along the top of the website a link to ‘Chat Assistance’, where you can now communicate with us via Skype. We hope this will be beneficial to international customers and also those who may wish to chat to one of our advisors via text rather than phonecall.

This week here at HomesDirect365 we are pleased to unveil the fruits of an amazing new photoshoot we recently had, showing off the magnificent high quality of the Paris collection to its fullest potential.

The previous photo’s of the Paris collection allowed for appreciation of the hand carved detail and the overall aesthetic of the design, but there’s a big leap with these pictures in being able to visualise the furniture in your own home. We can now show you on our website the Paris collection in a beautiful bedroom setting, the bed dressed with duvet and cushions, ornaments and flowers on the bedside, and all of it most importantly in great lighting. The high resolution of the images really takes all this in and gives you the chance to hover over the pictures and zoom right in to every corner.

One of the more recent collections we have added to our website, the Paris collection has steadily grown in popularity in a short amount of time. One of the key’s to its success is the mix and match potential within already established collections; the Paris collection will match furniture from La Rochelle and Rococo and with this you have a unique opportunity to tailor a bedroom set to your taste.

We definitely recommend taking a look at the new Paris collection pictures, we’re real proud of how they turned out and are sure they will create a surge of interest!