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Lovely Selection of Brand New Mirrors at HomesDirect365!

Thursday, January 31st, 2013

Mirrors

We have been very busy this week here at HomesDirect365 adding many new lovely mirror variations and we will continue to be adding more and more in the coming weeks. One of our most popular sections, our decorative mirrors make for the perfect companion to our antique French bedroom sets, and with today’s newsletter we are excited to bring some attention to the latest designs and styles we have available.

It’s conceivable that for thousands of years long before the actual invention of a mirror our ancestors would have been gazing at their reflections in still pools of water, but to pin point the existence of an actual mirror we go back around 2,400 years where it is believed the first mirror-makers lived near the city of Sidon in Syria.

Observing and acknowledging change can be a beautiful process; from still pools of water to the first broken shards of glass to the eventual immense mirrored furniture, structures, microscopes etc. that we have today, gradual but staggering evolution over time. This vast and storied history of the mirror elevates the reverence and importance of what is today considered a basic item, but with our mirror design we try to capture some of this.

Utilising elaborate ornate detailing and hand carved framing transforms the basic into magnificent pieces that give a glimpse into the beauty of all that has come before over the course of many centuries. Why settle for a simple reflective mirror surface when you could elevate an entire room with the right mirror… A wonderful overmantle mirror perhaps that brings a living room alive, or a gorgeous cheval mirror that makes getting ready in the morning a delight, there’s so many choices available there is bound to be something that catches your intrigue! Be sure to give our new mirrors a good browse!

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Amazing New Mirrors at HomesDirect365…

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

Amazing New Mirrors

This week here at HomesDirect365 we have been busy adding in some amazing new mirrors to various sections of the website. The quality of finish on these mirrors is truly breath taking which is why we are very eager to share these with you. In the right setting alongside a feature fireplace many of these mirrors could bring the whole room alive.

We have a variety of decorative mirrors amongst the new additions, featuring beautiful ornate carvings and detailing on the frames of the mirrors. They capture perfectly that shabby chic antique French feel that features prominently throughout many of our furniture ranges.

For those more inclined to go for contemporary modern style design, there are also a number of mirrors to tailor to those requirements. Lots of interesting and unique frame designs as seen with the Aura Rectangle Mirror. Be sure to have a browse through these new additions, they really are some high quality pieces.

Also for those who read last week’s newsletter you may be aware we will have a stall at the upcoming Yorkshire Wedding Sale. It will be on Sunday 10th June at the Yorkshire Event Centre in Harrogate, so if you are interested in attending and still haven’t purchased your ticket you can do so by visiting www.seetickets.co.uk or or calling 01924 331818. Hopefully we will see some of you there!

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Some fantastic new mirror additions…

Friday, January 27th, 2012
Antique French Silver Mirror

Antique French Silver Mirror

The addition of new items at Homes Direct 365 continues to increase this week, as we expand upon our decorative mirror sections and fill them out with some truly stunning ornate antique French mirrors. Perfect for giving a bit of brightness to a room, or create an illusion of more space in a small bedroom, or establish a theme with a decorative mirror as your focal piece.

The options are vast with our mirrors as we offer all types from cheval to overmantle, many of which can be hung both landscape and portrait. An indepth history for those that enjoy the stories and detail behind the evolution of the mirror was recently posted on our blog and can be read here. We definitely recommend checking out the mirror sections for those new additions and stay tuned as more shall be added in the upcoming days.

We also have an exciting announcement this week to make about our continued growth and expansion, and we are proud to make you aware we now sell select items on Amazon.co.uk. A great way for new customers to be exposed to the breath taking qualities possessed by hand crafted furniture that many of you have been enjoying for awhile. Lots more exciting developments are currently in the works!

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Now In Stock… Victorian Collection!

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

Victorian Collection

With our Victorian Collection that is both of constant high demand from our customers and hand crafted with a vast amount of attention to detail, it’s unique to have the opportunity to place an order for Victorian furniture and have it be immediately available for dispatch straight away. A lot of our Victorian items are in that situation… well stocked and ready, but acting fast with your order before they go is a must!

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 the Victorian Collection 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 here and helps to make the Victorian Collection extremely popular.

Every aspect as previously mentioned is hand carved with great skill from a combination of Fir Pine and MDF, and finished in a distressed ivory paint. The sentiments evoked from individual Victorian 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.

Don’t hang around debating, make a move now for the Victorian Collection while it’s in stock and we know you will be extremely happy with your new bedroom set!

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A look at Mirrored Furniture…

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

Mirrored Furniture

It’s difficult to envision our modern society based on image and appearance functioning without that reflective surface we use every day… in the bathroom, in the car, in your purse, the mirror is everywhere.

Before the 12th Century to look yourself in the eyes you would have had to lean over still water, but around the end of the 12th Century metallic backing was applied to glass to begin creating the first examples of what we now know as the mirror.

In Italy between the 12th and 17th Century in a period of history referred to as The Renaissance, Venice became the main site of high quality mirror production with craftsmen keeping their techniques and skills closely guarded in secrecy. Louis XIV’s finance minister in France was eventually able to tempt them into sharing, and by the mid-17th Century mirror production was also booming in Paris and London.

These great stories and history behind the creation and evolution of the mirror brings us to the present day, as we showcase one of our most prominent and beautiful collections; mirrored furniture. Greatly inspired by the style of these Venetian and Renaissance period craftsmen, our mirrored furniture makes for a truly breathtaking transformation of a room. The pictures only begin to show you its stunning reflective beauty and high quality finish, take the leap and try something a little different for your home with mirrored furniture… we know you’re going to be impressed.

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Brand new mirrors…

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

Brand new mirrors

These past couple of weeks here at HomesDirect365 we have been busy stocking up on high quality hand crafted mirrors, in all various shapes, colours, designs and sizes.

The mirror serves numerous functions in the home, from simple personal grooming and admiration, to establishing a feature or design in a certain room. With its reflective surface the illusion of creating more space in a tight environment is always a plus, and with the precision placement of certain mirrors the brightness and feeling of a room can be vastly improved.

Dating back to the very first obsidian mirrors in 6000BC, the mirror has always been a necessity to our way of life. With an array of many styles and designs from numerous time periods, spanning this great history from antique and contemporary, we are positive you will find a beautiful addition to your home with our mirrors.

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Mirrored Furniture…Making Your Room Seem Bigger

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011

No matter how much you love your home, if there’s something about it that bothers you, it can be hard to ignore. And if that something happens to be a structural issue – such as having rooms that are too small – it can be frustrating as you feel there’s nothing you can do. Well, that’s not necessarily the case – there’s actually plenty you can do! And it doesn’t even involve knocking down any walls… well, unless you really want to!

Mirrored Furniture

Mirrored Furniture

If your home has a room or several rooms that seem to be too small, there are plenty of tricks that can make them appear larger. One idea is to get more light into the room. Light and brightness have the ability to make rooms appear larger, so if you have a window in the room make the most of it – keep thin veils or blinds on the window so the most natural light gets in. You can also use dynamic, eye-catching curtains to draw the attention to the window and the outside world, which is another trick that gives the illusion of space. Additionally, when it comes to paint and decoration, keep the colouring light and airy, and the furniture minimal. If the floor space is cluttered or minimised thanks to too much bulky furniture, the effect is that the room will appear smaller once more. Another tip which follows on from this is to keep the room clean! As indicated above, too much clutter will make the room look small – and this goes for ‘wall clutter’ too: keep paintings, pictures and wall ornamentation to a minimum.

One thing you can add to your walls, however, is mirrors. Mirrors are a fantastic piece of furniture that have many uses. They can reflect the light from outside and make rooms look brighter, they can be used for personal grooming purposes, and they can even make rooms look bigger! Just as looking out of the window at the world outside makes a person feel as if they are in more spacious an area, so mirrors give off the illusion of space. Just seeing a room reflected in the surface of a mirror tricks the mind into thinking there’s a lot more space than there actually is.

There is a solution to tiny rooms! If you want your small rooms to appear more spacious, simply try out a few of the ideas above, such as painting with light colours or getting some Mirrored Furniture, and see just how much of a difference it makes for you.

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French Furniture Can Be An Ideal Wedding Present…

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

When you’re looking for spectacular wedding presents, it can be very difficult to find something when they’ve been together for a long time. Gone are the days when weddings signal the first days of people living together, now they are more likely to be a culmination of many years in each other’scompany and often sharing a house or flat. This means that many of the traditional wedding gifts, such as linen, crockery and silvers, are no longer as needed by the couple as they once were.

The perfect wedding

The perfect wedding

While this may make you reluctant to think about choosing gifts for the home, you could instead think of it as an opportunity not to stock their home with essentials, but to add beautiful pieces of furniture and gorgeous fixtures into the mix. There are some items of furniture that are especially perfectas wedding presents, for example, sensuous bedroom furniture like beds, bedside tables, French screens or antique mirrors. Gifts such as these are sure to hit the perfect note for sophisticated couples and are the kind of thing that they will be able to enjoy for a long time.

French furniture, both antiques and reproductions of great designs, is a particularly good choice for a wedding present, as the country is well known for its romantic ties. Whether you choose practical yet stylish pieces such as French blanket boxes and furniture for the bathroom or you decide to plump for more exotic choices such as some exquisite French lamps or chandeliers, you’re sure to find something to out a smile on the face of the happy couple.

On the other hand, if you’re worried about choosing French furniture for their home because you’re not sure if they’d welcome new pieces, why not have a think about their garden? With everything from garden tables, chairs and benches to ornate birdbaths and feeders or pretty accessories, there’s a huge range of inspiring garden pieces out there to be enjoyed. One of the best things about choosing presents such as these for wedding days is the fact that they will have some practical used and it’s likely that they will be enjoyed by the special couple every day. What’s more, things such as items of French furniture are the kind of presents who could gain value over time or alternatively have the potential to bepassed down and even become a family heirloom one of these days – making them a particularly wonderful wedding gift.

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Enhance Your Rooms With Mirrored Furniture…

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Romano Mirrored Wardrobe

Fitting mirrored furniture in your home can instantaneously transform your rooms, giving them a more stylish and spacious look compared to traditional surfaces. The reflective properties of mirrors can be used to great effect to create a more expansive environment, and by choosing the location of mirrored furniture carefully – positioning furniture to reflect daylight from windows or the soothing glow of table lamps - you can effectively control the level of lighting in your bedroom and other living areas.

There are many things to consider when choosing the ideal mirror furniture for your property, as not all rooms will benefit from the effects equally. Buying sub-standard or older mirror furniture couldalso lead to problems with cleaning and other maintenance tasks, as lower quality mirror glass can become stained by smoke or easily scratched. However, by taking caution to buy good quality mirror furniture with no sharp edges and a rich texture, you can make significant changes to the look and feel of your property.

Mirror furniture is available in a wide variety of styles and colours, and it’s important to choose furniture items that blend well with your existing style. Modern and retro designs will not be so well suited to more traditional rooms, and likewise classic Venetian mirror furniture could look out of place if your room is otherwise practical and sparse.

Romano Mirrored Bedside

Romano Mirrored Bedside

If you do favour traditional mirrored furniture in the classic French style, it’s usually advisable to avoid buying antiques; while period pieces may carry a sense of nostalgia and antiquity, old mirrors are likely to have lost most of their reflective qualities and will not brighten your room as much as new products. Mirror furniture has come a long way since its beginnings in the decadent court of King Louis XVI, and the diversity of products available for all rooms of the house means you could kit out your entire property with strategically placed mirrors to enhance its most attractive features.

That’s because mirror furniture can mean more than just wardrobes and cabinets, though these are still some of the most effective items to add depth to your rooms. Smaller bedside chests and coffee tables can be effective ways to bring a mirror into your bedroom so that you don’t have to visit the bathroom to check your reflection, and can double the light given off by bedside lamps without adding anything to your heating bills, if positioned to reflect optimum radiance.

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Making your room seem bigger…

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

Mirrored furniture

Mirrored furniture

No matter how much you love your home, if there’s something about it that bothers you, it can be hard to ignore. And if that something happens to be a structural issue – such as having rooms that are too small – it can be frustrating as you feel there’s nothing you can do. Well,that’s not necessarily the case – there’s actually plenty you can do! And it doesn’t even involve knocking down any walls… well, unless you really want to!

If your home has a room or several rooms that seem to be too small, there are plenty of tricks that can make them appear larger. One idea is to get more light into the room. Light and brightness have the ability to make rooms appear larger, so if you have a window in the room make the most of it – keep thin veils or blinds on the window so the most natural light getsin. You can also use dynamic, eye-catching curtains to draw the attention to the window andthe outside world, which is another trick that gives the illusion of space. Additionally, when it comes to paint and decoration, keep the colouring light and airy, and the furniture minimal. If the floor space is cluttered or minimised thanks to too much bulky furniture, the effect is that the room will appear smaller once more. Another tip which follows on from this is to keep theroom clean! As indicated above, too much clutter will make the room look small – and this goes for ‘wall clutter’ too: keep paintings, pictures and wall ornamentation to a minimum.

Rectangular Mirror

Mirrors

One thing you can add to your walls however, is mirrors. Mirrors are a fantastic piece of furniture that have many uses. They can reflect the light from outside and make rooms look brighter, they can be used for personal grooming purposes, and they can even make rooms look bigger! Just as looking out of the window at the world outside makes a person feel as if they are in more spacious an area, so mirrors give off the illusion of space. Just seeing a room reflected in the surface of a mirror tricks the mind into thinking there’s a lot more space than there actually is.

So there are solutions to tiny rooms! If you want your small rooms to appear more spacious, simply try out a few of the ideas above, such as painting with light colours or getting some mirrored furniture, and see just how much of a difference it makes for you.

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