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Lindleywood handmade bird boxes are novel and fun

Lindleywood

Helen & Simon Lindley, 17 Pastures Road, Barrowby, Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG32 1AZ

phone: 01476 560707
At Lindleywood we design and hand-make original, fun wooden bird boxes and other products for home and garden. We also use only British suppliers; so we buy our sustainable European redwood pine from a local wood-merchant and use hardwearing non-toxic wood paints from an independent UK manufacturer.
 
Our products are often in the national media, such as on ITV's Love Your Garden and The Alan Titchmarsh Show. They make ideal gifts for all occasions where you want to give something that's well-made and unique. 
 
 
 
 
Bella Green is an artist who works in oils

Bella Green Art

Lockerbie

phone: 01576 204646

I enjoy creating playful compositions from everyday observation of objects and places. Table top vistas, memories of places and people, they all flow into my mind as I paint. Vessels, jugs and pots of flowers, windows and views from inside to outside are favourite and recurrent themes.

Bird forms, for me a symbol of the creative spirit, also inhabit my imagination and my work. Strong design and expressive colour, simplification and decorative reorganisation of the facts are all used to explore these subjects. Through my paintings I hope to share with you what I see and also how my imagination is sparked by my observations.

eco friendly skincare from Wearth London

Wearth London

50 Keswick Road, Great Bookham, Surrey KT23 4BH

Wearth London is an online department store with a boutique vibe that brings you eco-friendly, sustainable homewares, skincare, jewellery and furniture. We sell superb handmade products from small niche designers and makers, most of whom live and work in the UK, and we source products that leave a negligible carbon footprint.

We have a lovely range of beauty products that are natural, organic, vegan-friendly and cruelty free and they make perfect gifts. Choose from soaps, cleansers, moisturisers and body oils, all hand-made using fine ingredients which are kind to even the most sensitive skin. 

And one of our USPs is that you can search for products using criteria that are important to you, such as 'vegan', 'biodegradable' or 'packaging-free'.

Surfboard mirror made from birch or spruce wood by Wayne Willetts

Surf Mirrors

Hawthorn Farm Buildings, Christchurch, Dorset, BH23 7AB

phone: 07977 599526

For the teenage surf nut, a surfboard mirror by Dorset designer-maker Wayne Willetts is the perfect bedroom accessory. It will have your youngster grooming their hair and checking their look more frequently than they check their phones..

Wayne uses FSC (non tropical) woods to make his beautiful surfboard mirrors, which show an extraordinary level of craftsmanship. He offers a range of designs and sizes and clients are welcome to discuss any characters they would like in their design, such as a windsurfer, kite surfer or paddleboarder.

Woven Image panels are made from 60 per cent recycled plastic bottles

Woven Image

(UK) The Collective Agency

phone: +44 (0)20 3633 3138

Woven Image is an Australian company that manufactures innovative surface coverings and textiles. One of its key products is its award-winning EchoPanel, a versatile eco-friendly acoustic material made from 60 per post consumer recycled plastic bottles and 40 per cent virgin PET, and which is 100 per cent recyclable

Available in different thicknesses (7,12 and 24mm) and lots of designs and colours, EchoPanel is a fun, modern material can be used in myriad ways in residential, office and contract interiors - as wall cladding, space dividers, decorative designs, desk dividers or indeed as artwork. It has the added bonus of being able to absorb sound, so in spaces that are noisy or echoey, it creates what's called acoustic comfort for people. 

EchoPanel demonstrates upcycling at its best because it's taking a waste material and creating a high quality new product from it. It comes in panel form, ready-made freestanding screens, ceiling suspended space dividers and in packs of peel-and-stick tiles - which are great fun to use. 

So if want to update your interiors and have acoustic benefit too, check out EchoPanel - available to order in the UK through The Collective Agency.

Seedball makes it easy to plant wild flowers

Project Maya Seedball

54 Tetherdown, London, N10 1NG

phone: 020 8444 9906

A mix of native wildflower seeds, peat-free compost, clay and chilli rolled into a ball, ‘SEEDBALL’ gives your garden a biodiversity boost.

This easy and effective route to a mini meadow is incredibly simple – scatter your seedballs on a bare soil patch (or in a pot) and the balls provide the care and attention seeds need. Choose from six varieties, inc ‘Bee Mix’ & ‘Butterfly Mix’. 100% British made - even the tin.

 

 

TOG knives are a must for any serious cook

TOG Knives

Glenside, Oxleaze Lane, Dundry, Bristol, BS41 8LA

phone: +44 (0)117 276 0273

TOG’s range of innovative kitchen knives are forged in Seki, the Samurai sword capital of the world, using methods evolved from 800 years of swordmaking tradition. TOG blades are forged from layers of highest quality stainless steels and copper, which gives them strength as well as their incredible edge retention. The antimicrobial copper alloy layers give the blades their unique stripes and make them the most hygienic on the market.

There are now six kitchen knives to cover all food prep needs, as well as a collection of beautiful black walnut chopping boards. TOG also offers accessories including a knife block in collaboration with Billy Tannery, a honing rod and whetstones to keep your blades razor sharp, and new for 2020, a range of super useful higonokami pocket knives.

Sealey Furniture is based in Leicestershire and make wood furniture

Sealey Furniture

33 High Street, Lutterworth, Leicestershire, LE17 4AY

phone: 01455 556403

Led by skilled furniture maker Keith Sealey, we make beautiful bespoke wooden furniture, both fitted and free-standing here in our Lutterworth workshops. We make bespoke kitchens, bathrooms, home offices, storage units and individual pieces of furniture such as desks or chests of drawers. We use only FSC-certified woods such as European oak and US black walnut. We work with you to achieve exactly you want and we do all the installation work ourselves. 

Organic cotton towels from Greenfibres in Totnes

Greenfibres

99 High Street, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 5PF

phone: 01803 868001
Greenfibres is a Devon company with a small team and few corporate ambitions. The benefit of this is we can give you a dedicated personal service, beautiful products and no hard sell. Indeed we pride ourselves on our fair, courteous and informative service.
 
At Greenfibres we have everything you need for a green bathroom, with our wonderfully fluffy Soil Association-certified towels, and organic and natural skincare. We also offer organic cotton bedlinen, natural and organic mattresses, organic fabrics by the metre - and really comfortable socks.
 
We specialise in the highest quality organic and natural textiles, which protect producers, the environment, as well as your and your family’s health. We've helped grow the organic textile market over the past 20 years and are confident green solutions can build a brighter, more just, future.
Purely Shutters widow covers

Purely Shutters

Unit 5, Birmingham Trade Park, Kingsbury Road, Birmingham, B24 9PS

phone: 0800 038 5311
Shutters not only look great, they're a recognised energy efficiency measure under the government's Green Deal, with an estimated £96 savings per year on a three-bedroom house (2013). In summer use shutters to keep your house cool, and in winter use them to let in natural warm light, then close them when it gets dark to retain heat in your home. It’s estimated that shutters reduce heat loss from windows by 25-50 per cent, so they're a very sensible investment.
 
At Purely Shutters we care about the environment and ethics. All our woods are from sustainable sources: we buy cedar from managed forests where a tree is replanted for everyone felled; our laminated wooden shutters come from parasol, a fast-growing farmed wood; and our Warwick range is our most eco-friendly, because no trees have been felled for them - rather the laminate is produced from waste off-cuts not useable elsewhere.
 
Purely Shutters' products allow you to maintain privacy, especially important if you live in close proximity to your neighbours. But because you can open the slats during daytime, you'll get maximum light in your rooms, which is important because natural light is vital for our health and wellbeing.
 
 

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