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What are the main types of blinds and where to use them?

Blinds are a classic way to shade your windows, they are simple to use, easy to install and most importantly, they look amazingly stylish. Unlike curtains where you have one variation of the shading, choose from multiple different types of blinds ranging from rolling fabric blinds to metal slat blinds. And to help you navigate the world of blinds we’ve teamed up with DotcomBlinds to explain the various types available.

Roller Blinds

Cancer charity Tenovus launches online shop

The smaller cancer care charities are struggling with funding, or lack of funding to be more accurate, so they are increasingly relying on e-commerce to work alongside donations. Tenovus has sourced a good selection of products to cater for health, house and garden and prices are very reasonable. Many items meet eco criteria, for example ceramic and terracotta products.

How to resolve the housing crisis?

Building more co-living developments and micro-homes in urban areas top the list of people’s preferred solutions to the housing crisis, according to research by the Federation of Master Builders, while building on the greenbelt is the least favoured solution.

 

The FMB asked 2,000 home owners across the UK if there is a housing shortage and if so, how best to address this shortage.

 

• Two-thirds (66 per cent) believe there is a shortage of housing Britain.

 

Mole Architects' Meredith Bowles talks housing

It may not be a term we're that familiar with in the UK but give it time, because co-housing communities are on the increase here. A new one, Marmalade Lane, has been built in Cambridge, a project architect Meredith Bowles of Mole Architects was closely involved with.

Matchbox cars go eco

Design Museum: low carbon homes

Harry Villiers' home office in the garden

Harry Villers of Villiers Brothers furniture company built an environmentally friendly home office/shed in his Essex garden. It uses recyclable materials such as steel, wood and glass. It has a salvaged oak floor from eBay. Villiers has launched Vintage Archive.

Tenant safety: asbestos rules

Asbestos is a highly damaging group of microscopic fibres that if inhaled can severely damage our lungs. The fibres become trapped within our alveoli where the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place. Since the fibres are lodged, they can irritate and scar lung tissue, making it difficult to breathe. Although the effects of inhaling asbestos may not be noticed at first, they will more than likely severely impact health later in life, causing conditions such as asbestosis and lung cancer.

Eco and cosy, recycled wool blankets

Fusion LED light cut-out cube

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