Bathroom tiles are making a big come back, tiling is more popular than ever, you only have to drive into any town and look out for the number of tiling superstores that are opening up.

The kitchen is possibly the most fashionable and funky room in the house in the modern era. Home cooking is enjoying something of a revival due partly to the popularity of celebrity chefs and the explosion of cookery programmes on the television.

A clock is a modern day necessity, at work we clock watch, we need to get to work on time and at weekends we live by the clock cherishing every moment with our families and away from the work place. In days of old a clock was very much a status symbol.

In this environmentally friendly world that we all live in certain steps have to be taken to ensure that there is still a world for people to inhabit in the future. People all over the world are looking at ways to help save energy and the world's resources.

In a recent survey of home owners 75 per cent of those who 18 months ago were thinking about moving house are now going to stay put and look at modernising their current home. And with the current state of the housing market on both sides of the Atlantic who can blame people.

Do you remember the days old of when the only options available to you for bathroom suites were plain old white or that horrible avocado colour? Times have moved on a lot since those days, of course white is the most popular suite colour by a mile, and with good reason, you can match anything to it.

Building a new bathroom, or revamping an old one, involves many complex decisions from basic plumbing practicalities to aesthetics such as window treatments. Big decisions have to be made on how to create a space that is flexible, efficient and attractive,

Over the past 10 years or so design fashion has been more of a less fussy, minimalistic style and this has filtered down to the way we furnish and design our homes. For so long the trend for window furnishing was a standard net type curtain and a fairly standard drape curtain covering the window aperture.