September 2010
Welcome to our September Newsletter.
Our annual sale is well and truely happening, so if you haven't already been in then don't forget to pop in and grab yourself a bargain. The sale will continue to run for the first week or so in September but don't leave it too long as its been really busy. We need to make room for lots of lovely new stock from new suppliers coming in later this month.
The Bradley Collection, always known as the Rolls Royce of curtain poles have just introduced a new metal pole range to bridge the gap between 'normal' metal poles and their traditional top of the range products. Still beautifully hand made in a range of stainless steels, this range is more affordable than any previous Bradley pole so if your looking for a superb modern metal pole range then pop into the shop as we have a full range of samples.
A new delivery of pure wool throws will be coming into the shop in late September from our long term supplier Moons, so although the sun is still shining as I write this, they make fantastic gifts (for yourself or others!) as the evenings start drawing in and temperatures start to dip.
Also new to the shop are a range of great picture frames and lighting - both standard lamps and table lamps - from another new supplier to us.
At the end of September we are expecting a exciting new delivery from Cath Kidston - gorgeous handbags, purses, phone cases, fantastic gifts for friends, relatives, and yours truely! Affordable home accessories such as aprons, teatowels, ovengloves, pegbags and lots more to cheer up your home as well. We will be stocking a substantial product range from this popular company. Watch this space for more details!
Styleline, our long term supplier of venetian blinds has introduced a new range of colours and 63mm slat sized blinds - a great alternative to plantation shutters without all the additional costs involved. Manufactured from sustainable hardwoods at Styleline's own factories, this is a great extention to their range of quality products,
Remember that, starting on the 6th Sept, St Nicholas street in Diss will be subject to roadwords - they are widening the pavements outside our store. During this time, you will not be able to drive down St Nicholas street so will have to park either on Shelfhanger Rd (at the top on St Nicholas Street) or drive around Sunnyside and down Mount Street to the bottom car parks near the church. Access to our shop will be maintained at all times, and if you have deliveries or are collecting heavy items you will still be able to access with your car - the council have agreed that all collections and deliveries will be maintained as normal. So business as normal! If your worried about getting to us or finding your way, then ring for advise before setting off. All the diversions will be well signposted according to the council.
Best regards
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August 2010 Newsletter
Welcome to our August Newsletter.
After such a hot and dry July, its a welcome relief to see the rain falling outside as I write this. As long as its doesn't stay too long!
New this month are beautiful handmade lampshades, produced locally in East Anglia. The range includes lovely wall light miniature shades - designs can even be customised to your exact requirements.
Please pop in to the shop for details.
During the last month I've been busy sourcing new suppliers and am pleased to let you know that over the next couple of months we'll be introducing some lovely new products starting with some fantastic textiles for the kitchen from artist Charlotte Macey - aprons, teatowels, tea cosies, egg cup covers.... Also just appearing in are a range of goodies from Poppy Treffry, hand make bags and covers in vintage textiles. Even beautiful little padded iPhone covers!
Within the next few days we will also have strong canvas baskets and collapsible toyboxes - great storage ideas that are really strong and useful. Hide all the kids toys in one go or use them as log baskets - they are strong enough with thick soft rope handles.
August 2010 Newsletter images © Charlotte Macey Textiles / Poppy Treffny
Best regards
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July 2010 Newsletter
Welcome to our July Newsletter.
Well flaming June has lived up to its name well and truly with the incredibly hot weather which hopefully will run well into July
We are now able to offer St Jude fabrics - lovely original screen print designs from Angie Lewin - produced just up the road in North Norfolk. These couple of photos show a small sample of their designs. Also new this month is the Camengo childrens range - fabulous wallpapers and appliquéd designs in fabric. Great for the little one's rooms. Romo have launched their 2010 collection and we now have all the new designs in our collection - great hard wearing designs are attractive prices.
With the hot summer weather, remember that we stock Venetian blinds, vertical blinds and voiles on rollers - they are all great at breaking up the full glare of the sun coming through the windows and offer dappled shade and privacy.
Special offers this month are display lengths of top designs - most are around 3m in length and allow you to purchase great fabrics from top names such as Colefax, Jane Churchill, Romo and others - all at very substantial discounts - many are half price. Perfect for blinds, and smaller curtains. All the designs are current so extra fabric can be ordered if needed. First come first serve!
Remember the long evenings are a great time to do that external painting that you've been putting off for so long. Both Farrow & Ball and Little Greene have wonderful colours for external woodwork and masonry so don't forget to pick up colour cards and sample pots before you forget!
Best regards
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June 2010 Newsletter
Welcome to our June Newsletter.
You may have seen over the past few years, in various lifestyle magazines, fabrics and accessories from a company called Cabbages and Roses. We are so pleased to be able to introduce their fabrics to our collection, they have a wonderful vintage feel to them, either printed on white or natural linen.
The fabric collection is very competitively priced and offers a variety of prints and stripes to suit all rooms. Please do come into the shop to browse through the fabric books and samples. Remember that the Ian Mankin ticking fabrics, introduced to our shop last month, work really well with this collection and have proved to be very popular.
We also have a new collection of stock fabric available off the roll, woven from natural cottons and linens in France and Belgium providing a great collection of stripes, so if you want to create a new look at minimal cost we may have the solution.
It’s the time of year that we all start to think about sprucing up the house, especially the exterior whilst the weather is good (hopefully!) and the longer evenings are here. We offer both Farrow and Ball and Little Greene exterior paints - masonry, eggshells and full glosses. For traditional homes with lime rendered walls both companies also produce exterior limewash in a full range of colours. Please call in for advice and colour-charts - sample pots are in stock in the full range of colours to allow you to 'try before you buy'.
Don’t forget our new extended range of Danish oilcloths which arrived last month - perfect for outdoor tables and alfresco dining arrangements. We have only limited quantities, and once gone, cannot be replaced so call in early.
June 2010 Newsletter images © Cabbages and Roses Ltd
Best regards
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May 2010 Newsletter
Welcome to our latest newsletter. Lots of new items in the shop this month; summer nautical themed gifts and boats for your bathroom, miniature framed pictures and beach prints, an expanded range of notebooks and garden jotters. We have some quirky new union jack inspired 'vintage' tea cosies and pinboards. In the window you may notice some giant hurricane lamps - we are managed to source these beautiful lamps in two different sizes - both are in solid stainless steel so can be left outdoors without fear of going rusty. With candles inside, they look lovely in the garden on a late summer evening as dusk descends.
Oilcloths have always been popular and we've just received a new range of nine great designs from Denmark, available off the roll in whatever size you need. Great for picnic tables, outdoor events and protecting the dining room table from sticky kiddies fingers and dinner time excesses! Remember that as the summer barbeques and outdoor dining starts again we also have a range of Emma Bridgewater melamine plates, beakers and bowls in lots of Emma's popular designs. Completely smash proof and can be thrown in the dishwasher after use.
We've added Ian Mankin's popular fabrics to our portfolio - lovely stripes and ticking in organic cottons and linens. We have the full range in five pattern books to peruse in the shop, and at great prices too. I'm really pleased to be able to offer this collection as I have always been a convert of his serviceable traditional ticking especially as they are produced at their own mill in the UK. The fabrics are suitable for loose covers,curtains and blinds.
Thanks to everyone that has signed up for our monthly 'friends' email newsletter - we've had lots of responses and if you want to join up, then simply email us with your name from the 'contact us' page. We hope to have the first one out in the next few weeks - we've been so busy it has been a little delayed but you should receiving something in you inbox in the next couple of weeks.
Best regards
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April 2010 Newsletter
Lots of spring goodies in the shop currently - from new fabric collections to one off Emma Bridgewater designs.
Jane Churchill have a fantastic new spring 2010 collection of both fabrics and wallpapers, taking a new look at Jane Churchill’s romantic tradition of story-telling through design. Inspired by images of land and sea, this outstanding collection offers an exciting range of confident colour combinations and appealing designs. It features stylish signature prints of flowers or coral fronds on fresh linen ground; ferns and glorious embroidered country flowers; light hearted fish appliqués; seaside stripes and patchwork as well as an expansive range of plains, denims and textured chenille's all in contemporary tones from deep chocolate to pure white. The full collection can be seen in store after Easter.
Newly in are a range of wonderfully quirky teacosy's and 'containers' by a great local designer who creates the designs in crocheted jute and recycled fabrics. Totally unique!
Finally we are in the process of setting up a 'Friends' of Rooms with a View for customers that want to be informed on a regular basis of new products, viewing evenings and other special events. Further details will be announced over the next month, but if your interested then drop us an email (from the 'Contact Us' page) with your name and email address - simply put 'friends' in the message line and we'll add you to our database. Don't worry, you will not suddenly start receiving thousands of spam emails, nor will we pass your details onto anyone else. Just a newsletter roughly once a month with all the new exciting things happening in the shop.
Best regards
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March 2010 Newsletter
Well, spring is finally here.... well, I hope so, as when I look outside the window as I write this, the rain is lashing against the glass and the leafless trees are bent double against the wind!
Easter has arrived in the shop this week so we have decorated our windows with a selection of great Spring and Easter items. It has become very popular in recent years to make an Easter tree to celebrate both Easter and the arrival of Spring - its relatively inexpensive to make and can look fabulous. We've got a wonderful new collection of decorations for your Easter trees - its amazing how just cutting a few hazel and willow twigs, popping then in a enamel vase and hanging on a few decorations can really bring Spring into your home. Also come and see our collection of Easter chickens and chicks, they look wonderful sitting on a kitchen dresser or in a fireplace.
For a very limited period, we are able to get the Emma Bridgewater 'blue hen' designs back in the shop after it was discontinued several years ago. Many customers have asked us about this design and we've finally persuaded Emma to produce a re-run of this popular range. Don't wait long as we're not expecting to be able to get any more once our supply has been sold.
By the middle of March we will also have a new selection of garden and kitchen gifts instore - just in time for planting up your seedlings.
Featuring in our windows this month are the very popular Vanessa Arbuthnutt fabrics - we carry the full range of this popular collection inspired by the English countryside. Her fabrics work well in both traditional and contemporary settings and is one of my personal favourites.
And DONT FORGET that mothers day is fast approaching so make a point of popping in to see what's new and even drop a few hints to your little ones !!
Best regards
Debs
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Febuary 2010 Newsletter
Snowdrops are now appearing despite the cold January weather and in my mind this always means that spring is on the doorstop! (hopefully!!) We are starting to receive our new spring giftware from a range of suppliers both here in the UK and across Europe. A range of garden table and chairs, outdoor bits and bobs, spring flowers and home accessories are now in store and more will be arriving throughout February.
Little Greene paint has got off to a flying start, we now have all of the colour boards and tester pots in the shop which is really useful when trying to match colours. A range of finishes are available for both internal and external use and we can give technical advice on finishes and colours to help you with your choice. Please call in for your free colour chart.
The new Emma Bridgewater designs now in stock are fabulous, a new range of oven to tableware is very practical as well as being beautiful. We have the new collection of spring flower mugs and birds, alongside fabulous serving bowls and dishes.
If you are looking for curtains or fabric we have the new Jane Churchill collection drawing from her more traditional range of flowers, checks and stripes. A new collection from Manuel Canovas featuring beautiful linens with painted shells is also now available.
And finally.....don't forget VALENTINES DAY! We have a great selection of valentine gifts so do pop in for some inspiration!! Or better still, leave a few helpful suggestions with your loved one!!
Best regards
Debs
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January 2010 Newsletter
Welcome to 2010!
We hope you have had a happy Christmas, it seems to have flown past so quickly.
Now that we're in January, the government has increased VAT up to 17.5% but the good news is that we're holding our prices and absorbing the extra cost ourselves on many of the shop items.
New in the shop this month is Little Greene Paint - we will now be stocking all the Little Green sample pots within the next week or so and offering a 48 hour delivery service on all larger tins of Little Greene paint - with no delivery charges at all! Complementing Farrow and Ball, Little Greene adds a wide colour pallet of top quality paints for use all over the home - inside and out. Their new 'Ultimatt' emulsion allows you to have a single paint finish across walls, ceiling, woodwork and even radiators - no more multiple tins of the same colour.
Due to arrive in the middle of January, Emma Bridgewater's new products will be available in the shop - new oven to tableware dishes, lovely food platters, new designs of spring flower and bird mugs, an extended range of melamine cups, plates and bowls as well as the old favourites. Pop in and have a look at what's new.
Now that the days are getting longer, its time to think about refreshing your home - remember that we offer a full interior design service and can sit down with you to brighten up tired rooms and bring some inspirational ideas into your home. From simple cushions or new covers, right through to a complete makeover, let Rooms with a View take the strain.
Best regards
Debs
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