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Specified: Interiors ideas to keep warm this winter

Words:
Claire Leavey

No need to be crass to be cosy: our latest collection of interiors products for stylish and comfortable living

Amalgama Block Herringbone
primed boards
Havwoods

Simon, come on in. You know Alan and Katriona from HR & Legal, don’t you? And Rashik is down from HQ.

No, this is not a carpetting – look, you’re almost completely on the wood bit! Each bevelled T&G lacquered board is FSC® certified timber. The top third is 4mm slow-grown European oak, backed with spruce or birch ply! And there’s underfloor heating too. Go on, give it a feel!

So, you see, Simon? No carpetting here. We are going to have to let you go though.

havwoods.com/uk

GRP Composite shower pods
Offsite Solutions

Stop! Our rigorous specification process has resulted in exactly the factory-finished GRP pod you were about to compromise. The fully-installed shower unit, wall-mounted toilet, mirror-fronted LED-lit cabinet, white granite-effect solid surface vanity shelf, vanity front, wall-hung D-shaped basin and circular mirror with halo lighting are all exactly as our designers envisioned. They spent endless meetings just deciding on which two of the multiple tile-effect finishes would go where. It would be sheer desecration of that vision to have messy human bodies actually use these cost-effective, quick-install facilities. That’s why there’s a watering can and bucket in the corridor.

offsitesolutions.com

Ancona radiator in Rose Blush
The Radiator Company

So I’m like, objectum-sexual? I’m in an on-off open pan-poly relationship with the Tour Eiffel, the Golden Gate Bridge, a wire fence in Maine, and this sexy little custom, six-column steel radiator. His Pistol TRVs are a naughty detail that I love; and yes, we spend most evenings cosying up together.

He has 188 RAL-coloured brothers in 32 special finishes, with five configurations, 25 heights – and three mounting options! They’ll all be here in 4-6 weeks, so the next step in our relationship is, obviously, get a bigger house.

I’m committed. He’s got a 10-year guarantee. Can’t say that about humans!

theradiatorcompany.co.uk

Section O Window Guard
Keylite

‘Rapunzel! Rapunzel! Grow your hair back quick ’cos I reckon that now that witch has installed a set of first-to-market NHBC-approved Keylite window guards in various chrome types and tube lengths – all to comply with this June’s enactment of the new Building Regs Part O ref: 3.8 ‘Protection from Falling’ – we can wrap your plaits round this one a couple of times and I can climb up without ripping your scalp off like when we tried before! It’s healed well, I’ll give you that! And I’ve been working on the weight loss too!’

keyliteroofwindows.com

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