This great piece of design and convenience comes from Denmark, there is nothing like Scandinavian elegance when it comes to modern contemporary design. The herb ladder as it is called allows you to fill the porcelain pots with herbs or even tea lights. If you opt for the herb option you can have fresh herbs at hand for your cooking and add to the greenery in your home at the same time. There is nothing to say that you must place this ladder in your dining room , I think it would look great in the living space (living room to you and me ) too.

If you don’t want herbs in your pots , use tea lights to give a glowing feel at night somewhere in the hallway may look great, but anywhere would do.

The best part of all of this is the cost just £27.99 at Stylish Life.

Yellow on the inside with one hell of a design glow the Can table lamp looks absolutely stunning,  with a price of  £333.00, it is one for the high end market. But not one being one to shudder at mere cost I thought I would share this with you. Found over at TwentyTwentyOne it was hard to decide which item I should  write about there is so much beautifully designed stuff on their site. When I buy my luxury penthouse in the  Hollywood Hills I’m taking this lamp with me, so you going to have to buy your own.

We featured a funky salt and pepper shaker as one of the first posts on Homecheeq.com, I did think to myself how much could you do with the simple process of putting salt or pepper onto your food. Well this flexi shaker has taken the art of salt and pepper shaking to a new level.

You store the salt and pepper in the flexible tubes and when you want to use them you can unravel the tubes and simply shake onto your food from the ends of the tubes. There is no one set way of doing this and I think the flexible tubes will have everyone using them differently.

If you love the whole Middle Eastern ethnic look of your lanterns then you will love this too, the Tabriz lantern from The Pier has all the classic feel of the East. It’s flowing Eastern shape offset by the colorful center of the lantern gives it a great genuine feel.

So next time you light a candle just think how much better it would look lighting up one of these.

Just like with people there are some homeware products which a great all rounders , good at everything and anything they do.  This bread basket is one such thing, although sold as  bread basket and no one can argue it wouldn’t do a great job as one , it can be used all around the home.

Found at an website with a great name Sunflower At home at just £6.99 this is a great item to have around the home.

Nothing about the British weather is cast in Iron, it seems the summer is here but I won’t be holding my breath as to how long it will last. One great thing about the summer it is as if your home adds an extra room, the garden. It is this time of year that people are in the garden mending and re-arranging to make the garden all set of full time use (when it’s not raining). This cast Iron pot holder from My Special Place is a great way to utilist the wall space in your garden to plant a few flowers. Complete with a Terracotta pot all you need to add is soil and a plant and your summer garden is underway.

Recycling is the ‘in’ thing these days, everything is being recycled and homeware is no different. The simplest way to recycle homeware would be to go to the charity shop and pick up a bargain in the process. However Tangkoko have come up with a better solution, they do all the donkey work and get recycled materials and then make stunning homeware products and furniture with the recycled material.

This driftwood effect photoframe is actually made from recycled and aged hardwood and really caught my eye on the Tangkoko site. There are so many great products on the site that I had a hard time deciding which to blog about, I’m sure we will have more products on the blog in times to come.

One of the great things about buying items for the home is that a new addition can give a new lease of life to something old. Now take your standard bed it’s probably something you use more than anything, well you do spend all night asleep on it.  A bed isn’t the easiest item of furniture to spruce up, some new covers will give it a little life but won’t radically change the way it looks in general.

It is for this reason that the collapsible canopy by Cote Bastide and available at BODIE and FOU is something that caught the eye. For £195.00 you get the frame that turns any bed into a 4 poster bed and with it will change your whole bedroom. You can also buy the drapes to go with the frame for an additional £110.00 or suppose you could make your own.

Summer is here (even if it doesn’t feel like it sometimes) and with it it brings barbecue season , where rational human beings make a mountain out of cooking some food on a few burning coals.  Barbecuing is becoming more and more sophisticated and you can pay well over £1000 for some of the the top of the range barbeques.

However this bucket barbequeu found at M & S takes the modern touch out of barbecuing and allows you to enjoy simple cooking food in the outdoors. It’s portability means that setting it up isn’t at all difficult , so it’s perfect for small impromptu family moments.