For all of those who have been to India or the Sub-continent the design on this sideboard will be familiar as this kind of colorful design is seen on buses and the like.  Bright colours and bright these kinds of design are the call of the day to make things more lively.  Made in India this Buffet as Masisons DU Monde like to call it will brighten up any old room.

Each one of the 4 doors are handcrafted and painted to ensure a truly unique feel to your finished product. The  legs and the frames are made from Mango Wood whereas the panels , doors and drawers are made from MDF.  With 4 drawers and and 1 shelf there is plenty of storage space too.

This would great off a Magnolia wall which is all the rage now and maybe even off a dark wall such as dark blue or black but dare I try that I doubt.

Do not adjust your monitors, do not think why there is a crushed plastic cup being blogged on Homecheeq.com, this is not a test. What this IS for sure is a real coffee cup (or tea for us English) designed to look like a crushed cup as the picture above shows.

Designed by Rob Brandt it is described by site Made in Design as a classic of design so many of you may have seen it already, however there is nothing wrong with having classic designs on Homecheeq.com or indeed in your home. So for the £4.95 not only can you get a design classic but also something to amuse your friends with.

There is nothing more British than a cup of tea, but it has to be the right mug you can’t be drinking from a summery mug in the middle of winter it just wouldn’t be right would it. With these four seasons mugs from Noddle you can enjoy your favourite beverage in a mug to reflect the seasons outside.

Made from fine china with a ingenious photographic print that gives each mug a seasonal feel to it. Starting at £34.00 including the post and packaging there is little reason for anyone to resist these mugs.

I can never say the words “fruit basket” with out cracking a smile , but to have the words trolley and fruit basket in one sentence and I think I may  need to lie down. The comedy aside this item is fantastic something a little different to put your fruit in, kids will love this too. Dwell.co.uk has a lot of fantastic things on their site and it is better known for furniture but there are a lot of good looking accessories too and this is just one.

Made from chrome wire to resemble a shopping trolley it even has it’s own wheels , not sure if you could take it down the supermarket though you may get strange looks. Next time you want to do some fruit shopping this will be your ideal companion.

Hygiene in and around the dinner table is of utmost importance, however always keeping things clean and tidy isn’t easy.  Toothpicks have always been a fiddly affair who can forget the famous scene from Rain Man and Dustin Hoffman counting the toothpicks.

This toothpick dispenser not only looks pretty nice, it will also help dispense toothpicks for you. One push of the black sides pops another toothpick into the outstretched arms of the man inside.  It’s clean, it’s tidy and it can hold 50 toothpicks what else do you want for £19.95, well done designerbox for putting this on your site.

Getting the correct mix of new and old , contemporary and traditional is the holy grail of all types of design , Homeware is no different.  Hannah Tofalos has got the mix correct with her range of ceramic homeware / tableware products. Handmade from bone china her range of egg cups epitomises her  products, using ceramic transfers the simple shapes of her designs are brought to life with eye catching patterns. Her products not only look good but they offer a versatile solution to the modern home, the egg cups are stackable saving space as well as looking good.

What could be more quintessential more British than tea? Well the answer lies in tea cosies and these tea cozies are designed to slip over your tea pot to help keep its contents warm. The Conron Shop has five colours available.

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.

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.

This tea set says Japanese all over , the age old Japanese design is also timeless and would look equally at home in any type of setting. The drinking bowls (as opposed to cups) continue the theme of the Far East, although drinking your tea from a bowl is also seen in other Asian countries.  All this needs now is a nice tasty hot drink to go with it and you can use this for any type of tea, although I’m sure the perfectionists wouldn’t dare drink anything other than Japanese herbal tea out of it.  Be a Lucky Devil and get your hands on one of these, from Lucky Devil of course.