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Help Sell Your Home With Contemporary Furniture

Author: UKCF
• Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Selling a house in a time when house markets have taken a hammering from the global economic downturn can seem like an impossible task. But there is hope! People are buying houses, sure, not in the numbers during the pre-credit-crunch days but buying they are. And when you have the Head of Barclays Bank claiming, that house prices will tumble by 30% in the forthcoming year, it really drives home that the position of strength lays with the buyer. Which means if you are a seller, then you have to do more than bake cookies and boil some fresh coffee to entice a buyer that your home is worth buying.
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We Wish You A Purple Christmas

Author: UKCF
• Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

It looks like there is only one colour to be decorating your home in this Christmas : Purple! From cards to tree decorations to christmassy ornaments, purple is the colour to be seen in this Christmas time. But why purple at Christmas time. We’ll Purple is an extremely emotional colour that represents a number of various things to many people. It is highly associated with Royalty and thus the correlation with the King of Kings being born on Christmas Day. It also very heavily associated with advertising rich luxorious products, which during the Christmas period is a well known excessive time.

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Playstation Gets Contemporary Furniture

Author: UKCF
• Thursday, December 11th, 2008

The new Playstation development called Playstation Home was available for download today, 11th December 2008. The idea behind Playstation Home is to allow gamers (users) the ability to create a digital avatar of themselves that can interact with other users avatars. Each avatar will also have their own living quarters in cyberspace. And this is where it gets interesting. To achieve real life effects, each avatars living space or apartment has been designed by contemporary furniture designers Ligne Roset providing virtual furniture.
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Bond Gets Maxalto Makeover

Author: UKCF
• Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

The new James Bond film, “A Quantum of Solace”, has a makeover in stunning designer furniture with many of the Hotel scenes showing furniture from the Maxalto collection, produced by Italian designers, B&B Italia. The featured furniture was the Talamo Bed, which was handy for our man Bond, as we all know he likes to lay down in luxury, every now and again.

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Office Tables That Cost More Than The Office

Author: UKCF
• Friday, October 03rd, 2008

We all know that contemporary furniture is like a functional work-of-art that fits with design trends of the time. How much would you pay for, say, a contemporary office table? 500, 1K, 5k, 10k or even 15k. Anything above that would be crazy, right? Wrong! What if I were to tell you that there was a company who makes modern day office tables and sells them for 6 figures. That’s right, 6 figures, for an office table, that’s not even an Edwardian piece, never mind Victorian. But the thing is, the most powerful people in the World sit at these tables.

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Cat Scratching

Author: UKCF
• Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Stop…do you have a cat? What happens when your new piece of furniture arrives and your cat decides to begin a claw-sharpening routine on your new designer piece. We recommend a quick watch of this informative guide on some cat-proofing ideas for your furniture
(provided by Video Jug).

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British Furniture Salesman - Inventor of the iPod?

Author: UKCF
• Monday, September 08th, 2008

After a lengthy court hearing it’s becoming apparent that the original design for iPod was created by a British furniture salesman. Burst.com (the company claiming they hold the true technological patents) grilled Mr Kane for 10 hours with regards to his original design and patent of what he called the IXI at the time.

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