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Research: On looking through the Leesa website, we found all of the relevant information was there – the world of mattress purchasing can be quite daunting in terms of size, firmness, thickness, heat-transfer, etc but luckily (for us) the Leesa website successfully simplifies all this. Mostly by just offering one type of mattress. Leesa manages to strike a perfect balance between giving you the technical … Continue reading Leesa mattress – product review
In the world of interiors, there are many trends, seasons, fads, and cycles. In terms of home furnishings retail, we have regular calendar events such as spring cleans/refurbs, summer/winter/Christmas staging. As purchasing consumers we have life events such as moving house, combining households, babies, and empty nests. All of these result in fairly predictable product launches, colour-schemes, and ‘the-next’big-thing(s)’. It’s an inbox of press releases … Continue reading Buying a mattress – the revolution has started
The Guardian has a fascinating collection of photographs published today, showing the construction of the brutalist icon – The Barbican Centre, under construction. An urban utopia of concert halls, fountains and art galleries at the heart of a housing estate in London? Peter Bloomfield reveals his cache of photographs charting the construction of a British brutalist icon Source: Concrete plan: building the Barbican in the … Continue reading Concrete plan: building the Barbican in the 1970s – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
Copse Magazine believes that campus style living is the next big growth area in urban letting, which we discussed in our article ‘Campus Lifestyle‘. Here, Fast Company, takes a look at WeWork – the co-working space provider – as they make their first foray into residential units. “Coliving” is obviously not new (see the kibbutz, the commune, the close-knit neighborhood), and WeWork is not the … Continue reading WeWork creates its first residential building (via Fast Company)
Investing in a new bed presents you with a combination of challenges: Choosing a style that suits your bedroom and house, choosing a price-point permitted by your budget, and choosing a size that gives you the maximum space to stretch out/cuddle-up/lay-far-enough-apart-that-you-don’t-kill-the-person-snoring-next-to-you. In the new Copse Magazine house (yes, my actual house), I have the restriction of up-and-over wardrobes framing each side of the bed space … Continue reading Habitat TATSUMA Ash Kingsize bed: Product review
You might be preparing the house for some extra guests or have children that spend most of their time away at university – either way, a designer sofa bed can add value to a living room through its flexibility – that doesn’t mean that it can’t also look good. Following on from our previous article taking a look at the world of Sofa Beds and … Continue reading Sofa Beds: The best designer guest beds
