Issue: November 10, 2008 (Archive)

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Clean sweep
Given the choice of buying a vacuum cleaner that costs as much as a holiday to a nearby destination, most of us would rather opt for the dustpan and brush.

Online designers all ready to hit the spot
Instant/space

A beautiful connection
Web-based interior design services are growing in popularity in the United States. Clients typically e-mail photos of rooms, fill out a questionnaire and pay a flat fee. Weeks later, sometimes sooner, they receive a customized design plan that can be implemented with pieces from retail stores and websites.

Design statement
Ceramic tiles are an elegant covering for home interiors. Some homeowners now have an alternative to using plain or glazed tiles as a decorative material - individually-designed tiles that can help form a larger design, or single tiles with unique designs.

Machines `think' about laundry loads
Europe's leading consumer electronics show, the Ifa is normally all about gadgets that make life more entertaining with the latest flat screen televisions, stereo equipment and the like.

Pure and simple
Whether cocoon or status symbol, home sweet homes are returning to designer- simple and basically natural values, according to trend-spotters at Europe's biggest home-design show in Paris.

Restricted entry
For some homeowners in Hong Kong, the brass or aluminum keys to the front door are no longer in their wallets or handbags. Instead, they are using swipe cards and fingerprints on digital door locks.

Clinging on
Install one of these supports for vines and climbers:

Deeply attached
VINES CAN BE trained onto almost any structure - deck, porch, shed, pergola, wall, fence, pole or arbor. The type of climber being trained determines how it should be attached. Plants climb in different ways:

A lot to be desired
In a city where consumers spend more that HK$20 billion in some months on goods and services ranging from luxury products and motors cars to apparel and jewelry, modern shopping malls compete to satisfy every desire. Aiming to attract those who spend millions on furniture, fixtures and decor, a shopping center in Sha Tin has gathered home products and lifestyle goods vendors under one roof in a high-traffic location.

For old times' sake
Surrounded by residential buildings and restaurants in a relatively calm neighborhood of Fortress Hill is a small shop strikingly eccentric in appearance. It stocks what is says are pieces from the 1920s and it looks as if a time capsule has exploded inside, scattering everything all over the place - in a stylish way.

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