July 7, 2010 by admin
At Design Matters we love Amtico flooring. Why? Because it’s practical, hardwearing and also very beautiful. Amtico is much warmer underfoot than ceramic tiles and easier to clean and maintain than carpets.
Amtico offers a fabulous range of colours and textures for all rooms in the house, and in our opinion it is a vastly superior product to most of its direct competitors. The range includes some very successful natural stone and wood effects that are hard to tell from the real thing.
With its thick stain-resistant wear layer an Amtico floor shrugs off dust and dirt, and makes cleaning quick and easy. A quick sweep with a dry microfibre mop is all that’s required on a day to day basis.
Amtico floors come with a 20 year warranty against normal household use when fitted by a qualified Amtico installer. If you have a busy household with children, frequent visitors or pets, Amtico flooring will keep its good looks for longer than most other floor coverings and as a premium product it will add value to your home.
If you are on a budget you might want to consider looking at the Spacia flooring range. Spacia is from the same people as Amtico and boasts a very wide choice of colours and finishes, the only difference being a less generous wear layer. Spacia floors come with a 15 year warranty against normal household use when fitted by a qualified Amtico installer.
Call us on the office number for a copy of the latest Amtico or Spacia brochures, or visit our showroom to see Amtico flooring on display.
May 18, 2010 by admin
With only a few remaining training dates available for 2010, we are working on our training schedule for 2011. Design Matters training can be accessed either via the Disabled Living Foundation in London, which runs our courses every year, or we can bring a trainer and assistant to a venue of your choice across England and Wales.
Our one-day training course entitled ‘The Basic Principles of Accessible Kitchen Design’ is aimed primarily at Occupational Therapists, as it assumes a certain level of understanding of various impairments requiring kitchen adaptation. However Case Managers, Architects and Personal Injury Solicitors might also be interested in becoming better acquainted with the issues surrounding kitchen design for their clients who are pursuing compensation claims to improve their independence and quality of life.
Adam Thomas is an acknowledged expert in the field of inclusive kitchen design and has many hundreds of successful designs to his credit for olderpeople, wheelchair users and people with a variety of conditions such as muscular dystrophy, muscular sclerosis, post-polio syndrome, acquired brain injury, arthritis, dementia and restricted growth. His ethos is simple: Kitchens can be fully accessible and attractive, and can be designed to last a lifetime. Find out more about the growing field of inclusive design, the fundamentals of accessible kitchen design, and the latest products and design techniques on our intensive one-day course.
We supply a lead trainer and assistant, and all training materials. You supply a maximum of 20 delegates, refreshments and a training venue. An extensive case study is included to bring the theory to life. New for 2011: Case study can be varied according to your training requirements.
Fees vary depending on the distance of the training venue from our headquarters in South Bucks. Contact Natalie Foskett our training coordinator for more information.
April 23, 2010 by admin
Our team of staff returns today from a fantastic Naidex 2010 at Birmingham’s NEC. Naidex has been running for over 30 years and is the UK’s largest homecare, disability and rehabilitation event, aiming to promote independent living for older and disabled people. Naidex attracts over 1700 exhibitors and 100000 visitors each year, and the 2010 show was as busy as ever.
Our installation team spent much of the weekend prior to the event transporting and constructing our exhibition stand and installing a state of the art kitchen full of accessible features. This is a huge undertaking, however with each successive year the team gets better at creating a room out of nowhere, and the finished stand was superb.
As the exhibition opened, the office team took over to man the stand and run two training sessions in the CPD Seminar Theatre, led by Adam Thomas. The display kitchen, training seminars and digital presentation of our recent work were very well received. We now have our work cut out responding to all the enquiries we received on the stand!
Thanks to everyone who visited us at Naidex. Do visit us again soon to see more pictures, and to keep tabs on our progress.
March 10, 2010 by admin
We are delighted to announce that the Design Matters team will be at Naidex 2010, from 20-22 April at the NEC, Birmingham. Always an exciting show, Naidex is the premier exhibition for accessible products in the UK, and we are delighted to be attending for the third year in a row.
With a stunning fully featured kitchen display on stand G106, and the opportunity to book an appointment with Adam Thomas our award-winning accessible kitchen designer, Naidex 2010 is the place to be if you are looking for kitchen inspiration.
Our Naidex display kitchen will feature an exciting new colour scheme for 2010, and a wide range of products and storage ideas for you to try out. Don’t forget to pick up a copy of our brochure while you are visiting the stand and chat to our helpful staff who are there to answer all your questions. There will be plenty to see and experience if you are looking for kitchen ideas.
If you would like to meet with Adam, please pre-book your time slot by calling us on the office number. There are a limited number of meeting slots available each day, so don’t delay in contacting us. Please bring along a rough sketch, or plans of your new kitchen space to make the best use of this unique opportunity.
Calling all OTs and health professionals! Adam will be speaking twice during the official Naidex seminar programme on accessible kitchen design. There is no need to book in advance for these sessions, just turn up on the day: April 21st at 1130h and April 22nd at 1330h.
Registering to attend Naidex is simple, just visit www.naidex.co.uk and click on Register Now to pre-register for quick and easy entrance on the day of your choice. We look forward to seeing you there!
February 11, 2010 by admin
We are updating our web site, and uploading hundreds of exciting new images to bring you news of the best kitchens and accessories available. We now have one central Design Matters home site, plus three separate microsites giving more information on our areas of expertise:
- Quality kitchens for private homes
- Tailor made Accessible kitchens for disabled people – still receiving finishing touches
- Designer kitchens for private developers – still receiving finishing touches
With all-new images showing the different kitchen styles we can offer, and extensive portfolios of recent work, we are aiming to give you more ideas and inspiration than ever before. We are also entering the world of social media, with regular News items and plans to publish videos on the web. Please bear with us as we iron out any snags and put the finishing touches to our pages for Accessible kitchens and Private Developers. And visit us again soon to see the new content as it becomes available.
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