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This week, my interest has been peaked by cube housing in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The houses, designed by Piet Blom, are designed to ‘furnish’ a pedestrian bridge covering a busy street in the centre of the city. The houses are based on the idea of a tree, where by a ‘canopy’ is created underneath which can be used for children to play in for example. You can see this effect in one of the images below, the houses leave only a very small area of light between them at the top […]

Don’t wait for summer to use your patio! Outdoor spaces can be used all year round, particularly if they’re made of easy to clean materials, such as natural stone flooring. Keep your stone tiles swept clean of leaves and dirt, then you’ll be ready to make the most of the space when the sun shines. Here are four top ideas for having a bit of fun in the garden in winter.

An engineered quartz stone, used for kitchen worktops, bathrooms, and flooring, Okite is made in Italy from around 93% pure natural quartz. The quartz particles are bonded together using a dyed polyester resin. This is what gives Okite its wide range of colours. Okite and conforms to EU, UK and US safety standards. It’s designed to be safe to prepare food on and is non-toxic. In fact, as Okite is naturally non-porous, bacteria can’t hide in the surface as they could in wood or rough natural stone. Okite’s many colours […]