Best Black Friday Deals on Matching Kitchen Appliance Suites

If you’ve been waiting to buy a brand-new suite of matching appliances, November is the right time to do it. As we’ve reported elsewhere, you’ll see some of the lowest prices of the year this month, on most major appliances—from ranges, refrigerators, and dishwashers to matching washer and dryer sets. But as good as those deals are … Read more

Home is where the heart is, so why not make it the best?

With Singapore pushing towards being a Smart nation, more and more home appliances are becoming increasingly sophisticated. Such appliances have helped us reduce the burden of household chores, while providing greater convenience in our lives.  Here, we picked out five high end home appliances that will change your lifestyle at home: 1. Samsung Family Hub … Read more

Best smart lighting: from Philips Hue to Lifx, and everything in between

Smart lighting is perhaps the most accessible area of the smart home, requiring little explanation, installation, and fiddling in order to enjoy the benefits of lighting that you can control from your phone or with your voice, and which changes tone, brightness and even color. Without a doubt the biggest name is smart lighting is … Read more

High-octane to unplugged: the best in this week’s traditional music

A special evening of poetry and traditional Irish music presented by Stephen James Smith and Macdara Yeates as part of MusicTown 18. The evening features artists, poets, Stephen James Smith, Felispeaks, John Cummins and musicians Eithne Ní Chatháin (Inni-K) Eoghan ó Ceannabháin (Jiggy, Aon Teanga) and Macdara Yeates, in an intimate, unplugged performance. Building on … Read more

Gathering Traditional Festival, Bríd Harper – the best trad music this week

With a raft of concerts, céilídhe, sessions and storytelling as well as set dancing, singing and instrument masterclasses, The Gathering boasts an enviable programme. Tonight, Scottish duo, Ali Bain and Phil Cunningham, will share top billing with the drum-tight trio of Máirtín O’Connor, Cathal Hayden and Seamie O’Dowd in the INEC Acoustic Club, while in … Read more

Getting the best from energy efficient lighting in your kitchen and dining area

In the third part of our blog series on creating attractive effects using energy efficient lighting with designer Graham Festenstein, we move on to the kitchen and dining area. It’s a focal point of many homes, and one where task lighting understandably can take precedence over general room ambience. Focus on surfaces In previous blogs, he’s explained that … Read more

Gardening: 5 of the best garden gloves

We look at 5 of the best garden gloves Gardening gauntlets cream leather and English rose linen, £27.95, www.annabeljames.co.uk Garden in style with these gorgeous, luxurious, lightweight gloves with cuffs crafted in English linen and leather, pictured right. The long, floral linen cuffs are ideal for protecting your arms and the leather shields your hands … Read more

The World’s Best Interior Designers Hot List

We bring you the world’s best interior designers who’ve been making headlines thanks to their lust-worthy residential designs sure to give you some home décor inspiration. Martyn Lawrence-Bullard Background: Design allowed the 50-year-old British decorator’s dream of living in Los Angeles to come true. His desire to become an actor had brought him from London to … Read more

Smith can be best of modern greats – Ponting

Ricky Ponting believes Australia’s captain Steven Smith has the potential to finish his career as the greatest batsman of the modern era. Smith’s century on the third day at the Gabba was the 21st of his Test career, in his 57th Test, and left him with a career batting average of 61.23. Smith began as a legspinning allrounder … Read more

The best smart home and kitchen gadgets to give as gifts

Will Lipman/Engadget For the smart home and kitchen gadget section of our holiday gift guide, we skipped past the WiFi-enabled toaster ovens and what-have-you, and narrowed our list down to the stuff that’s actually useful. For starters, yes, we agree that the Instant Pot — a darling in food and tech circles — is worth the hype. With this one … Read more