When whichever partyforms a Government it is almost guaranteed that our energy bills will keep on going up. Can you ever remember them staying on one level? Or, Heaven forbid, actually going down? This means that it is more important than ever to find ways of using less energy in our homes.

Once May comes around, we’re seriously into Spring, opening our doors and letting the sunshine , well, at least the inspiration flood in! With this in mind, here’s six suggestions to bring a breath of fresh style into the hearth of your home this month.

It’s good to know that energy efficiency isn’t just a hang-up of our current era. It seems very modern to care about saving energy, and a bit of a surprise therefore to find out that in the early 1800s the owner of an ironmongery store in Halstead created his very own design for an enclosed [...]