Handy resources

• Architect Your Home Can’t afford an architect to manage a whole project? Here you can pay by service according to your budget – from meeting and chat only to drawings, help with planning permission and surveys and more.
• Attic Interiors As well as selling cool vintage furniture at affordable prices, this Brighton-based company also offers non-chintzy interior design ranging from small renovations to major refurbishments.
• Bathstore Nothing uber-fancy, but great for simple, stylish bathrooms on a budget, with spectacular customer service to boot.
• Boro Southeast London-based furniture pimpers and creators.
• Crafty Bitches Upcycling workshops – learn online or in southeast London.
• Dandy’s Want to make your home as beautiful on the outside as it is on the inside? This site offers the best and cheapest selection in outdoor building materials.
• Door Chimes UK Must all door chimes be so naff? Make the little details count and choose a design-led doorbell that won’t make you cringe.
• E Frame An affordable and efficient online store – go ready-made or affordably bespoke
• Funky Little Darlings As well as selling fun and fabulous kid’s wallpaper, FLD offer a bespoke design service for your little people's rooms. 
• Lighting Direct A vast selection, not all of it beautiful, but brilliant for architectural stuff like ceiling spots, outdoor lights and wall-fitted lamps. 
• London Design Festival The umbrella event for the capital's annual nine-day celebration of style – but the website is also packed with news and other happenings all year round.
• Martha Stewart Living Wildly practical and exhaustive resource with instruction from the American queen of domesticity on everything interiors-y you could ever want to know how to do.
• Own Art Scheme Ever wished for your very own masterpiece but couldn’t afford it? This scheme offers interest-free loans to help cover the cost of that coveted piece of art or craft.
• Pugly Pixel Do you blog? Want to do it better? Check the design-savvy tutorials here.
• Retro To Go Want to create the retro style of the 50s and 60s in your own home? This site pulls together the best of the internet and provides links to the relevant retailers. 
• Screw Fix DIY nerd heaven, selling everything from nuts and bolts to paint and power tools – all at trade prices. 
• The Shelving Company Floating, alcove, with doors... all your shelving needs covered here, plus lots of inspiring photographs.
• Vintage Simplicity Planning a wedding, party or corporate event and want it to have a vintage feel? This event styling set-up will sort you out.
• What a Find Much not-so-nice stuff to wade through but some brilliant end-of-line bargains in the mix from the likes of Graham & Green and Conran.