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ARE PATTERNED PAINT ROLLERS How to submit
EASy TO USE ON WALLS? I’ve your question
read about painting walls with a The House Clinic service
patterned roller. Which companies is free to all Homes & Gardens
supply the rollers and is it diffcult subscribers. There is a £12 fee
to work the pattern accurately? per query for non-subscribers,
who must send their query and
DW, Scarborough, North yorkshire.
payment by post.
email Subscribers, send your
When Clare Bosanquet found patterned
query, subscriber number and
paint rollers on a market stall in Romania address to hgcontactus@timeinc.com.
she brought the idea back with her and Post Send your query, subscriber
now offers 15 designs through The Painted number or payment and a sae to
House, the-painted-house.co.uk. She has Homes & Gardens, Blue Fin Building,
developed two types of roller, one for fabric 110 Southwark Street, London
and one for walls – on this one (left) the SE1 0SU. Make cheques/postal
orders payable to Time Inc (UK).
embossed pattern is in softened rubber. The
We are unable to answer more than
rollers cost £15 or £20 each depending on
one question per reader each month.
the design, plus £12 for the wall applicator,
which includes the foam roller to charge
Celia Rufey can also help you
the roller with paint. The website has a create an individual design for
video illustrating exactly how to work the any room in your home, with
rollers accurately on walls and fabric. Laura ideas for colours, fabrics, paint,
Ashley, 0871 983 5999, lauraashley.com, wallcoverings and fooring. For
has also introduced decorative paint details, visit housetohome.co.uk/
rollers in three designs: Aviary Garden, decorationservice.
Salcombe and Bella Butterfy, £30 each.

CAN A BOTTOM-UP BLIND BE
MADE IN A FABRIC OF My CHOICE?
The tall window in my kitchen is
overlooked and I would like to ft a
blind that pulls up from the bottom
of the window. So far, I have only
found a pleated style that won’t suit
the room. Is there a company that
would use a fabric of my choice?
yS, Uppingham, Rutland.
Eclectics, 01843 608789, eclectics.co.uk, is
well known for its bottom-up blinds, which
are essentially a roller blind that is upside
down with the spring mechanism kept under
permanent tension in a cassette ftted at
the base of the window. This stops the blind
unravelling and allows it to be pulled up on WHERE CAN I FIND A SIMILAR KITCHEN AND
cords and stopped at any intermediate point TAP? I found a picture of an Obumex kitchen with a
up the window where it’s tied off around a swan-neck tap by John Pawson on Pinterest. Neither
cleat. Most plains and patterns offered by the the kitchen nor tap appears to be available in the UK.
company are fabrics that have been woven Can you suggest similar options within our budget
specifcally for roller blinds and are stiffened as of £20,000? CW, London N3.
part of the manufacturing process. Bottom-up
blinds start at £146 for a 300x350cm size. Obumex is a Belgian manufacturer that installs kitchens in the UK
Any fabric you supplied would have to be in collaboration with an architect, using its own ftters. The Pawson
laminated and this would make it too thick to tap can be ordered only as part of that kitchen. For a similar kitchen
ft into the cassette. However, if whoever fts with contemporary lines and a pale, limed wood effect that echoes
the blind can cope with winding the tension the style you like, see the Italia (above) from Masterclass Kitchens,
into the spring and clipping it into the brackets 01443 449499, masterclasskitchens.co.uk. For a similar tap, try the
while still holding the spring’s tension, then a Tube Round tap in Chrome (right) from Crosswater, 0845 873 8840,
bottom-up laminated blind could be made in crosswater-cucina.co.uk. This is a single-hole mixer with a single
your choice of fabric without a cassette. lever control and the 422mm high version costs from £230. l

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