John Lewis Department Store The John Lewis Partnership recently launched 'John Lewis online' and the web site offers a wide selection of products from their home and gift range. The product categories at the John Lewis Store include: audio and tv; baby; bathroom; bedroom; electrical appliances; home furnishings; furniture; leather furniture uk kitchenware; lighting; toys and a wide variety of gifts. A next day delivery option is available, while standard delivery is a reasonable £2.95 and takes 3 to 5 days. A good feature is a 28 day free return policy - if you are not happy with your purchase you can return it by courier free of charge and receive a full refund. Best Feature: Low prices and good products from a reliable high street company. Worst Feature: Our Rating: 9/10. UK Delivery Charges: Next day delivery £4.95. Standard 3 - 5 days delivery £2.95 (free on orders over £200). Click here to visit the John Lewis web site. Marks and Spencers The Marks and Spencers web site offers clothing, homeware, furniture and flowers to buy online. The site is clearly laid out and easy to use - categories under home include: Bathroom; Bedroom; Kitchen; Tableware; Home Office; Lighting; Curtains & Poles; Cushions & Throws; Storage; Clocks; Vases; Photo Frames; Garden; Luggage and Furniture. There is also a list of current special offers. Standard Delivery is a reasonable £3.50 and furniture is delivered free. Best Features: Good layout, quality products, trusted high street name. Worst Feature: Our Rating: 9/10. UK Delivery Charges: Standard Delivery - £3.50. Click here to visit Marks and Spencers. Screwfix Direct - DIY & Home Improvement Screwfix direct is the UK’s largest online supplier of DIY, trade & home improvement products - they offer an enormous range of diy products, hardware and tools for the public and for businesses. The best feature is that all items are delivered from stock - so no waiting around for out of stock items. Normal delivery is usually made the next working day for orders placed before 6pm weekdays. If you are in a hurry, options for before 12noon or 10am delivery are usually available. Saturday delivery option is also available. An excellent d.i.y shop. Best Feature: Low prices, next day delivery and good customer service. Worst Feature: Our Rating: 9/10. UK Delivery Charges: Varies. Click here to visit Screwfix Direct. Oxfam UK Fairtrade Shop An excellent range of quality crafts from around the world, the Oxfam Fair Trade online store helps small producers earn a fair living from their skills. From beautiful textiles to luxury food hampers, the shop has something that will delight everybody and all for a good cause. Best Feature: Good range of items for a worthy cause. Worst Feature: Our Rating: 9/10. UK Delivery Charges: £3.50 per order. Click here to visit Oxfam UK The Cotswold Company The Cotswold Company web site offers an attractive selection of furniture, furnishings, home decor and accessories for every room in your home, at reasonable prices. There are some good internet only special offers and you can order a catalogue to be sent by post, if you prefer. The web shop is divided into categories, which include: Bathroom; Bedroom; Dining Room; Furniture; Home Office; Kitchen; Living Room; Outdoor; Soft Furnishings; Utility Room; Baskets; Chests; Lighting; Wool Rugs; Shelving; Gift Ideas and Special Offers. An excellent range of products from furniture and contemporary home decor to wall clocks and leather footstools. The CotswoldCompany also stock the stylish Brabantia bins in a variety of sizes. Best Feature: Wide selection of good quality items. Worst Feature: Our Rating: 8/10. UK Delivery Charges: Varies. Click here to visit The CotswoldCompany web site. Heals Heal's opened their first high street shop nearly 200 years ago and are known for stylish, contemporary products for the home. They sell high quality modern furniture and home accessories and most items are exclusive to Heal's. Heal’s home accessories and gifts are now available to buy online - their web site brings you the best of their home accessories and gifts including stylish kitchenware and tableware, modern lighting and storage, luxurious cushions and throws, sophisticated barware and beautiful clocks, candles and bath products. There are some great products here - either for gifts or for yourself! The site is very attractive and has a good, uncomplicated but stylish design. The only niggle we found was that when ordering an item, you need to change the quantity from 0 to the number you require to add it to your basket. Best Feature: Attractive, stylish web site. Worst Feature: Need to type in the quantity to order a product. Our Rating: 8/10. UK Delivery Charges: A reasonable £3.50 per order. Click here to visit Heals Homebase Diy Stores Uk Online version of the bricks and mortar shop, selling a wide range of products for the home and garden. The site also has some useful articles, tips and techniques on diy, interiors and gardening. There is a huge range of products here - to give you an idea, the (long!) list includes : Bed Linen, Soft Furnishings, Furniture, Bath Suites and Bathroom Accessories, Building and DIY Equipment including Coving and Mouldings, Ladders, Timber, Ceramic Tiles and Ceramic Floor Tiles, Ceramic Wall Tiles and Borders, Cookshop and Housewares, Household Electrical, Kitchen Electrical, Cooking Equipment, Glassware, Tableware, Curtain Fitments and Blinds, Decorating Accessories, Adhesives, Brushes, Decorating Tools, Fillers, Rollers and Pads, Lightbulbs, Light Switches and Sockets, TV and Audio Accessories, Telephones and Accessories, Flooring and Rugs, Laminate Flooring, Wooden Flooring, Carpet Tiles, Cork Tiles, Dining Furniture, Sofas, Sofabeds, Futons and Comfy Chairs, Childrens Furniture, Bedroom Suites, Bedroom Furniture, Chainsaws, Grass Trimmers, Hedge Trimmers, Lawnmowers, Lawnrakers, Garden Hand Tools, Garden Equipment, Hand Tools, Cutting Tools, Clamps, Cramps and Workbenches, Hammers and Wrecking Bars, Measuring Tools, Plastic Storage, Candles, Vases, Plant Pots and Covers, Contemporary Picture Frames, Wooden Picture Frames, Lighting, Ceiling Fans, Desk Lamps, Floor Lamps, Paint including Emulsion, Gloss and Satinwood, Basin and Bath Taps, Heating and Ventilation, Kitchen Taps, Plumbing Tools, Power Tools, Drills and Accessories, Locks, Padlocks, Shelving and Storage, Bedding and Curtain Sets, Ready Made Curtains, Voiles, Bed Linen, Cushions, Throws and Accessories, Woodcare - Varnish, Woodstains, Waxes and Oils, Wood Treatment and Preservers....and many more!!! Best Feature: Huge variety of products. Worst Feature: Delivery cost is high on small orders. Our Rating: 8/10. UK Delivery Charges: The minimum delivery charge is £5. Click here to visit Homebase. Crocus Garden Centre The UK's biggest gardening web site and a Garden Writers Guild Website of the Year Winner. Excellent variety of plants - over 4,000 varieties can be bought online including houseplants. The site features helpful articles by Alan Titchmarsh and Charlie Dimmock, including garden care tips in Alan's How to garden section. You can also subscribe to free regular care tip e-mails from Alan Titchmarsh. The cut flowers section also features a great selection of flowers for next day delivery - this service was rated 'best on test' (10 out of 10) by Internet Magazine, who praised the "top quality flowers, packaging and site". To find a plant, click on 'plant search' and you can then either type in the common name or Latin name or you can browse plants by category. Categories include: Alpines; Aquatics; Bamboo; Container Gardening; Climbers; Conifers; Exotics; Ferns; Fruit; Grasses; Heathers; Hedging; Herbs; House Plants; Orchids; Perennials; Rhododendrons; Roses; Seeds; Shrubs; Topiary; Trees; Unusual plants and Wildflowers. Alternatively, you can find plants to suit you based on your experience or ambition (e.g keen but clueless); based on the type of garden you have (e.g a tiny garden) or you can see how to group plants together imaginatively, in 'Planting Ideas'. As well as the huge selection of plants, the site also offers garden furniture; barbeques; garden tools; hanging baskets; patio heaters; solar lighting; fireworks and much more! For our test order we chose a Dracaena; a Peace Lily and a trio of plant pots - we were very satisfied with the packaging and the quality of the plants ordered. Best Feature: One of the best UK Sites to buy plants online. Worst Feature: Delivery expensive on small orders. Our Rating: 8/10. UK Delivery Charges: Delivery costs start from £5.95 (excluding seeds which are £1). Click here to visit Crocus Garden Centre. DIY Tools At this comprehensive and well designed website you can buy anything from a garden shed, to mitre saws, greenhouses, woodworking machinery and much more. Diy tools stocks a large range of products in over 20 departments covering everything for the home, workshop and garden. Offers a wide choice of products suitable for the DIY enthusiast, homemaker, tradesman, gardener and hobbyist. Many of their products offer significant discounts on top brand DIY products, and there is free delivery on orders over £50. The range of products includes: paints, bathroom equipment, power tools, hand tools, home and storage products, hardware, DIY products, electrical fittings, lights, woodworking & woodturning machinery and many more. Best Feature: Wide selection of products and good prices. Worst Feature: Our Rating: 8/10. UK Delivery Charges: Click here to visit DIY Tools. Tooled Up Another good DIY site selling discount tools for the trade and home DIY user. A user-friendly website which offers a large range of Power Tools, Gardening Tools and Hand Tools at reasonable prices. Best Feature: Worst Feature: Our Rating: Not yet tested. UK Delivery Charges: Click here to visit Tooled Up Art Republic An excellent site offering a wide selection of art to adorn your walls. You can search by artist, by style or by title. As well a selling art posters, photography prints and screen prints; Art Republic also features world-wide art exhibition reviews, books, travel guides and regular competitions. Best Feature: Large variety of attractive art posters and prints. Worst Feature: Prints can be expensive. Our Rating: 8/10. UK Delivery Charges: Free delivery. Click here to visit Art Republic Your Price Furniture UK Online furniture store. "Offers a wide range of furniture in the UK including garden furniture, beds, pine bedroom furniture, pine dining furniture, computer desks, bookcases, pine tables, kids cabin beds, sleepstations, bunk beds, single beds, double beds, wardrobes and pine chests". Full Review Pending. Best Feature: Not yet rated. Worst Feature: Not yet rated. Our Rating: Not yet rated. UK Delivery Charges: Click here to visit Your Price Furniture UK. Natural Collection An excellent selection of organic, fairly traded and sustainably sourced products. Categories include: bedding, kitchenalia, garden & diy, kid's stuff, hemp products, natural home and the stock clearance section which features some good bargains. (The Ecru Cotton Bathrobes at £15 are highly recommended! XL only) Best Feature: Wide selection of products. Worst Feature: Our Rating: 8/10. UK Delivery Charges: £3.50. (Next day delivery £5.00 extra) Click here to visit Natural Collection.com. A similar range of products is sold at ecozone.co.uk Catalogue City UK Not an online shop as such, but rather a portal offering access to thousands of products from various UK online retailers. Categories include plants and flowers; garden ornaments; outdoor furniture; furniture and home interior items. Best Feature: Wide selection of products. Worst Feature: Our Rating: 7/10. UK Delivery Charges: Click here to visit Catalogue City UK. Dukewood Furniture Dukewood & Co are suppliers of handmade Rosewood & Mahogany furniture. Their website offers a range of solid wood hand made furniture including Tables; Cabinets; Desks; Chest of Drawers; Chests; Chairs and Beds as well as bronze sculptures to buy online. Best Feature: Not yet tested. Worst Feature: Not yet tested. Our Rating: Not yet tested. UK Delivery Charges: £3.95 per order. Click here to visit Dukewood & Co.

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