Redbrick Mill, Batley

I've made a couple of trips to Redbrick Mill lately as it's a nice place for checking out the latest trends in furniture and interior design. There's a good mix of alternative interiors stuff and I would recommend it for a rainy weekend if you want some inspiration or if you've got a spare wad of cash and fancy something special for your home.

It is a bit unusual to find a trendy interiors place like this in Batley, West Yorkshire which was once a prosperous mill town but nowadays is somewhat less grand, however it is nice to see regeneration of a place like this and it would probably be lost in a big city like Leeds.

See below for an interesting article from the Yorkshire Post that gives a good background to the idea behind this interior design outlet and Stephen Battye, the guy behind the idea.
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=1472&ArticleID=1370548

We have learnt that people are blown away when they see Heuga on the floor in a room setting but it's a bit difficult to get this kind of display in a traditional carpet store so we are looking at new types of places to show off our products and looking to place them in the stylish kind of environment that they deserve. Maybe one day we'll get some of our stuff in a place like this - I'll keep you posted!

My Square Vision!

This is me in my office sporting a lovely Heuga T-shirt!

I've decided it would be smart to write about the fun stuff that we get up to at Heuga.com because it is quite a fun place to be and we want to share our Square Vision with the world! Actually, I just came up with the term Square Vision this morning but I quite like it!

Heuga Home Flooring is all about being creative with your floor. Some people seem to be a bit nervous about straying from the conventional wall to wall carpet, but Heuga carpet tiles offer you a huge range of design options for flooring for your home. Some people just don't like the name 'carpet tiles' so we tried calling it 'modular flooring' to get over this problem but then people get all confused about what it is we are talking about.

Embrace the Tile

There's no need to be scared - it is time to be brave and embrace the endless possibilities of modular flooring, carpet tiles, carpet squares - whatever you want to call it !

Here's a couple of my favourite pictures to ease you into the world of creative flooring!

Modern Floor Combination in the Dining Room

This is my favourite Heuga photo. Part of my job includes organising photography with a fab bunch of great people (will cover them later) so forgive me for feeling passionate about the results. Anyway this shot shows WoodWork around the edge of a rug of DayDream. This demonstrates how simple it is to make a floor more interesting and create a focus point for the room.

WoodWork is a great product as it looks like wood but is soft like carpet. Now that we have all experienced the faults of laminate - cold, hard, dust covered stuff - our WoodWork product ticks the boxes of stylish design with homey comfort.

DayDream is my favourite Heuga product (the light coloured product in the centre of the picture above). This comes in 3 similar light beige type colours, Cotton is my favourite as shown here. This has a lovely chunky texture design and looks like wool.

Luxurious Bedroom Floor Design

This picture shows an elaborate posh bedroom scheme with a fabulous luxurious floor.

The main product is Luxury Living in colour ice cream - a really stylish and stunning product combining three different textures in the same colour to create this subtle striped design.

In designer speak - the red carpet around the bed enhances the image of grandeur and adds a really stylish focus for the room. This red carpet is PuzzlePieces in colour Amaryllis.

PuzzlePieces comes in 20 colours and is a really great product to combine with others. If you love the colour red or orange or green, but you're a little nervous about having a floor entirely in that one colour then this is the perfect solution as you can add a border or a rug effect or a little focal point wherever you like to add your own personal touch to your design scheme.