Since staying in is the new going out, the desire for the perfect home is higher on the agenda than ever before. However, when it comes to decorating your home if you don’t know your high gloss finishes from your Strong Wood Grains you could be facing decorating suicide. Thankfully help has arrived in the form of www.shopdekko.com – a new online shopping service, offering everything including the kitchen sink…

Late night shopping has taken on a whole new meaning this week with the introduction of a new shopping experience www.shopdekko.com. Building on the success of the 28,000sq ft Belfast superstore, www.shopdekko.com will enable shoppers to access a world of furniture and stuff direct from the comfort of their own living room.

The new site www.shopdekko.com offers a comprehensive shopping service with an excess of 8,000 dekko products available to buy online. This customer friendly site is unlike any other shopping website in Northern Ireland thanks to its extensive range and accessibility. Designed to appeal to even the most inexperienced internet shopper, www.shopdekko.com offers a step by step process that enables you to easily purchase designer products without the designer price tags.

According to dekko marketing manager Gareth Oakes “At dekko we want to help you get a look that suits your lifestyle, from city chic to comfortable living, all within your budget. Our goal with the creation of www.shopdekko.com is to replicate the unique instore shopping experience with our online service and ultimately re-enforce our commitment to offering the best possible service to our customers.”

This customer friendly site is unlike any other furniture shopping website in Northern Ireland thanks to its extensive range and accessibility and overall design pizzazz. Designed to appeal to even the most inexperienced internet shopper, www.shopdekko.com offers a step by step process that enables you to easily purchase designer products without the designer price tags.
Even if you feel your purchase was made in a moment of madness, don’t panic! www.shopdekko.com has a hassle free, returns policy – no item is too big or too small.

This Season’s Click List….

· SOFA, SO GOOD… One of the themes for 2005 is going to be the year for big, bold statement pieces. Play with a combination of matt and shiny finishes and why not opt for gold or silver metallic cushions and leather throws to complement this lavish look.

· IN THE BEDROOM… With chocolate browns, beige and baby blue being the heavily featured in the bedroom area you will see hints of the roaring twenties. A time of high glamour it was characterised with elegant touches, embroidered fabrics, check black rugs. For extra effect why not follow the trend for huge headboards? Its grand, its gilded and its going to be giant!

· TO DINE FOR…The dining area is influenced by the Art Deco era. This was a time of high style and formality. You will notice these elements reflected in the high gloss finishes, strong wood grains. Also, in the use of bold colours such as chocolate brown teamed with accents of eye-catching orange and lots of mirrors to create that essential sense of opulence.

· GROOVY BABY… Homes in the 1960s were furnished with an eclectic mix of furniture from a variety of periods. Recreate this unique style with strong statements in the form of showpiece wallpaper and theatrical mirrors and opt for furniture to break the rules, combining undiluted geometric shapes, oversized scatter cushions and shag-pile rugs.

Whatever you do - do it with dekko.
(www.shopdekko.com)