Web Watch

1 Purlees

This site shows you how to jazz up any surfaces in your home. Self-adhesive films, decorative films; etch effect designs; wallpapers and bespoke stained glass designs are just some of the products on offer. Stickers in a choice of colours and sizes, which can be made to suit your exact requirements and will prevent great-aunt Eileen walking through a glass door. This site has those safety stickers to stop any nasty accidents. It also has custom-made stickers so you can send on what you want and they will work their magic on your text.

* www.purlees.com

2 Gorgeous Gifts and Interiors

Products featured on this site waver from the beautiful to the sublime. Novelty items like card masks for a dinner party, ostrich feather dusters, and a host of unusual trays and dinner plates can give your house that something special. The store was created by interior designer, Milo FitzGerald, and has an off shoot of an interior design gallery which showcases charming residential and commercial projects. You can shop by price or by designer, which include Normann Copenhagan, Five Dollar Shake, Black and Blum, and Ibride.

* www.gorgeousgiftsandinteriors.com

3 Etsy

A nod to this site has to be given as it’s sales hit $525.6 million in 2011. But it still has kept its neighbourhood theme with its handcrafted and unusual delights. “We see a world in which very-very small businesses have much-much more sway in shaping the economy; local living economies are thriving everywhere, and people value authorship and provenance as much as price and convenience,” claims the site. You can buy and sell everything here for the home and garden — be it handmade, vintage or suppliers so you know the source of the product.

* www.etsy.com

Beast cushion found on www.pinterest.com. Originally posted from www.etsy.com