The flower show season is just around the corner and we’re giving away 2 tickets to the RHS Flower Show at Hampton Court to one lucky winner.  Head over to our facebook page for your chance to play and win!  While you’re there why not have a look at some inspiring design images and tips, or drop us a quick message – we’d love to hear from you!

Don’t forget, Plumbs will be exhibiting at many shows across the UK – click here to see when we will be visiting a venue near you.  Enjoy a great day out and pop over to say hello!

This Spring, 24.5 million of us tuned in to watch the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge finally tie the knot. To commemorate the occasion, you may remember Plumbs ran a competition to give you the chance to win a luxury Royal Break for two in various locations around the UK.

The question we asked you was: Which Royal couple’s wedding date is in 2011? The answer of course was William and Kate. We’ve caught up with a couple of our lucky winners to see how they enjoyed their prize.

Margaret Healey from Cheshire chose to travel to Edinburgh and experience a tour of Holyrood House and afternoon tea at the Balmoral Hotel. Margaret said ‘It was interesting learning about the history of the Scottish Kings and Queens’ and thanked Plumbs ‘for a most enjoyable two days.’

Jean Blackford from Kent chose a trip to London where her tour of Buckingham Palace had the unexpected added bonus of watching a film about the making of Katherine’s wedding dress and shoes. Afterward, Jean enjoyed afternoon tea at Fortnum and Mason where she ‘felt like a V.I.P.’ Jean described her trip to London as ‘perfect in all ways.’

We would like to say a big congratulations to all of our lucky Royal Break winners and hope that you too enjoyed your trips and Royal Wedding souvenirs as Margaret and Jean did.

Keep your eyes peeled for future competitions and great offers coming to you from www.plumbs.co.uk

Images sourced from www.royalcollection.org.uk

We have 50 Pairs of FREE tickets to give-a-way to the:

Retirement Show: Manchester Central (G-mex) 11-12 March 2011

The hugely-successful Retirement Show is the unique forum for all who are retired, semi-retired or who just aspire to retire. At each Retirement Show visitors can find out how to make the most of their retirement (or simply have a great day out!).

All you have to do is be one of the first 50 people to enter the FaceBook promotion and share it on your profile wall with your friends.

Click Here…

To celebrate Plumbs 50^th anniversary during 2010, customers got the opportunity to enter a special prize draw to win a luxury cruise.

The fabulous all inclusive prize including a balcony stateroom took in the sights of Barcelona, Rome, Florence, Monte Carlo, Catagena and Cadiz. Every Plumbs customer who placed an order before 30^th June was eligible to enter.

The 14 night cruise for 2 people was eventually won by Mrs. Sue Oswell from Aylesbury in Berkshire. Sue said, “So many people have said that they didn’t believe these prizes were ever won.” Well the Plumbs prize of a cruise certainly was won by a delighted Mrs. Oswell!

She remarked, “My friend and I thoroughly enjoyed our cruise aboard the P&O Oceana. The food was excellent as was the variety of activities and entertainment onboard.”

Not only had Mrs. Oswell won the cruise but had also been thrilled with new furniture covers from Plumbs. She wrote, “I’m very happy with the way your covers have drawn together the décor in my sitting room and with their quality and the service I received.”

Other prizes included luxury curtains, ottomans, hand tailored throws, Plumbs accessory vouchers and Marks & Spencer vouchers. Congratulations to all of our 50 prize winners and a special congratulations to Mrs. Oswell from everyone at Plumbs!

We restored Anne Pritchard’s 1930’s style wingback fireside chair to its former glory live at this year’s show at the NEC. Mrs Pritchard’s chair was reupholstered in one of our beautiful fabrics – Opulence Floral – Cream, with Anne herself in attendance to see the transformation first hand.

To enter the competition, we asked entrants to submit an image of a chair they would like reupholstered, with the winning chair receiving up to £1000 worth of reupholstery, with a choice of fabric from 30 different options and full reupholstery live at the show earlier this month.

Mrs Pritchard said: “Winning this competition was a complete surprise and I’m absolutely delighted with the result. My chair has been completely transformed and it was a fantastic experience to watch the incredible skill of the Plumbs reupholsterer at work.”

Before and After Images:

From all at Plumbs, we hope Anne gets many years of joy from her restored chair.

We have recently put a brand new delivery van on the road, even though we are really excited about this, we imagine you are probably not!

So, to get you a little more excited. The first 5 people to send us a photo of themselves with one of our delivery vans will receive a lovely surprise. NO EMPLOYEES PLEASE

If you are lucky enough to snap a photo with our new van, you’ll get an extra special surprise.

Please post your photos on our Facebook page here:

http://www.facebook.com/Plumbs.Home

Just so you know, our delivery vans go all over the UK so watch out wherever you are!

Here is what our other vans look like:

In conjuction with the BBC Gardeners’ World Live 2010 on 16th – 20th June, we are giving a lucky winner the opportunity the chance to have a one-seater chair REUPHOLSTERED LIVE AT THE SHOW.

This fantastic prize is worth up to £1,000. Your chair would be collected from your home, reupholstered live at the BBC Gardeners’ World show, in your choice of fabric (from a selection of our top 30 fabrics) and then re-delivered back to your home.

To be in with a chance of winning this amazing prize and seeing your chair transformed live at the show, upload a picture of the one seater chair you would like re-upholstered on the BBC Gardeners’ World show:

Enter here….

Closing date for entries is May 21st 2010. Two runners up will receive tickets to BBC Gardeners’ World Live.

Congratulations to the winners of 5 pairs of tickets to the Country Living Magazine Spring Fair. They were won by:

Rachael Giacomuzzi on Facebook
Margaret Dunlop on Twitter
Janette on Twitter
Alison: Newsletter Sign-up
Emma: Newsletter Sign-up

We hope to see you there and hope you have a great time.