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- "I don't like our throwaway culture"‚ designer Orla Keily speaks out
- "The Weird" and "The Wonderful" - What's down the back of your sofa?
- 12 Joys of Christmas: Christmas Cake Pops
- 12 Joys of Christmas: Christmas Markets
- 12 Joys of Christmas: Christmas Songs
- 12 Joys of Christmas: De-stress with a Relaxing Walk
- 12 Joys of Christmas: Decorating the Tree
- 12 Joys of Christmas: Donate a gift to charity
- 12 Joys of Christmas: Ho Ho Hot Chocolate
- 12 Joys of Christmas: Making Christmas cards
- 12 Joys of Christmas: Pampering Kit
- 12 Joys of Christmas: Play a Board Game
- 12 Joys of Christmas: Refresh your home accessories
- 12 Joys of Christmas: Relax with a calming Candle
- 16 Amazingly Unique Chairs, Sofas and Settees from Pinterest
- 2015 Trend Alert: Marvellous Marble
- 2021 trends for the furniture you love
- 3 common problems with upholstered sofas (and how to sort them out)
- 3 easy ways to reduce your carbon footprint
- 3 Great Looks from our Brand New Range
- 3 Rules for Autumn Décor
- 4 Essential Habits for a Tidy Home!
- 4 great ways to create a cosy atmosphere in your home this winter
- 4 simple swaps to create an eco-friendly living room
- 5 Beautiful chairs given a Prestige make over
- 5 Easifit sofa cover fabrics - long-lasting quality for hardworking couches
- 5 Easifit sofa cover fabrics with a heritage look
- 5 Easy Ways to update your home
- 5 Essential Features to the Perfect Country Kitchen!
- 5 excellent reasons to re-upholster your furniture
- 5 eye-catching chair styles for your home
- 5 geometric prints you need for your home
- 5 imaginative Pinterest finds!
- 5 Mid-century modern furniture styles you need in your lounge
- 5 Shortcuts for Beautiful Sofas
- 5 signs your furniture needs a professional clean
- 5 Signs your furniture needs to be reupholstered
- 5 Steps to Black and Gold Décor
- 5 Tasteful Terracotta Trappings
- 5 Ways to get your family into your unloved conservatory this weekend
- 5 ways to maintain reupholstered furniture
- 5 ways to make your house smell like Christmas!
- 5 Winter Colour Trends for Your Home in 2021
- 50 Pairs of FREE tickets to give-a-way!
- 6 easy ways to make your sofa last longer
- 6 sofa accessories you never knew you needed
- 7 Floral upholstery design ideas for 2019
- 7 tips for creating a minimalist décor
- 874 and a bit miles - DONE!
- 9 Amazing deep cleaning sofa hacks you need to try
- A 'Blend' of Classic and Contemporary
- A chair being re-upholstered
- A make-over for Plumbs Showroom - our very own face lift!
- A New Clock to Watch at Midnight!
- A Passion for Purple
- A Plumbs Tale
- A quick guide to our energy saving lining options
- A Very Merry Christmas from all of us at Plumbs!
- A warm home and a cool head: 5 top tips to beat the energy price rise
- A Year Round Winter Wonderland - Grey and White Interior Design
- Accessorize this look for under £200
- Alice Beer discusses Plumbs on BBC local radio
- Amazing bedroom Ideas
- An Instant Make Over with Made to Measure Dining Chair Covers
- Another reason "NOT" to buy cheap sofas!
- Another reason to re-cover your sofa than to buy new!
- Are Leaves the New Florals?
- Are sofa covers machine washable?
- Are velvet sofas practical?
- Are we swapping our corporate red to be more Green?
- Are you considering reupholstery or loose covers vs as an alternative to a new suite?
- Are you planning a DIY dining chair reupholstery project?
- Are you sitting comfortably...? Top 5 Reading Nook Ideas
- Ascot Tweed: our revolutionary new fabric
- Autumn inspired design tips for your home - with a devilish twist
- Bah Humbug - how to get your Christmas Spirit back!
- Be Inspired By - Monet's House
- Be Inspired by - The Secret Garden
- Be our guest: preparing your guest bedroom this Christmas
- Beautiful Botanicals
- Before and after: designer sofa covers transform a tired settee
- Before/After Transformation that won't Break the Bank!
- Benefits of buying British furniture
- Benefits of reupholstery over loose covers
- Best sofa colours to choose for autumn
- Best-selling curtains that regulate room temperature and save money
- Big, Bold and Beautiful Florals from Sanderson
- Blaze of Glory: A Guide to the Post-Modern Fireplace
- Bring the Beach Home this Summer...
- Bring the Outdoors In with Nature Inspired Home Decor
- Can a sofa really be painful? Yes!
- Can you find our new van?
- Can you put loose covers for sofas on any couch?
- Can you spot the items in these six self-isolation scenes?
- Caring for your furniture
- Caring for your Loose Covers
- Celebrate Earth Day - Recycle your Furniture!
- Choosing your colour Schemes with Feng Shui
- Christmas covers for dining chairs
- Claim your FREE ticket to Grand Designs Live London
- Classic sofa reupholstery styles - what is tufting?
- Co-ordinated looks from Prestigious Textiles
- Co-ordinating with Cushions
- Colour can affect your mood in all sorts of ways
- Colour Of The Year: Radiant Orchid
- Colour Predictions for 2015
- Come and See Plumbs for yourself
- Compensation for chemical burns victim from 'toxic sofa'
- Competition Lookbook
- Competition to Transform Chair Live At BBC Gardeners' World Live
- Congratulations to Sarah Plumb for 25 years service!
- Congratulations to Susan Oswell, the winner of the Golden Anniversary prize draw!
- Cottage to be Transformed into Sofa!
- Create a focal point in any room
- Create a Neutral Haven for under £500
- Create a new kitchen without all the expense
- Creating a Focal Point in your Home
- Creating a Neutral Haven
- Creating a Softer Bathroom
- Current Trend: Contemporary Prints
- Curtain buying guide: How to choose the perfect curtains for your lounge
- Curtains Calling
- Cushion the blow of the of the winter blues with new Cushion Covers
- Customer Corner: Ann's living room transformation
- Customer Corner: Jo's curtain transformation
- Customer Corner: living room sofa covers transformation
- Dark doesn't have to be dull
- Deck the Halls....with Easter Eggs!
- Decor is for life not just for Christmas!
- Decorating with Valentine's Colours: a beautifully rich red and brown palette
- Decoration ideas to get your lounge ready for Halloween
- Design Explained: Art Nouveau Vs Art Deco
- Design Explained: Interior Designer vs Interior Decorator
- Design Explained: Jacquard style Fabrics
- Design Explained: Modern Vs Contemporary
- Did they get it right? A look back at 2011's design trend predictions
- Dining chair reupholstery 'leaf' fabrics that look great all around your home
- Discover Home Accessories for Small Spaces
- Discover Pantone's Poppy Red
- DIY Gifts your friends and family will love this Christmas
- DIY tips for a Glowing Christmas Centrepiece
- Does your pet decide which sofa you should buy?
- Dress Your Windows for Darker Nights
- Enjoy the Great British Summer with Unique Outdoor Furniture
- Environmental impact in third world countries of buying a new patio set
- Ever wondered how upholstered furniture came about?
- Exotic Interiors
- Extreme Reupholstery
- Fabrics for a Great British Summer!
- Famous Furniture of the Silver Screen
- Fancy relaxing on a Breeze Block Sofa?
- Feeling Blue: 4 Stylish Ways to Use Blue in Your Home
- Fit for a queen: our New Royal Collection fabrics
- Five Beautiful Fabrics for Elegant Chairs
- Five Fabrics of a Different Stripe
- Flower Show
- FREE hotel event on Tuesday 1st July
- Fresh, Modern Floral Fabrics from Swaffer
- From Rustic to Futuristic: The Plumbs Style Guide
- Gary Heyworth Runs London Marathon
- Geoffrey George Plumb (1941-2022)
- Get Your Home Ready For Spring
- Get your tickets now for the Ideal Home Show
- Giant Armchair Takes Over Preston's Streets!
- Give your Dining Room a brand new look with Loose Covers
- Give your home a brand new look for spring
- Go Graphic with Geometrics
- Go Green with Envy
- Grandma's quilt doesn't have a patch on this!
- Happy Easter from Plumbs...
- Happy Easter!
- Happy New Year
- Have You Seen Our New Re-upholstery TV Ad Yet?
- Have you turned your heating off yet?
- Having fun with Fairy Lights without going overboard
- Hello yellow! (Luxury Design Collection)
- Here Comes Santa Claus... Protecting High Traffic Areas in Your Home
- Highlights from the Ideal Home Show London
- Home Consultant of the Year!
- Home Decor must haves for 2008
- Home Decor that's Good Enough to Eat!
- Home Furnishings are the 6th biggest cut back
- Home inspiration: the colours of autumn
- How can I tell my furniture is good quality?
- How Does Plumbs make 1000 different covers orders every week
- How long should a sofa last?
- How should you be decorating your home in 2010?
- How to add a little Flower Power to your home
- How to add character to your new build
- How to add crushed velvet glamour to your home décor
- How to be more eco-friendly at home
- How to Be Pretty in Pink
- How to brighten up your living room in the winter months
- How to bring sunshine into your home even if it's raining outside!
- How to change the ambience of your room with these simple steps
- How to choose a pet-friendly fabric for your sofa
- How to choose a sofa colour for your lounge
- How to choose the perfect colour scheme for your home
- How to choose the right footstool for your lounge
- How to choose the right sofa style for your living room
- How to choose the right upholstery fabric
- How to clean a fabric sofa naturally
- How to clean a leather sofa
- How to clean a microfiber sofa
- How to clean sofa upholstery at home
- How to co-ordinate blinds with curtains
- How to co-ordinate cushions with sofa fabric
- How to coordinate curtains with bedding
- How to create a dining room that will impress
- How to create a mood board for your next home décor project
- How to create a peaceful living space
- How to create a subtle themed room: Seaside Sophistication
- How to create your own patio garden in a small space
- How to get a sofa through a door
- How to get red wine out of sofas
- How to introduce neo mint into your home for 2020
- How to Introduce Patterns and Printed Fabrics into Your Home
- How to keep your armchair reupholstery looking great
- How to keep your dog off the sofa
- How to make a rented house a home
- How to make bunting
- How to Make Your Furniture Unique with Reupholstery
- How to make your own Table Place Mats
- How to read furniture cleaning codes
- How to redecorate your living room in time for autumn
- How to remove ink stains from fabric sofas
- How to remove odour from sofa fabric
- How to restuff sofa cushions
- How to reupholster a recliner chair
- How to stop sofa covers from slipping
- How to style a corner sofa
- How Well Do You Know Your TV Sofas? Find Out By Taking The Quiz!
- How your curtains can affect your energy bills
- Hues of blue (Luxury Design Collection)
- Ideas to brighten up a dreary January
- If You Go Down Into The Woods Today
- If you want to "Make do and Mend", Plumbs can help!
- In-Vogue Interiors: How Much Has Changed?
- Infographic: British Homes Through the Ages
- Infographic: What Goes With What
- Inspirational Ideas for Spring
- Inspired By - The Lake District
- Inspired by Wimbledon
- Interesting Loose Cover Orders
- Interesting Re-upholstery Orders
- Interesting Re-upholstery Orders #2
- Interesting Re-upholstery Orders #3
- Interesting Re-upholstery Orders #4
- Interior Design Features: Low Vs High Ceilings
- Interior Design: Throw out the rules
- Introducing the Contemporary Collection
- Inventive ways to use wallpaper
- Is recycling old furniture set to become more popular?
- It's Decorating Month
- Join the celebration of Chinese New Year with Oriental Home Design
- Just 2.5% of people who say they 'always recycle' have refurbished or renovated old furniture
- Katie, the new 'Royal' fabric from Plumbs
- Keep and restore, don't throw and destroy
- Keep it Simple
- Keep your Winter Blues!
- Keeping The Summer Alive
- Kids Have Flown the Nest? It's Time to Refresh Your Home!
- Launch of our new Curtain Shop website
- Launch of the Plog
- Let there be Light!
- Lights, Camera, Action!
- Living room style ideas to follow in 2019
- Living Rooms From Around the World
- Lizzie talks sense
- London Fashion Week
- Looking back at Plumbs
- Loose Covers for an Instant Seasonal Update
- Lovers of Loose Covers
- Macmillan Coffee Morning
- Make a Statement with Feature Wallpaper!
- Make Our House Your Home
- Make your home more Energy Efficient
- Make yourself a Christmas home
- Making a House a Home
- Making Multiyork 2 seater sofa covers
- Making White Furniture Work for You
- Marvellous Mulberry
- Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
- Metal Rocks in the Kitchen
- Mini at the Ideal Home Show
- Mirror, Mirror on the wall...
- Mix and Match Fabrics for Stunning Reupholstery!
- Money Saving Tips - give a fresh feel to your home in the New Year!
- Mood Board Magic: the first in a 3 part series!
- Mood Board Magic: Ways to Collate Your Ideas
- Mood Board Magic: Where to get your Inspiration!
- National Family Business Day 2018
- NEW - A breakthrough in furniture covers
- New Creative Options for Leather Furniture
- New Floral Serenade Collection - Exciting New Decra Fabrics Launched
- New Guest Author - Helen Silver, Property Stylist
- New photography for October
- New photography of a reupholstered antique style Chesterfield sofa
- New Plumbs showroom on the Isle of Wight
- New TV adverts
- News: 40ft-long Chesterfield Sofa
- No Place Like Home
- Occasional Chairs for your Living Room, Bedroom and Bathroom!
- On Trend with Tartan
- One Year On and the British Flag is Still Flying High in our Homes!
- Open Plan Decorating Ideas
- Oriental Nights
- Our Guide to Room Design Ideas: From Minimal to Vintage Glamour
- Our new Bijoux Collection
- Our quick guide to the UK's 5 most popular sofa styles
- Our Royal Break competition winners
- Out of The Blue
- Pantone Announce their 2012 Colour of the Year
- Pantone Colour of the Year 2016
- Pantone Colour of the Year 2017: Greenery
- Patterned armchair reupholstery fabrics that complement a plain sofa
- Patterns in Popular Culture
- People are moving to DIY rather than moving home
- Personalise your home with Co-ordinating Fabrics
- Pet Palaces & Pampered Pooches
- Plumbs - As see on TV
- Plumbs - Local to you!
- Plumbs 50th Anniversary Photo
- Plumbs add Aqua Clean fabrics to range
- Plumbs at the Ideal Home Show London 2017
- Plumbs at the Ideal Homes Show London 2016
- Plumbs Backgrounds for Zoom & Microsoft Teams Video Calls
- Plumbs Blinds Will Brighten Up any Home this Summer
- Plumbs Charity Cycle-ride
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- Plumbs go Spotty for Children In Need
- Plumbs Join North West Business Panel
- Plumbs New Photography
- Plumbs on Ideal World TV
- Plumbs on Location
- Plumbs on Location at Tabley House
- Plumbs on Trend
- Plumbs opens a new factory in Thetford
- Plumbs Sponsor the Ugliest Sofa in the UK competition
- Plumbs strive to offer a better service
- Plumbs top 5 reasons to buy loose covers
- Plumbs Unveils 50th Anniversary Collection
- Plumbs Winter Warmers - New Autumn/Winter Collections Launched
- Plumbs: a family business
- Predicted Home Interior Trends 2013
- Prepare your Home for Autumn with A Brand New Look
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- Pretty in pink (Luxury Design Collection)
- Pretty Pastels
- Prints make a comeback
- Published today in Cabinet Maker
- Put your feet up
- Quick Tips: Arranging your furniture can save you money
- Quick Tips: Buy fresh flowers
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- Quick Tips: Paint a wall
- Re-Decorating and Braving the Jeans!
- Re-newing more than just furniture!
- Re-upholstery in London
- Re-upholstery or Re-covering Furniture IS Recycling
- Ready, Steady, Bake!
- Reasearch Reveals Postcode Lottery for Recycling and Removal of Unwanted Furniture
- Reasons why our customers choose Plumbs
- Recycling Furniture
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- Rejuvenate Your Home in 2013 with Pantone's Colour of the Year
- Repair Shops & Re-upholsterers - "Recession Busting Businesses"
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- Room Staging: Showing your Home's Full Potential
- Sad day for sofas
- Save Our Sofa
- Save Your Fave
- Scarlet Fever!
- Share your best reupholstery work with Plumbs
- Should we change the way we shop?
- Should you buy a low seating or high seating sofa?
- Show Your Home Some Love with Valentines inspired decor
- Show your Stripes
- Silver Isn't Always Second Best...
- Slip Into Something More Comfortable This Summer
- Small swaps: How to update your home without spending a fortune
- Sneak Peek - Plumbs on Location
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- Sofa reupholstery - the inner workings of your couch
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- Sofas to be inspired by!
- Soft Velvet Fabrics from Ross
- Spring cleaning
- Spring Cleaning can help prevent allergies in your home
- Spring Fabric Launch
- Spring Inspiration 2019
- Spring Inspired Fabrics
- Stuck on a present for Mothers Day?
- Styling scarlet (Luxury Design Collection)
- Summer Chateau Chic
- Sunny Side up
- Take a fresh look at your living room for Summer
- Tangerine Tango - Pantone Colour of the Year: Revisited!
- Teal appeal (Luxury Design Collection)
- The #PlumbLine - Socially curated interior design content
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- The Best DIY Christmas Activities
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- The Family History of Plumbs
- The Great Reupholstery Cover Up!
- The history of tartan in interior design
- The history of upholstery
- The Minimalist Guide to Florals
- The most carbon neutral sofa ever
- The Most Expensive Furniture Ever Sold At Auction
- The most important question is......
- The must have colours of 2020
- The Race is on to Claim a Piece of the Olympic Village
- The success of a Plumbs Upholsterer
- The Ultimate Face Lift For Two Eighty Year Olds!
- The ultimate neutral (Luxury Design Collection)
- The Woman Who Covered a House
- There's never been a better time...
- This year is Plumbs 50th birthday
- This year's stunning blue Easifit sofa cover fabrics
- Threats to your Sofa
- Three Cheers for the Three Hills Action Trust
- Time to fling the family furniture?
- Tis the Season to Give your Home a Wintry Look!
- To chuck or to cherish?
- Top 4 signs your sofa might need replacing
- Top 5 check designs to suit any sofa
- Top 5 Conservatory Designs
- Top 5 fabric designs you need for a Scandi-inspired décor
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