Enter your house for popular TV show and win 1000 euros!
May The Best House Win is a daytime series on the UK's ITV1 channel that sees the owners of some of Britain’s most interesting and unusual homes compete against each other in a bid to win a cash prize.
In it's next series, the show producers, Shiver Productions, are coming to France to feature four proud homeowners keen to open their doors to each other and let them cast a critical gaze on their property masterpiece. According to the producers, it’s the ultimate Open House experience…and absolutely nothing is off limits!
Particpants will judge each other's houses in terms of their interior design, homeliness, comfort, the hospitality on offer and the overall viewing experience. They secretly score each other out of ten and the winning homeowner wins 1000 euros. At the end of each show, they all discover exactly what their fellow contestants thought of their home - and they won’t always like what they hear!
A small design company has just been launched in the region, specializing in designing “tailor-made” hard furnishings for the home.
Located just outside Geneva, but operating in both France and Switzerland, Ralpine Design will provide a customized design service for private clients who require unique pieces of furniture for their home, whether they be small items such as tables and chairs, or larger items including built-in wall units.
Owner, Robert Leeman, told knowitall.ch, “Our aim is to produce bespoke, high quality products that have been beautifully designed and are perfectly matched to our client’s lifestyle. Our products are tailor-made to fit our clients, their surroundings, and more importantly the way they live their life. Like a tailored suit, our furniture excels in its performance through the close partnership of hand-made craftsmanship and creative design. We employ the very best, local craftsmen to create our products, and use the finest materials possible.”
10% discount for knowitall.ch customers makes them more cost-effective too!
A new interior design and home renovation company, Lemli Interiors, has been launched in the region, targeting its services at the expat community of Vaud in Switzerland.
Founded by Claudia Lemli, the new company will focus on managing stylish home renovation projects, that are both stress-free and cost-efficient for clients. Fluent in French, German and English, Claudia is keen to work with customers from the expat community, who are unfamiliar with the “ins and outs” of the home improvement business in Switzerland, and who can frequently be caught out by unexpected costs and expensive delays.
Starting out her career in the world of international fashion as a buyer for some of the world’s leading department stores, Claudia has an eye for the latest global trends in design. Having studied more recently at the Ecole Athenaeum Europe, an established institute for architecture and design in Lausanne, Claudia also has an excellent understanding of how to translate current trends in home design into the individual requirements of her clients.
By Daryl Williams, Williams Services
Digital terrestrial television has been around in France since 2005, when the TNT (TélévisionNumérique Terrestre) came into service.
TNT offers a minimum of 18 free television channels, including the main existing terrestrial French television channels. By subscription, it is also possible to receive many other channels, including Canal+.
TNT does not give you access to UK television stations, for which you will need to buy and install a satellite dish!
The TNT service is already available to most of the population, although many households have chosen not to take it, preferring instead to remain with the analogue service.
Nevertheless, from the beginning of 2010 the analogue service has gradually been replaced, region by region, and will be switched off definitively by 30 November 2011.
Noon Softspace provides a unique look for your child’s bedroom
If you’re keen to provide a calm look for your child’s bedroom, or you’re simply looking for an unusual and creative idea for a gift, then you should take a look at some of the products on offer from local Swiss company, Noon Softspace.
Based in St Sulpice in Vaud, Noon Softspace was created by local entrepreneurs, Nurit Costa and Daphna Daily, with the intention of providing children with their own soft, quiet place in which to relax. Seeing the wide range of highly stimulating and sometimes overpowering products currently available in the shops for their own young children, they decided to “restore the balance” and produce a range of products which would give their children a calm and playful atmosphere in which to relax and have fun.
