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Home & Lifestyle > Decorate your home (the links below will take you online)
Buy tools and equipment online
	Cooksons A well established UK supplier of tools who are now doing good things on the web. There are over 50,000 tools available here with free delivery over £45 and a loyalty scheme for regular customers. If you can find 50,000 jobs around the house, come here.
	DIY Tools This is a good online DIY shop that sells a huge number of tools at reasonable prices. There are some good discounts over the high street price of many items. They also have lots of product information to help you purchase the right tools for the job.
	Find DIY This is a good site that can help you locate online DIY stores, local trades people, DIY books , garden centres and DIY advice websites. A very useful resource for anyone with an interest in DIY.
	Homebase Online home of the massive DIY chain Homebase. Here you can find everything from nuts and bolts to gardening equipment and items of furniture. The site is organised into sections and is easy to navigate and use for purchases.
	Kudo Shops - DIY This site provides a concise list of some of the best places on the web to buy DIY equipment and tools on the internet. Well written descriptions of each shop help you to pick the right sites for the type of equipment that you need.
	Screwfix Hundreds of DIY and building trade materials are available on this well laid out site. Value for money is top notch, delivery is free and products usually arrive the next day. Unquestionably one of the best online stores around.
	Shopsafe - DIY Tools Shopsafe provides this list of secure and reliable places to purchase a wide variety of DIY tools and equipment. These are some of the best UK shops that currently allow online purchasing, making this a very useful place to start your search.
	Wickes As well as the usual wide range of products at competitive prices, the Wickes site is an online DIY superstore with more emphasis on providing helpful functions such as calculators to help you but the right amount of tiles or wallpaper and project advice.
Contact a builder or decorator
	British Decorators This is the largest decorators association in the UK and this site can help you to locate high quality professionals in your local area. You can also read their code of practice, reasons for choosing one of their members and contact the organization.
	Builders Guild This is the official site of the Guild of Builders and Contractors. From here you can use their 'find a builder' tool to find guild members operating in your local area, along with details of the services that each of these members specialise in.
	Federation of Master Builders This is the official site of the federation of master builders. Here you can learn about the role of the federation and most usefully of all, you can use their excellent search facility to found a master builder in your local area.
	Improveline This is a useful service that can match you up with a service contractor in your local area. Every one of the contractors has been screened to ensure that they are reliable and professional and the service is free. They also have advice and tips online.
Get DIY advice
	DIY Doctor This virtual DIY surgery is a good place to try and find solutions to DIY problems that have been troubling you for ages. You can email the experts and get a response within 24 hours if you are a member. A good source of some sound advice.
	DIY Fix It A lot of good stuff here about home maintenance - fixing the leaking seal around your bath for example. Like a lot of these sites there's a navigation which focus on different rooms in a home.
	Home Pro This is a very helpful site that provides expert advice and guidance about a range of DIY issues, including dealing with contractors, legal issues, a 'find a professional' service and a very good section about interior design.
	Online DIY This site is an attractively presented guide to all things DIY. You will need QuickTime to view all of their video guides to common DIY jobs but this is freely available if you do not have it. A good way to make many household jobs easier.
	Quotecheckers This company provides a valuable service that could save you hundreds of pounds in the long run. For a relatively small fee, Quotecheckers will assess any quotes you have received and talk to builders on your behalf. A good way to avoid cowboys.
Get interior design ideas
	BBC - Design Inspiration The BBC show so many interior design programs now that they've dedicated an entire part of the website to it. Here you can get advice from the likes of Lawrence Llewellyn-Bowen and look through various design ideas from the changing rooms team.
	Bright Beige Both a shop and a source of interior design ideas and information. Although you may feel like buying something, this site is best used to find some creative ideas and practical advice on a range of interior design topics with regular articles and news.
	Feng Shui 4 Free Whether you are serious about the wonders of Feng Shui or you think it sounds like a take away dish, this is a fun site that can offer interesting interior design ideas. It provides an interactive free service to 'Feng Shui your home room by room'.
	Fired Earth From here you can either browse through a catalogue of the huge range of interior finishing products that are available or just order a catalogue and use the 'inspirations' section to use in conjunction with your own ideas. A good place to find ideas.
	Four Walls A site that can point you in the direction of some inspirational sites and places to find great design ideas for all the rooms in your home. All the sites they link to are reviewed thoroughly and there are loads of them in different categories.
Purchase DIY books
	123 Pricecheck This site offers a free service to allow you to compare the prices of books, DVDs, Videos and music, including the postage charge. A hugely useful way of finding out if you are getting the best deal.
	Amazon Amazon has now become more than just a cheap online book dealer, it now sells a huge range pf products and is generally reliable and quick to deliver. One of the best shops for sheer choice but not always the best for price. Always worth a look.
	Book Brain This site provides a comparison of prices of books from a wide range of online bookshops, so you are likely to get a bargain every time you buy. If you visit any of these dealers through one of the links provided, a percentage of sales goes to charity.

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