Prima Magazine recently wrote an article on their 5 favourite coat stands! And luckily they loved the Saturnus Coat Stand as much we do, describing it as colourful and retro!

For £68 it was one of the cheapest Coat Stands that Prima Magazine picked, so get your hands on one now. And start hanging your coats up with one!

Pex Hill play in the Halton & District Football League and field teams which age from under 5’s all the way up to the new Open Age Team of big boys, which includes some grizzly faces from the STORE warehouse!

Pex Hill have recently been awarded Charter Standard Development status by the FA in recognition of their standards of coaching, administration and child protection.

Congratulations to our friends at Pex Hill and lets hope that the new Pex Hill grown-ups team can bring home a trophy for STORE this coming season.

Ups! We can do better than that can't we?!

Good News! The (almost) famous STORE Summer Sale starts this weekend and as is customary we’ve included some big fat discounts with up to 60% off on regular lines and up to 70% where we can.

Also included in the 2011 summer sale is our range of elfa shelving and storage solutions which we’ve slashed in price by a massive 25%, making it the ideal time to sort your wardrobe clutter and other larger scale storage issues.

However, as we always mention and unlike our colleague Gerry’s now infamous quote, “I hope I live as long as the DFS Summer Sale”, The STORE Summer Sale only lasts for a few short weeks so hurry whilst stocks last!

If you can’t come see us in person don’t forget that the STORE Summer Sale and Elfa Shelving Sale is also available online at www.APlaceForEverything.co.uk

The STORE team scored a perfect 100% on the mystery shopper visits which were made during December and the first few months of 2011.

STORE’s perfect score was judged on: Quality throughout customer service experience; Product knowledge; Sales and Presentation.

Well done team from all at STORE HQ…Keep up the 100% perfect work!

Mobile phone charges are so boring, so our clever designer friends have come-up with The Solar Tree. This stylish wooden tree is covered in tiny leaf-like solar panels which offer a really unusual take on charging the mobile. Better still it’ll save your electricity bill too!

The Solar Tree will be available in STORE from mid March and retails at £110.  It’s made from solid wood and stands 22cm high. The Solar Tree containers both a USB and mini USB port plus cable.

We also love this neat idea to tidy your desktop and avoid cable clutter. Our new Desk Hub Cube has all the necessary slots to plug your peripherals in alongside your camera SD cards etc etc. It’s a real desk top clutter buster.

Our neat glossy white Desk Hub Cube is available at STORE mid March 2011 for £23

Finally, it may not be one of our famous storage solutions but we couldn’t resist ordering this simple Standby Button too. The button simply connects to your PC via a USB port and is a really strong visual reminder to prompt you to save a bit of electricity when you’re nipping off for a coffee.

The Standby Button is available in STORE from mid March and costs £10

However, we finally think we’ve found the solution in the form of something called the Smooff Lounge Cushy from our Dutch friends at Smooff HQ.  TheLounge Cushy is a super lightweight (just 5kgs) fold-up mattress with a special foam filling that moulds around and supports your body.  We think it’s a great idea for occasional use and for unexpected overnight visitors. Better still the colourful  Smooff can be folded away in seconds and then neatly stored in the bottom of a wardrobe etc. in the morning.

So if you’re looking for a temporary roll-up guest bed that’s super comfy and doesn’t take-up half the spare room then look no further than Smooff.

The Smooff range of roll-up guest beds is available in STORE from 2-week in February and includes both adult and children’s versions

Bird Bath Shower Caddy £47

A really unusual take on the traditional shower caddy. Dennis Cheng’s stylish moulded white design allows shampoo and shower gel bottles to be stored upside down for easy access during showering .

There’s plenty of storage space for your other lotions, potions and conditioners as well as a soap dish and hooks for flannels etc.

The caddy has a suction hook at the base to attach to the wall for extra stability and the upper hook has a non-slip rubber coating to protect your shower head.

Mackintosh Side Table £245

Teddy Luong’s lidded coffee / side table is finished in a high gloss white wood. It has a removable lid to store all that everyday clutter that seems to hang around the lounge and there’s a neat cut-out on the outside to store your magazines, TV guides, remotes etc.

The glazed windows are frosted to provide just the right about of privacy to hide the clutter inside and we predict this glossy white unit to be a real hit with STORE’s clutter conscious customer base!

Sticks Coat Hook £29

Luciano Lorenzatti’s moulded hook offers a refreshingly unusual take on hanging-up your coat in the hallway. This stylish espresso coat hook has branches to hang the families coats, scarves and bags on that neatly fold back when not required…great for use where space is tight!

Save precious wardrobe storage space with STORE's new and exclusive vertical Handbag Organiser at just £12

Exclusive to STORE, our new Handbag Organiser is made from cream canvas and simply hooks over your wardrobe clothes rail.  Rather than cluttering-up several wardrobe shelves or worse still cramming your handbags next to your shoes at the base of a wardrobe we thought that this handbag storage solution should offer the best solution to saving precious wardrobe space. By thinking vertically the solution we came-up with allows you to store up to 10 handbags in a very small space. Ok so it’s not super stylish, we’ll leave your handbags to that job but at £12 it may just save you a fair bit of wardrobe storage space.

Hanging Canvas Jewellery Store, £12

Fresh with the idea of a hanging handbag store for the wardrobe in our minds we also set to work to solve another storage problem that we’ve had lots of feedback from our STORE customers on. Whilst we’ve dozens of jewellery storage ideas for rings and necklaces etc. in STORE we’ve never found a decent storage solution for hair bobbles, scrunchies, hair slides, and all that costume jewellery that doesn’t really require pride of place on your lovely jewellery tree.

The solution was to design a Hanging Store to organise these items inside your wardrobe just like our Handbag Organiser. Finished in the same sturdy cream canvas we hope you like our new 72 pocket double sided Hanging Jewellery Store which again we’ve be able to put into production for just £12.

Alongside these two new fab. products for our New Year collection we’ve added a matching Under Bed Shoe Store with different sized compartments for shoes and winter boot storage plus a matching cream canvas low profile under bed duvet store to store the summer duvet  or how about for out of season clothing.

The theory goes that the inside of your home is a reflection of you and the organisation within should reflect the life you want to live.  Getting organised and decluttering your pad could therefore be the answer to enjoying the space you live in this New Year and maybe also allow you to take a little more control of your life.

With this in mind, if you’re one of the 21% of UK residents who’s New Year’s Resolution is to be a bit tidier and more organised in 2011 here’s a few tips to help:

Just be You!

Some of our shop customers looking for storage solutions to solve their clutter problems confuse being organised with being perfect. Others confuse being organised with being neat. There’s also plenty of neat freaks out there (including myself!) who are also disorganised. What you actually need to strive for is simply being neater than you are currently.

Doing something practical to declutter your space whether it’s your office desk or your entire home is going to make you feel a whole lot better about yourself this New Year but if you’re not the kind of person who’s going to keep things super-tidy then don’t pretend you’re going to change overnight. Instead try to find small simple ways to effectively manage the clutter you create on a daily basis. For example, something as simple as a small plastic storage box or container to store and manage the daily post is simple but very effective.

The Three Box Rule

Whether you’re intending to spend the entire weekend tackling a room full of clutter or simply wanting to reorganise your shoe storage collection, start your de-cluttering in bit sized chunks so you don’t feel overwhelmed. Don’t try and re-organise the entire house in one go but concentrate your efforts in one area trying not to “zig-zig de-clutter” by moving things from one space to another creating even more mess!

The 3 Box Rule is a great trick we often share with our STORE customers and it goes something like this:

When decluttering and reorganising a room, put each item you move into one of three cardboard boxes,

Definitely Keep Box – This is the “I’m 100% sure” temporary storage box for items that are definitely being returned into the space you’re decluttering.

Attempt to Sell Box – Would you rather continue to hoard that shiny new squash racket you’ve not used in the last 2-years since trying to get fit or have the cash? If you haven’t used it in the last 12-18 months then it’s time to go! Ebay, car-boot sale, postcard on the notice board at work, etc. etc. just be decisive and be realistic…you’ve never used it so let someone else enjoy it and you can enjoy the cash!

Charity / Recycle Box – Have a good look through your Attempt to Sell box and be realistic, some of your decluttered items may just be a bit too tatty to sell. Instead, why not take them to the local charity shop or donate them to your local primary school etc. and if they’re just tatty or worn-out then recycle.

But my New Year’s Resolutions usually only last a month or two

Wrong!…Last year Sheila’s Wheels car insurance undertook a survey of 2,000 UK residents that suggested our will power ran-out on average in less than 12 days! If you think you’re going to falter try reading my post on Staying Organised after you’ve Decluttered or follow this simple tip which I gleaned from a storage professional across the pond:

Think of that pile of unopened post or stack of untouched paperwork on your desk that needs organising in the same way as you think of your kitchen sink. Most of us (even STORE’s warehouse manager Kevin) have a natural tolerance for how long we leave dishes cluttering-up the sink and draining board. For some people it’s a day or two and others can’t stand to go to bed at night without doing the washing-up. Have this same tolerance threshold to your household post or paperwork: open, read, action and decisively discard or file and you’ll notice the differences within a few days.

The more you perform this simple decluttering task, the more your awareness will grow of better organisation and the longer your New Year’s resolution to be a bit more organised might last.

This transferable organisational skill can be used in other areas of your home too and over time you’ll naturally become more conscious about what you bring into the house and indeed what you spend your hard earned pennies on. You see, decluttering and reorganising is a money-saver too!

Finally, a very Happy & Organised New Year from all at STORE !

Just a quick update to say that the (almost famous) STORE January starts online today!

We’ve discounting some fantastic items for you this year from our regular stock so why not take advantage of the lower VAT rates and buy now online at www.APlaceForEverything.co.uk before VAT rises on 4^th January 2011.

Seasons Greetings & have a lovely Christmas Day from all the team at STORE.