For the people who make it a habit to drink their afternoon tea, heating them becomes a problem especially if you want to cut down on your carbon footprint. Here’s a way to enjoy your afternoon tea break guilt-free, and best of all, it will make your brew faster than a standard kettle.

The Tefal Quick Cup Delux has the capacity to get your tea steaming away in your mug in three seconds. That’s faster than the time it takes me to walk across my kitchen to grab the choc biscuits. The new model has been designed to fit in with the most stylish of kitchens and will even work as a quick upgrade to your workbench from the ’70s.

It comes with a 1.7 litre water tank which enough for a decent round of tea. For £69.99 it may just be a worthy investment to get your green credentials just that bit better, one earl grey at a time.

(Source) Hippyshopper via Gaj-it

Teafal Quick Cup

If you want a glimpse of what new furniture products are coming out in the market soon then you better watch out for this Main Street Chair from Avenue Six which is now among the finalists for the Houseware Design Awards.

The awards are based on appearance, function, originality, performance, ergonomic comfort, safety, market response, and innovative materials and technology. And from the looks of it, the Main Street Chair is oozing with all these categories to which more credentials should be released soon.

(Source) Furniture Today

Main Street Chair

If you are not the type of person who is ecstatic about remodeling, you can always turn to the people who specialize in it for help. There are a lot of good handymen around and finding them should not be a problem. Outside that of the usual self-promotions they make, a good handyman can be easily contracted on the web or even through the reliable yellow pages.

A word of caution though. Try to set up a meeting first and map out the plans of the new room design you want. Don’t go as far as committing yourself since in most cases, you don’t even know the credentials of the guy unless he comes highly recommended.

Check out his work accomplishments and ask for quotes on the actual work to be done as well as the materials to be used. This can help you decide in the end on whether he is really passionate about the whole room or home remodeling thing or plainly in it for the money.

(Source) The Daily Herald

Get a Good Handyman to Remodel your Room

Now here is something that is bound to be a good find for the people who are looking at recycled furniture. For one, who would ever thought that defunct PS2 game consoles would ever have any more use? Well Pli Design a good use for them and look at what they produced? A fine and stylish Ree Chair made entirely of old PS2 game console casing.

So if you are wondering where some of the dead PS2 game consoles are going, at least you know that you may be sitting on them through new and stylish furniture in the market today.

“The simple idea behind the Reee chair is to produce a recycled furniture product in the UK that has style, function and durability but does not compromise its environmental credentials – so our customers don’t have to compromise theirs,” said Alex Whitney, Pli’s design manager in a news release.

“We receive the supply direct, from the original manufacturer through a dedicated re-processor to our injection-moulder in London,” said Pli’s Director, Christopher Pett in an email interview with The Able Gamer, “so there is no other material mixed in with the original plastic.”

(Source) Digital Journal

Pli Chairs made from Old PS2 Consoles