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King Living’s sustainable, affordable brand off-shoot

The brainchild of respected Aussie furniture company King Living, Design.Online is set to shake up the furniture scene with its arrival this month. Launching with just three products (a sofa, mattress and bed), the eco-conscious range is manufactured using repurposed by-products from King Living’s manufacturing.

“The Design.Online team set about creating a range of breakthrough products that would revolutionise the way furniture is made, delivered and used.  We are always looking for ways in which we can do better and with this, are highly focused on making furniture in a responsible, sustainable way that limits its impact on the environment,” says Natalie Culina, Design.Online head of brand.

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And to make its offering even more appealing, the design-led pieces can be delivered to your door within three hours in Sydney and assembled with no tools; all for a fraction of the usual designer price tag. “Our range has been designed to a specific brief, and with this has created a unique product offering for a specific consumer, who is very much design astute, time poor and looking for something affordable and better than what’s currently in the market,” says Natalie.

Design Online

Sustainable practices underpin the entire brand from packaging to manufacture. Design.Online’s pieces come delivered in materials that can be recycled or reused and the foams used in its mattresses are free from ozone depleters, heavy metals and formaldehyde. The brand’s furniture covers are removable, washable and replaceable. Also, robot-welded steel is used meaning there’s no wood glues releasing harmful chemicals. And should you decide to move your Design.Online piece on, the company will happily take it back to be recycled or disposed of responsibly; all at no charge.

SmartSofa
A modular design, the SmartSofa is customisable to the size and shape of your living room via removable arms, backs and seats. Offering excellent flexibility, the lounge can be reconfigured as a left or right chaise, a three-seat sofa, or a two-seater with chair. It also converts into a single or queen bed and its covers are machine washable and replaceable.

SmartSofa
SmartSofa

Sleep800 mattress
This product has been designed to adapt to the contours of your body, and your sleep style. You can alter the firmness of your mattress by unzipping the cover and flipping it between the breathable memory foam and high-density foam layers to minimise partner disturbance.

The mattress comes with a washable cover and even comes with a 120-night guarantee; try it, and if you’re not completely happy Design.Online will arrange a pick-up and refund. A mattress purchase doesn’t get more risk-free than that!

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Sleep800 mattress

Flex Bed
Designed with a sturdy frame (it can take up to 500kg), this bed comes with a padded headboard and base that is upholstered in washable, stain-resistant fabric; every fabric component is removable and replaceable. Furthermore, in a clever design move, the bedhead is upholstered the whole way around, so you can position it anywhere in the room.

Flexbed
Flex Bed

For every order placed Design.Online will donate $5 to one of the nominated charity partners of your choice.

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Competitions

Win a customisable retro sideboard worth $899!

Customising and designing your own furniture online is all the rage right now and Retrojan is giving you the chance to design and win a retro-style sideboard.

It couldn’t be easier. Simply choose your body colour, then choose your doors. The doors are fully interchangeable so you can have fun mixing up colours or go monochromatic – make it yours!

The Moody sideboard on offer is the largest of 3 sizes available and worth $899.

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Bathrooms

New easy online 3D bathroom planner lets you design yourself

Whether you’re designing a brand new bathroom or planning a renovation, it’s now easier than ever thanks to the 3D Bathroom Planner recently launched by Reece.

Reece 3D Planner - Bring your bathroom plans to life

This innovative online planning tool is already helping home owners become their own designer and bring bathroom ideas to life in just a few clicks. You to select and swap products to create the perfect look for your bathroom space.

Reece marketing manager Belinda Geels said that making the bathroom design experience as easy and visual as possible was key to its development. As well as allowing users to select from the entire range of Reece bathroom products and preview how they’ll look, the 3D Bathroom Planner also lets you choose fittings, lighting and tiles to complete the look.

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Interiors Addict

Online 3D chair designer launches today

My Bespoke Chair claims to be the world’s first 3D online chair design studio.

British/Dutch artist Emma Veiga‐Malta, who has a studio in Sydney’s Mosman, founded My Bespoke Chair as a natural progression from the parent company Bespoke Art. While creating tailor‐made art and fabrics, she had many clients request specific and unusual fabric combinations for their upholstery. With the internet streamlining business, and the increasing upholstery work at Bespoke Art, Emma put two and two together and created My Bespoke Chair.

“It captures the zeitgeist of social, online shopping and mobile, smart technologies. We have developed an online “point and click” tool which gives the customer total design freedom,” says Emma. “All our fabric designs start life as hand painted art, designed in‐house. The fabrics are exclusively ours, printed in limited runs, ensuring that every chair is a work of art.”

The customer chooses a chair style, then scrolls through the collection of fabrics and selects all the chair’s upholstered elements in any combination. They can spin the chair 360 degrees to view their design from every angle.