Bargain Hunter: designer drapes and Fair Isle carpets

Runner with a Fair Isle twist

Alternative Flooring’s latest Quirky B broadloom designs launched at Decorex last July and feature prints by Margo Selby and Ashley Hicks. Selby’s Fair Isle linen carpet runner, pictured, shows off her trademark three-dimensional graphic style in three earthy and hard-wearing patterns each named after Scottish weavers.

Normally €110 per sq m, Irish Times readers who present today's column can buy it for €93.50 per sq m, a saving of 15 per cent, at Dún Laoghaire-based For Floors, 114 George's Street Lower (tel: 01-2804545, forfloors.ie). Offer ends February 28th. alternativeflooring.com

New showroom, new floor offer

To celebrate their move to a new showroom in Dockrell's Complex, Ballymount Road Upper, Dublin 24, Stone Merchant is offering 15 per cent off this 12mm oak laminate flooring. Sold in 1,215mm by 127mm lengths, it normally retails for €44.79 for a pack of 12 such lengths. Present today's column and Irish Times readers can buy the pack for €38.07. Offer ends March 19th. Tel: 01-458 9100, stonemerchant.ie)

Host a party for the birds in your garden

This giant feeder, 42cm tall, holds six litres of birdseed and its feeder window allows many small birds to sit, eat and socialise at the same time. Its size means you only have to fill it once or twice a week – depending on the birdlife in your area.

Made of powder coated steel, it has a plastic seed insert that is tough enough to handle both cold winters and hot sun. Position it within view of your kitchen window for hours of entertainment courtesy of our feathered friends. Present today's column at The Blue Door, Monkstown Crescent, Co Dublin (01-2301894, thebluedoor.ie) and while stocks last you can buy the feeder less 30 per cent; for €50 instead of its usual price, €72.

Lighting with Vintage appeal

This duck egg blue floor lamp, €120.66, is part of the new Vintage collection at Bright Lights (brightlights.ie), which has two Dublin premises, at Unit 33, Blackwater Road, Dublin Industrial Estate, Dublin 11 (01-9030131) and Wigoders, 109-113 Long Mile Road, Dublin 12 (01-9030116).

Present a copy of today’s column and Irish Times readers can buy the lighting collection with a discount of 10 per cent, which means €108.60 for the lamp shown. Offer ends on February 26th.

Three of the best . . . worthy drapes

Add drama with this Indian-inspired print by Manuel Canovas (manuelcanovas.com). The wool, cotton and polyester mix Marsanne Rose Indien repeat stripe is reversible. Pictured is a stone base with vertical tomato red and pink stripes, each 11cm wide. It costs €155 p m at Kevin Kelly Interiors (01-6688533, kevinkellyinteriors.com), 105 Morehampton Road, Dublin 4 and other Canovas stockists.

Bay windows are notoriously tricky to dress. This semi-opaque treatment by Silent Gliss (00-44-1843 863 571, silentgliss.co.uk) features aluminium Metropole poles with purple medials custom bent to fit. The Colorama curtains, about 375cm wide with a 300cm drop, have an eight centimetre wave head. The entire window will cost about €3,400, according to Silent Gliss area manager Jon Lyons (086-388 2867).

Turkey provides the inspiration for Osborne & Little's Pasha collection which includes decorative paisleys, kilim-style jacquards, flamestitch and marble effect prints. On the sofa is Palas, €89 per metre; Patara, on the cushions, costs €157pm and the cool ovoid-top curtains on frames are draped in Suleyman fabric, €75 per metre. Tel: 0044 208812 3123, osborneandlittle.com.

Trending . . . Laura Oakes

Laura Oakes is the latest designer to join the Debenhams stable. Already selling to Liberty, London and Abode, Brighton, she recently decorated a luxury self-catering property, Tregulland in Cornwall, (tregulland.co.uk) and designed limited edition packaging for British beauty brand, Elemis. Her collection for the chain store comprises cushions, from €42, a table lamp, €112, a funky piece of wall art €54 and a three-panel printed glass panel, €75 which will be in Irish stores (see debenhams.ie) on March 16th. You can also commission a bespoke piece directly with her. Tel: 0044 7810 870 455, lauraoakes.co.uk.