The chances of uncovering a hidden gem in Art @ Home are the equivalent of finding a healthy,…read morenutritious snack in a Blue Lagoon. Alternative and quirky, this place is not. Instead, this is a place to get a Scarface or New York canvas print, with only a small collecton of painting prints available. However it is salvaged somewhat by its collection of picture frames which come in a range of shapes and styles. With helpful staff, it's a shop which deserves to survive during this difficult spell for the EK shopping centre.

This is one of the odd little shops that make up a rather tatty section of East Kilbride Shopping…read moreCentre. Art@Home sells a range of picture frames, none of which are particularly pretty in my opinion. It also sells framed prints of movie posters and Guinness adverts.

Appalling customer service. And the director has on his linked in about being impressed by how you…read moretreat others. Appalling how your company have treated me. Multiple smashed windows on fitting initially, dents on the sill, wrong sill fitted, wrong colour of sill, faded hinges, screeching hinges and scratches/roller marks repeatedly on replacement windows. Endless days off and now still supplying chipped and scratched windows with roller marks. Endless delays and multiple excuses. No compensation for all the time off. Will escalate to trading standards if not resolved this month. Team refusing to escalate to director. I would have thought they wanted to avoid a public internet display of their failing standards when he could easily be tweeted? Bizarre way to run a company. Highly suggest avoiding.

We had composite doors fitted on 21st November 2016 and have had nothing but problems. Three days…read moreafter fitting, both doors had to be readjusted as they were out of alignment and were extremely difficult to lock. One of the doors was cracked and we had to wait for another fitting date. Back door is acceptable but the front is another story. Four months later Camden group (manufacturer) visited for an inspection and confirmed door was indeed badly fitted (door frame bowed, unable to lock without extreme force, door badly marked due to hitting locking mechanisms, waterproof seals ripped). The manufacturer also removed a security lock to allow the door to lock securely! Now, after a flurry of snow we have water ingress around several of the door windows. An absolute disgrace for a door which cost £1350. This is bad enough but their customer service is appalling with complete reluctance to address these issues. Five months since installation and still no resolution so it looks like trading standards and potential court case for us. Avoid at all costs people. #complaint #customerservice #watchdog #roguetraders

I have some really warm memories of Ink Spot from when i was a kid. It was always the place i…read morelooked forward to coming to when my mum and dad took me shopping to Hamilton. I loved crafty stuff and it sold some pretty cool toys too, like the Anne Geddes Babies i used to collect. It sits apart from the main cluster of shops and the shopping centre, on the way down to the big Asda. This place is an Aladdin's Cave of stationery. Need an HB pencil? Come here. A pink Filofax with kittens on it? Second shelf on the left madam. Biro that transforms into a deckchair? Yup, you'll find one here. But be warned , you'll pay for it! It really isn't cheap, so if you only need the basics i would suggest trying somewhere else first. However if you are a crafty connoisseur, or you're looking for something very specific, Ink Spot is the place for you! (Disclaimer: A transforming deckchair Biro does not yet exist. I made that bit up. So you may get a funny look if you ask for one here.)

So I must confess - I have a bit of a stationery fetish. Nothing quite like the smell of a freshly…read moresharpened pencil or like rows of coloured pencils lined up by shade (yes yes I did and still do crave the entire set of crayola colours!!!) Anyway, this place has so many cool art supplies that even the most non-artistic, non-creative person in the world will be compelled to purchase some funky craft paper or some random modelling clay or engineering grade pencil. School projects and Brownie badge work has been aided with supplies from here and I can never resist popping in when I have a minute and I am nearby. They have, in the past few years, got a range of fancy dress costumes as well - so they are branching out somewhat from merely traditional stationery supplies. I don't know if that is a direction I am really loving, but in this economy, anything that helps local independent businesses is fine by me. This place is NOT cheap though and is its main failing. I would seriously doubt if art students would actually buy their supplies from here, If the prices were a little bit lower and the staff didn't look at you as if you were about to shop lift then I would love it even more. It is definitely a stationers as opposed to a full on specialist art store I reckon. As an art shop for true artists (although clearly I am not, and am just surmising, I would definitely give it a 3. As a place to find cool knick knacks, gifts and pens with a good motion (see told you I was obsessed!) then possibly a 4. On the whole it is a pretty shop with lots of lovely goodies and some luxurious stationery. With slightly lower prices this would be a 4 overall, bit as it stands a solid 3!