Home Zone is all about interior design for the kind of person that knows what they are looking for,…read moreand doesn't need to leave it all to a designer, (although I bet that interior designers use Home Zone just as much as we do, for both inspiration and ideas, as well as purchasing their products and services). Home Zone have only been around for five years, but have established themselves really quickly, and are generally considered to offer us a benchmark of what is both tasteful and innovative. In addition, Directors Jayne Bishop and Sean Kerr offer a full and attentive service, which has also gone a long way to augment their standing. Specialising in made to measure curtains and soft-furnishings, upholstery, blinds, and tracking with a comprehensive measuring and fitting service, they draw on their combined 40 years of experience, which puts them in the enviable position of being able to work with trusted people that they have had regular dealings with over the years. These days they have a dedicated, highly experienced team of sewers, upholsterers and fitters who work alongside them, as well as a network of crafts people who can be commissioned to make accessories when required. Some of the beautiful things that the crafts people make are amazing, and prove that everything is possible! Using every material imaginable, and every technique available, they are able to produce practically anything you could dream of for the house and home. Home Zone can do conventional as easy as falling off a log, but where they excel is when they are pushing creative boundaries and coming up with unique solutions for clients that have a real appreciation of what is possible.

From the owner: We are a small, local, team of specialist curtain makers, upholsterers and fitters and we offer a…read morefabulous service, providing you with made to measure soft-furnishings, upholstery, blinds, shutters and tracking along with a comprehensive measuring and fitting service, to make the whole process a bit easier for you!

Wyatt's Home and Garden is just around the corner from Flowers With A Twist and Over The Rainbow…read moreGifts, making this area a very attractive proposition to prospective gift buyers of discernment! It is a pretty little shop offering everything for the country style home and garden, particularly retro reproductions of time honoured favourites like roll top baths and iron bed frames. Yes, despite having limited floor space, it manages to pack in some pretty hefty items! Like Flowers With A Twist this is a relatively new business in the area. Jane, who also owns another shop of the same name in Ledbury, this one's predecessor, opened the Pontcanna branch about three years ago. (Jane wasn't about when I called in recently to take some pictures... that's Jan in the pictures!) During my recent visit I managed to keep my purse in my bag... I'm always overcome by an incredible urge to spend money when I walk into this shop, and could quite easily spend a small fortune! I love everything from the pretty floral doormats, as well as the multi-coloured wavy modern ones, to the garden furniture, crockery and kitchenware and the beautiful iron beds. They intersperse the retro reproductions with the genuine articles. A sign out front invites you to come in and browse, and makes the distinction between antiques and second-hand items, both of which they stock. They also offer an interior design service.

This is a relatively new addition to the shops in the Pontcanna area, and it's been a long time…read morecoming if you ask me! A home and garden shop is exactly the kind of thing that Pontcanna-ites are into, and this shop is flourishing. For anyone who is a fan of the traditional country home feel, this shop is a must, and offers an excellent range of homely items and gifts. A very tempting little place indeed. This is the kind of shop that does well because the products on sale turn a house into a home. With the classic type of resident in the area being arty, Welsh-speaking and middle class, I really am surprised that we've not seen something of this ilk sooner. Although I'm personally more of a fan of collecting items that are personal to you, rather than mass produced items which you are told are personal to you, I can certainly still see and understand the appeal of this shop.

I love this place, the perfect place if you like interiors, stock amazing furniture and bits for…read morethe home, and the staff are really helpful , every time I go I want to redo my whole house

From the owner: FREE Parking FREE in store interior design…read more Knowledgeable staff with wealth and experience. Carpets and rugs. Bespoke Furniture. LARGEST selection of mirrors in Wales. Quirky, unusual items. Wallpaper & fabrics. Huge choice of sofa's. Garden furniture. Accessories. Bespoke artificial plants/ flower arrangements

When all price is 'on application', you know that you shouldn't be there. Well, not if you're a…read morestudent and have only wandered in because you see there's furniture inside and a) you like furniture and b) you still haven't found a coffee table. However, if I COULD afford this stuff I would probably fill my whole house with it. All of the furniture is absolutely beautiful and all of truly excellent quality. There are crystal lamps, for goodness sake. Also, they can offer individually designed pieces of furntiure. They also do things like curtains, so you can extend the beauty to your soft furnishings too. I'd also like to point out that I quite clearly didn't belong there. I was wearing my wellies (which were a little muddy), leggings and a ratty old jumper. Yet I was treated with respect and friendliness.

This beautifully put together interiors shop is run by designers Yvonne Jones and Andrew Burch who…read moreprovide a complete interior design service, from planning through to implementation. Inside the shop itself you find some classic furniture designs and some more contemporary furniture designs, all of it stylish and well-made - but be prepared to pay the price for quality. They also sell other interior design products and accessories, from soft furnishings such as cushions and curtains to lamps, vases and even fabric covered mirrors. If you have pockets deep enough, this shop has some unique products and is well worth a visit.

This is a peculiar name for this business, considering that it doesn't sell jewellery. Instead it…read moresells really posh fabrics, which I guess are pretty opulent, but still... the association to the name is still pretty tenuous! That aside, this is a beautiful shop. It's a family run business that provides a quality upholstery fabrics for the domestic as well as the commercial sector. They stock a huge range of fabrics and pride themselves on offering a service that cannot be beaten. They are happy to handle small jobs, (just one chair), or major projects. These guys could reupholster your dining room chairs, living room suite as well as throws, bed covers and curtains to match without breaking a sweat! In fact they'd be happy to! More than happy!

Beverley the owner, is unquestionably the best Interior Designer in South Wales!read more

Sam and Will Specialised Carpentry is a temporary name for a long established pair of skilled…read moreartisans. They have recently united forces, hence the deliberation around the name, but between them they have 30 years of experience under their belt making new and restoring old fine wood crafted items (anything considered as long as its tasteful). Sam and Will have found themselves working together on jobs for years, and grew to understand that both of them share the same exacting standards that it takes to out-perform the competition. In the end they decided they might as well join forces officially, allowing them to cut down on the administrative burdens of being lone operators, so that they can spend more doing what they love, (and are eminently better at!) They have been trying to figure out what to call themselves for a while, but have been kept busy with contracts that have found them without much effort the moment they hooked up together. Sam said half jokingly, but partly seriously, that they have discussed calling themselves OCD Carpentry. I think this is a great idea, and I said so. Sam looked perplexed, "yeah, but it's not very politically correct is it?" I disagreed, and explained that I thought it was a more than appropriate label for the standard of work that they achieve. I also added that people will realise that they are not bodge jobbers, who work on the cheap and knock something out for half the price, that only lasts a fraction of the time that their work lasts for... and this can only be a good thing... it'll save everyone the time potentially wasted in discussing mismatched objectives. These boys take their time, do a perfect job, and charge the right price for it... and they will not compromise their integrity by lowering their standards in an attempt to keep costs down, as they know better than anybody that, in reality, this is false economy. Not everyone can afford their services, and so a name like OCD would help find them the right client base without too much wasted time!