Interiors

After yet another dry spring in large parts of the UK, Stuart Reynolds, UK Marketing & Product Management Director at AKW - a leading provider of accessible bathrooms and kitchens – discusses why housing associations should care about water efficient bathrooms and how to achieve them easily and stylishly.

A package of specialist products from Altro has helped deliver a high-performance ‘home from home’ refurb at a leading dementia-care home in Middlesex.

The Woodlands Residential Care Home in Ickenham is a family owned and run business providing dementia, respite and day care in a comfortable and secure environment. When the team wanted to expand and upgrade its facilities, they knew careful planning and design would be crucial, as would working with a range of products designed for the specific challenges dementia care environments can bring.

As the Future Homes Standard (FHS) moves into its final policy stage before implementation, the Waste Water Heat Recovery (WWHR) sector, led by Showersave and Recoup, has identified that the framework may limit opportunities for reducing domestic hot water (DHW) demand – despite hot water accounting for one of the largest energy demands in both new-build and existing homes undergoing decarbonisation and retrofit improvements.

Leading sheet vinyl flooring brand Beauflor will be presenting its collections designed to cope with the unique demands of social housing projects at Housing 2026.

Exhibiting at Manchester’s Housing 2026, Beauflor will show that its sheet vinyl flooring is a cost-effective solution in social and homes. Offering style, comfort and an easy to look after floor for tenants, while giving providers a simple to install, multi-width, long-lasting solution in all areas; Beauflor sheet vinyl performs faultlessly.

Discover IVC Commercial’s affordable social housing flooring solutions at Housing 2026.

Leading European manufacturer of sheet vinyl flooring, IVC Commercial will be exhibiting at Housing 2026, showcasing its dedicated social housing collections that are affordable for providers and which have the ability to improve lives for tena

Sheet vinyl floors from IVC Commercial provide social housing with a flooring option that’s suitable for more than just bathrooms and kitchens.

A growing number of social housing providers are stepping beyond regulation to consider the positive impact of providing suitable floor coverings throughout the home. With measurable positive impact on tenants, the move towards provision above current standards suggests a new way of thinking about social housing that places greater emphasis on wellbeing.

With the recent announcement that the revised Decent Homes Standard for England will not mandate floor coverings in all rooms of social housing, Beauflor asks whether the provision of flooring for tenants should really be a postcode lottery.

While some forward-thinking social housing providers in England are including floor coverings throughout the homes they let, many others are still stripping out the attempts of previous tenants to improve the standard of their home and welcoming new tenants with bare floors. Unsurprisingly, these bare floors put tenants under financial strain to put right, or they are simply left living and sleeping in a home that has a negative impact on their well-being.