Heals offers contemporary styling and reasonable prices for every room in your house, from major furniture items such as beds and sofas right through to lighting, small accessories, bed linen, towels and toiletries. Click through to their clear website and pay a visit to the room of your choice or check out their garden furniture and accessories and storage solutions. They also have a wedding list service, interior design, kitchen planning and much more.

This is a cleverly designed website where you first select the room in which you're looking for your new furniture (living room, kitchen, bedroom etc), then select the item you need at which point you'll be offered thumbnails of everything in that range (and there's a really large choice). Once you've chosen (a table, for example) you can select your finish from those shown online. If this all sounds complicated it really isn't but there is a great deal to choose from for every room in the house so be prepared to spend a while.

Indigo is based in Matlock, Derbyshire and specialises in solid wood and leather furniture for bedroom, livingroom and dining room, some of which is made from oak beams recycled from factories and old mills. Perfect furniture, in fact, if you live in a loft or a barn. The excellent news here is that you can buy just about everything online and they're pictured it in such a way that you can see several views of each item. If only more people did that.

This is a large, internet based company (based in Hertfordshire) specialising in pine, oak and beech furniture for kitchen (tables and chairs) bedroom, dining and sittingroom. There's a wide choice of styles, from rustic and traditional to contemporary, Indian Jali, Edwardian, painted pine and Oriental and lots in between. They offer free two man delivery on orders over £500 to mainland UK.

Kit Stone offers a small but beautiful range of furniture for your home and garden, including hand-painted chests of drawers, dining sets and workstations. The garden collection includes teak, wrought iron and granite plus cafe folding tables and chairs and loom chairs. Buy cushions and parsols here as well.

If you have a fully fitted kitchen you may like to invest in just one or two pieces from this extremely attractive collection of free standing kitchen furniture by Edinburgh based Jonathon Avery. Alternatively you could design your entire kitchen round this range. You'll find beautiful Shaker style dressers, Belfast sink cabinets, hand painted storage units and shelves plus kitchen/dining tables and chairs. There's a wide choice of paint colours available but you need to call them to send you a colour chart. Once you've placed your order they will give you an estimated delivery date - don't forget, everything is hand made here so you'll definitely have to wait.

Based in Gorleston-on-sea, this high quality furniture company (originally boat builders) specialises in superb pine, walnut and cherry, ash and oak furniture for kitchen, living and dining. Refectory tables, handpainted kitchen dressers and wardrobes and four poster beds are just some of the items available here, all beautifully photographed. Most prices are on application so be prepared for them to be high although whatever you select will be an investment.

Here you'll find furniture for every room in your house, from rustic French styling, to hand painted finishes and solid pine and oak. The range is excellent so expect to spend some time here. As well as all of this you'll also find genuine Lloyd Loom furniture from Spalding in Suffolk. This is available in about 27 different weaves and colours so you need to call them to ask for a brochure in order to see the different colourways. They deliver free of charge to anywhere in the UK on orders over £1000.

You will, I know, have definitely heard of Ikea but you may have been put off from shopping their by the thought of all those crowds. Well now, depending on where you live, you can shop from this well priced Swedish retail experience without setting foot out of your door, and choose from their wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products. Check to see if they deliver to you now.

Dibor is an independent UK based company offering French style furniture, home accessories and gifts for every room including kitchen, dining, bed, bath, living and garden. There are also some very pretty ideas for children and a special Christmas department in season. The website is very easy to navigate and an extremely attractive place to browse, particularly as you’ll find ideas here that aren’t available anywhere else. If you’re buying a gift you can even choose the wrapping paper you want them to use.