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.

The Bodie and Fou collection of European designer home accessories includes stylish, unique interior decor, kitchenware, lighting, babywear and gifts plus chic French homewares, luxurious bodycare and scented candles from Cote Bastide, Normann Copenhagen, Kathleen Hills, Flavia del Pra, MisseMai, Ole Jensen, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Oromono, Menu and many more.

Oka is a really beautifully designed and photographed website where you'll find some inspirational ideas for your home. Browse through their roomsets and pick out the individual items that would enhance your existing decor, or go for broke and buy them all. From throws, cushions, quilts and rugs to porcelaine vases and elegant furniture there's a wealth of items to choose from. Most items will be delivered within 14 days although you need to allow 28 days for heavier items.

With stores in London and New York, Marson and Langinger had the enviable reputation as the market leader in the manufacture of custom-made timber-and-glass conservatories, poolhouses and garden rooms. On their attractive website you can order from their range of furniture, lighting, garden tools, accessories, textiles, and Marston & Langinger's own-label domestic paint. Make sure you've plenty of time before you stop off here, there's a great deal of this beautiful collection to browse through.

There are beautiful, sophisticate ideas for your home here concentrating on rich and tactile pieces of superb quality. Nearly everything, from the modern to the traditional, is in deep neutral colours with black being the dominant colour in every room whether it’s the black lacquer dining furniture to the French black glass chandeliers and black upholstered ‘Louis’ chairs. If that makes everything sound too dark it definitely isn’t, you do need to like black but this is a wonderful place to shop for your home.

This is one of the best known UK based lighting stores and the only downside to their website is that you can’t order directly online (at time of writing, maybe you can now) but you have to call them. Bearing in mind the huge choice here that’s probably not too much to ask. The site is extremely quick to get round and offers everything from desk and table lighting, brass wall lights, traditional chandeliers and picture lights. Accessories include candle tubes, chandelier chains, switches, oil burner parts and bulbs.

Zara is one of those stores that seems to have become and essential shopping destination within an amazingly short space of time. It's chic and well priced and effortlessly offers things that bring your wardrobe right up to date. They haven't yet put their clothing range online, but here is Zara Home (which surely has to be the first step), and where you can find gorgeous bedlinen, blankets and throws, towels and bath and body products plus accessories and furniture for most of the rooms in your house. Take a look round now.

Jim Lawrence is a designer who creates traditional ironwork lighting re-worked into modern/classic and unusual styles. His chandeliers, for example, are totally different to anything you can find elsewhere but you’ll also find lanterns, table lights, candelabra and wall lights and you can choose from a range of finishes such as polished, matt black, gold or verdigris. You can also buy the light bulbs and fittings to go with his lights.

John Lewis seems to be the only UK department store ready willing and able to put as much of its full range online as possible, possibly because it has always had a very good home delivery facility in place, just waiting to deliver your online orders! Here's a good range of all types of lighting, from traditional to modern and you can order your lightbulbs as well.

If you want a mammoth choice, free uk delivery and excellent prices take a look round here. This is an extremely busy website showing you every type of lighting from spotlights to table lamps, garden lighting and pendant lights, Tiffany lamps and children’s lighting and in most cases you can choose from modern, contemporary, and traditional styles. They also have a selection of billiard and snooker lights at a range of prices.

For light bulbs look no further than this website when you want to stock up and order using their easy selector which also shows you clearly the different types of bulb fittings. You’ll find every type of light bulb from incandescent, to halogen, photo optic, fluorescent, energy saving and high intensity alongside sunbed tubes and daylight bulbs. They offer a 24/48 hour National Delivery service.

So you're looking for a new lamp for your recently decorated living room? Or do you have a friend who's getting married and you want to give her something other than the tableware and household goods off her wedding list? If either are the case you could take a look at this lighting website where there are lots of mainly contemporary ideas at not unreasonable prices from modern table and desk lighting to floor standing uplighters. If your order is in stock you can have it the following day.

If you're looking for lighting and want something a little unusual and modern then this is your place. The range, which includes everything from fabulous barleytwist arm chandeliers to modern picture lighting (plus fibre optics, downlighters, garden lighting, track lights, spot lights and kids’ lighting from flying planes to bugs and dinosaurs) is huge so allow time to have a good look round. You need to allow eight days for delivery to the UK and three weeks for International orders.

All the lights on this website are designed and manufactured by Italian companies and although you’ll be buying from a British company they’ll be shipped to you straight from the manufacturer, so if you order a craftsman made light you may well have to wait a few weeks, but it’ll be well worth it. You’ll find a wide range, from the gorgeous and breathtakingly priced Murano chandeliers to more reasonable and classic floor and table lights and they’ll deliver anywhere in the World.

For really beautiful lights stop here. This may well not be the place from which you’re going to replace all your lighting in your home but where you’ll find some really beautiful and unusual ideas. Having said that, you could find your new bedside table lights here but if you click through to their ceramics, urns and balusters and in particular their lamps with decorated figures I think you’ll see exactly what I mean. They’re not cheap but very, very special and would make excellent presents as well. They offer a Worldwide delivery service for all their lights.