If you're a collector of pretty, interesting and often colourful clothing, accessories and 'objects' for your home then this is a perfect place to visit. Butterfly garlands, lavender hearts and glass bon bon jars are just some of the treasures you'll find here along with velvet jewellery rolls, flower cuff bracelets and embroidered sundresses. This is an ecelctic, vintage style collection and well worth a browse.

Here's a collection of beautiful, different and unique clothes, accessories and gifts from an online retailer determined not to offer you easily found 'branded' merchandise, but items you'll be hard put to find anywhere else. Expect to discover hand-painted dresses, vintage and contemporary jewels and bags and quirky homewares. Be curious and have a good browse round.

Based on the famous US furniture and accessories retailer Pier One Imports everything here is attractive and well priced and you'll find lovely gifts and accessories here from all over the World. The range is extensive, you could furnish an entire room in your house with their stylish, modern and traditional furniture or just choose from their wide selection of textiles, glassware and lighting. They're excellent for presents and bring out a special catalogue each Christmas to complement the website.

These are seriously gorgeous, modern accessories, mainly in neutral colours, which would make superb gifts for weddings and other 'important' occasions, or when you feel in the need of adding something really special to your home. There's a cut crystal fragrance bottle filled with Alison's own bath oil, pure cashmere cushions and double sided throws and other beautifully photographed pieces for the home.

There's a lot to look at on this attractive website, but its very easy to get round and the pictures are really clear. You can choose from their ranges of reasonably priced accessories, including candelarbra, storm lanterns, votive glasses and french scented candles and guest soaps plus a wide selection of small, pretty items for outdoors, from traditional wateringcans, to bird feeders, glass carriers and sconces.

Bodie and Fou is a home accessories company named after its co-founders, French sisters Elodie and Karine who decided to fill a gap in the market for simple, contemporary and unique home interiors. You'll find handmade glass candlesticks, unusual table linens and accessories and a wide range of Cote Bastide home and bath products here. It's not a large range but everything is extremely beautiful and gorgeously photographed so it's well worth a browse. They only deliver to the UK and offer a standard and express service.

This is a family run business offering a lovely selection of fabrics, wallpapers, gifts and home accessories from brands such as Mulberry, GP and J Baker, Harlequin and Fired Earth. The selection of mouthwatering gift ideas includes Mulberry candles, pot pourrie, cushions and throws and James Brindley's range of faux fur (think leopard, llama, bear and cheetah) throws, cushions and hot water bottle covers. Resist if you can. You can request free samples of fabrics to help you finalise your choice and then order using their online system. They ship Worldwide

As you would expect, the website of well known interior designer Nina Campbell is really beautifully designed. On it you can choose from a range of her home accessories, including glassware, linens, patterned lambswool throws, small items such as match strikers and pretty bon bon bowls. You can also order her stunningly packaged home fragrance collection which includes candles and room sprays.

This is a collection of hand embroidered fabric, cushions and lavender bags with themes such as Bees and Bugs, Seaside Collection, Botanical, Rose and Classic, described as 'designed for today and destined to be the heirlooms of the future'. These are unique textiles and accessories which you'll probably want to collect and you'll find extremely hard to give away, although their present giving potential is excellent. They'll deliver Worldwide and offer an express delivery service.

Here's a very pretty home gifts and interiors website, with a wide range of ideas from their own luxuriously packaged candles to candy coloured leather accessories, crystal glass chandeliers, vintage style bathroom accessories and printed cushions. There's a wealth of gift suggestions here, some expensive - their gorgeous vintage style chandelier at £275 - and other extremely reasonable. They have a special area for their Christmas ideas which you can browse round in season.

On Diana Forrester's website there's a very good choice of quite unusual gifts and decorative accessories for the home and garden mainly from France and also from other parts of the World, ranging from a cute mouse salt and pepper set to vintage style French storage jars, unusual vases and photo frames, fine porcelain and an original expresso set. You can also see pictures from Diana's shop which definitely make you want to go there.

Where'as on some websites you have to search for information about delivery and gift wrapping, at polly-online it's all clearly laid out for you, as are the items on offer, so buying is far easier. There's an eclectic, contemporary collection here - unusual sculptures and modern jewellery sit side by side with funky lighting, 'sculpted' cushions and pretty, reasonably priced sets of tableware, making this a good place for wedding gifts as well as gifts for other occasions.

This is a beautifully neutral and calm website to visit, offering attractively photographed and unusual home accessories, mainly in neutral shades. Think animal print candles, faux fur throws, smokey glasses, almond coloured velvet quilts, black ceramic canisters and pale French Provencal cushions. For anyone who likes natural colours and five star chic in their home, this is the place to find it.

Here you'll find British designed and made gift and home accessory ideas, with everything either being made in small runs or specially for you. There's the Penguin (as in the book) collection of mugs, Emily Readett-Bayley bookends, wonderful Fergusons Irish Linen and Phil Atrill crystal stemware and that's just a small selection to give you an idea. You can search by product type or by Supplier and create a wish list as you go. You could spend a great deal of time here and you'll find gifts for everyone.

Having spent a great deal of time in the US due to the fact that my mother-in-law lives in Maryland; I’ve become really attached to the old style quilts, shaker boxes and cushions. For that reason I’m delighted to have found this website, established by an American who moved to the UK with her British husband and decided to bring a New England country store with her. For the quilts you’ll have to wait a while as they are hand made and for other items you can immediately see the stock availability. If you need something urgently give them a call and email them for international delivery prices

Brissi began life as an interiors store in Marlborough, Wiltshire and has now grown up to have two stores in London plus an excellent online shopping facility. Although many of the products on offer have a retro feel, the overall mood is chic and modern with beautifully clear photography and mainly neutral colours. The range includes crystal perfume bottles, black and white Limoges tableware and classic glass. In their Gifts section you can shop by recipient or by price and although they don’t offer gift wrapping as such everything is sent out ribbon tied in tissue paper

This is another wonderful home accessories website where there's so much to see you almost don't know where to start. For the kitchen there's colourful enamelware, Cath Kidston china and bistro cutlery - the bathroom; Comptoire Grande towels and Branche d'Olive toiletries; Monsoon Home and Comptoir bedlinens and throws; candles, clocks and mirrors for your living room. Thankfully the website is extremely easy to navigate and very well photographed.

Meltons was established over twenty years ago by international interior designer, Cecilia Neal. She and her team work on residential projects both in the UK and abroad and have brought together on this attractive website some lovely and different gifts and accessories for the home including Limoges boxes, luxurious throws, mother of pearl spoons, horn beakers and unusual candlesticks. This is just a very small part of the range, where you’ll fine excellent presents for anyone who loves their home.

Oka is a really beautifully designed and photographed website where you'll find some inspirational ideas for home gifts. Browse through their roomsets and pick out the individual items you like and from throws, cushions, quilts and rugs to porcelain 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. There’s also the Rapt gift service offering decorative accessories from the stores all beautifully wrapped (of course) in tasselled gift boxes.

La Provence sell beautiful French cloths, fabrics, Lampe Berger and designer giftware in its shops and online. It's a really pretty collection with wonderful gifts for girls, including Swarovski crystal adorned heart necklaces, chic handpainted porcelain, exquisite glassware and Margaret Loxton limited edition prints of French scenes. They ship free of charge to mainland UK on all items except Lampe Berger Perfumes.

Cushions must surely be one the easiest ways of updating the living areas of your home without having to spend a fortune. The London Cushion Company is a new online store with a gorgeous selection from richly coloured Kenzo florals to Union Jacks, children's prints and modern metallics. There's an excellent choice at a wide range of prices so have a browse now. Call for overseas delivery.