10 classic New Year home buys

Dulux has developed an inspiring new palette of 100 historical colours that are available in a flat emulsion and a matt finish, from £11.76/1 litre or £22.64/2.5 litres (0870 242 1100; www.duluxtrade.co.uk).

Designer Cath Kidston's latest book, Sew! (Quadrille, £14.99) features lots of easy projects to create, with step-by-step instructions and patterns. It also contains materials to make the bag shown on the cover (020 7839 7117; www.quadrille.co.uk).

English Hurdle harvests and sells withies for weaving into garden structures, including this edging for unruly borders. A kit costs £9 and makes a 91cm x 15cm section (01823 698418; www.hurdle.co.uk).

This kit-form bird table comes with all you need to make it and paint your own design. It costs £15 from Eco Centric (020 7739 3888; www.ecocentric.co.uk).

Start your new year as you mean to go on with this carft set containing materials and tools for knitting, sewing, French knitting and crochet. It costs £38 from Cox & Cox (0844 858 0734; www.coxandcox.co.uk).

Salamander's cookware includes this attractive traditional copper pan from Mauviel. Prices from £43 for a butter pan (0845 080 0258; www.salamandercookshop.com).

Shropshire-based The Barrel Company turns old oak whisky barrels into planters and water butts, weatherproofing them and painting them in Farrow & Ball colours to order. Planters cost from £75, the water butts are £185 - both include delivery (01746 710138; www.thebarrelcompany.co.uk).

Willow & Stone, purveyor of period ironmongery, sells enamel house numbers based on a 19th-century French design; available from 1-100, £18.50 each (01326 311388; www.willowandstone.co.uk).

These handmade velvet InLeaf cushions are designed and printed by Rosablue in Cheltenham. They cost £24 and are also available as a large, square cushion (01242 701107; www.rosablue.com).

Illuminate your workspace with B&Q's Tutti desk lamp. It has the good looks and flexibility of the iconic Anglepoise but costs just £15 (0845 609 6688; www.diy.com).