Daily Mail Ideal Home Show 08

100 YEARS OF HOME INSPIRATION

Offering inspiration - this year your ultimate home event celebrates its 100th year!
Take a journey through Century Street from past to present honoring 100 years of innovation at the show.

Each year, full sized houses and even whole villages, including pubs, town squares and shops are built inside Earls Court. The 100th year celebrations will be no different and visitors will find a full size eco house and a giant dream house to name a few. Also this year, to mark the Ideal Home Show’s commitment to environmental issues, the show will be holding it’s own light bulb amnesty. All visitors who bring an old light bulb can exchange it for a free energy saving bulb.

Century Street
From the art deco of the 20s and 30s to the leather and metallic minimalism of the 80’s, the last a hundred years have left quite a style legacy. From psychedelic sofas to retro cars, kitsch gardens and even classic advertising, Century Street celebrates it all and takes you on a journey into the past, with houses from different decades recreated from the show’s staggering archives. 

The Dream House
A contemporary home sporting a cinema room, games room, separate guest wing and ornamental pool and fountain, the Dream House showcases the kind of luxury and spectacular style that most of us can only dream of. 

Innovation Nation
The first thing you’ll experience when arriving at the show will be the Innovation Nation area; an incredible collection of UK designing talent offering unseen designs and prototypes for brand new home products and inventions. This will be made up of the Show’s annual ‘Concept Products’ competition for student designers as well as the brand new ‘Innovation Creation’ competition featuring designs submitted by the British public. (Competition opens 1 January 2008 with more details to follow soon.)