While smart technology advances at lightning speed - Alexa, Hive and Echo becoming part of our vocabulary - there’s a growing number of us who yearn for the ‘Good Life’.
It’s a vision championed by friendly, family-run store Cutlacks, which has premises on Mill Road, Cambridge, and Forehill, Ely.
Welcoming customers for 20 years with the promise of “all that’s best in home and garden”, the company prides itself on helping people create their own home-grown products. The Cambridge store features a dedicated home brewing room, with a vast array of beer, wine and cider DIY kits. For gardening buffs, there’s a variety of seeds and plants, and even a couple of traditional fruit presses, available for hire.
With cooking for Christmas in mind, Cutlacks’ bakeware selection is a bestseller, offering essentials such as bread proving baskets, Nordic Ware bundt pans and Paul Hollywood pastry cutters. There’s kitchenware from innovative brand Joseph Joseph, fine Dartington crystal glasses, sleek Brabantia bins, luxurious bedding, and paints from Farrow & Ball, Designers Guild and eco-friendly Earthborn.
As impressive as the burgeoning product range, is staff expertise. At the Cambridge store, manager Lee Phillips, assistant manager Sam Whitelegg and colleagues have decades of experience. Why not pop in and put their knowledge to the test?
Cutlacks
264/268 Mill Road
Cambridge CB1 3NF
Telephone 01223 246418
www.cutlacks.co.uk
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