VIP WITH one of the biggest televisual events still very much upon us, devoted World Cup fans might be interested to mingle the couch potato aspect with some beans.

The VIP is a bean bag seat that is shaped like a football, made from the purest "ne leather and designed by furniture manufacturers Leolux in a range of colour combinations representative of the participating countries.

Available exclusively from McNally, Business Park showrooms at Courtlough, Co Dublin and Serpentine Avenue Dublin 4, the seat costs 1,010 . . . and you will need to sit down after that.

(Further info 01-690 6000).

Keating on the up at DNG

WELL-KNOWN residential property estate agent Iris Keating has been appointed an associate director of Douglas Newman Good. She has worked in the business for 12 years, and will now manage the Terenure branch of"ce of the company.

On a different note, DNG and DNG Nationwide this week unveiled their new residential lettings service on www. dng. ie and www. myhome2let. ie, providing tenants with a range of properties available at the click of a button.

Right call for your garden

FURTHER to our feature on getting your garden in order prior to selling, featured in last week's property section (Sunday Tribune 18 June), callers have been seeking contacts numbers for the experts quoted.

Ciaran Kirwan, off to the RHS show at Tatton Garden for 19 July, can be reached through Arkidex at 086 866 7599; email: arkidex@eircom. net.

Damien Keane is contactable at 086 813 1758; and Angela Binchy through the Garden & Landscape Designers Association at 01-278 1824 Window shopping Builders, architects and DIY enthusiasts should be interested to hear that a new product in windows and doors developed by DuPont, and known as Color-lineC, has just been launched.

Color-lineC comes in a choice of 1,600 colours, is maintenance-free, scratch-resistant and is protected against extreme weather conditions.

Window and Roofing Concepts of Galway and Blair Neil Ltd of Newtownards, Co Down are the two Irish suppliers.