Weekly Selections Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's top 10 online sites

www.originalbooks.net is so incredibly Scooby Doo haunted mansion it's not true. I fell in love with the concept of concealing a catholic passage or, indeed, a priest's hole with an array of dummy book spines stuck to a cleverly disguised secret door.

Is one of those cyber places to go on a wet Monday afternoon in January when the world looks like it should smell like a wet mackintosh. The Ritz is definitely what my afterlife would look like were I to be a very, very good boy indeed.

Now it's not the most glamorous website in the world and some might find taps a less than exotic topic but I'm a big fan of Ecologic. Their electronic plumbing systems can save as much as 60% of household water waste whilst making your bathroom look extremely James Bond.

Specialises in modern figurative art and, as such, creates ideal present opportunities for Mrs LLB who loves artists like Karolina Larusdottir.

David Hicks is my design hero. He made the 70s as slick and polished as a Bryan Ferry solo. The site www.dh1970.com is a sumptuous buffet of Hicks archive put together by the great man's son Ashley. You can purchase the Hicks wallpaper collection from Sanderson Fabrics.

Perhaps it's being post forty but both the wife and me have become energetically middle-aged about getting a decent night's sleep. In fact, owning four duvet hungry spaniels doesn't help our slumber but these über-comfy mattresses seem to help.

I love maps. I love looking out of aeroplane windows and working out over what we may be flying. So Google Earth is like some kind of satanically kinky wish fulfillment and it's so detailed one can even check out the state of people's laundry on their rotary clothes dryers.

is set to very quickly revolutionise home decoration. Between some really very good design editorial, there's all you need to be able to furnish your life for good.

Okay, it might be the wife's site attached to her stunningly lovely things for lovely ladies boutique in Cornwall but I have to say it still gives a thrill. Despite our multi-media global success, having a little shop is always far more fun than everything else put together.

My daughter Hermione discovered the Eloise books when she was, like Eloise, 6. The story of a poor little rich girl living in The Plaza has always delighted the pair of us since we share Eloise's pleasure in being very naughty in five star comfort and pretending to be spies. Eloise books are available on www.play.com