Archive for April, 2010

Open Plan Or Back To The Basics In Interior Design

In case you are going to change your home interior, take a look at some tips, which will surely be useful for transforming that you are planning at home.

The interior designer Alice Cottrell has been a designer since long time ago. Her practice as a hotel designer helped her to create unique home decors for apartment that need a more open and chic look.

The designer changed her own flat into a whole new spacious and elegant flat. Her advices to anyone that wish to change the interior and to add more light at home is to take the walls down and to provide more space.

In case your rooms are separated by walls and the kitchen is closed, just remove the doors and part of the walls. Add contrast colors, for they are able to create a spacious vision. Black and white is perfect for the living room.

Alice is also suggesting adding more sophisticated look through clear lines and futuristic décor. The designer also claims that clean lines and simple furniture will add more modern look to your home decor.

Another good idea for decorating the interior is adding smooth carpets in neutral colors that provide illusion for more space.

Green Ideas For Home Design In A More Spiritual Way

In case you are going to change your home interior into a green and comfortable oasis, take a look at the latest offers for green decorating with sustainable and eco friendly furniture. The company of Mosaic Tile is offering an Italian luxury for your floors.

Their suggestion is to equip your house with silex metallic porcelain floor and wall tiles made with 40 percent recycled materials. The mosaic element is also included, as well as LEED points on your new eco floors. Another green home design green collection is the Penguin collection called Inspired by Nature.

The brand is offering sustainable solutions for the entire house, but what really grabs the attention is their polished-brass faucet that comes with a flow-regulated aerator, which is able to operate 1.5 gallons per minute. This green innovation is just part of the company’s massive plan for decorating the kitchen with an eco design.

Another inspirational collection with a lot of green features is the Eco Chic by Scottsdale, Arizona. The designer Paul Jeffrey made real masterpieces from sustainable woods such as bamboo, kirei board and palm wood.
Tables and chairs, desks and buffets – all come equipped as the best green furniture for the home interior. The collection is in limited edition due to its rare and expensive materials.

Maximize Space With Practical Kitchen Decor

Decorating our homes is part of the privilege of owning one. We must understand however that our homes have different rooms that need special attention. Our kitchen area is definitely one aspect of our homes that we should pay much attention to and looking for the right kitchen décor can make it a better place to cook and eat in.

Kitchens are the most utilized areas compared to any other rooms in houses. Fact is we spend almost half of our day there. When we are hungry we go there, when we are thirsty we go there. We consistently visit our kitchen all throughout the day. If there is one room that we need to beautify the most, it is our kitchen. However, it is the most prone area to clutter and mess as well.

The way we choose our kitchen décor will determine how beautiful our kitchen will be. The way we set them up determines how organized it will look after.  Therefore shopping and setting up kitchen décor should be given careful thought. The following are tips to reduce the clutter as we add the following kitchen decor to our kitchen.

The Most Innovative Design In Kitchenware

We have heard a lot about Nao Tamura. The Japanese designer isn’t the very first, who surprises with his unusual ideas about kitchen ware design, but surely his latest collection is pretty outstanding.

The designer, who has won the SaloneSatellite Award with his serving container made in silica sand, is praised as the kitchen magician, especially when it comes to serving dishes, designed in sophisticated and futuristic style.

“Seasons” is his last collection of functional dishes, which is inspired by the nature and technology even into the kitchen design. Take a look at this leaf. It looks almost like real one, the only difference is that this green Tamura’s leaf is a kitchen dish, made with unusual materials such as silicone.

The dishes are flexible, can be used in the oven or the microwave and despite their fragile look, they are made to be two times more stable than the ordinary ones.

Each leaf (dish) has its own shape and different sculptural display. The “Seasons” has turned to be extremely popular for designing the modern and green kitchen with stylish and unusual serving sets.

TV Centered Living-Room Design

Home designing is always a point of view. There are certain issues that are practical for any design, despite the creative ideas behind it. One of these is placing the TV. Typically the TV is placed in the living-room, but not necessarily.

Take a look at these suggestions for best design with it comes the placing of the TV set. In case you are going to decorate the living room, place the TV system in the centre of the room.

This is a decision that opens more space and changes the entire room style. In case your TV monitor is flat and your system is a super modern, just decorate the room in modern and innovative style.

Place all kind of technological toys at one place, so their usage to be easy and comfortable. Some designers are advising bold tones in the living room, just because this supposes to be the room for environment and fun. You can choose colors like red, white, brown and contrast effects between some colors.

Inexpensive Holiday Décor Tips

Every year when the festive season comes around, we want to mark it with our house looking its festive best, but would prefer to do so without the expense that goes into holiday décor.[Home decoration]

Here are some tips to help your home look its festive best this season:

Green is best: Use things that you find growing around or close to your house from shrubs and trees. Using holly, mistletoe and other seasonal material, fashion your own wreaths that you can make not just for the front door but each of the windows as well as side or other entrances into the house.

And why limit the greens to doors? Place them in unexpected places such as in different nooks of the house, on window sills etc.

And bring out all the vases and platters that you have around the house, and use them for displaying all the greens or even wildflowers that you can find. Even a bare branch can be cleverly used to add to the festive flavor with a bit of embellishment.

Kids Bedroom Furniture And Where To Buy Them

If there is one thing very important when you are planning your kid’s bedroom is to consider the kids bedroom furniture which you will include. The right wallpaper, bed sheets, pillows, and curtains will become dull once you place the wrong kinds of kids bedroom furniture. So before you go shopping, make a list of what your child needs in his or her bedroom.

Shopping for kids’ bedroom furniture is a piece of cake. As a matter of fact, it is just like shopping for your own stuffs. The only difference is that you may not have the same interests and needs. Here are some of the most common kids’ bedroom furniture which your own child may like to have in his or her bedroom:

• Study table

You can encourage your child to study his or her lessons everyday by providing a study table. This kids’ bedroom furniture is a must since children will use it until they grow old.

• Bookshelf

Kids love to read books and they will definitely enjoy having their own bookshelf in the comfort of their own room. This will also prevent having your kid’s books scattered everywhere in the house.

How Can Talent Transform Paper Into Outstanding Art

In case you are an art lover and want to add more artistic and unusual spirit to your home, just go for Carlos Meira’s paper crafts, which surely can be called stunning and extravagant. The artist is offering an amazing approach to the paper art as he is building sculptures from paper.

The extremely talented artist has made a fragile art that displays the typical Brazilian festive mood and joy, especially inspired from the festivities in Brazil.

The paper sculptures are the perfect accessory for any home decoration and catch the eyes with their colorful appearance.

The characters of Carlos Meira’s works are said to be inspired from the real life, but he often displays heroes, fairytales characters and other symbolic figures.

For instance, the artist has made series of football players and famous actors and actresses. His best works are praised as an outstanding opportunity to beautify your home with joyful and unusual art.

For now, all the creative works of the artist are in a limited edition. This make his collection even more valuable, because this way you will possess something that others don’t have in their home décor.

How To Create A Smarter But Safer Home?

In case you want to live a sustainable and green life, you can easily follow simple instructions to transform your house into safe and clean oasis. Try to keep the pollen out of your home and brush off outerwear.

Choose a special brush to clean animal’s fur and feet. Try to not hang out your laundry on outdoor clothes line. Mats are always an important part of our home decor, especially if we want to live in a safe home.

Add mats on both sides of the door. It is well known that up to 80 percent of the dirt gets inside along with allergens, lawn chemicals and bacteria. Mats made with absorbed materials are perfect catcher of the dirt and prevent it from going inside of your home.

Establishing a no-shoes-indoor policy is also an option that will keep the basket of slippers at the door for family or guests.

In the kitchen there are also changes that might improve your home safeties. Purchase special water filters and try to filter your drinking water.

A Spa Retreat To Be Placed Among The Sands Of Time

Aidlin Darling Design is a studio that is eminent for its creative visions, eco-friendly ideas and new technologies, when it comes to home design. The names behind the famous American studio are Joshua Aidlin and David Darling, both known as genius eco design functional pragmatics.

Their latest project is the famous Californian spa center – Sonoma Spa Retreat. The whole architecture of this project speaks of minimalistic idea, aesthetic look and ergonomic and sustainable design.

The new spa building is made to be a real futuristic wonder as it represents spa and swimming pool built as an outdoor living space of a rammed-earth house.

The designers created special spa outdoor pavilions that surely opened the landscape and are very adequate to the local climate. The spa center is equipped with special rustic trellis that provides shades from the California sun.

It also frames distant views of San Francisco to the south. The modern simple and sustainable design of the Sonoma Spa Retreat has already brought up the public’s attention due to its creative look.