These days, there’s no excuse for shabby outdoor furniture – especially with stylish patio furniture options like these, by Italian company Varaschin. The Rollover sofa, designed by Nigel Coates, lets you create a fabulous and comfortable living room outdoors.
Complement these pieces with the Altea bench and chairs and a Tulip trolley cart, and your outdoors are ready to entertain a group of guests or a peaceful pool party for two. Read the rest of this entry »
Recently graduated from Sweden’s Konstfack University, Japanese designer Sachiko Segawa presents her final degree project Take Kagu. Its name literally means “bamboo furniture” and is inspired by Segawa’s childhood memories of a bamboo forest and a new material – bamboo plywood.
Using this new bamboo material, the designer created several pieces of furniture which in her words should “create a bamboo forest feeling “. Though there are several problems with bamboo forests, continues Segawa, bamboo is regarded as very ecological and sustainable material.
Protecting your hardwood floors and laminate floors is by far the best apply to adhere to in order to keep it around for years to come. Most often, “we” are the reason for the problems we experience with our hardwood floors, simply because we fail to take proper care of the floor.
To ensure your wooden floors remain damage free, follow the simple steps below.
1. Place doormats outside of all entries to your home in order to trap debris.
2. Place carpet rugs inside the entrances to your home to trap dirt, sand, and other particles brought into your home that makes it past the doormats.
3. Place carpet rugs around sink areas, work areas and high traffic areas to trap debris and protect your hardwood floors from spills.
4. Do not wear high heals on hard wood floors (or if you do, make sure the heals are not damaged)
5. Keep all pet nails trimmed to avoid small scratches on hardwood floor.
6. Use wood floor protector covers under the legs of all furniture
7. Never drag furniture across wood flooring. (place a small carpet rug underneath the legs to resist scratching your hardwood floor)
Lights in the kitchen are very important. Most people consider kitchen to be a part of the house which does not need to be decorated, but on the contrary kitchen is one of the most important part of the house. A place where you daily meals are cooked need to be well lighted for the means to turn out good isn’t it.
Find below some of the important kitchen lighting tips
1. While planning a kitchen, take a look at what lighting is available in the market. If you like something, keep that in mind while designing the woodwork.
2. If you have a small kitchen, you can settle for just a central ceiling fixture. But when it comes to larger kitchens, you need task-specific and ambience lighting in different sections. For example, an under-cabinet light for the workstation or pendant lighting above the dining area.
The Sailor wood tubs are some of the newest, freshest items from the Ocean range by Bagno Sasso. A fabulously creative design, the free-standing tubs look nothing like wood! Rather, the tub is finished with a veneer that looks like marble.
Here’s the brick ranch house that was built in 1958 by W.T. Dahl, it’s a beautiful inspiration of Mid-century home interior. Each room of this house has a different taste, but all of them are fabulous and offers lots of great ideas for colors combination, lighting placement, materials and furniture arrangement. Look out the inspirational pictures after the jump.
A house is the abode of the human kind. A house is a place where people unwind after a hard day of work, relax and are just themselves. In a house there is no stretch and deadlines to be met.
Garden light is the postmodern version of a Zen Garden interior decoration, the indoor lighting inspired by bamboo trunks that will give the different on your home decoration. Garden light could be a romantic lamp on your room, besides of that it can be used for room divider. The design has an aluminum base that holds the trunks, which are formed by a repeated module, made of translucent flexible acrylic, that works as screen.
Designed by Designers Damaris&Marc Design Studio from Barcelona the Ilium Chair combines plastic and wood to create a piece inspired in a female human pelvis bone. Its shape reminds one of a flower and its avant-garde style fits the greatest rooms. Carved out of wood and plastic shell’s bone, this stylish chair has incredibly organic design.
The chair features two front legs and a pair of wood feet attached to the back portion of the chair, and also a wood backrest that adhere the two sides of plastic shell. The cool looking chair also has an additional upholstered cushion to endow you with comfort.
Some people are so focused on washing their windows each spring that they don’t realize window maintenance is a separate and equally important window task. If your window frame or casement is suffering from some type of damage, cleaning dirt and dust from the window glass should be the least of your concerns.
We all want our homes to look good, but they need to provide shelter and protection, first and foremost, and comfort and reasonable energy-efficiency, next, before you can polish your glass and call it a day. So, before you take out your chamois and squeegee, here’s what you need to know about potential window damage and maintenance.
VALORE wardrobes by TEAM 7, the market leader in green non-toxic furniture since 1980, combine the natural warmth of solid hardwood with contemporary elegance and formality. VALORE wardrobes are characterized by a refined mix of precious solid wood and the elegant high gloss sheen of glass. The VALORE sliding door wardrobe (above) excites with solid horizontal wood grain and color glass panels.
Additionally, all wardrobes are available either with sliding, hinged or folding doors (or a combination) and in walk-in configurations in a multitude of dimensions. The inside of the wardrobes feature a selection of highly practical elements, like a shirt lift and retractable hanging pants element, drawers with tie compartments or glass front drawers for shirts, solid wood shelves or wood front drawers for the more messy people among us.
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