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Innovative Kitchen Decorating Ideas

2010-09-23T12:42:00.000+08:00

Kitchens are known to be the heart of the home. Kitchen decorating or remodeling could take some time of planning and considering kitchen decors and furniture to put in. However, major renovations could cost you a lot. But if you try to look at it closely, you can spice up your kitchen with minimal expenditures and have it in your own style of preference. It just takes a part of your creativeness and effort
Today, kitchen area has become a multi-functional venue. It can be used as studying area, another living room, or a place for family conferences. Reason for this is the extensive variety of kitchen designs surfacing for more functionality, accessibility and maximization the space provided.

Anyone could do kitchen decorating and make his kitchen look great. Planning ahead could save more time and money making use of the available resources. Try browsing the web for kitchen decorations and get ideas and information from them.

Morumbi Residence – The Top of the Hill House

2010-09-01T13:16:00.000+08:00

This residential house is designed by Drucker Arquitectura located on the top of Morumbi. The design is manifested by large windows, open balconies and modern interior of green architectural concepts. For more details click here.

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Black Lace Furniture Collection – Elegant Outdoor Furniture Pieces

2010-09-01T12:51:00.000+08:00

This Black Lace Collection is from Simple Living described as a woman in black ever elegant to match any occasion. You can have this set in your porch, along the pool area or garden without disturbing the balance of interior atmosphere that you have. Black Lace Collection is known for its subtle yet high-impact trademark, making it the favorite of most interior designers. The snow-flake weaved designs are very classic projecting interesting patterns both for modern or urban settings.

This set also goes perfectly in any spacious resting area for a more tranquil moment. Visit Simple Living here for more details.

Col-Letto Bed: Another Sleeping Time Experience from Lago

2010-08-28T11:30:00.000+08:00

If you are having sleeping problems then this bed is designed for you. It comes with a collar intended to block vision that may catch your attention, making you more awake during your sleeping hours. Another feature of this collar is to block the noise or any sound from the outside. All that this Col-letto Bed provides is a good and sound sleep. The collar can be adjusted too depending on your preference. You can either keep it standing that way or roll it down. The mattress is very soft as well perfect for a wonderful sleep and a good wake up time. Click here to visit Lago.

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Car-inspired Hotel Rooms at V8 Hotel in Germany

2010-08-23T14:35:00.000+08:00

How great is it to sleep on your favorite luxury car with the comfort of your own bed? You can have this experience at V8 Hotel in Germany. The interior of the hotel is inspired by cars and car spare parts. The concept started because the hotel itself is found in Stuttgart known to be the German International Center of automakers. Car beds range from Morris Minor to Mercedes Benz. If you think you can’t afford to have one, well, at least, you can have a good sleep on them. Come to think about it!

Room rates range from 120 to 360 €.

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Stylish Pods for Your Air Plants

2010-08-22T04:55:00.000+08:00

Do you have interior plants at home? Well, probably, these are air plants that you have in the corner of the room hanging freely. Air plants will definitely not withstand the water like most plants do and drops or puddles of water left in their leaves can eventually harm them. So, Michael McDowell designed a very unique pod for these air plants. They are inverted to make sure that water will not stay. The pods are ceramic in white, taupe and black glaze. This is a stylish and cool way of hanging your favorite indoor plants.

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Have a Bite of GILApple Lamps

2010-08-22T04:17:00.000+08:00

Hold your bite there as these apples aren’t the real fruits. These are lamps designed very much similar to real apples that you eat. However, these ones are only for table tops or any area that needs illumination. GILApple Lamps can act both as a lamp and a décor too for your living room, bedroom or even kitchen. You can avail these in juicy red color, white and black. Your interior will never be hungry again when it comes to delicious decorations. For more information, click here. Take a look of the photos below.

Wha Cabinet: A Lamp and Cabinet in One

2010-08-20T15:18:00.000+08:00

What’s interesting about modern furniture now is its ability to cater to many purposes. Take for example this Wha Cabinet by Tembolat Gugkaev; it’s indeed a cabinet during the day but becomes a lamp which you can use when night time comes. What a brilliant idea, isn’t it? The shape of the cabinet is very sexy in curve which can complement any modern home interior. The shelves of the Wha Cabinet are also lighted with different colors in orange, yellow, green and blue. Click here for more details.

With the main light on:

With the main and back light on shelves on:

Running Out of Storage Room? Make Use of Your Ceiling

2010-08-19T11:11:00.000+08:00

As much as possible we want our house to look organized focusing on areas like the living room, kitchen and bedrooms but we oftentimes forget to give attention to the garage. A garage is a multi-purpose space which houses your car and at the same time serves as a storage room for junks and other necessary things that you seldom use like fishing tools, which you can only use for holidays or during family vacations, Christmas decors and any other things that comes in season. And the clutter cannot be avoided in the garage especially that these things keeps on adding up as the year counts.

The thought of just because the garage is a storage room it doesn’t need to look arranged and organized is something not an option. It is still part of the house that needs to be cleaned up once in a while with all what’s inside it in order. However, problem will arise if your garage doesn’t have enough space anymore and you still have those boxes and boxes of stuffs piling up in one corner. Did you know that you can make use of your garage ceiling as an extra storage room? Yes, you can. Just be creative in re-using what’s already there and one of those is to transform your vacant ceiling into a room where you can keep your extra junks.

Utilizing your unused ceiling into a useful storage area doesn’t only limit to the ceiling of your garage. If you have basements and attics you can as well make use of the ceilings of these rooms for storage purposes. Depending on your needs you can put some racks in there for hangers, cabinets or the boxes that are so unsightly away from one’s sight. Once you have decided to make use of your ceiling you can start considering the space provided; organize as to what things you want to put in there whether you want it as an extra closet, a mini library for your book collection and so on. Try also to consider the durability of your ceiling too if it can hold the items that you wish to place.

Your ceiling can also be a storage room for your lengthy and pointed things like the fishing rod, as mentioned earlier, gardening tools and other spare home necessities like the bulbs, switches and flashlights. Camping set-ups can also be kept in the ceiling storage. The internet will make a good source of ideas on how to design the space and how to deal with the organization. There are online sites that provide calculations of how to get the maximum space for a given ceiling measurement. Tips and assistances are also being presented there.

Your home is a reflection of your personality; not just your living room nor bedroom but all the parts that make up your home and that includes those areas we call storage rooms. If extra space is the solution for keeping these rooms organized make use of your ceilings and you will be able to achieve a clutter-free garage and storage spaces.

Valises: Luggage-inspired Closets by Casamania

2010-08-17T22:20:00.000+08:00

Maarten De Ceulaer has converted the idea of luggage for traveling into static closets for Casamania. This closet is made up of six pieces of luggage in different sizes stack on one another resembling a real cabinet storage idea.

See other color combination of Valises:

Close up features reveal stitches just like the real suitcases and luggage.
Click here to go to Casamania for more details.

Circle: A Sexy Floor Lamp from De Padova

2010-08-17T21:20:00.000+08:00

Monica Forster created these Circle lamps for De Padova with high sophistication and modern aesthetics in mind. The lamps are simple yet very much appealing to any homeowner. It is an umbrella-like on the tip of an arching stem with a circular base. You can adjust its projection by simply moving or directing the stem to your preference. The switch can be accessed on the base or foot of the lamp making the design handier to the user. These lamps come in white, yellow and black. Another great feature of Circle lamp is energy-saving bulb being used which is indeed a great factor in everyone’s way of living.

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Jonathan Jungsuk Ahn Oil Painting Collection

2010-08-17T17:13:00.000+08:00

Click on the images below to enlarge.

Yellow Market Street

Inglorious Broadway

Cali Sunset

I Love Ballet

Bamboo Forest

Morning Ray of Light

Click here to access the website of the painter.
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Compact Kitchen Sink from Blanco

2010-08-16T23:02:00.000+08:00

We always heard of new kitchen sink products coming out but what is new with this one? The manufacturer, Blanco, has considered mainly how important a single inch of space in a small kitchen is. Its features are; a movable cutting board and detachable faucet. To access the sink, simply slid off the cutting board and modern designed sink will pop out in front of you. This enclosed kitchen sink has many variations depending on your needs. Check on the pictures below to see some of the designs and color availability. Kitchen experience will never be this easy and handy again.

EXS – A Wired Frame Chandelier by Zeroombra

2010-08-16T22:38:00.000+08:00

Are you looking for a minimalistic ceiling lamp yet very elegant for any modern living room or dining area? Zeroobra introduces its EXS as one of its masterpieces when it comes to modern lighting creations. The wires are creatively anchored from the base, clamped in the middle and spreading down with lighting tips. At a distance, you will see it as made up glass but actually very hallow up close. For a greater effect you can put a pair of this EXS on the ceiling of your dining area; each on near one end of the table. For more details on Zeroombra click here.

Enjoy Your Shower with Music through the Bossini Aquavalo Shower

2010-08-16T01:46:00.001+08:00

How much do you enjoy singing in the shower but you just can’t bring your music gadget in? Well, now you can with the new Bossini Aquavalo Shower. The device comes with a holder for MP3 and iPods giving you the leisure of enjoying to your favorite music while taking a shower. Another great feature of the shower is the LED lights adjustable to any color. It will absolutely give you another step of shower experience. There’s more; the water control of Bossini Aquavalo is adjustable to waterfall and rainfall effect. What you get with this? Good sound background, access with preferred lighting and the rest is yet to find out. You can access their website here.

Waterfall Shower Mode in Green LED Setting

Special MP3/iPod Holder


Rainfall Shower Mode in Blue LED Setting You can access their website here.

Chicken-legged House by Anna Krzak

2010-08-15T05:37:00.000+08:00

Featured House Design: "Chicken-legged House" is by Anna Krzak, an interior designer from Poland. Click here to see her portfolio at Behance.net wherein these photos are also taken from.

ScrewTop by Joe Doucet

2010-08-15T05:06:00.000+08:00

Joe Doucet is a famous designer and architect from America who lately came up with a table in easy-to-assemble feature. The designer wanted to present that not all easy to install furniture are considered “cheap” or with low quality. Doucet also considered the shipping problem of huge dining or conference tables regarding with their weights and so he decided to make this one shipment-friendly. The screw showing on top are intentionally included for a rustic yet elegant look. It is good to stick with traditional designs but opening to what is “in” today is much better and that is what Joe Doucet just did.

Carved Cube Table Lantern Why Tagged Tricky?

2010-08-15T04:37:00.000+08:00

When not in use you will surely think of this one as a plain wooden box sturdy enough to carry and support any weight. But wait till it lights up and you will see how delicate and hollow this table lantern is.

The French designers were able to make an illusion of a hardwood appearance out of pasting the pieces together in an intricate pattern.

This is great for night lamps emitting a light source that is so warm with the leaves pattern being reflected on each side. Click here to access the website of the designer and for more details.

Adler’s Butterflies: A Phyllis Morris Butterflies Wall Covering Series

2010-08-15T03:40:00.000+08:00

Are you getting bored of how plain a wall paint might be or how wall papers are too common nowadays? Try the Adler’s Butterflies wall covering from Phyllis Morris for a colorful and livelier wall which you can easily install wherever you want.

The wall cover is made up of butterflies hovering in a grilled golden piece. Butterflies can be custom-made according to your home interior, blending your room atmosphere perfectly. Click here to see more of Phyllis Morris creations. The said wall cover is available in 46 X 72 in2.

Home Tips on How to Get Rid of Pet Hair

2010-08-14T06:24:00.000+08:00

Pets can excite and charm us in their own ways. They can even relieve our stress after a stressful day of work. However, problem arises with them when their hair started to fall off on carpets, sofas and other upholsteries. These are favorite places of our pets, making pet hair removal a constant struggle. It has become part of our daily household chores and as always it occupies most of our time.

It is very hard to get rid of these unwanted pet hairs because they stick on the fabric. However, one doesn’t have to buy expensive tools just for the intention of it because there are remedies which you can get from your household and are proven to be very effective in doing the task. Read on and know what these inexpensive ways of removing pet hairs are.

Since, these pet hairs adhere too much on our furniture, which are fabric, of course. Then, a fabric softener will aid in breaking the strong bond and will loosen the hairs’ adherence. Mix a small amount of it with water and put the solution in a spraying bottle. Be very careful in spraying so as not to wet the entire area. When you spray, hold the bottle a few inches away from the furniture to make sure those only tiny particles of the solution will get in contact with pet hairs. Leave the area to dry. A few minutes will do. After which, remove the hairs using a vacuum.

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Another way is to use adhesive tapes. One known tape to do the removal of pet hairs is the duct tape. Its stickiness is enough to remove the hairs from carpets and sofas. How to do this? It is very simple. Just wrap around your hand the duct tape with the sticky portion out then press it on the area where pet hairs are. Don’t rub just pat on the area slowly. Repeat the process until nothing is left. For larger affected areas you can cut out a piece of duct tape covering the whole area and directly put the tape on. After a few seconds, rip it off slowly.

Last home tip and perhaps the most common one is by using rubber hand gloves. You can use any type as long as it is rubber. Wear the glove and rub on the part where pet hairs are present. Then, you will notice that these hairs are clumping together forming balls of hair. The static friction between the rubber glove and hair has caused this. Now, the hairs are easier to remove.

Window Treatments - Give Protection and Great Decoration Ideas Too

2010-08-14T06:02:00.000+08:00

Window treatments are very useful when it comes to protection and privacy. However, new trends are coming out that make these window treatments more of decorative pieces too. It is good to at least have one feature but why not settle for one if you could have both - that is, protection and decoration.

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Window treatments are designed to protect us from the external harmful factors like the sun and dust. These can either be installed in the outer or inner part of the window. There are the green window treatments too that are more environment-friendly than the regular ones. Examples of these treatments are the blinds, shades, curtains, and window panels.

Curtains are the traditional ways of treating a window. They come in different fabrics that also provide different level of protection and insulation. They also come in different designs and styles from simple to intricate draperies and pleats. Silks are the most noted fabrics for curtains that offer good insulation.
Next are the blinds which also come in different materials like wood and synthetic plastics. They can be either Venetian types or Romans. Roman blinds are also associated to shades that are made up of fabrics in different patterns. The good thing about shades is that you can complement the fabric to your interior, giving your room a classy appearance. Venetians, on the other side, are those blinds made up of panels joined together by a piece of string. There are models that are motorized just like the Roman or shade blinds.

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Window panels are just like screens that protect the interior part of our house from the damaging heat of the sun. Panels come in different protection level. The higher the protection level is the more opaque it becomes. Shutters are also another type of window treatment that totally blocks the light. These are good for those who have sleeping problems during day time like the children.

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Whatever our need is for protection and privacy there are window treatments that will cater to it. We can make use of these treatments as decors aside from the benefits mentioned above. These are also ideal ways of making any room conducive for a certain purpose and give texture to the house interior. You can also wear both window treatments at the same time. Like for example; the blinds which you can top with curtains hanging on both sides while leaving the blind visible in the center.

Multifunction Furniture Provides Extra Storage and Space

2010-08-14T05:50:00.000+08:00

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The predicament with small space areas is that you cannot put as many furniture as you want. The space is so limited that you need to put only necessary furniture to fit everything. Another hard part is the problem with storage. These are not new to those who live in apartments. Is there any way that you can fix these problems? Yes, there is and these tips can even give you the interior that you wish for with no problems of storages and spaces.

So, what will answer these complaints by most homeowners living in restricted areas?
Furniture modern concepts adapt as well to the modern life and needs of homeowners. Thanks to creative designers who continue to create multifunction furniture. These furniture design ideas can solve the problem regarding with spaces and storages. You can access these types of furniture through the internet. In fact, you will be amazed with the numerous home improvement tips and ideas being showcased in different websites. In case, you are afraid of shopping online, you can also custom-made these furniture design ideas through your local furniture stores.

One example of multifunction furniture is the collapsible bed which you can open up when you sleep and fold up on one side when not in use. For extra storages, there are stools with detachable tops and coffee table with magazine holders. A bed with drawers underneath is a good replacement for two separate furniture pieces which are the bed and cabinet. Dining table is also available in folding features which you can spread and fold up. These multifunction furniture creations have helped so many homeowners solving space problems and they continue to exist for they are proven beneficial to everyone.

Sofa bed is also an alternative for buying bed and sofa separately. This is a good example of multifunction furniture which you can freely use when only needed. If you are going to buy new furniture consider those which you can use with many purposes. For storage purposes try to buy furniture with many drawers and holders. There are also sofas, aside from the stool, that come with built-in storages. Not only you can save on space but generally you have cut down your furniture expenses, as well.

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Multifunction furniture can also include those stackable cabinets available in different shapes and colors. They extend upward instead of occupying your floor spaces. Personally, I find this a good option rather than going for huge cabinets and drawers that can consume up most part of your living space. These stackable cabinets don’t only solve your space problems but at the same time adds touches of elegance to your interior. Your media holder or cabinet with drawers can also be a good source of extra storage room. There are furniture types too that function both as a furniture and décor. Take advantage of this multifunction furniture pieces and start enjoying the benefits they provide. Some multifunction furniture pieces come in dual functionality and some in three or more which are brilliant concepts that you can include in your next home decorating and on times when you run out of storage rooms.

Living comfortably is all you get when you invest on good multifunction furniture because a good home interior doesn’t have to be expensive at all. Make your imagination work and you will achieve what you are looking for.