Sunday, February 28, 2010

Interior Decorating

How To Clean Your Cane SuiteCleaning your cane suite is a great idea, as can is very resilient.To clean cane and prevent it from yellowing, douse a stiff brush in a solution of warm water, lemon juice and salt, and scrub the cane well.Tighten up sagging cane chairs by sponging the top and undersides of the seats with hot and soapy water to which you’ve added a few spoonfuls of salt.Rinse with a clean wet cloth and allow drying in the sun.
Modern fireplaces could add a warm and become center of attention in any room. They also could be used anywhere in courtyard in order to make it more interesting, beautiful and relaxing place. EcoSmart fireplaces are easy to maintain and could be installed almost at any surface. Their design is sophisticated, elegant, minimalist so it can be considered modern. EcoSmart fireplaces burn Denatured Ethanol so they don’t require utility connection and easily could be refilled. Here are some real life examples of how people use these fireplaces in their homes decorating adding glamour and warmth to their contemporary and traditional living areas:
Contemporary Fireplace Examples

Contemporary Fireplace Examples


Contemporary Fireplace Examples


Modern Fireplace Examples

Modern furniture combined with good interior design; create atmosphere and style


Creating a cohesive interior design for you home isn’t that hard if you know some of the basics. In fact, decorating your home so that all the various elements combine to create the look you’ve always wanted can be a lot of fun.

Following are some proven tips to help your house into a designer home:











Taking the first step

As they say, let’s start at the beginning. Chances are good that your home is a mish mash of furnishings, art, accents and accessories that have been collected over time. To create the perfect designer look, you want to first consider the purpose for each room, how you want it to look, your personal tastes, features that can and can’t be changed, and finally, the budget you have available.

Star with the key elements

The success of a room’s design lies in the balance you create. The basics of gook design are proportion, balance, contrast, rhythm, pattern/texture and harmony. Knowing how these elements work together will help you design your space so that it’s not only beautiful, but comfortable and functional as well.

Proportion

Scales is one of the most important things to consider when creating the look of a room. A room that is proportioned correctly will feel welcoming while an incorrectly portioned room will just feel crowded and unfriendly. The trick is to match pieces in terms of their scale. A large overstuffed sofa needs an equally large end table or coffee table; otherwise, these accents simply disappear as the sofa dwarfs them proportionally. When considering scale, look to the other rooms in home for furniture that may be a better fit with the focal pieces you have in your room.



Balance

When crating balance, there’s two ways to go here. The first is symmetrical design, where everything is perfectly balanced. With symmetrical design, there’s roughly two of everything or items are mirrored in the room. For instance, one chair is placed exactly opposite another one just like it. While this creates balance, it can also make a room look static and lacking any visual interest or energy. Experienced designers use asymmetry to create this interest. Objects balance well because they are judged by their visual weight, not pairings. For instance, you have a large sofa on one side of the room that is balanced by two large overstuffed chairs with an accent table in the middle and floor lamp behind. These pieces balance the sofa visually, even though they aren’t equal in size or shape. The design works because there is balance in the asymmetrical layout of the furniture.











Contrast

Imagine walking into a white room with white carpet and white furniture. Pretty boring, huh? Contrast helps draw the eye around a room through the intelligent use of color. Bold use of colors creates energy while the use of muted shaded in complementary tones crates calm. The more contrast you crate, the easier it is for the human eye to follow the intended design of the room, moving visually from one space to another, guided by the use of color and contrast.

Rhythm

While crating contrast with the use of light and dark tones can be effective, it can also create boredom. To keep the room connected, you want to use rhythm. This means reusing specific colors, patterns, textures or themes throughout the room. Pick a couple main colors and repeat them in different ways in tour paint scheme, fabrics and accents.











Pattern & Texture

As the eye moves about a room, it picks up specific patterns. These are grouped together, so a blue wall is combined with a striped piece of fabric that has the same blue in it. Patterns that don’t fit crate conflict in the mind, compromising the appearance of the space. Again, you want to pick one or two primary patterns or textures and vary them within the color palette you’ve already crated for the room. Right alongside the elements of contrast and rhythm decorating is pattern/texture.

Harmony

If you’ve ever heard three signers sing different parts that sound amazing together, then you already know what harmony is. The same is true for the harmony in your home. Different colors, different designs and different proportions combine to create a new look that was never there before, just as new notes are created by singers singing three different parts. The room is suddenly complete. It has a look that if you remove just one element, won’t have that harmonic fell to it any longer. When you’ve achieved harmony, you’ve achieved your design goals.

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Tropical stone garden

Imagine you have rocks or stones in your garden or around your house. What to do with all these rocks? Throw them into the neighbors garden is impossible - hence make the best out of it. Either dig a deep hole - about 2-3 meters deep and bury the rocks under fertile soil - by the end you will have a hill to be covered by plants and bushes.
If your garden is rocky and you love to move the rocks out of the garden - you may at least pile them up into one small location to create just one such small rock or stone garden to clear the remainder of your garden for other plants and flowers.

Garden Design by Andy Sturgeon



If you are looking for ideas for outdoor spaces I’m sure that Andy Sturgeon portofolio will give you some inspiration. “Andy Sturgeon Garden Design has emerged as a leading design practice earning a reputation for creating stylishmodern gardens that are a fusion of contemporary design and natural materials. Planting often features heavily and ranges from striking architectural schemes through to soft, naturalistic styles. Lighting, sculpture and furniture are frequently integral to the design.” – Via – Desire to Inspire

Garden Furniture by Patricia Urquiola

I know that winter is around the corner and is not certain to be thinking about the garden but …. the charm of the gardens is indisputable winter, when the leaves of colors covering the grass and there is nothing more romantic that sit outdoors heated by a blanket, and with a cup of hot tea or steaming sweet chocolate. These chairs are designed by Patricia Urquiola and they are from the Canasta Collection that are displayed currently in the autumn edition of Maison & Objet. These designer seats come with a designer price tag – 2000 Euros. – Via –Thedesignblog

Teak Tables

Exclusive range of beautifully crafted teak tables to suite any patio or garden size and shape. Faraway's teak tables are all made from premium quality grade A teak with craftsmanship and attention to detail that is unsurpassed in the industry today.
Style, versatility and practicality converge in this elegant oval table. The double 'Butterfly Leaf' extenders give this table the ability to extend from a compact 2 meter length to a considerable 2.5 meters and ultimately to a substantial 3 meters. This means that whether you have 4 guests or 12, the table will easily accommodate. This table can accommodate up to 12 chairs. All of our stacking chairs perfectly match this set.
As per the Faraway norm, this table is fully machine made using close grained premium quality teak designed to last a lifetime. 


Idea for underground parking in an urban environment

For those of you who always dreamed at your very own top-secret underground parking, like those you saw in movies here is an innovative design that aims to tackle the growing loss of front gardens to car park space in urban areas. A West London resident decided to combine the garden an the parking space together, and he has developed a unique design to deal with the loss of front garden areas to car parking space in urban environments. The final result is very practical and it shows how a beautiful garden and parking space can be combined to help maintain the aesthetic appearance of a street. Found via – 12

modern garden

This very stylish, modern 8 seater set intertwines premium 304 grade stainless steel frames and legs with solid grade A teak wood.

The large double extension table has chunky stainless steel legs and stainless steel V shaped table support. This is combined with a solid teak table top which extends effortlessly from a compact 190cm to a huge 280cm using a smooth butterfly mechanism.

Perfectly paired with 8 matching teak and premium 304 grade stainless steel stacking arm chairs. The chairs are constructed with stainless steel legs and frame. For comfort the upper arms, seat and seat back are made of horizontal contoured teak planks. These space saving stackable chairs are elegant, durable and practical.
The design allows a parasol to be used whether the table is compact or extended.

This stunning set is perfect for the modern garden, decking or terrace area.


Garden Furniture

These pieces of garden furniture from Made In Design can offer an amazing visual effect. As you can see from these pictures the possibilities are endless. You can create all kind of models for your garden just use your talent of gardener and will be perfect in your gardens, parks, golfs and green spaces. It is easy to look after, resistant and durable. If you are interested you can find more information about this product here. – Via – DesignersBlock

Friday, February 26, 2010

garden furniture of natural construction material

Garden furniture made of trunks and big branches of naturally grown wood - and a bunch of creativity result in a full set of garden furniture home-made at zero cost while having fun being your own carpenter.


All these and many more garden furniture are self made - you too can make such beautiful natural garden furniture. Most of these beauties are made of free material that is just lying around your home, in forest or even in a junk yard ... like the 2 wheels of an old cart used to create the beautiful garden swing.

Luxurious Design Interior With Cool Kitchen Interior Design Furniture Gallery Pictures

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If you are considering renovating, decorating or repeat your kitchen layout, there are several things to consider before you shell out thousands of your money hard earned. It is no wonder you want to repeat the interior design layout for your kitchen. Often a kitchen renovation can go back 2 times the cost of investment when selling a house.

And with the decor and layout of the kitchen remodel, you will not only make money in the future but you also greatly improve your living standard when you were in your home. But to the point where you have successfully Redone kitchen can become a big business. While sketching and working on interior design layout is not rocket science, it is not for the faint of heart.