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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Modern Comfortable Ofo Chair With Bookshelf
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Modern Apartment Interior Design and Furnishing Ideas
Apartments demand a special interior decorating touch. You must take away the feeling of an apartment by decorating your space without running afoul of the landlord.Most rentals are often faced with the same lighting fixtures, wall colors, carpet, flooring and cupboards. You can express your creative idea by add in touches that look permanent but actually are not.
Since your landlord might not even let you paint, you can apply large wall stickers, such as poppies that reach from a floor to ceiling to add color to bland walls while giving your space a hand painted effect.Maybe you need to ask permission to hang up curtains for a homey touch. Many landlords will ask that the lining of the curtains be white so it matches the rest of the window treatments in the building.
One simple thing that adds a huge change for overall appearance is making a statement with furniture. You should spend a little more money to get pieces with style. Look at the overall area building design to take the idea of your furniture and decorating style.For example, if you live in an art deco building or sleek pieces, just look for curvy line. If you are decorating a building in a modern style for a cohesive look, try to stick with stainless steel legs.
You may be able to get a smaller scale sofa that won't overwhelm the space. Try to use one ottoman instead of two or fewer side tables and floor lamps to free up the floor plan. Having a platform bed may make a room feel bigger than a regular four poster bed that is important so your space does not feel like an interior design living room.Achieve the look of color. Even when you do apartment interior decorating you might feel like your house is still white and bare. Select for painted furniture pieces with color so the white walls look intentional such as pottery or hanging colorful plates on the wall.








Sunday, July 4, 2010
Modern Black and White Furniture for Living Room from Giessegi
These living room sets are part of New’2010 collection from Guessegu called GIORNOPERGIORNO. Even though the collection consist not only from black and white furniture, these are the most modern and minimalist ones. The whole project goal was to design modular furniture solution for any contemporary living space by giving people maximum flexibility. A lot of things available in collection: open and closed containers, bookcases, shelves, tables and chairs, benches and many other furniture pieces that offer endless creative possibilities in designing simple yet practical rooms. Besides being available not only in black and white the collection finishes range from natural wood to high glossy lacquered laminate.







Monday, May 24, 2010
White-Beige Airy Interior Design with French Furniture
This spacious loft space in SE London is designed to be used as photo shooting location. Its interior is done in white-beige color theme which looks very light and airy. White walls and white painted floorboards highlight beauties of classic distressed French furniture with beige colored elements. The space features 24 foot ceiling and 12 foot windows that bring a huge amount of daylight in the interior. Even though it isn’t always possible to create such interior in real life its airy design is a great example of what you could achieve with using of similar color theme.
Friday, May 7, 2010
Cool Attic Spaces and Ideas
Most attics live and die without ever having an identity of their own. If planned well, they can be put to good use. The attic can be transformed into an office or a lounge. It can either act as your study or just a room where you can chill out. If you are an artist, the room can be a great place to brainstorm. Its basically the seclusion of it from the rest of the house which makes it such a big hit. If you have been toying with idea of what to do with your attic take a look at the pictures below. You can apply a fresh theme to the room(like the car room) or use very rusty colours to give it a worn out, old vintage feel. Whatever you choose, the place which once was smelly won’t be the same anymore.
This is from a house we covered more in detail here: Beautiful French Country House
Via
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Home Gym Design Tips and Pictures
If you are health conscious, having a gym membership can prove to be a worthy investment. But if you are disciplined and self motivated having a home-gym is a decision you will always be proud of.
The burning question is where to start from? Here are some quick tips to consider once you are decided on having your own personal workout place.
Home Gym Design Tips
1) Think of a gym and one visualises a big room with full length mirrors and all sorts of training equipments combined with an open space for aerobic/yoga sessions. It might be true in case of commercial gyms but when it is home-gyms spaces do not have to be huge. A small spare room in your house or basement can be a great place to get started.
2) When you purchase equipments, make sure they are safe, compact and versatile. As you will mostly be working out alone you should make sure that you are investing in the right type of equipments. It is also essential to not try and cram the space with too much equipment. Keep it minimal. Keep it simple.
3) While setting up, you might as well get an accessory rack where you can place your small gadgets making them in turn easily reachable. You can also consider getting a small fridge to keep your energy drinks and water bottles.
4) Place a full length mirror on one of the walls. It gives a feeling of roominess plus you can keep a check on all your fitness moves. And it can be a source of motivation as well.
5) And lastly, having a great collection of music to listen to while you work out can make it a more enjoyable experience. Consider plugging in a music system if you can. It is a great catalyst and stress buster.
Home Gym Design Inspiration
All pictures below are not of ‘home-gyms’ but you can pick up some ideas from here.
By Stanislav









