Wednesday, December 29, 2010

BOHO CHIC BEDDING

Funky, Colorful Bohemian Bedroom Decor

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Funky, Wild n Crazy Colorful Crystal Chandelier

Boho chic bedding can be pricey but WHO CARES when you get lucky and find an amazing crystal chandy like this one for LESS THAN $10? It's a fact that funky bedding that looks like it came from the thrift store can cost a bundle. The truth of the matter is that authentic, vintage Bohemian style bedroom decor and bedding is very hard to find...especially the bedding.

On the rare occasion, I find some tasty quilts and comforters in a musty old trunk at an estate sale that require nothing but a few stitches to replace a quilted section or two and a good cleaning to freshen them up. But after you figure in the time it takes me to preview the goods before the auction and the actual sale; the real stuff becomes pretty darn expensive.

It's just a fact of life that there aren't many ways to cut corners in getting good looking, Bohemian style bedding that is in good new or used condition. So, I really had an "AHA" moment when I saw this funky, light fixture that was so cheap. Even if you can't get cheap Boho Chic bedding, inexpensive bedroom decorations and light fixtures help to take some of the sting out of a makeover's final price tag. Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie both have nice selections but to get good deals, (once again) I have to spend a lot of my spare time watching for sales on discontinued bedding.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Planning a Kitchen Design

Kitchen can be regarded as the heart or center of the house. the kitchen was usually the first place we stopped to sit when we entered the house.

Kitchen not only used for cooking is also a place to store food, but the kitchen can also be utilized preschool children to play while their parents cooked.

Children will often be in the kitchen for working on school work there with her parents who request assistance while prepare dinner





Interesting from a modern kitchen is that it remains to be seen practically any style with equipment available.
to design the kitchen is in fact not a simple process but logical.

Following steps if you want to design a kitchen

  1. Planning a Kitchen Design: 
  2. Appliances what they are the basics of how they work and some of the models available.
  3. Plumbing fittings, the faucets, boiling units, dishwashing and garbage disposal.
  4. Lighting, How to create mood in the kitchen, how to make sure the lighting is correct and efficient and how to make sure it’s attractive.
  5. Flooring. The area that gets the most wear and tear and abuse every day, what are your options, timber, vinyl, stone, concrete, carpet, cork. There are a lot of possibilities but which?
  6. Wall finishes. What looks great and is impervious to steam, grease, food spills and yet can be cleaned without staining or deteriorating. We look at a whole lot of options here from tiling to papers to laminates and special paints to mention a few.
  7. Electrical requirements such as the amount of outlets needed for all the appliances that a modern kitchen requires, safety aspects, aesthetics, and planning the positions of these items.
  8. Cabinetry, here is a very large subject. This section helps you choosing different finishes, planning the cabinets layout and why, drawers that have to go into them and where the hardware that goes on the cabinets from self closing hush drawers to handles and hinges.
  9. Storage. This is an endless area with manufacturers coming up with new and innovative store solutions all the time. Here you can see what’s available. 
 Planning a Kitchen Design:
  1. Defining the space, which includes either measuring up, and noting the position of the existing services, windows and doors of planning from the start with the architect on how you want the space laid out.
  2. Designing the room's layout to get the appliances, work tops and cupboards where you want them.
  3. Confirming that layout and the services that are needed.(This includes lighting).
  4. Confirming the finishes that you require for the bench tops, the exterior of the cabinetry and the interior of the cabinetry, the flooring, the walls, ceiling and window treatments

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    20 modern kitchen design that can make you comfortable while cooking

    This post will provide a modern kitchen design ideas, select the theme you like. In the figure below has a contemporary art as a kitchen design that is in the houses modern or apartment.

    Wood was also present in most of the interior that creates a warm environment. In modern kitchen design It also added a few flower arrangements because of the existence of such interest has the feel of a friendly.

    if you see the picture below, modern kitchen design is not necessarily futuristic, but you will see some visionary idea of decoration along the road. a few chairs and tables have a very interesting shape. You can also add other decorations such as paintings or other decorative objects.
    Hope you enjoy this modern kitchen design...




















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    Saturday, December 18, 2010

    Modern Wooden House by Arkinetic, Dyes Inlet Residence

    Dyes Inlet is called Residence, this is a modern wooden house designed by Arkinetic located within  Bremerton, a suburb of Seattle, Washington. This house consists of main house, a studio / garage, boat storage shed and a house boat. The main house, with central atrium flanked by two wings, is a study of mass and light. North and south wing houses the public spaces that provide private bedroom. This mass provides privacy from the neighbors and keep up the transparency atrium.

    Exposed in the atrium is a composite of wood and steel structure, main staircase and bridge connecting the two wings. Encouraging from the north and south faces of each wing is, battered concrete wall that serves as Bookends and sandwich two stories of glass and light the sky above provide circulation spaces within.

    A concrete wall and water feature links datum studio / garage to the main house. Datum wall hold in the atrium and damaged by a stone chimney that serves as a visual and structural anchor. moved again to the exterior wall, dividing the public terrace with its view of Mt. Rainier private pool terrace from the bedroom and koi. The end wall datum is a jacuzzi on top of the bank. Studio / garage consisting of parking and work space below with a studio and deck above. Main studio is south orientation with glazing on all four sides. Studio deck looks down datum atrium glass wall through the middle of the main house to the inlet on the outside.







    Wednesday, December 15, 2010

    IDEAS for a BLACK and WHITE BEDROOM

    black and white horizontal wall stripes paint painted painting pattern bedroom


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    Black and white rooms are catching on like crazy and while looking for ideas for a black and white bedroom that I'm working on, I spotted these pictures where the walls had been painted with funky, black and white horizontal stripes.

    What a wild look this would be with a set of damask print bedding or a black and white polka dot comforter set! The instructions said that they used a laser level to keep the stripes even, but they don't indicate whether they taped them off or just penciled in the borders of the stripes. I would absolutely have to use painter's tape or I would end up with wavy, uneven stripes.

    One of the visitors here suggested some ideas for a black and white bedroom awhile back that included the combination of flat white ceiling paint and black semi-gloss or eggshell wall paint. I think that using that technique to paint these stripes would look very cool!

    Thursday, December 9, 2010

    Purple Leopard Bedding

    purple black girls leopard print bedding comforter girls set collection bedspread wild feathers animal print

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    Everybody was clamoring to find purple leopard bedding sets after Christmas last year. My mailbox was full of emails from teen girls, college girls, young adults not to mention a few grandparents looking for the bedroom stuff on sale to get ready for Christmas next year! I'm not exaggerating, if you can think of the demographic I can probably produce a panicky sending e-mail asking where to find this very set of purple and black leopard print bedding. I suppose they thought just because I am a professional decorator and have a blog that I can snap my fingers or wiggle my nose and magically produce the most popular comforter set of the year after it's been sold out for weeks. DON'T I WISH?!

    If I could have found this purple leopard bedding in the early months of last year, so help me, it would have saved me hours and hours of pleading with my clients' teen daughters to PLEASE choose another comforter set for their bedroom makeovers.

    I'm writing to you now to tell you that as of this moment (no promises for even 10 minutes from now so DON'T write me snarky messages if you wait too long!) this purple leopard bedding set is available and at a very cheap price considering how popular it was and still seems to be. So, use the link I provided for you above and go get this girls bedding set before the thing sells out again.

    Tuesday, November 23, 2010

    BLACK and WHITE ZEBRA STRIPE BEDDING

    Black and white zebra stripe bedding has ruled the roost in lots of my teen girls' bedroom decorating projects in years past and nobody could be happier about this than yours truly. I have blogged on and on about how easy black and white comforters (in all patterns, not just zebra print) make a decorator's job.


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    Monochromatic comforters is without a doubt the way to go for simplicity. All you (read: I the long suffering decorator) have to do to personalize the bedroom is pop in some funky accent colors and hang some artwork on the walls that is indicative of the young girl's taste in music, sports, clothes and shoes. The beauty of zebra bedding is that it's only on the rarest of occasions that the colors and/or patterns are in danger of clashing. That may not seem like much to you but do you know how many hours upon hours I spend trying to coordinate this stuff?

    I'm taking time out of my holiday week (yeah, I'm resting up before the Christmas rush to pick out new comforters for my clients and decorate several master as well as teen girls' bedrooms for company) to say that my life may be getting more complex. To clarify, I have had a few preteens (or tweens as they are affectionately referred to these days) ask me about PINK zebra stripe comforters! I ask you, does this mean that I must say goodbye to the oh so versatile black and white zebra stripe bedding that has been so good to me? Is black and white girls bedding about to become a fond memory?

    Friday, November 19, 2010

    Diseño de dormitorios contemporáneos - Contemporary Bedrooms


    Lo que caracteriza al diseño de dormitorios contemporáneos es la simplicidad.
    Espero que te gusten las imágenes, y si quieres más puedes echar un vistazo a nuestros posts anteriores a partir de aquí.




    Contemporary bedroom design is about simplicity. This design style is anchored around clean lines and few accessories.
    Fuente: Decorando Mejor

    Dormitorios con temas modernos para niños y niñas. Fabulous modern themed rooms for boys and girls


    Impresiona bastante caminar por el dormitorio de los niños y ver toda la gama de combinación de colores, juguetes. Todo eso genera una lindo sentimiento de nostalgia. Los dormitorios con diseños y decoración en temas modernos son tipicamente menos intuitivos y mas enfocados en inyectar color. Aquí les mostramos algunos diseños modernos de dormitorios para niños con muebles italianos. La empresa italiana diseñadora es Corazzin, la cual se especializa en el diseño de cuartos de niños. Disfruten de las fotos.





















    Dormitorio para niños con tres camas colgantes - Bedroom For Three Boys


    Este elegante dormitorio de niños es un proyecto familiar, hechos por los mismos miembros de la familia. La habitación cuenta con camas colgantes inspirada por Ana Blanco, que no solo se ve bien, pero también son muy prácticos en términos de ahorro de espacio.

    Las camas están colgadas de las paredes con una cuerda gruesa con ganchos de metal y atornilladas a la pared. Las líneas de cama son de Ikea. Al lado de cada cama hay luces LED. Estas luces son de exteriores, al aire libre y se pueden activar / desactivar con un solo botón.







    Via: Decorando Mejor