Modern and Glamorous-Chandelier from Barbara Cosgrove

We are loving this new chandelier from Barbara Cosgrove. It's so chic, don't you think?

The chandelier is priced at $925 including shipping.
The shades can also be replaced with parchment shades. The best thing is, it can be painted with any Benjamin Moore paint color. How clever!
You can find this chandelier in our Barbara Cosgrove Lamps section.

Red and Pink Bedding

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I thought I had just found the perfect set of red and pink bedding for a teenage girl's bedroom that I'm decorating. Take a good look at the pictures...do you see a red and pink comforter set? Well, at first glance I surely did only to take a second look and realize that the actual comforter and shams are white, pink and green. There may be a tiny touch of red in the center of the flowers that you can't see very well, but it may be hot pink.

The point is that the red upholstered headboard of the bed, the red dust ruffle and that funky looking wooly mirror that's hung over the head of the bed fooled me into thinking that I had found THE pink and red bedding set that would solve all my problems.

I wonder if I can convince the young lady to accept this red and pink bedding set and more importantly, convince her mom to pay for a padded red headboard.
The girl's taste in bedroom colors ranges in the warm (ya think?) side of the color wheel thus the request for a hot pink and red room design. In my opinion, the field of white with cool green stems on the flowers are what will make the girls bedding set work.

Here and There

Here's what helping me keep my cool when the temperature outside is at a searing 47 degree centigrade...

via Nuevo Estilo

via House of Jasmine

Modern home design exterior "Oriental Beach Views by frank Mecchia"

The exterior of your home design exterior is just as important as crown molding to create the exterior with oriental beach style.The brick for the home design exterior can be used to finish a specific architectural style or create a new one of this 2010. Your home design exterior paint color may be the most visible design decision you make, especially if showcased with exterior lights that can illuminate surround area in a suburb area of Melbourne have the 4 bedroom, and 3 bathroom home is surrounded by fish -filled water gardens, a long skinny lap pool , court yard and has an interior stuffed with open loft style space and contemporary fixtures. Home design exterior design with oriental lighting have an elegance and eye appeal that truly beautify the outdoors at night. When entering this house we’ll lead into a large open space containing living, patio and outdoor function. The great combination of lighting and fixtures for home exterior design and interior design.

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ISLAND BEDDING

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A mother wrote to me asking if this set of tropical island bedding was appropriate for decorating a teenage girls bedroom. Frankly, the only thing that hit me was that teens and tweens aren't usually that into floral prints...tropical or otherwise.

Then I opened the second picture that she sent and saw the Hawaiian hula girl and thought, "Well, that's better!" only to read that the Hula girl was the bone of contention because some mean spirited friend made an off color remark about the girl having a thing for chicks because of the island theme bedspread!

How wild and crazy is that? I, personally, adore vintage Hawaiian print fabric and hula girls and don't see a thing wrong with this bedding collection. But the lady is asking for opinions from teens (not decorators) as to whether or not it will scar her daughter's tender psyche if she tells her that she has to keep the comforter set in spite of how against it she has now become.

What do you say? Keep the island bedding set or get rid of it and maybe replace it with one of the tropical Roxy bedding sets in a similar color scheme?

Modern Kitchen Interior

There are many popular uses of concrete, but what we have presented something that is unique. Construction of concrete kitchen to the Vienna-based company designs Steininger, Steininger Martin highlighted other ways to use concrete. Relatively thin (just 8mm thick), this is a non-traditional kitchen design high performance and durable because they are naturally safe for food preparation.

Particular attention should be directed to make the steps in a foreign substance in the common sense applied. First, it is necessary to connect the concrete with different materials inside the timber warm friendly and welcoming to create effect, making it easier to know the concrete. Second, the addition of various instruments for implementing the results of stainless steel kitchen, soft and mitigation can be a sign of modernity and urban aesthetics.

Tropical Houses On The Beach

Quite difficult to achieve the sea to buy property - but to build a dream home of 4500 square meters with 30 60 SF. These properties are more complicated, especially in a place that left the courtyard, indoor garden and front garden of tropical plants to keep the green site on the edge. 

A Simple Single-Family Beach House

The house is a single-family beach house is only designed to replace the existing houses on a site already owned by the client for several years. The main idea of this project is to cover the space of two floors connected outside the house and roof garden overlooking the Broadwater. the resulting design meets the client brief, which includes the main elements as follows: 

- Opening of a living room with a large garden overlooking the Broadwater 

- Guest bedroom, bathroom, laundry room and main entrance on the main level 

- Master bedroom, living room, office and bedrooms upstairs, all with ocean view 

- Parking and storage of low soil 

Built and urban parts of the following characteristics of this compact two-story facades along Main Street Beach, organizing street corners with a drop of the bed, outdoor space. By raising the house on the street 1.5 optimum for a park overlooking the water. This device allows two facades street to the garden area with ja, ja, in conjunction with the Wall Street collapse of the normal level that offers privacy and views of the population while increasing the usefulness of the landscape.

Designed to maximize the prevailing winds of summer, the box contains a series of passive ESD initiatives. He has opened the windows on all sides, providing natural ventilation. Northern and western expansion, mostly glass, protected by a screen trigger a decline in profits Venice sun in summer and allow sunlight to penetrate into the interior during winter. a solid wall to the south to eliminate the winter winds. Walls, floors and ceilings are usually brightly colored to reflect heat. A large water tank to collect ground water for reuse in the local ecology has been completed and has been used everywhere.

Materials including paint, stone, concrete exterior walls in general. Some areas of timber wall is filled with asbestos cement sheets with aluminum foil remember Playa Page coastal vernacular.Steel roof and screen and in harmony. framework of anodized aluminum windows and doors.This plant usually white ceramic with natural wood beams.

The Beauty of a Wooden House

Dyes Inlet is called accommodation, is located in a modern wooden house designed byArkinetic Bremerton, Seattle, a suburb of Washington. Near the main house, a studio / garage Boat storage and a boat house. The main house with a central atrium, surrounded by two wings A study of mass and light. North and South Wing public places, private homes that provide Bedroom. Mass provide privacy from neighbors and transparency into the atrium. Wood and steel atrium that reveals the overall structure, main staircase and bridge. The connection between the two wings. Push the north and south faces of each branch are misused concrete walls that ended with two floors and a sandwich of glass and light from the sky above functions as Provide circulation space.

A concrete wall and water feature links date / garage studio, the main house. Board Date hold in the atrium and a stone fireplace that serves as a visual and structural damage by Anchor. Moving back to the outer walls, ceiling mount with the community broke with his views. Rainier Bedroom and terrace with private pool. Expiration Date walls, one in the jacuzzi Bank. Studio / garage with a deck consisting of studios and work spaces above and below the garage. Main Studio glass on four sides with the south. Flat deck looking down Inlet in the wall of glass atrium between the main house through the date of exit.

PATRIOTIC BEDDING

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These star lights are perfect with the patriotic bedding set that I plan to use in a client's red,white and blue bedroom. I like the ones that come wired like Christmas tree or patio lights. They are so, so cool when used in the proper setting. I actually had this string of Ikea star lights stuffed in a box with plans to decorate the patio with them at sometime in the future or maybe find a place that needed a celestial touch during the holidays...and then...

I found a picture of a boy's room on this website that used THESE VERY LIGHTS as part of the wall decorations.

I didn't care for the rest of the bedroom at all and the decorator's ideas certainly didn't fit with my red, white and blue patriotic bedding. But the way that the she put the star lights for the bedroom on display was nothing but pure decorating genius, my friend and I think they will look even more stunning as a pseudo-headboard with the Americana quilt.

The wall in the bedroom in the picture is painted a dusky blue that reminds me of the evening sky just at twilight which is very peaceful and relaxing. But I'm thinking that if you used the star lights for a bedroom with a patriotic theme a navy blue wall would be just as attractive and more representative of the colors in the American flag.

I spy..

...with my good eye

A hacienda in Mexico

That is not only an excellent vacation spot

But is also beautifully done up

In resplendent textiles, most likely from India

[Note 1: I have a reasonably decent pair of eyes; above one eye thingie was just for it to rhyme. Spy - Eye...see? Note 2: Yes, I am still in a 'I-want-a-holiday-now-and-right-now' phase, so you can expect more exotic resorts to show up here. Note 3: The genteel ladies who joined me on my virtual holiday to Argentina, well...here we go again! Pack your bags :)] 

This, my dear readers, is Cuximala, the private estate of Sir James Goldsmith. Actually not so private any more as its now a place for world weary travellers to go and rest their feet and tush. What I really like about this place (apart from the heavenly view and the beach) is the use of colors against the pristine white walls. Just about right.

Ram head chairs with bone inlay craft from Rajasthan

The bedrooms and few of the many sitting areas..

From one of the more colorful villas..

Aren't the windows beautiful? Reminds me of jaali work from India

[All images: Cuixmala]