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Accents of your interior: rugs

May 28th, 2011

More and more people are choosing wood, composite, marble, tile for their homes instead of carpet which means that rugs are becoming more popular than ever. Of course, those who have carpet also enjoy adding rugs to save the carpet from wear and tear, add style and even cover stains. Some individuals have no problem just going into a store and picking up a few rugs but if you’re investing in a large expensive area rug, you may want to put a little thought into your decision.

Play with Your Furniture

Your furniture will play a role in determining not only the size and style of the rug but the placement as well. If you are someone who moves around your furniture from time to time, you will need to imagine all scenarios and if your rug will accommodate your creativity. Don’t be afraid to get out your measuring tape to measure the space, this may also help you determine if you want a square, rectangular or round rug.

Explore Your Options

Rugs should ultimately compliment your decor however, in a simplistic or contemporary room, they can quickly become a focal point if you want to add in a bright color or pattern. If you are looking for a rug to place under your dining room table, be sure that it’s large enough for all chairs to fit on it, there is nothing worse than sitting on an uneven chair that’s half on and half off a rug.

Runners are great for entryways, hallways and stairs while floor mats made from bamboo, rattan, sisal or any other natural material will add just the right amount of texture to your flooring.

Experiment

Don’t be afraid to combine several rugs in one room that don’t necessarily exactly match. This is a good way to break up a large space or studio apartment, giving each area its own identity. You may also want to layer rugs if you start feeling really creative.

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European “method” of working with color

May 24th, 2011

Combination of more than three-four colors – is impropriety? This is for bores! – consider the owners of beautiful modern apartment where the numerous bright colors and patterns coexist in absolute resonance with feeling of limits and elegancy.

Bright colors and expressive patterns form the feeling of joy, fullness and diversity of life.

According to this recipe such interior has everything: color, light, space, functionality, sincerity, style and creative.

All these characteristics mixed in the necessary proportions are added to the snow-white creams of walls and ceilings and are out on the thin layer of golden biscuit of parquet.

The work with signing elements of lighting is also impressive and furniture which capacity and ergonomic distinguishes with genius of simplicity. This interior suits ideally for life of modern family. Kitchen takes very few place owing to well thought-out storage systems, actual design and reasonable decision of bar zone. It is possible to enjoy breakfast or a glass of vine together with your family and guests placing yourself comfortable on the comfortable high chairs.

This intellectual reconstruction in combination with gathering white background turned relatively small placement into luxurious apartment where there is no place for sadness and bad mood.

Light and airy bedroom where the problem of keeping things is settled with easiness looks like the fruit salad.

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Making a large room cozy

May 12th, 2011

There is always so much talk about making a small room look larger but what do you do when your room is so big that you can’t seem to make it feel comfortable? Well, with the right furnishings and tricks you can make your extra-large room feel less like a museum lobby and more like a cozy home.

Color Choice – While you don’t have to have a palette full of dark colors, you do need a few to close the room up a little. Even painting one wall dark will make a drastic improvement to draw the wall in toward the room’s core. Some people even prefer to paint the ceiling a darker shade than the walls as well.

Scale – Large rooms can accommodate big pieces of furniture. This doesn’t mean that you have to stuff it full but you can choose large sectionals, shelving and pieces of art that would dwarf a smaller room.

Arrangement – If you have the extra space in your room, why not add extra seating and set up a small reading or game area? What about adding a small bar or using screens to create a room inside a room?

Accents – Be sure to incorporate the dark colors in your palette into your accents and make sure that they are scattered throughout the room, not just all in one area.

Having a large room can certainly be challenging to decorate if you desire that warm home feeling but with a little extra thought, you can cozy up the space without making it appear cluttered. Also, don’t forget plants! You have space for extra-large leafy greens so take full advantage of this wonderful opportunity to bring live art into your home.

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Furniture line by Donna Karan

April 16th, 2011

Famous fashion-designer Donna Karan worked out the conceptual collection called Urban Zen Collection where together with wonderful creative clothes and expressive accessories also furniture and elements of décor are presented and they are fulfilled in the recognized unique stylistic of author.

Famous fashion houses gradually widen the sphere of activity and produce not only traditional clothes, shoes and accessories. The conception of collection of Donna Karan is the philosophy chic of simplicity adapted to the life in the modern megalopolis. All articles oh Home line without any exception are hand-made fulfilled by masters living in Bali. Bali is a place where culture is born of the land, and the artistic mind, body and spirit work hand in hand with nature. The designer wanted to bring Bali home, and so he did. Now it is brought to you, through Urban Zen.

Simple and strong wooden forms combine with the deep colors and soft comfortable pillows. This surprisingly energetic furniture with Indonesian soul harmonically scales with spacious studio planning and open-air terraces.

Every element of collection invites you to make yourself comfortable and spend time for your inner world. With the same pleasure you can gather with all your family or have the party in the warm company of friends surrounded with the furniture Urban Zen Collection.

This really romantic furniture by Donna Karan will always remember about travels, far countries and create the sensitive atmosphere of luxury, style and eternal values.

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Sofa by Onur Mustak Cobanli

March 31st, 2011

For sure, everybody ever heard about the syndrome of chronic tiredness when the person even after rest and good sleeping feels tired, exhausted and depressed so much that it is agonizingly difficult for him to make any work. And this is not laziness, as the scientists discovered; this is a sickness which can be connected with retrovirus. And while these scientists invent the “antidote” which is able to win this sickness the designers offer their ways of fighting with retrovirus. Example to this is a little psychedelic Retrovirus Sofa.

It is truth that the person who is tired after work after getting to his apartment longs for taking the horizontal position on the comfortable soft sofa to lay on it with the cup of tasty tea or coffee in his hands and it is desirable that there is something interesting and relaxing and pleasant on TV during the nearest half an hour. Designer whose name is Onur Mustak Cobanli is sure that it is best of all to fight against tiredness on the special creative sofa.

Retrovirus Sofa really looks like a bacterium which was enlarged several times. However, as the author of the project assumes, it is quite soft and comfortable but it has two places. For not tall person this sofa has quite enough place to lie and have rest. And for the tall one we need either larger sofa or retrovirus pouf as an addition.

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Vitra best chairs

February 27th, 2011

Vitra is the Swiss company famous since 1934 with the production of qualitative designer furniture for home and office. Vitra was one of the first in the world who run the producing of furniture of glass fiber, plastic and bent veneer. The company collaborates with famous architects and designers – Verner Panton, Philipp Stark, Jasper Morrison and many others.

Today fabric Vitra produces furniture and accessories for decoration of interior. The history of creation of many of them is quite interesting and uncommon. These are the legendary and original chairs of fabric Vitra!

Vegetal Chair. Sitting, back and armrests are the unit and looks like either the leaf or the branches of tree. The designers Ronan and Ervan Burulekki inspired with the masterpieces of garden-park art of XIX century when the crowns of trees were given the certain form. Being charmed with this idea brothers decided to grow their chair using the modern technologies. The chair is made of flat metal ribbons interlaced with each other and gives the uncommon shadow.

Wiggle Chair. Designer Frank Gery is famous with his experiments with new materials. In 1972 he started using the common cardboard in production and he managed to give the new life to this everyday material. At that time the collection of light and uncommon chairs and stools Easy Edges was created looking like the traditional African sittings. In spite of flexibility and small weight of the material the chairs Wiggle made of cardboard are very comfortable and steady.

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Push And Store Cabinet by Chung-Tang Ho

February 18th, 2011

You are the fan of creative disorder. You are always in a hurry and cannot put your things in their places, keep them in the cupboard or on the shelf and therefore prefer to shove them to the corners. Probably, the miracle cabinet Push And Store with which you can deal shortly was created by designers exactly for you.

With just a cursory glance it looks like a curvy retro chest of drawers, but in lieu of drawers, doors or even shelves, it’s filled with a grid of thin wooden shafts that are all free to slide against each other. So to store a given item all you need to do is push it into the grid.

The author of the project, Chinese designer Chung-Tang Ho is sure that the project will be not only the keeper of things but also the article which decorates the interior. When the cabinet (though the device looks more like the stand) is empty it looks like the coffee table or bed stand or the designer decorative element of interior. But if it is necessary to fond place for some small thing like book, cup or a couple of CDs the front wall of the furniture will move freely making place for anything.

When the thing is already in “its place” the main thing is not to look at the behind wall of the stand because the wooden bars of which Push And Store cabinet consists move back and form some surrealistic composition. Strange furniture for strange people and they could think it out only in China.

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Prince Chair by Louise Campbell for Hay

December 10th, 2010

Louise Campbell originally designed this extraordinary chair in 2001 for a by-invitation-only competition to create a chair for His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark. Life full of contrasts was the obvious inspiration in designing the chair. With its laser-cut, wool-covered, black rubber seat on a powder-coated steel frame, it provides a stunning focal point for any room. The perforated design looks like a cut-out paper snowflake, but the materials used give it a high-tech, modern twist. The seat is neoprene rubber and black wool. The white felt is also acceptable. The Prince Chair is basically paper cuttings, but the chair also explores the contrasts between light and shadow and lightness and gravity.

The chair didn’t win this competition, but has, since Hay decided to put it into production in 2005, managed to create a pleasantly high-flying jet-set life for itself anyway.

Louise Campbell was born in Copenhagen in 1970. Louise is an intellectual human being, but she also has a natural design instinct that make the ideas just come to her. She set up her own studio in 1996. Focus is on furniture and lighting design, but the studio is increasingly involved in product design and interior design projects as well. Current commissions include design of chairs, tables, storage units, lamps, tableware, glassware, desktop accessories, and urban installations.

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Home Fitness furniture by Lucie Koldova

November 23rd, 2010

We know how difficult it is to keep yourself in certain form spending in everyday bustle the special time for sports. Often, even after buying the month season ticket to fitness-club we miss the trainings and it is even not worth mentioning the jogging every morning. However, according to the opinion of Czech designer Lucie Koldova there is the settling of the given situation!

The designer offers not to spend time for going to the gyms and stadiums but to go in for sports little by little at your home during the day or after work.

The set Home Fitness worked out by designer for Czech brand PROCESS CZ s.r.o will help in this. Home Fitness is the multifunctional set of objects which are at the same time the elements of modern furniture and gym apparatus for physical training and stretching. In time such spontaneous trainings will become a habit and you will forget about the futile promises to yourself making the physical loads the integral part of every day.

The dimensions of each piece of furniture are optimized in order to serve several functions well. The objects will be attractive to an active demographic who enjoy stretching, working out and shaping their bodies. The goal of work was to transform the conceptual idea into these actual series production pieces. In objects pretending to be furniture inherently, you are constantly revealing hidden meanings.

You just have to blend this stylish modern furniture with the interior the way that in traditional functional condition it will not break your images of home coziness and after transforming it will create the atmosphere for useful trainings.

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Furniture taken unawares by Nico Yektai

November 15th, 2010

“Adventurous element of modern furniture” – such determination the New-York artist Nico Yektai gave to his invention fulfilled of wood massive. Watering down the borders between functional furniture and sculpture composition the designer formed the charming set intended for cabinet or office. The qualities of these articles of furnishing really go beyond the scope of what could be expected from the design of modern furniture.

The fascination with beauty of hard wood is combined with element of unexpectedness. This furniture is like taken unawares in the forest, in nature, in its natural condition. Such impressive image is intended to break the stereotype thinking and refresh the working process directing it towards creative and unordinary decisions.

The sweeping curves of the modesty panels around the desk relate to the feeling that the top portrays. The feeling of movement – it is as if the desk has been pulled like taffy and frozen in a moment. The drawers have been pulled with everything else and they open in different directions forcing the user to surrender to the desire of the desk since their preconceived notion of pulling the drawers straight out does not get the drawer open.

It seems that the table or chair is nice forest creations living with their own life. But in spite of such awkward and saucy and even clumsy appearance this furniture can become interesting expressive accent both in ultramodern interior and in very close to this design eco style, both in home cozy cabinet and in creative office.

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