Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Design Simple Living Rooms Ideas
Friday, February 11, 2011
Posts Tagged ‘diaphanous rooms’ Perfect Apartment Interior Renovation by A-cero in Madrid
Perfect Apartment Interior Renovation result
For the kitchens and bathrooms, the furniture are totally equipped and the floors are made of different materials, such as travertine marble, wood and porcelánico dark gray. For the living area, A-cero also designed the furnitures with (more…)via…[ contemporist ]
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Prestige Contemporary Hill House Design Inspiration
Interior Design of the Fitzwilliam Hotel in Belfast Northern Ireland by Project Orange
This five star, 132 bedroom hotel named Fitzwilliam was located in the heart of Belfast Northern Ireland. The Fitzwilliam Hotel has recently opened, featuring an interior that has been designed by Christopher Ash from the London-based Project Orange. The Fitzwilliam in Belfast is meant to reflect the “baronial modern” style of the Fitzwilliam Hotel in Dublin, a theme which combines that of a grand, stately baronial mansion house with modern decor, bring together simple, bold colours, warm oak panelling, quirky fabrics and luxurious marbles to create a decadent, glamourous setting. Please take a look for the magnificent Interior design from some Inspirational picture below.
The ground floor lobby draws on the inglenook as a central element of the manor house to create a key zone to the hotel. With traditional oak settles and library shelves to peruse either side of the contemporary fireplace, guests will be able to sit back and relax. Stepping away from the inglenook, the double height reception area unfolds with floor to ceiling glazing throughout and hints of luxurious marbles, bronze and oak detailing.Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Simple Tips about Furniture Care | Modern Home Furniture
When you have bought your handmade solid oak furniture, you should know how to care for it properly. Besides the obvious ‘handle with care’ when moving your furniture, do not drop it from a great height and so on, here are a few tips that we mention to our clients to help them care for the furniture that we make for them.
Solid wood furniture needs to be waxed with natural beeswax regularly. The traditional thick ‘paste’ lightly applied with a soft rag (old towelling) is best, or a natural spray on is quite adequate, but silicon spray is not suitable as it does not feed or nourish the wood, but merely puts a slippery shiny surface on the wood.
Timber should be dried as closely as possible to the moisture content of the room that it is going into, minimizing movement in the timber. Cells will expand or shrink across their girth (not length) as they take on or loose moisture until they balance with their surroundings, and reach ambient (this is why doors stick in the winter). The British standard for kiln dried timber is 12%, plus or minus 2% (that’s the timber merchants’ job). If the room is very damp, then the wood will swell, ‘blowing’ joints apart, while too low and the wood can shrink causing tension in the timber and possibly splitting.
Hot coffee cups, red wine rings, watermarks from vases which mark polished surfaces are often repairable, while cigarettes and sharp edges can often cause irreparable damage. Highly skilled furniture polishers can remove small marks and scratches, wine rings and water marks and it is best to hunt for a local polisher in the yellow pages, than attempt removing the mark yourself, and ending up with a bigger problem. You should ask your furniture maker how durable the surface finish he uses is, or what else he would like to use to increase the durability to make it more suitable for your purpose. Although not as durable, we have noticed a recent trend going back to the natural finishes, such as oils and waxes, rather than the manmade lacquers, which tend to be sprayed on.
Furniture should be kept away from direct sunlight, as it will cause to wood to fade (or even shrink). A table left in direct sunlight with a fruit bowl in the centre for sometime will end up with a darker area under the fruit bowl. If a sideboard is put in front of a window, then it’s worth drawing the curtain or blind during the worst part of the day.
Inevitably your furniture will age, taking the odd knock and dent as it becomes an antique, gaining patina from a build up of wax polish mixed with dust, creating darker areas in the corners and lighter areas in the high spots. You should also be aware that over time, light woods darken, and dark timbers lighten, so you natural English oak four poster bed will darken to a Tudor oak colour, and your deep brown, almost black English walnut dining table will gradually turn into a honey colour.
Teak Gazebo by Usona Home - Dordoni Outdoor Furniture
You can take all the comfort of your living room to the great outdoors with the Dordoni Teak Gazebo: an exclusive item of Teak Outdoor Furniture from Usona Home. The high-quality teak gazebo has comfy cushions on a metal frame to provide a luxurious outdoors environment to relax in. Large enough to fit a number of friends, the Dordoni Gazebo could also be a romantic hideaway for you and your partner. The pretty, billowing curtains provide privacy whilst allowing you to feel the benefit of the breeze. A small raised table in the middle also means that the gazebo is ideal for before or after dinner nibbles, or perhaps coffee. An unusual addition to your garden that will be used and loved for so many years to come: the Dordoni Gazebo from Usona Home.Sunday, January 16, 2011
How To Create a Minimalist Living Room For Interior Design Home
I’ve always been amazed by how good some minimalist houses look, and for those who want to know more about minimalist homes I’ve found an artcile on Zenhabits from where you can learn a lot of useful stuff, and create you dream home in a minimalist style. If you are not a big fan of minimalist homes just read the benefits of such a home, and you’ll become a minimalist fan right away. - Less stressful. Clutter is a form of visual distraction, and everything in our vision pulls at our attention at least a little. The less clutter, the less visual stress we have. A minimalist home is calming.
- More appealing. Think about photos of homes that are cluttered, and photos of minimalist homes. The ones with almost nothing in them except some beautiful furniture, some nice artwork, and a very few pretty decorations, are the ones that appeal to most of us. You can make your home more appealing by making it more minimalist.
- Easier to clean. It’s hard to clean a whole bunch of objects, or to sweep or vacuum around a bunch of furniture. The more stuff you have, the more you have to keep clean, and the more complicated it is to clean around the stuff. Think about how easy it is to clean an empty room compared to one with 50 objects in it. That’s an extreme example, of course, as I wouldn’t recommend you have an empty room, but it’s just to illustrate the difference.
Friday, January 14, 2011
Traditional Living Room Furniture with Modern Style – Orchidea from Tosato

When traditional furniture is made with modern style they sometimes look quite surrealistic. The Orchidea collection of furniture for living room was designed by Silvio Salon for Tosato in this exactly style. The design and technological innovations behind all the elements make the collection able to satisfy those people who like to mix in the house great quality objects of various styles. The collections consist of tables, chairs, cupboards, desks, bookcases, mirrors, tv stands, armchairs and other useful furniture for living room. Some of these furniture pieces come in variety of forms and sizes so Orchidea would be definitely interesting for those who search for new paths in decorating their home. [Tosato]
If you are one of those who like surreleastic furniture than you also might like dresser from Dall’Agnese.




Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Living Room Rugs
Living Room Rugs
At the very minimum, the front feet of the sofa should be on the rug and the rug should be no shorter than the length of the sofa. If the legs of the sofa are off the rug, anchor the rug by centering it under a table or other suitable furniture or accessory. Just ensure that the table is appropriately sized to the rug and to the sofa.Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Modern Minimalist Living Room Designs
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Living Room Designs Ideas
Pros of Buying Furniture Sets There are two major benefits to buy a roomful of furniture in a set. The first is that everything within a set is coordinated: the style of the furniture items match; each item is made of the same materials and thus have the same look; and the room appears to be very well put together.Elegant Sofa for Modern Living Room































