It can get a little tricky to fully put your stamp on an apartment that comes with a deposit attached — one you won’t get back if you leave your mark on anything. Setting your walls awash in color can be a bit intimidating when it’s accompanied by the knowledge that you’ll have to paint [...]
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Origami Inspired Lighting Casts Beautiful Glow for your Interiors
Lighting can inspire, delight, and illuminate your home all at the same time. When was the last time you were intrigued with your table lamp? Take a look at Molecules by Aqua Creations and origami artist, Ilan Garibi. The intricate paper art of origami is translated into these beautiful lamps that transition in height from [...]
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Neighborhood Spy: Cool Design Links to Freshen Up Your Space
The web is ablaze with amazing home accessories today…we took a spin around the neighborhood and gathered a few traffic-stopping links we thought we’d share. First up, Gilt has announced a sale on a vast collection of luxe Thomas Paul hand-tufted rugs, including the dandelion-inspired contrast rug pictured above. Time’s running out to snap up [...]
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Bringing New Life to Your Boring Sofa with Beautiful Pillows
If you have looked at your boring sofa one too many times, and thought about replacing it, there may be an easier and more cost-effective fix. Update your pillows. Sofa pillows used to be only considered as the functional portion of the sofa. In recent years, pillows have become the center of attention, and the [...]
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Cute Wee Kitchen – Functionality Meets the Ingeniously Small Kitchen
When most of us get in the kitchen, we can’t wait to use the latest gadget and tool to make our lives easier. Although, if your kitchen is small, you may feel that your choices for kitchen gadgets has to be reduced to a knife and a cutting board. Wouldn’t it be great if small [...]
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Important guidelines for choosing an area rug
Most area rugs are available in basic standard sizes. These sizes are 4’x6’, 5’x8’, 6’x9’, 8’x10’, 9’x12’, and 12’x14’. In addition to these standard sizes, it is also possible to find rugs in different sizes, and I’m not including oval rugs or round rugs, but these sizes give you a good guideline for rectangular shaped [...]
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Metal Decor – a unique and novel way to decorate walls
Picture your new home…a new living room before you put the furniture in… The walls are looking a little lonely right? Discover the METALdecor Big streaked wall panels and customize your interior at your liking and convenience…create a vertical border on one side of the wall and cover a much larger portion of the opposite [...]
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How To Clean Roman Blinds
Roman blinds are window shades that have no openings or slats. The blinds often appear to be one piece of fabric, and they can be easily raised or lowered with a drawstring on one end. Their popularity lies in their versatility and appearance. They can be made from a number of different fabrics in a [...]
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Valentine’s Day Giveaway – Free Adaptation Vases
As a Valentine’s Day treat Yanko Design are giving away Adaptation Vases. This innovative magnetic vase moves to form changeable styles, using exotic flowers or simple grasses. For a chance to win simply tweet the bellow comment: “Just entered to win a Free Adaptation Vases. Just follow @Yanko Design and retweet. http://bit.ly/bgPFtY“
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Oras – orange and chrome bathroom faucets
Oras is a basin mixer and bath filler concept collection by Cyrille Charier, a French designer from Nantes. These renderings of chrome and orange bathroom faucets show how bright colors work well with chrome bathroom fixtures, adding a touch of vibrancy. The design of the taps is very flat and precise, sharp angles are offset [...]
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Unusual lighting – Light Guards by Manfred Kielnhofer
Light Guards by Manfred Kielnhofer is an unusual collection of statue lighting. The forms are shaped like cloaked figures, their heads bowed, perhaps in reverance or prayer, like monks. There appearance is gothic and mysterious, casting silhouettes which look shifty and watchful. Incorporating the polyester figures with energy efficient light sources, Light Guards are ideal [...]
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Choosing the Right Vacuum Cleaner
When shopping for a vacuum cleaner, you may be surprised at the many different styles and prices that are offered. The vast selection may leave you feeling stumped. How do you choose when there are so many options available? Purchasing a vacuum cleaner does not have to be difficult, you just have to plan ahead [...]
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15 unusual and creative Christmas tree designs
It’s that time of year again when the Christmas tree comes out of the attic and we think of creative ways to decorate our living rooms in a festive theme. The Christmas tree is, of course, the focal point of the living room at Christmas time, so it’s only natural we wish to make it [...]
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