Before+After from Design Sponge

Living

Neighborhood Spy: Cool Links to Add Personality to Your Living Space

No Comments 26 January 2012

Today’s wanderings around the web are turning up a heaping helping of comfortable living room designs. For starters, Design*Sponge satisfies our voyeuristic needs with its before+after lineup of bungalow renovations, a glimpse of which we’ve provided above. Anthology Magazine, on the other hand, is checking things out and liking them just the way they are: [...]

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Living, Seating

How to Create More Seating Area in your Dining Room

No Comments 24 January 2012

Your dining room is the one part of the home that needs to be able to accommodate more than just the 4 chairs that came with your dining room set. From special occasion dinners, to inviting friends over, to hosting your relatives at the holidays, creating more seating in your dining room is a challenge [...]

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Living, Styles

‘The Bachelorette’ – Ashley & JP’s New York Apartment Makeover

No Comments 23 January 2012

Apartment makeovers are always a treat to look at! Whether you love them because they give you inspiration on how to maximize space in your apartment, or you just love to see designer ideas and interiors trends. ‘The Bachelorette’ Ashley Hebert and JP received a great makeover for their New York apartment. Here are some of [...]

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Accessories, Living

Bringing New Life to Your Boring Sofa with Beautiful Pillows

No Comments 20 January 2012

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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Bathroom, Living

How to Create an Intriguing Dramatic Bathroom

No Comments 19 January 2012

Years ago, bathrooms only came in a few colors, and most of the time they were neutral or very feminine colors. Today, bathrooms have become a focal point in many homes to bring drama, mystery and a wow factor! Whether you are looking to impress in your guest bathroom or you want to add drama [...]

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Living, Styles

How to Warm your Winter Home with Colorful Interior Walls

1 Comment 12 January 2012

Once the winter has set in, and the colorful holiday decor has been taken down, your home may be looking a bit lifeless. Wintertime tends to have us staying indoors to escape the cold, and the need for your interiors to feel warm and inviting is a must. Adding color to your walls can give [...]

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Furniture, Living

Variare sideboard

3 Comments 10 January 2012

The Variare sideboard, by LEF!, is a complete storage system consisting of varying degrees of compositions of lines, colours and panels. A modular system, the sideboard can be constructed in a number of different ways. The basic elements can be placed horizontally or vertically, and each compartment can be fitted with a rear panel, a [...]

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Living

Tips On How To Brighten Up Your Home For Winter

No Comments 17 December 2011

The fact that less light is coming in and the temperatures are dropping doesn’t mean that your home has to suddenly become a bleak and unwelcoming place. The best tips for keeping a home warm and inviting are actually rather simple adjustments that often won’t require any extra expenditure. Kitchen Because of the holidays and [...]

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Living, Styles

Tetris Mirror

No Comments 16 December 2011

The tetris mirror is a set of modular mirrors that can be arranged into any shape or design you desire. Inspired by the classic game where players would strategically rearrange prefabricated shapes, tetris’ designer Julia Dozsa from Fiam, brings that to life. The pieces are fitted with magnets making sure that each pattern you create can [...]

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Living

Modern brown and ivory Mexican living room

No Comments 19 November 2011

Warm and sumptuous in style, this modern Mexican living room design is the work of Pascal Architects. Decorated in soft brown tones with ivory the interior is one of comfort and neat ordered being. The flooring is made from warm oak and the walls and ceiling painted in ivory. Along two walls run contemporary brown [...]

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Furniture, Living

“GOLA” TABLE – designed by Gianluca Sgalippa

No Comments 18 November 2011

The launch of the collection of furniture under the brand name Enzyma (www.enzyma.it) includes, from the outset, a number of models belonging to various types: cabinets, tables, sideboards, carpets and libraries. However, the “Gola” table, designed by Gianluca Sgalippa, is chosen as the most representative model of that new design world. “Gola” is formed by [...]

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Accessories, Furniture, Living, Styles

FIRE coffee table by Berlin Rodeo

No Comments 14 November 2011

The coffee table FIRE from the Berlin based interior designer Axel Schaefer combines functionality and exquisite interior design. He skillfully combines elements of a coffee table and a fireplace and creates a unique design accessory. The asymmetric but clear defined body makes this furniture to a variously useable object in the room. A burner is integrated in the high?pressure [...]

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Living

Modern Architectural Fireplaces from MetalFire

No Comments 13 November 2011

Some of the most amazing ideas in modern furnishing are how manufacturers and designers take the old-fashioned furnishing ideas and turn them into modern, functional furniture pieces that look and work great in modern and contemporary houses and apartments. Once such item is the old fashioned fireplace – which has witnessed a decrease in recent [...]

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