This weekend, we’re overflowing with style inspiration to cover every room in your home. First up, a sweet and stylish deal: through Monday the 18th, the aesthetes behind Z Gallerie are offering 15% off select art, furniture and accessories like the personalized archive-to-art series above, where you can transform your own photographs into wall art. [...]
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The Owl Trend
Owls have long been symbols of wisdom, and lately they’ve been showing up everywhere in interior design. They’re on sheets, pillows, lamps, and cookie jars. They’re the paintings and prints on the walls looking over a room, deducing what’s to come next. The owl has symbolized wisdom and knowledge in Greek mythology and beyond, but [...]
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Creative Ways to Display Your Photos
Taking pictures is so effortless these days. There are no huge cameras to lug around for the average person. All it takes is a cell phone, and in some cases, an app for special effects (like Instagram, which can give photos an artistic, retro feel). Those pictures shouldn’t stay bound to your phone or your [...]
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Unusual Mirrors for Making a Statement, Brightening a Room, and More
Mirrors can be used in the home to make a statement, brighten up a room or area of a room, create a focal point, or be used as art. You can find styles that are quirky, functional, or traditional with a little something extra. The image above from Bellacor shows that even a traditional mirror [...]
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Using Books Covers and Pages as Art
Book covers tend to have beautiful artwork on them that goes unnoticed when they’re sitting on a forgotten shelf or in a box in the basement, especially where vintage or children’s books are concerned. It may seem sacrilegious, but they can be turned into art if you’re willing to remove the covers or a page [...]
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Energy Efficient Designer Villa Reflects its Surroundings
When designers and architects are trying to create a residential visual statement, it usually involves construction and design budgets that are astronomical and out of range for many homeowners. Designer Bernaskoni in Moscow, Russia had a different approach for a home project titled, “Mirror Mongayt Villa”. The design is energy-efficient and only cost $800 for [...]
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Sketchy Details: Illustrated Walls
Every once in a while, when someone uses the phrase “wall art,” it’s meant in a literal fashion. In the design climate in which we’re currently living, when personalization is not only accepted, but lauded and appreciated more than ever, illustrated walls are perhaps the ultimate way to personalize a space and convey a certain [...]
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Capturing Artistic Resonance with a Chain-Link Fence
Here at Interior Complex, we occasionally highlight inventive ways in which designers and do-it-yourselfers are repurposing and upcycling common items into household decor, but today, we felt the need to shift our perspective and share something we found at the art blog Gwarlingo. A Seoul-born sculptor named Soo Sunny Park who now serves as an associate [...]
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Neighborhood Spy: Cool Design Links Worth Clicking
Today’s web-based wanderings turned up a bevy of fascinating links, giving us peeks into creative types’ homes and inspiring a few imaginative ideas of our own. For starters, Design*Sponge gives us a photographic tour of the geeky-chic home (see above) of Amanda Wright, the founder of papercraft company Wit & Whistle…we love all the cute [...]
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Designing a modern style living room with canvas art
Hanging a piece of imaginative canvas art on the wall in the living room acts as a fabulous backdrop behind a sofa, chairs or dining table, creating an expressive modern style. Contemporary living rooms are usually defined by their simplicity, and by keeping the design of the room minimalistic this helps to accentuate the artwork [...]
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Large modern wall clocks with abstract art design
Adding a wall clock to an interior can instantly transform the room, giving it more character and vitality. Large modern wall clocks with an abstract art appeal is one type of clock design which is perfect for contemporary interior designs. By adding a large Wall clock to room we are in effect killing two birds [...]
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Abstract artwork – a modern look for your walls
One sure fire way to get a room looking modern and instantly more appealing is by adding abstract art. The bold and expressive brush strokes of such paintings add an aura of contemporary character to the rooms in which they’re hung. Most of abstract paintings are excellent for healing and fresh ideas: artworks from art [...]
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Canvasondemand – your own custom wall canvas
Last week we featured customized aluminium wall pictures. This week we take a look at Canvasondemand, the popular site where visitors can have their own images transferred to canvas. The perfect gift for Christmas, Anniversary, Mother’s or Father’s Day, a custom photo onto canvas is a great way to capture family moments and display them [...]
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