While you may own a favorite pair of shoes to make your feet look fabulous, have you ever thought about giving your bed or couch some new “feet”? With the onset of furniture designers exposing the furniture legs or feet of beds and chairs, this has presented the idea of stylishly decorating this forgotten [...]
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A Few Renovated Barns receive Swanky Design Aesthetics
When was the last time you thought to yourself, ‘I’d love to live in a 150 year-old grain barn store!”? I’m sure for most of you the answer is never, but for a few of you who are thinking it may be cool… there’s even a cooler part. One 150+ year old barn is now [...]
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A Designer Trash Can that Looks too Good for Refuse
Out of all the decorative items in your household, the trash can is probably at the bottom of the priority list in aesthetics for your interiors. After all, a trash can is used to throw away refuse and litter. Why does it need to have aesthetic appeal anyway? The designer company Essey thinks you [...]
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How to Creatively Hide your Unsightly Nail Holes
Whether you have just moved into a previously owned home or you have inherited an apartment that has unsightly nail holes, there is always the job of patching up the holes to “fix” the appearance of the wall. What if there was a way to bring attention to the holes creatively and at the [...]
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Replace Your Common Light Switch with Keyboard Buttons
Whether you are a techno-geek who enjoys any type of cool gadget or you just love whimsical additions to your home, take a look at PLH innovative light switch plates. The decorative light switch plates resemble one of the most universal symbols in the world, the computer keyboard. Whether you are a toddler or a [...]
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Creatively Bringing the Family Back into the Kitchen
The modern family has gotten busier, and in many cases the family home has become smaller, too. The scenario is common in most households around the world, and the family doesn’t gather around the kitchen anymore and smaller kitchens make it a bigger challenge. Korean designer, Jung Hwajin has created an innovative kitchen solution [...]
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The E+ Home – The Most Sustainable House in the Country?
When you think of energy efficiency in residential homes you don’t typically envision them located in high density populated urban cities. In Seoul, Korea the average apartment urban home is condensed into tens of stories tall concrete “milk carton” like structures. The design aesthetics are less than desirable, and out of this frustration for lack [...]
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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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How to Bring Vintage Finds to your Kids’ Bedroom
We all grew up with loving special elements in our childhood bedroom. Whether it was a Spider Man poster on the wall or a wrought iron bed that was given to us by our grandmother, vintage kids’ rooms are back in style. With the growing popularity of reusing and repurposing, vintage collecting is one [...]
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Redefining A Contemporary “Monster” of a Chair
In most contemporary furniture, the clean lines and minimalistic nature of the form doesn’t make you think of a creature-like identity. Korean designer, Jinyoung Choi has redefined the term “scary” with a modern twist in the ‘Monster Chair’. Creativity meets contemporary styling in this seat that looks as comfortable as its unique, melding black [...]
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The Grandeur of French Kitchen Design – La Cornue
French kitchen designers have a wonderful view of aesthetics and function when it comes to designing appliances, kitchen furniture and designing kitchens in general. While many designers may look at a bare area in a kitchen as a fault, the French purposefully plan areas in the kitchen for the eye to the rest. The French [...]
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Decorating Your Walls with Reclaimed Textured Wood Panels
Have you wondered how interior spaces are now starting to sport rustic wood paneling everywhere you look? From children’s rooms to family rooms and even ceilings, wood paneling has reinvented itself. Now, we aren’t talking the plywood wood paneling of the seventies that may have lined your parents’ basement walls; this is natural and it’s [...]
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Small Guest Bathroom Blunders to Avoid in Your Home
In every small bathroom there is the challenge of where to put personal items, how to store cleaners out of plain sight, and how to accommodate your guests when using your tiny bathroom. There are many blunders that homeowners make when trying to outfit their bathroom, such as putting in a pedestal sink to save [...]
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