Win Dream House

Win Dream HouseHGTV has come up with one of the best offers US citizens and residents can ever think of. Coming up with the best dream houses in the most exotic locations, you may just be tempted to take part in the sweepstakes. There are constant prize offers from HGTV and one can apply online which is not a difficult process. The option of applying by post is also there. In case you need any

Interior design schools that can be used in a computer laboratory

Interior design schools that can be used in a computer laboratory

Designer to Watch-Erin Martin

We stumbled upon the work of Erin Martin the other day and we think we're in love!  Her work is organic in a very sophisticated way.  The words "organic" or "sustainable" get thrown around a lot these days but very few people get it right.  We love her use of natural materials, muted colors and texture variety.Her designs seem very original too-as no two houses are alike.Here is a sample of her

Creative Apartment and Home Interior Design Minimalist

This is a creative apartment. This apartment interior designed by Dutch architect, It features two floors and four people living there. Thank you for using lasers to cut the original panel in the kitchen and other parts of the apartment, the interior looks quite creative and unusual. In addition to laser-cut panels are also other things that make it unique, including a built-in storage solutions

The idea of the school in a building interior

Interior ideas aims of this school in a building space, including the composition and organization of space to solve the problem of aesthetics, beauty, harmony balanced with considerations of function, economical, technical, and culture in the form of school buildings.

Get Lucky With HGTV Dream Home

Get Lucky With HGTV Dream HomeYou get your dreams to come true with HGTV Dream home. They have different floor plans explained on their website along with description of location and also the list of facilities available with the home you would prefer to have for yourself. There are many give away prizes with HGTV Dream home to be won. You can just try your luck and win your dream home with

Contemporary or Minimalist Home Design?

This is a guest room design combines classic and modern minimalist decor. Use a brown color on the walls and chairs and sofas classic impression compounded by using a colorful carpet. Not many other components or decor is one characteristic of the minimalist model. Combining these styles can inspire you to organize your living room.

Cool Upholstered Bed

A couple of our favorite things for the day:1) Laced up boots from Nine West ($209)2) Modern Upholstered Bed from Brownstone (appx $1800 for queen, $2000 for king-COM)

Thom Felicia Rug for Safavieh

Interior designers are like movie stars.  When they are hot you see them everywhere.  Then a few years later they just disappear.Thom Felicia is definitely hot now.  He has a wide range of licensed products as we've mentioned in previous post--ranging from Kravet fabrics to furniture for Vanguard and now rugs for Safavieh.  His rug collection is actually very affordable.  Very young and hip too.

Minimalist Interior Design Ceramic White House in Spain

This is a minimalist house design interior and white ceramic. Héctor Ruiz-Velázquez designer has transformed the attic of a house in Madrid, Spain into a new living space with a variety of spaces. Ceramic nicknamed House, all parts are protected with ceramic interior, reasonable name. Home interior designDesign is considered as three-dimensional objects, allowing each one of the rooms or

Vogue September Issue-A True Economic Indicator

If you watch the news and read the papers, you can get reallly confused. One day the housing index is up, the next day it's down. One day the stock market roars for some weird reason, the next day it tanks for other weirder reasons.And you know what the best economic indicator there is? The Vogue September issue. We just got it today and it's nice and fat again. True, you have to flip through

Win Your Dream House

Win Your Dream House Through HGTVYou can try your luck on sweepstakes through HGTV to win your dream house now. You just need to enter the homepage of HGTV and click on sweepstakes and look for ongoing contests. But still HGTV have great deals on dream homes. The layout for HGTV Dream home 2011 is already out. You can check their homepage and get to know about all the different deals

Minimalist Modern Home Designer: Builder

Minimalist Modern Home Designer

Interior design classes at a school full of color

The interior is very nice school for lessons. And tables and chairs are arranged in such a way as to create an atmosphere that imitate at the time in class.

Minimalist Design House Italian Style

Minimalist Home DesignsHome interior designThis is a modern and minimalist house design Italian style created by Andrea Oliva. All the characteristics of minimalist house combined to make this house truly minimalist. Start with simple rectangular shapes, flat roofs and white palette and the use of gray on the exterior and interior. The house is also equipped with sustainable features. Flat roofs

Pretty Chinoiserie Wallpapers and Prints

A while back we fell in love with a vendor called Jardins En Fleurs.  We probably blogged about it once.  They make beautiful, beautiful Chinoiserie paintings and accessories.  The problem was, it was so expensive it was impossible to sell.  The company closed down shortly after--a victim of the 2008-09 economy, evidently.Anyway, we get this email the other day from Belle Chasse home and it has a

Decorating in White

It's hard to believe summer is almost over.  Here in LA it's scorchingly hot, but stunningly beautiful as well.  There's nothing like driving down the Pacific Coast Highway late in the afternoon, with the blue ocean on one side and the mountain on the other...so gorgeous, it makes us so happy to be alive.But we're getting off track here...If you are a reader of this blog, you probably know we're

Crazy for Stripes...

We're so in the mood for stripes lately. It's modern.  It's striking.   It's fun.  It makes your eyes pop.Here are some great designs using stripes with either wallpapers,  fabrics or paint:Images from Elle Decor Images from MyHomeIdeasSome pretty striped wallpapers:Source: Matthew Patrick Smyth Wallcoverings for F Schumacher wallpapers.

Fabulous Beatles Chairs from Andrew Martin

Have you seen the work of Andrew Martin?  An UK -based designer, he has that really cool, quirky, crazy English taste that we love.Here are some new fabrics that just came out for Lee Jofa.   Wouldn't they be fabulous as pillows too?Love them!PS We apologize, we don't have the pricing for these yet as they are so new.   We'll be posting them on our Lee Jofa Fabric section as soon as they are

A great source for interior design pictures...

With so many decorating magazines closing lately, we find ourselves starving for pictures of amazing rooms.  A good alternative is interiors designers' and photographers' web sites.  Often you can view their portolios as a source of inspiration.Below is one of our favorites, Pieter Estersohn.PS For more pictures, visit DiggingDecor-it's full of interior design pictures (well, not quite full yet,

Fabulous Black and White Chair

We're loving these side chairs.  Upholstered in black and white, it really adds some jazz to an otherwise neutral room.Images via Traditional Homes.The fabric on this chair is from F Schumacher--it's a little expensive, let us warn you.  Fortunately for a small chair like this you should only need 3-4 yards.   The pattern is called Gordian Weave and it comes in three different colorways.  It is a

Minimalist House Design in a Quiet and Beautiful Beach

This is the minimalist design of the house is situated on a quiet beach 130 kilometers south of Lima, Peru. This site is a large surface of the sand naturally Deviled in two by a small stone. The main feature of the design of the house consists of a pure white color and a very simple geometry. modern design as seen as the point of urban natural areas quiet. Via: design houseMinimalist home

Rockin' & Relaxin'

traditional porch design by other metros architect Frederick + Frederick ArchitectsI think I could sit & rock & enjoy the view ALL DAY!!

Hgtv Green House

Go green with hgtv green houseDuring the building time of HGTV green homes, a number of factors were emphasized and kept in mind. These targeted areas were sustainable site, energy and atmosphere, innovation and design, location and linkages, awareness and education, indoor environmental quality and materials and resources. In the hgtv green homes, it was seen that how much is the sustainability

Minimalist Concrete with Soft Wooden House Interior

Minimalist Home DesignsHome Interior DesignThis is the Minimalist Concrete House with Soft Wooden Interior. If you want to read the article and design houses here

Minimalist Home Design 3D Building Area Total 175 Meters

Minimalist Home Designsketch a picture caption:01. Basic floor plan drawings02. Top floor plan drawings03. Picture looks ahead04. Images appear to the right05. Images appear to the left06. Picture looks back07. Perspective drawings08. Foundation drawings09. Figure pieces lengthwise10. Cross-section images11. Drawings floor beams12. Pelate foot drawings, columns and Sloof13. Figure structural

Interior design at school and touch wood

Interior design in the formal schools with a touch of wood

HDTV Dream Home Theater System

HDTV dream Home theater systemA big screen TV that gives a feeling of home theater system is a part of the HDTV dream home 2010 where one can easily plug latest DVD technology, video, ipod nano; Xbox 360 easily hooks up with the digital cam recorder. When it comes to the point of designing home the HDTV dream home, theater system would be a wise choice.Hgtv Dream House: Hgtv Dream House Theater

Tips to choose Paint Color

Tips to choose Paint ColorWhy do we find some rooms to be very soothing and the some other to be very dull or very vibrant sometimes? It is definitely because of the color of the room and decors which can create a calming environment and at the same time destroy it. A soothing color certainly have an effect on our moods and our over all psychology. So finding the right color for homes and the

Minimalist House Design Architect

Minimalist home is an architectural style that became a trend in the metropolitan center. Works of architecture of buildings, including homes and minimalist, the choices of architectural forms as a result of culture. Not just me-too trend.Minimalism is a pattern of thinking, working, and a way of life. A new perspective in viewing design as a reflection of urban way of life that completely

Minimalist House Gallery: 3D Design House Perspective

Minimalist House Gallery: 3D Design House Perspective

Thom Felicia Fabrics for Kravet

Thom Felicia is one of our favorite designers, mainly because his designs are very liveable and very approachable.   Here is a fabric collection he did for Kravet that we thought are quite nice.  The prices are not too bad either (about $99/yard but you usually can get it for much less).To see the rest of the collection, click here. Pricing and production information can be found on our Kravet

Repairing of hgtv dream home

Repairing of hgtv dream homeThe popularity of the HGTV dream home is increasing and showed a remarkable improvement in the zone of interior decoration. It improves the over all appearance of the person. The concept of HGTV dream home commences in 1975. Real estate sector also boom that helps in making the home more attractive and appealing. Redecoration of house also becomes easier due to the

Several Questions to Decide Whether That is Right for Your Kitchen

Several questions to decide whether that is right for your kitchen. Ask yourself these questions:Do I like the layout of the kitchen? Consider the kitchen of the overall perspective, and keep all the items that will require storage in mind.Is the kitchen looks comfortable? Do I feel comfortable when I'm in it? You should feel at home immediately.Is the kitchen to help facilitate interaction often

Picking Colors for Your Decor

Don't you find coordinating colors to be the hardest thing to do?  It's really is a headache, actually, trying to get a paint to go with the fabric that coordinates with everything else. Robert Allen has a very nice tool that we thought you might like.  They have different room themes already mixed & matched for you.See below for some samples:To see more, click here.PS The paint is from Sherwin

Overview of HGTV dream house

Overview of HGTV dream house Each year, Home Giveaway Television (HGTV) attempts to create their dream home bigger and beautiful and the year 2010 is no exception. The 2010’s dream house is situated in Islamorada in Florida Keys. It included three different levels of luxury, over the gleaming waters of Florida Bay.Hgtv Dream House: Dream HomeLayout of 2010 HGTV dream house The HGTV dream house of

Modern Contemporary Kitchen Design

Modern Contemporary kitchen design gives us a large amount of leeway when it comes to creativity we put into their design. There are several compliance rules that one works fine but once established, a lot of ideas and aesthetics that are available to realize the almost unlimited. And when the food is the main focus of family life, the openness needed to interact with people outside the kitchen

Dream Child No1's Artistic Update

Any one that has been following my blog for a little while now will remember a post I did here about my oldest daughter's Year 11 major Art assignment. She created theses amazing costumes from garbage bags, took some wonderful photo's at an Historical site in Maitland , NSW & then created a book with quotes from Snow White, Peter Pan & some she had written herself. It was titled"Snow White in

One Very Cool Arm Chair

It's usually a good idea to add a couple of arm chairs to your living room configuration.  You can do a really fun fabric to punch in some colors ; add some dimensions of the room by varying the height so it's not so flat, and perhaps most importantly, style it up a bit.Here's a really cool one that we like:The chair is made by Jessica Charles, a division of Hancock and Moore.  The price depends

How To Make A Minimalist Home Design?

Following ways minimalist house design there are 16 tips. There are actually no set steps to make your minimalist home, except for changing the philosophy and shoot for the ideals in the previous section above. But here are some tips that I would offer to anyone trying to shoot for minimalism:One room at a time. Unless you just moved into a place, it is difficult to simplify the whole house at