interior design ideas: August 2009

Modern Home Interior Design by Hand

Hand is a French designer firm that has unleashed a set of contemporary interior designs. The collection is a mix of modern and mid-century shades, patterns and designs to create an ambient interior. Designed by Pierre Emmanuel Martin and Stéphane Garotin, the use of both pastel and vivacious colors as a combination along with print patterns,...

modern bedroom interior design

We’re always updating our website and making sure we provide the best service to our customers. Maintaining our products is key to ensure we keep out customers updated and while updating our products we discovered that the Joseph Anica is to be discontinued.It’s a rather unique looking bed with a silver metal frame and white head end, it’s...

Furniture home Decor interior design 2009

Furniture home Decor inter...

10 Questions to Ask Your Architect

If you are building a new home, hiring an architect for the design and project management of the home can make the whole process go smoothly. Here are 10 questions you will want to ask the architects you interview for your project: What does the architect see as important issues or considerations in your project? What are the challenges of...

Modern Wallpapers from Osborne and Little

Don't you just love "Mad Men"? Aside from the fabulous characters, clever dialogues and story lines, the set on the show is just awesome. They really got it down. Doesn't the wallpapers in the show make you just dizzy though? Things have changed since then obviously. Nowadays you most likely see wallpapers in the bathroom, powder room, hallway...

Fantastic Faux Leather from Silver State

The other day we came across an artitle about the danger of cheap food in Time magazine. The article talks about how our food has become so industrialized to make it as cheap as possible, and how we've endangered our environment and our health as a result.We probably can easily dismiss it as one of the many things that is better not to know--...

Five Favorite Round Dining Tables

We love round dining tables, mainly because they are cozy and pretty. People say round tables make for more intimate conversation, but we don't think that's the case. It's not like you can't have an intimate conversation with a square table or a rectangular table!At any rate, we think round tables are sexier and they fit better in a small...

Candice Olson Fabric for Kravet

Candice Olson is everywhere nowadays. First she did furniture , then rugs, then lamps and now fabric for Kravet.We love the Candice Olson show on HGTV. The problem with too much licensing, though, is that you kinda lose that originality that got people to like you in the first place. Remember Pierre Cardin or Halston, anyone? Also a great...

Are you Living Sustainably?

If you think you’re living sustainably and are up for a little challenge, check out “Consumer Consequences”, an interactive game designed to illustrate the impact of our lifestyles on the Earth. Consumer Consequences is part of American Public Media's™ special series, "Consumed," which explores whether the modern American lifestyle is sustainable...

Chic Furniture from Noir

Being in the decorating business for a long time, we watch many manufacturers come and go. Sometimes it's heartbreaking, especially when a company has been in business for years and years. On the other hand, we also see some companies started out really small, and with sweat and tears and ingenuity, they grow it into something special.Noir...

Is a deal really a deal?

We were looking through our closet the other day, contemplating an end-of-summer clean up. Now mind you, this is a task we perform say, once every five years. It's not that much fun, really, as it usually conjures up all kind of guilt and regret.Let us give you a partial list of items here:1. One Yoshi Yamamoto raincoat with THREE sleeves, bought for $800, never worn.2. One 5" Gucci Platform shoes bought for $500, never worn.3....

House Foundation Footings

House Foundation FootingsStepped footings can abutment a accurate block wall. Blocks accept nominal ambit of 8 by 8 by 16 inches (the absolute ambit are absolutely 3/8 inch abate than these to acquiesce for adhesive joints). They are alveolate back laid-up; animate reinforcing bar is added and the hollows in the blocks are generally abounding...

Design Minimalist interior

2009 Interior Design Minimalist Conc...

Well-Made Dining Chairs from Jessica Charles

We were shopping for some dining chairs for a client the other day and we were surprised to see how much shoddy stuff is out there. Really. If you can pick an upholstered chair up with one hand it usually means it's not that well-made. In our experience, with most upholstered furniture, the more substantial it feels the better it is made....