interior design ideas: October 2009

House Tear Down

With limited land available, especially lakefront properties, many people are purchasing old camps and cottages to tear the house down and rebuild a new, energy efficient home.Traditionally, a bulldozer or other large piece of equipment levels the house in a matter of minutes and the debris is taken to a landfill. A green alternative would...

Felipa Almeida, Christina Bravo and Joana Astolfi. PuppenHaus

The Beauty of the Mist...

NH Architects Open House

Bonin Architects is celebrating our new office location by having a Grand Opening and Open House! Stop by to say hello and at the same time visit the other Baynham's Square businesses, Ellie's Cafe & Deli, Vessels & Jewels, and The Banks Gallery. Light refreshments provided by Ellie's Cafe & Deli. There is no charge, but please...

Lessons from a Home Stager

The New York Times Magazine has a great article about staging a home today. Eventhough the article is about staging for selling purpose, there are some great tips that you can pick up for your daily life as well...For example:1) Start with a white sofa and go from there, as you can change the look quickly by changing the pillows.2) Have a...

Gorgeous Silk Flowers from New Growth Designs

When it comes to silk flowers we like them to look as real as possible--this is why you'll never find us buying them at Walmart!The good ones are pricey, for the very simple reason that they tend to look almost like the real ones.We found some at New Growth Designs that we just love. The orchids are nice and tall, so they look super dramatic....

Really Pretty Silk Flowers from Atrium Foliage

When the weather starts to get cold and gloomy, we find ourselves craving for colors. That's when we find silk flowers an attractive option--mainly for the fact that it's almost impossible to find fresh flowers in the winter, plus we're super lazy, and silk flowers require no maintenance whatsoever...Here are some from Atrium Foliage that...

More Modern Vintage Furniture-Haute House

We featured Haute House furniture a while back. This line is kinda wild, kinda funky. It's great when you have great imagination and you are looking for statement pieces.When in High Point last week we saw that they had a new collection called "Histography" that we thought was kinda cool. It is also much more livable and muted than their...

Modern Vintage from Noir

We were just in High Point last week for the home furnishings market. The weather was gloomy and cold--so was the mood of the market. This gotta be one of the toughest year for the home furnishing industry. Everyone we talked seem to have a rough time.But it was nice to see that manufacturers are still coming out with new and fresh introductions....

Gas Fireplaces

Gas fireplaces combine form and function, making them a great supplemental heat source for your new energy efficient home. We looked at the new Rinnai RHFE 750 ETR gas fireplace, which has an efficiency rating of up to 83% AFUE (Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency) by using a stainless steel heat exchanger and modulating gas value with an...

Volkswagen L1 is a concept car,

Volkswagen L1 is a concept c...

philippe nigro saturnia collection

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Skull Wallpaper

Skull Wallpaper – Bronze Flock on Oil Slick. The signature paper featuring skulls in a reflective bronze, deep pile velvet on a incredible light-catching, iridescent base, using horribly expensive ink which changes colour as you walk past it – through reds, greens, blacks and golds – like an oil slick. Printed on non-woven paper.Skull Wa...

yu-hun kim: reading tray

yu-hun kim: reading t...

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Toshinori Kamiya of Kamiya Design

Toshinori Kamiya of Kamiya Des...

Italian designer Lodovico Bernardi

Italian designer Lodovico Berna...

Hye Ro Hun House by IROJE KHM Architects

Hye Ro Hun House by IROJE KHM Archite...

Agua Table by Domingos Totora

Agua Table by Domingos Tót...

honda ev-n

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Southern Accents Magazine Closing Down

We have been really blue lately.It started out a couple of months ago, when we got our September Vogue issue. What is normally 10 lbs worth of magazine, the coveted issue is bare-thread and just ...wimpy. Then when we pick up our LA Times newspaper along with our latte in the morning, it is so thin one can browse through it in five minutes.So...

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