Oriental Decorating: Whether it’s Japanese interior design with interior lattice work or Chinese feng shui with its arrangement of home furnishings to help create a calm psychological landscape, oriental decorating tends to place a premium on minimalism and using open space as its own style of decorating. his type of modern architecture is in many ways timeless and enduring as it is free of clutter and trend oriented characteristic which are accentuated by the all white interior and exterior.
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This ultra modern Los Angeles, California loft is everything you’d expect from La-La Land – innovative, check; cool, check; contemporary, check; totally beautiful, double-check. Designed by forward-thinking Tighe Architecture, this chic loft was designed as a creative live-work environment occupying one of downtown L.A.’s existing warehouse buildings. Modern loft interior design should create a functional and comfortable floor plan with spaces for relaxation, entertaining, storage, and working. These different loft living areas can then be defined with room dividers, rugs, or furniture. Room division can take the form of sliding or folding screens, frosted glass panels, Japanese shojis, or fabric panels on ceiling tracks. Raised platforms are another way to establish a subtle transition for the loft bedroom or dining area. (more…)
Japanese architecture is a mix of simple and using natural colors and designs that do not require a wide area. Modern japanese platform bedroom, A well-designed master suite demands an equally well-designed bed. So many jaw-dropping masters are compromised by a garish ode to turned wood, with their soaring four-posted spires. (more…)
You could say that interior designer Katharine Pooley fell into her career by accident. In 2003, she took on the task of improving the interior of her family’s holiday home in Scotland as a personal project. The following year, she repeated the task when she bought and redecorated two upmarket holiday lets: one in Thailand and the other in Colorado, in America.
It was only when friends, family and holiday guests kept pestering her about where she had found the eclectic designer accessories and furniture she had used that Pooley decided to open an interior design shop in Chelsea, west London, in October 2004, and to set up a business carrying out refurbishment projects for wealthy clients. She won two design awards the following year, establishing her reputation. (more…)
Northwestern architects, who used to celebrate cedar as a warm, graceful and regionally appropriate building skin, are increasingly getting the metal urge. Corrugated steel, to be precise, which is turning fashionable for everything from office and retail buildings to brewpubs and gyms. And private residences, as well, although mass-market homebuilders haven’t been brave enough to try it yet.
The good news is that it works. Poetry can reside in ordinary materials, and corrugated steel offers more artistic opportunity than you might expect. It also has the virtues of being tough, maintenance free and virtually 100 percent recyclable. The only disappointment is that Seattle architects aren’t using it as creatively as they could. (more…)
