How to Decorate your Home
Determining your style and color scheme are key elements in any room. These will help you set a direction and keep you on track in making choices. You can get interior design ideas from magazines, internet sources, online furniture stores, and from other people’s homes. Make mental notes about what you specifically like and dislike. As you look in furniture stores and online, be sure to make mental notes about the prices of the things you like. This will help you to determine a budget for your project. When you are unsure about what colors will go well with the interiors of your home, you can begin small by experimenting with a pillow, rug, towel, a painting, a tapestry etc in various shades. You can select three to five colors and use articles in these colors to be kept in different rooms of your home. (more…)
If condo design were as strong as condo sales, Toronto would be one of the most amazing architectural cities in North America.
The bad news is that it isn’t. The good news is that it continues to get better.
Unlike Mississauga, Toronto still doesn’t have a Marilyn Monroe, a spectacular and iconic building chosen from entries to an international design competition. On the other hand, unlike Mississauga, the situation in Toronto is more urban and, therefore, more contextual. There are simply fewer opportunities for the iconic in Toronto than in the City that Hazel Built.
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It looks as if Manuel Zeitlin Architects has nailed it again.
And the good people at the Tennessee Association of Realtors should be thrilled.
MZA, the Nashville-based architectural firm with the catchy name and an even more distinctive design style, seemingly has created a contemporary semi-masterpiece with the soon-to-be completed TAR headquarters building on the western fringe of Music Row.
If you’ve not yet done so, visit 901 19th Ave. S. and check out this baby.
Perhaps the highlight will be galvanized Zalmag metal shingles and panels (manufactured by Millennium Tiles LLC and rarely seen with Nashville-area construction) cladding portions of the building’s upper level.
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The star power may have been lacking at the fall High Point Market (formerly the International Home Furnishings Market) last week, with Martha Stewart conspicuously absent for the launch of her new furniture collection with Bernhardt. But there definitely wasn’t a shortage of buzz-worthy introductions. Here are a few new furniture lines and pieces that caught our eye for their design, practicality and affordability. In most cases, the pieces featured will be available in retail stores in about six months.
Metropolitan Home
What’s new: Metropolitan Home magazine teamed up with contemporary designer Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz and manufacturer Shermag to debut its first furniture collection. The goal of the collection is to provide an “accessible modern” aesthetic that consumers can mix and match and incorporate into any type of decor – not necessarily a space devoted to modern furnishings. The look among the more than 65 items is varied and sometimes whimsical, with Noriega-Ortiz paying painstaking attention to shapes and silhouettes and combining unexpected materials such as acrylic and zebra wood in coffee tables. (more…)
The star power may have been lacking at the fall High Point Market (formerly the International Home Furnishings Market) recently, with Martha Stewart conspicuously absent for the launch of her new furniture collection with Bernhardt. But there definitely wasn’t a shortage of buzz-worthy introductions. Here are a few new furniture lines and pieces that caught our eye for their design, practicality and affordability. In most cases, the pieces featured will be available in retail stores in about six months.
Metropolitan Home Collection
What’s new: Metropolitan Home magazine teamed up with contemporary designer Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz and manufacturer Shermag to debut its first furniture collection. The goal of the collection is to provide an “accessible modern” aesthetic that consumers can mix and match and incorporate into any type of decor — not necessarily a space devoted to modern furnishings. The look among the more than 65 items is varied and sometimes whimsical, with Noriega-Ortiz paying painstaking attention to shapes and silhouettes (there’s only one piece of hardware in the entire line) and combining unexpected materials such as acrylic and zebra wood in coffee tables, and putting hammered metal onto the bottom of a bookcase. (more…)
