Modern and contemporary bedroom furniture adds a beautiful look to bedrooms. It makes the room look bigger, clean and uncluttered. Many modern bedroom furniture galleries offer variety of home furnishing styles including contemporary and traditional with a huge selection of platform beds and mattress sets at very reasonable and affordable rates.Choosing furniture for bedroom requires careful and perfect planning and many factors need to be borne in mind like bedroom interiors, expenditure, personal taste etc. (more…)
AT the soon-to-open Royal/T showroom for contemporary Japanese art and design in Culver City, a cafe will be staffed by waitresses in uniforms inspired by manga cartoons. The next time British lighting phenomenon Tom Dixon visits Los Angeles, he will be feted at an artist reception inside a special store-within-a-store at Twentieth dedicated to his work. And at the new Limn on La Brea Avenue, shoppers won’t miss the “Private Atelier” sign and red velvet rope guarding access to VIP client rooms upstairs.
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A living room your family and friends will love to gather in starts with stylish comfortable seating.
According to Paula Hoyas, merchandising manager for La-Z-Boy, today’s active families favor traditional furnishings and accessories that provide “psychological comfort.”
Your selection will depend on how often you use the living room, how big it is, how many people will use it at the same time and the amount of furniture your floor plan can accommodate. Although traditional upholstered sofas and chairs still hold sway, new trends include multifunctional pieces and motion furniture. (more…)
Like many Bay Area residents, Point Richmond’s Caroline and Josh Quick lost their jobs in the dot-com bust. Unlike many, the two bounced back quickly, investing their life’s savings of $50,000 in EQ3, a franchise furniture store.
Now, three years later, that San Francisco store is on track to make $4.5 million in revenue in 2006, and the couple held the grand opening Thursday for their second EQ3 store at the Bay Street complex in Emeryville, next to IKEA.
Caroline Quick, 28, and Josh Quick, 31, are succeeding against the odds. They launched their EQ3 franchise store in 2003. At the time, the Bay Area was still staggering from the effects of the 2001 dot-com bust. (more…)
What better symbols to conjure up nostalgia for a bygone day? But you never lived on a farm or had a garden. Maybe Mom couldn’t even cook.
When a wave of nostalgia for a slower, gentler, rural way of life washes over you, head out to the St. Joe Co.’s newest development off U.S. 27 at Williams Road and pretend the buggy’s pulling into White Fence Farms.
Planter’s Retreat, a 3,320-square-foot prototype home that incorporates rustic architectural ideas with the latest in high-tech convenience, is the 2006 Idea Home sponsored by St. Joe and Southern Living and Progressive Farmer magazines.
It is situated on Benjamin Chaires’ 1830s Verdura Plantation land, along with more than 50 other 3- to 15-acre homesites.
Frank Paris, development manager for St. Joe, says, “it’s all about the ‘new ruralism.’ We understand the folks who will live at White Fence Farms aren’t really going to grow crops and breed cattle; but they will love nature and being near to the land.” (more…)
