Color is an important consideration in kitchen design since it influences our moods. A good combination of kitchen colors in the scheme of your decoration can make your kitchen look livelier and more appealing. You can also use color to influence how large or small a kitchen can feel. The kitchen should always be painted in fresh colors that invigorate the senses. A kitchen should primarily be painted in shades of yellow, orange, cream or even beige. Apart from choosing the correct shade for the walls, the lighting of the kitchen also plays an important role in creating positive energy. (more…)
One of my favorite kitchen decorating ideas is to use vintage pieces around the room since they add interesting appeal, but you also need to think about the walls, windows and floors. Window treatments for the retro home decorating theme should be retro in style. Kitchen furniture today is simple and beautiful in appearance and available in a variety of colors and textures too. The kitchen appliances also include many features that makes life so simple, that it is surely the answer to a woman’s prayer. This place that is the hub of all activity, has today become a room, that needs to be shown off, just like any other in the house. (more…)
More than 150 years ago, Edgar Allan Poe, who knew a thing or two about ravens, decided to offer his insights on interior design too.
In “The Philosophy of Furniture,” Poe wrote: “The soul of the apartment is the carpet. From it are deduced not only the hues but the forms of all objects incumbent. A judge at common law may be an ordinary man; a good judge of a carpet must be a genius.”
That’s pretty high praise for something we’ll spend most of our time walking on, vacuuming or cleaning spills out of. But carpets — or rugs — say a lot about the people who live inside a home. (more…)
When Tara Kirk arrives at work, she immediately walks upstairs to the kitchen and grabs a cup of coffee.
Typical morning behavior, right?
But a majority of her co-workers at Firehouse, an advertising and branding agency in Far North Dallas, do the same thing – and then they sit and socialize in their company’s living room.
“I just like to catch up, and then I head to my room – oh, I mean office,” says the 24-year-old copywriter. (more…)
