Inspiration for your kitchen style can come from interior decoration magazines that show beautiful designer kitchens that look so efficient and functional or a TV sitcom where your favorite character play the host to his or her friends and cook them a nice meal happily. Wide range of option available for doors, worktops and interiors can make a lot of difference to the look you are trying to achieve. You may transform the style of your kitchen with some simple changes such as self-closing cabinet doors with magnetic locks for homes with kids, drawers that slide out smoothly, pull-out baskets and pantries that can be adjusted according to their purpose, (more…)
Loft Space Planning
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. (more…)
Georgie Fordham is one of a growing number of people who believe that good lighting is as important as a colour scheme or upholstery for your home. “We had two London houses professionally lit, and when we moved to the country I was determined to have proper lighting here too, even though the house is very old and I didn’t want to start gouging holes in the walls,” she says. “I’m a real lighting convert and I would urge people, even if they have a small budget for their home, to think about lighting it properly; good lighting can change completely the way you feel about your home.”
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IF YOU’VE EVER DAYDREAMED of appearing in your own fairytale, the reality isn’t that far away. You’ll need to supply your own Prince Charming or Sleeping Beauty, but the fantasy location is just a phone call or e-mail away. The five-star Enterkine Country House Hotel at Annbank has long been established as an elegant weekend break destination. However, its latest project takes getting away from it all to a different level.
In the mature grounds of the hotel, a small wooden structure is tucked away among the trees. From the outside it looks like something from a children’s storybook. The walls slope and the roof curves and you wouldn’t be terribly surprised if it grew legs and upped and walked away because you were staring at it. It’s quirky, cute and unique.
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Good design can soothe you, energize you or just make you want to linger.
Flowers can do the same.
So it’s appropriate that the two are being combined for Orchid Mania, the annual orchid show that opens today at Cleveland Botanical Garden. This year’s theme, “At Home with Orchids,” is being carried out by interior designers and floral designers who have created room vignettes incorporating the exotic-looking blooms.
The idea is to introduce visitors to the huge variety of orchids and help them see how effectively the flowers can enhance a living space, said Cynthia Druckenbrod, the garden’s orchid authority and manager of its Eleanor Armstrong Smith Glasshouse. She’s hoping the show will take the anxiety out of orchids, which have a reputation for being finicky but which she insisted can be easy even for beginners to grow.
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