Modern Como Loft Interior Design: Loft interior design is a world apart from interior design for a home or apartment. Modern loft interior design should create a functional and comfortable floor plan with spaces for relaxation, entertaining, storage, and working. The main entry is a very small foyer which creates a sense of compression before entering the main gallery, where the living spaces, modern kitchen design, dining and living room, are separated from the master bedroom by a lacquered block. Loft space planning uses color schemes that tend toward neutrals like white, brown, cream, or taupe. Many modern loft interiors can also benefit from accent walls or furniture in warm hues like red, orange, gold, or sage. (more…)
The Daily Telegraph / House & Garden Fair 2007 is the UK’s most prestigious event for interior and garden design. From bathrooms to bedrooms, gourmet food to garden furniture, the Fair brings you an unprecedented line up of exhibitors all carefully handpicked by House & Garden to ensure the highest quality products, most of which you will not find on the High Street.
For anyone passionate about interiors and gardens, the Fair is an excellent opportunity to see the very latest classic and contemporary designs from many of the country’s most prominent designers. And with numerous interactive seminars and talks going on throughout the Fair, visitors can gather a whole host of expert tips and advice to take home with them.
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Over the last decades, designers in India have shown themselves to be a confused lot, if only because they haven’t been to handle international and Indian influences simultaneously.
Where traditional havelis have replaced the low-seating in the baithak with incongruous imported sofas, apartments in cities have attempted to play the ethnic card with ludicrous results.
India’s great tradition in crafts was never intended for urban homes, and though a few designers have been able to carry it off with panache – Romi Chopra, for instance – most times the interface between cultures simply ended up in a mess. (more…)
