Archive for February, 2010

How to arrange a perfect room for children?

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
kids-furniture-06
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There is no doubt that room for children should be aesthetic, safe and comfortable. Our children are creative so do not need much to have fun and make up new activities. While arranging room for them, we should manage the space appropriately to help their creativity. Sometimes the most easy solutions are the best. Propositions presented below may be useful and inspiring. (more…)

Take a seat

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Interesting movie about modern, intelligent furniture.

Tom Faulkner offers a wide selection of handmade furniture, including top-quality coffee tables for your living room.

Pillow-slips for lovers?

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
in your room
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The approaching Valentine’s Day make most of us ask ourselves the question: „What should I buy him/her this year?” Roses, hearts and teddy bears maybe are romantic, but unfortunately also trivial and boring. If you are looking for something unusual and original, you have to use your imagination. And here are some of our propositions that may be inspiring…

1. Set of nice, well designed two pillow-slips with names of the most famous, more or less serious lovers in history (like: “Romeo” & “Juliett”, “Tarzan” & “Jane” or just “Devil” & “Angel”) printed on them. On the other side of slips there is written: “forever love”. Slips are aesthetically packed in aluminium tube. Isn’t it a cute item for both of you?

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Feng shui in a living room

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
A sitting room in the United Kingdom. Original...
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However most of us don’t treat feng shui rules very seriously, it is very old and advanced knowledge. Feng shui is not only tuition about interior design, but generally about life in harmony with surrounding. It suggests, how to plan the space in your house - living room is probably the most important premises of it.

Location of the living room

Highly recommended by feng shui is south-east direction, but also west, south-west and south are  acceptable. Living room should be the first premises we see after entering the house. (more…)

How to make a small room optically wider?

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Sewing Room
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In a small space every single detail is important: pictures on the walls, light, colors etc.
Small room can make us feel uncomfortable and limited. Thus, how to make our room bigger and more pleasant than it really is?
Below we present you couple of tricks which will help you to enhance your room space and make you feel better.

Walls color
If you want to extend your small room paint it with light, fair colors. Pastel colors and ice-blue are ones that can certainly are able to do that. Dark colors absorb light and make the surface visibly smaller, so you shouldn’t consider using them in your room.

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