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Dining Room Design: Mix and Match Manner

Posted by santi On June - 30 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

Organizing the room by true up the furniture set is an ideal technique. Conversely, try to explore your imagination of decorating by mix and match variety style with furniture you have is exceptional. Start with a small movement to build the room atmosphere. Place something in the same place slow but sure will make you bored. Modify your home decoration at least one in a year to refresh the look of your home. Comfortable and beautiful place to be seen is the key of home decoration.

Comfortable place for living it’s means that the member of the family is unite to be one. Place for take a rest, place for getting closer with family, place for proving our existence are the base of design the room.

Eye-catching is one more consideration mindful of home not just personal area but also free area. Living room, guest bathroom, dining room is a free area where every body that gets our permission or family comes to giving a call.
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It is possible to notice the dweller personality by home decoration. Reflecting your good side on your home, chiefly in dining room complexion of free area is necessary.

Dining room paint

Dining room is a place to enjoy the meal. Don’t paint the wall of the dining room in stark white without any other color as it looks very pale and muddled. Mix and match some colors that are bright and apply them in such a way to add your appetite. Orange and red is a suitable color that you can apply on your dining room wall combine with soft color balancing the room atmosphere.

Dining room lightening

Lighting specialist Grahacipta Hadiprana, Arwin Amir, said the lighting will support both the look and atmosphere of interior space. Lighting can also create a mood in the room. Hanging lamp is suitable for dining room but only need to remember does not try to hang too close to the table because making body in the shadows around the table eating activity.

Furniture

Dining room furniture is the vocal point. Key factors to consider when choosing dining room furniture are the size of the room, the size and style of desk, storage and budget. Buying dining room table in set or one unit only is not a big deal provided that you can put in the right place and unite with other furniture.

Curtain; A piece of Beauty

Posted by yuni On June - 30 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

curtainCurtain a piece of cloth hung at a window, in a doorway, or round a bed, usually for privacy or excluding light or draughts and to aid sleeping at night also stopping people outside from being able to see inside, often for privacy reasons. On the other hand, something that resembles a curtain in appearance such a shower curtain that place in a bathroom.

There are two kind of curtain that divided into blind and curtain. Curtains can be made from varying thicknesses of fabric, each with a differing degree of light absorption and heat insulating qualities. Alternatively there is another kind of curtain called lace curtain, which made of thin fabric although is unlike curtain, lace curtain mostly use when day. A window blind is a specific type of window covering which is made with slats of fabric, wood or metal that adjust by rotating from an open position to a closed position by allowing slats to overlap. It is appear in range of selection varying with the material and colors.

Curtain can apply as a room decoration when your house may unable to place accessories. Curtains are a form of window treatment, which controls the ambiance and flow of natural light into the room and complete the overall appearances of the house in which can use tie back or else try different style. The effect of drapery or curtains is best seen in daylight, and with proper indoor light positioning, it can look attractive even at night. Take a note when measuring the curtain size; it is needed for each window varies greatly according to the type of curtain needed, window size, and type and weight of curtain. Curtains come in a variety of shapes, materials, sizes, colors and patterns, also there are many shops particularly in selling curtain.

Tips for Caring your Teak Furniture

Posted by yustina On June - 30 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

Teak furniture is adored by people for many years then. It is still a fine choice to fill up home or office space which the characteristics make that up. Its hard, sturdy, durable wood and resistance to rot turn beautifully when crafted into indoor furniture, garden and patio.

Nothing speaks elegant and comfort better than teak wood as the interior and exterior of living space. Despite its sustainability, it does need a caring in order to get it last for many years to come. How would be the right way to do that?

Teak as Indoor Furniture

Clean the crafted area and the corner of teak furniture using a fine small brush.  Those are the common place for fungus and dust come up. Brush substitutes the role that can not be reached by duster. Do it gently based on the direction of the timber grain.

Ibiza Extended Dining TableIf your furniture is teak dining table, there is a big chance that food crumbs fell down and its particles could create the wood damage. Warm soapy water is needed to begin wiping down the furniture. Try to find the particles that caught between pieces of wood and remove them. Then leave it dry totally.

The next thing to do is oiling. Re-oil after a cleaning keeps the original color of teak, though it has a high level of natural oils. But again by adding a new layer after have cleaned and dried the furniture, it will keep it like dropping out from the store.

Teak as Outdoor Furniture

The sunlight affects the origin color of teak. It will turn from yellowish brown into silver gray finish depends on how long it stays outside. The silver-gray appearance and dirt from your outdoor teak furniture can be removed if you want to.

Wash the furniture with warm soapy water using a medium bristle brush. Do not use metal brush since it can change wood color and create rust to its grain. If you still have the deep-rooted stains, it can be removed by rubbing down it with sandpaper. Once again, do it gently based on the direction of the timber grain.

In a nutshell, it’s you who have to decide whether want to allow your teak furniture to change its colors or maintain that  honeyed brown shade.


Country Style: Rustic Why not?

Posted by santi On June - 29 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

Concurrently you will be trying to get a country interior design, consider plain overhead lighting with table lamps but stay away from anything which is too fancy with lots of sparkly crystals. It is not appropriate placed sparkly stuff regard that country style has a rich history and reflects a simple, relaxed style of decorating with balmy woods and easy lines widespread during the 17th and 18th century in America.

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Original country furniture pieces were coated with milk paint for color and protection. Milk was blended with lime, oils and pigments to create a lasting furniture coating. The fabric history for country furniture pieces was based on durability and accessibility. It was not uncommon for country furniture to be covered with fabrics made from gingham.

Gingham is a kind of woven cloth, and usually uses the stripes motif; black and white is the usual color. Over time the pattern changed and became more colorful and various. Gingham has no right or wrong side regarding color. Gingham is become a part of country style furniture for dining room chair, living room sofa or even bathroom vanity.

Country style setting takes us back to the romantic and rustic village life. For your bedroom decoration here you can try make you bedroom movement in country style below:

•    One important aspect of decorating your bedroom suite with a country style is your wall paper or paint. For this decorating style the room colors make a big different. Brown and white is suitable for your country bedroom
•    It’s not necessary to have a matching bed, bureaus, and side table but the bedroom should have plenty of overstuffed upholstered furniture.
•    Most bedrooms can use a chandelier as well as lamps.

Country Style is of simplicity and warmth expression. Wood furniture is the ideal stuff for this style. The balmy atmosphere and natural taste coming from the wood furniture makes you stay longer on your bedroom.

Finally, no matter style you wish on your bedroom the most important think is that you are feeling comfortable and calm. And one thing for sure how beautiful your bedroom, how expensive furniture inside it will be useless if you don’t have a time for stays longer.

A Contemporary Rug to Compliment in a Right Way

Posted by yustina On June - 29 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

1064959_20762607A contemporary rug is non-traditional, featuring a diversity of styles from strong geometric patterns to asymmetrical designs. These rugs are art paint-like on floor which tends create another look of the room itself. With their flexibility in design and color, it’s easy to find just the right rug to start planning your area or to complete your decor.

Hand-knotted or hand-tufted rug made by the weaver is definitely a choice to complete the atmosphere of the living. It can be placed on the wood parquet or carpet to create warmer mood in the addition of the contemporary furniture inside. Some people say that rugs help absorb the increased noise and echoes generated in a room with hardwood flooring. That is when the rug made from wool, the other is synthetics, which the best comes from New Zealand.

The right color of the rug chosen attached to the room is seen from the various reasons. It has to depend on the interior design or the wall color. There are colors fit to modern contemporary concept. Its color scheme and style should be an integral part of the overall design.

There are many kinds of rugs outside the contemporary one like the oriental, traditional, or Persian rugs to complete the living décor into a new inspiration for life. And the shape of rugs can be a square rectangle or circle. Due to the unique nature of weaving and crafting, rugs often vary slightly in size. At the end, the rug can always compliment the room if use them in the right way.


Near the beginning of 19th-century design movement in architecture, furniture, other decorative arts and visual arts measured the second phase of Neoclassicism. In 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte had himself anointed and crowned Emperor of France. Napoleon I visited French textile, porcelain, and furniture workshops to encourage their increased production for the greater glory of France, and all of the arts served to promote his regime.

Empire style is originally the elaborate neoclassical style of the Napoleon’s French First Empire (1804-1815). Roman-inspired symbols, furniture, and even hairdos were part of an ambitious scheme to relate Napoleon to Emperor Augustus as the French government was transformed from a republic into an empire. There is no distinct Empire style of architecture.
victorian-bedroomThe Empire style furniture is enormous, in magnificent level and very masculine. There are motifs derived from Egyptian archeology, Greek and Roman design. Ormolu details (gilded bronze furniture mounts and embellishments) displayed a high level of craftsmanship. Ormolus are gilt-metal decorations usually in different decorative motifs. A good clue to identifying the Empire style is the vulgar use of ormolu mounts.

Here are some motifs which appear in empire style: acanthus leaf (leaf of a Mediterranean shrub), anthemion (stylized honeysuckle), animal-paw feet, cornucopia (horn of plenty), dolphin, eagle, lyre, and rosette.

Here is bedroom furniture in empire style that reflects resplendency and luxury you can do some trick below:

1.    Settle on wood bedroom furniture in wood veneers polished to high sheen
2.    Empire style is suitable mark in large space. The excessive use of large is often use in empire style
3.    Exercise of motifs inspired by ancient Egypt, Rome and Greece which often  pertain in empire style
4.    Wood back chairs with upholstered seats.

In conclusion, it is quite easy to recognize the Empire style of bedroom furniture with its massive appearance and overbearing ormolu mounts which usually depicts Egyptian, Greek and Roman themes. This style is a step backward from the simple but elegant Louis XVI style.

Fancy Dining Room

Posted by yuni On June - 29 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

himalaya-dining-room-setDining room is no more of dine and serve the food, instead a gathering or else an entertainment room. In the past dining room uses when people have their meal especially gather with all the family or formal dinner with invited guests. Even this function has been not widely changed, it more informal then before.

Dining room and kitchen are varying with its location i.e. kitchen and dining room in one location, dining room that next to the dining room also kitchen and dining room that separate with dining room.  Mostly dining room is near to kitchen even in one room particular a small house. Kitchen with stove and sink yet dirty and wet is outdated. People prefer dry and clean kitchen with fine furniture in it, thus attractive and convenient.

A compact design of dining furniture also kitchen would be smart idea where it is not wide enough. However, it is not a problem to put more furniture in the dining room if there is enough space appropriate to the necessity. Today kitchen and dining furniture offered in ranges of selection and designs that fulfill the market demand. Wood dining room furniture still in a high demand. Wood brings warmth ambiance and intimacy in a dining room that accord with its function.

Enjoy Life from Essential Room at Home

Posted by yustina On June - 27 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

himalaya-living-room-set-alibabaA living room is a part of house which is also known as sitting room, lounge room or lounge. It is a room that is used for entertaining colleagues, relative or extended families that have good relations or just for relaxing or making conversation. Oftentimes this is the right place to spend most of time when one is having a day off or spare time.

Basically, a living room, which is the modern one, consists of sofa, coffee table, TV furniture, bookshelves and chairs. In addition, the European and American families put a fireplace as the focal point in their living room. Rugs also best placed under the coffee table features a warmth mood of the room.

A good living room can not be judged for just one finger snap. The cultural context differentiate the concept of living room meanwhile the function is similar. The function of living room is more casual than guest room. Just like mentioned above, living room is an entertainment center, while guest room is reserved for more formal and quiet entertaining for the guest coming.

When is the right time to enjoy the living room that has been created for the host convenience? Oh that is probably people searching for all time. A good living room set, sitting together with family, enjoy the TV show about booming reality show accompanied with popcorn, and make comment towards the actors and actresses. It looks ordinary but regarding to the limited time, this could be a dream and wait for a right time to come true. Hopefully not?

Fine Furniture for Fine Dining

Posted by yuni On June - 26 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

atlanta-dining-room-setEating is a basic need for people those have various custom all over the world. Each region has particular custom of it, which influence their dining room. Some people are having their meal on the table while sitting on a chair, but others are gathering around the floor with the whole family and having their meal. As their different custom, those explain why each region has different dining room.

Present day mostly dining room in a house have similar dining room, which contain a table with chairs arranged along the sides and ends of the table, as well as other pieces of furniture such as glass cabinet and wine rack.

Bringing to notice of dining room especially is the furniture.  Nevertheless, fine furniture is a great presentation to the guest when you are inviting them for dinner. Furniture design is not simply classified in modern and classic, many styles can apply in the dining room furniture. Modern furniture design usually refers to furniture design that has less detail and simple. Ethnic design is reflecting particular culture; this kind of furniture will create an old-fashioned style in the room when applying for the room. Alternatively, find any kind of furniture in retro or eclectic if want to create a fusion style that offered distinctive design of furniture.

In fact, do not need to put all the kind of furniture or replace by the latest on, just find the right one to enhance the dining room and give a touch of yours.

Bathroom: Past and Modern Time

Posted by yustina On June - 26 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

Bathroom is a private place for person to get clean his/her self after an activity done. It is the right way to recharge energy after a busy working day by taking a rest in bed. But before that the body needs to be cleaned in getting the convenience feeling on it. The private place to refresh and clean up is bathroom.

bathroom-042In general definition, bathroom means “a room where one bathes”. This activity has been a ritual for long time. In ancient time, as depicted in Mohenjo-Daro civilization era, every house had a bathroom which the bath was made of brick, sometimes with a surrounding curb to sit on. The water drained through a hole in the floor, down chutes or pottery pipes in the walls, into the municipal drainage system.

As the time goes by, modern people change its function more than only a place for take a shower and make defecation.  It is an alternative place to get rid of the stress. No wonder many people want to have their bathroom comfortable to use for a short or long time. As a consequence, they fill their bathroom with much stuff to complete the bath ritual.

The modern bathroom is a complex one since features stuff and others. A full bathroom appliance may consist from a sink with running water, a flush toilet, and a bathtub or shower. And to add the luxury, hot and cold water is available from the heating water system. Those are created to fulfill the need of people today.