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The Color Effect for Home

Posted by yustina On December - 30 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

Home is the place what people call shelter, to protect from rain and sunshine. It is also a place for getting comfort and relaxing. With many proper techniques used, home design will be people wow impression. . But one of the main answer for making the home look different than the other is namely the color chosen.

Visual touch created by color, affecting the total appearance of the house, whether it is for interior or exterior. Each person must have desired color based on their style and character. The mix and match done for the surrounding will complement the living harmony. Some interior part of house, like wall, ceiling, and furniture affect the mood or atmosphere of house. Light or dark color chosen should be match with contemporary furniture at living space.

Light color will make a room more spacious by painting the ceiling and walls with the same light color. A technique should be considered if the room and ceiling you have is narrow and low. To make it look higher, the ceiling needs to be paint lighter than the wall itself.

Bring Style To The Bedroom

Posted by yuni On December - 29 - 20091 COMMENT

Bedroom is the most private room in the house. In this room people are get off from their physic and emotional activities. That is why people often specially design this room. The main principal element of a bedroom is must be comfortable and calm. A bedroom must full fill its two main functions;

Physical function, bedroom will provide which accommodating every kind of goods and activities of the owner, especially the private one.

Psychological function, bedroom is expected to be a place which give the optimal coziness when the owner really need some breende-bedak.

Bedroom must be designed using eased interior element and natural colors. If your house is not so big and does not have many rooms, it will be better to apply bright tint on those rooms. Bright color will afford good impression, just like clean, wide and roomy. However, we must consider using these bright colors to the room that is functionally used for public area, just like living room, guest room, dining room etc. Do not forget to match or suit the color to any contemporary furniture in your house, so that it will look harmonic.

To the more private room, it will be better to use your favorite colors. For instance, you cannot force the bright color on your room or your children room if they are not like it.

However, you have to consider again and again in choosing the proper color for the room so that it won’t end in some shade colors; purple, silver or turquoise, because all of those color will affect to the children to be lazier in studying.

Contemporary Kitchen Cabinet: Beauty in Simplicity

Posted by santi On December - 28 - 20092 COMMENTS

Contemporary style becomes popular for its flexibility to be placed in modern or old environment. It is applied in all furniture design including in kitchen area.

Kitchens in contemporary furniture sets have increasingly gained popularity in this modern era. Their beautiful, refreshing look and user friendly, functional designs contribute to their popularity.

They are usually characterized by minimalist designs and the use of linear, geometric themes. This design style extends to the kitchen cabinets as well, in these elegant kitchens. Most of them feature the hallmark contemporary design styles, with their simplicity and sharp, tidy lines.
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Contemporary kitchen cabinetry use materials ranging from stainless steel to glass. Stainless steel with its mirror like finish comes to be a popular choice, while metal kitchen cabinets made of copper will give a rather antique look to the kitchen. For them who like natural nuisance, wood or bamboo can also be good alternative for having quite pleasing aesthetic result.

Although kitchen cabinets are the focal point of beauty, they still have to be functional, enough to house all the essential utensils, dinnerware, pots and pans. Contemporary kitchens use the universal design principles that focus on flexibility, intuitive use, accident prevention, and minimizing fatigue. The cabinets are easier to access, with pullout shelves, sliding drawers and spinning ‘lazy susans’. The cabinets and the drawer pulls have large stainless steel bars and usually have either no handles, or just have simplistic metallic pulls. These allow for an easy clean up and a durable functioning of your kitchen.

Make Your Own Contemporary Living Room

Posted by santi On December - 26 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

Decorate the living room is sometimes be a daunting task. Considering that living room is the main room of your home, wood living room furniture is supposed to illustrate a welcoming look for both you and your guests. The right furniture pieces will help you to obtain contemporary flair in your living room.
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Something comfortable, modern, and simple are best to be your contemporary furniture choices. Sofa or love seats could be an alternative for your living room. While accessories like coffee tables and console tables will add the new look of your home.

Dark wood which has been popular trend will give a clean look for your living room. Just limit how much dark wood you want if you don’t want darkened appearance instead. While glass adds an elegant aesthetic to just about anything, and pairing it with wood gives it an ethereal look, considering that wood is a very solid element.


A Tidy Guest Room

Posted by yuni On December - 24 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

Most people consider guest room remains an important part because it reflects the owner’s character. It is surely a challenge to design a guest room with various sizes. Besides, it has to be ordered so that it will look comfort and not loaded.

himalaya-living-room-setFor the middle size houses, it is still surely a must either its capability of receiving guests or its design so that it will not spend the room. Even to some people, for the sake of efficiency, the owners allowing their gust room to be a part of other rooms. For instance, the owner directly lets the guest to the living room as if it is a guest room. Probably, it’s not a big deal to some people with bigger houses. Here are some tips to design a guest room to be tidy and comfortable

It is enough to place a couch with 2 seats, one single couch and a little table. If there is still any place, we can add some contemporary furniture, which is unusual, but it is still keep roomy. Do not need to place any furniture if it will disturb the air circulation to other rooms. Choosing the right combination of two couches will be beneficial if we can combine them well. They can be different in color, shape or design.

It will better to choose the furniture that is suitable with the room’s area. Contemporary furniture seems the best choice due to its function. For the smaller room, we can put a small glass or mirror so that the room looks wider than it is.

Light For Life

Posted by yuni On December - 23 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

New furniture or wall paint with unique color combination probably will come up to your mind when decorating the house. There is another way, however, to add more drama in the house except brand new contemporary furniture and wall paint. Simple and nice lighting will enhance the house without much effort to do. Considering each room requires different kinds of light we need plan the home lighting. These are following six tricks that can be done.

The most important light

General lighting is the most basic lighting in every room, which its function is to provide light so the dwellers can do their activities. It does not need look so bright light but enough for the room, usually down light type lighting used to get flat lighting throughout the room.

Determine activities that need more light

Find parts or any area that is used to perform specific activities that require brighter light thus will require local lighting (task lighting). In the bedroom for example, we need task lighting to illuminate the reading, makeup, or even learn. In the kitchen, we need the local light to illuminate when cooking, cutting, and so on.

Use light dimmer

We can set the light overcast condition in accordance with our needs and wishes use a light dimmer.  In the bedroom for example, we need a dimly lit lamp when we are sleeping but sometime we need bright light when doing other activities. This can be overcome by using a dimmer on a down light or on a desk lamp placed on the nightstand. Some designers even use dimmers to adjust the composition of the lamp to create the desired effect.

Provide night-lights

Some area or part of the house that we may pass on sleep hours, like stairs and hall to the toilet, should be provided an evening light dim whose function is simply to avoid these spaces into darkness that can be dangerous or difficult route.

Scattered light point

Rays originating from only one point will spread in all directions. Thus, the shadow will appear as well in all directions, which must be not so comfortable. Preferably, within a space large enough (greater than six meters square) there is more than one source of light. Even if a bit difficult to hold more than one source of light, we can make a point of light is branched into several points of the light. Of course, for which spaces are relatively small as the foyer, put a point light is good enough.

Try indirect lighting

Light source that from light bulbs should not be seen directly. Visible only light or reflection or trough intermediaries frosted glass lampshades or other media that are spreading the light. The visible light directly in space sometimes very disturbing eye comfort and less unsightly because the light becomes extremely uneven illumination in a room.

Homey Furniture, Functionally Endure

Posted by yustina On December - 10 - 20091 COMMENT

Wood is known for furniture as well as craftwork or shipbuilding. The ones listed as the most suitable wood for furniture range from hardwood originally West and East countries based. Softwood might also well-known for its sought-by-people furniture. As a matter of fact the lower price consider as one factor of its popularity.

There is some hardwood, ie: teak, mahogany, walnut or oak, listed as fine furniture to make.  To be stated on the chart, some considerations have to be done related to strength, durability, availability, and cost.

Mahogany furniture has started to find a place in furniture lover for some years around. Known as one of the traditional furniture wood, it has the straight, smooth, semi-open grain with many cross grains. Whilst the grain and color are classics, it is more like exotic furniture from wood. Wood is beautiful to carve but you need to consider whether you want a piece of unique one or have to be matched with room design.

Bedroom Design: Explore Your Idea

Posted by santi On December - 8 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

On behalf of our style are conserve in many ways. Push your self beyond the boundary until you find what you are looking for. Design is unlimited space for you to explore your creativity and personality.

Remark on the style growing on behalf of human personality. For example: masculine, feminism, romantic, glamorous and expressive expressed on your bedroom decoration. Categorized into private area, bedroom completely is your right to explore your creativity of decorating.

Actualizing your idea to be real is not like snap your finger. Required an experiment not only once but many times until you find the perfect one for you. Exploring your creativity start from decorating bedroom is challenging activity. There is several part of your bedroom to be your next project. Headboard, wall, curtain, accessories and pillow are your next exploration for your bedroom design.

Headboard usually becomes the central point in bedroom therefore you can give magical touch expressing your taste. Adding two wooden bedside tables for romantic style or leather headboard for rustic style would be work.

On the other side, wall is your next project build you room atmosphere. The use of toning wall paint with light color works for expressive person. Soft tone will bring romantic style on your bedroom.

Whatever your room theme, curtain is ready with various numbers of styles. Diversity of models and motifs can be used for curtains deal with the physical condition of windows that are less profitable. There are many accessories options are applicable and match with a variety of indoor wood furniture.

Aside from contemporary furniture for modern theme, setting –up some accessories like photo frame, clock, painting, vase, lamp table and many more will increasingly emphasize your personality.

In addition to the function pillow can add the beauty of the room. Regard to the various colors and motif is your other alternative decorating you room. Feather pillows with gold solor will provide a glamorous impression. Irrespective of the above point, it should not be forgotten with the election of bedroom furniture that matches the room theme decor.