Saturday, February 6, 2010

Modern Kitchen Appliances

Kitchen Appliances

kitchen appliances
Kitchen Appliances
Imagine life without your toaster, blender or your coffee machine , it will be total mess with you juggling between your kitchen chores and other office. Yes, this is what Home appliances and kitchen appliances have done for us. Today, they are no longer considered a luxury but has become necessary for the proper functioning of the home.
Kitchen Appliances 

kitchen appliances
 Kitchen Appliances
Among the popular kitchen appliances today air conditioners,oven, dishwashers, refrigerators and washing machines. And kitchen appliances that we can do without  food processor, and microwave oven.Okay, but how would you know which appliances or equipment is a perfect kitchen for your needs. Read to know that ... first step is to bear in mind the individual needs of your home before buying a home appliances. Every home or equipment, kitchen that is purchased today should be energy efficient to save money. This is especially true with kitchen appliances.
Kitchen Appliances

kitchen appliances
Kitchen Appliances
See more new kitchen appliances(toaster,oven,refrigerators), reducing the water used for rinsing different cycles.Kitchen appliances are made by high quality and high performance are the kitchen staff. Use of modern technologies such as non-stick coatings, etc. Make sure that heat is distributed well, if only for the right to food.Get relief from stress and time involved in the management of high quality kitchen appliances at home with the most modern technologies.
Kitchen Appliances

Bathroom Faucets

Modern Bathroom Faucets

Bathroom Faucets
Bathroom Faucets 
Bathroom faucets have a very important role in adding new look to any bathroom. Faucets should be selected considering interior décor and finish of the bathroom. Faucets are made of different materials and are priced accordingly. Brass is the standard metal used to make the bathroom faucets . 
Bathroom Faucets Ideas
Bathroom Sink Faucets
Bathroom Sink Faucets 
Sink bathroom faucets : sink bathroom faucets are minimal style, which ended a modern bathroom. They come in a wide range of different styles and have a healthy appearance. There are several possibilities of double-flow models to a simple hot or cold supply models. These faucets are essential for establishing an office, restaurant and public baths.
Bathroom Faucets Ideas

Bathroom Mixer Faucets
 Bathroom Mixer Faucets
Bathroom mixer faucets : bath mixer faucets are used to mix cold and hot water in a tube chute. Most mixers bathroom has buttons that can divert water for a shower that is mounted overhead or group-based hand shower. Mixers faucets come in traditional and contemporary design. These faucets are suitable for low pressure and for providing a bracket for the shower. These faucets are specific house.
Bathroom Faucets Ideas

Bathroom Faucets
Bathroom Faucets 
Bathroom faucets : Factors to Consider before you buy.Bathroom faucets are made of different materials, different finishes and come in a variety of styles. However, there are some important aspects that one should consider the purchase of accessories such as faucets .
Bathroom Faucets Ideas

Bathroom Faucets
Bathroom Faucets 
Performance: The main objective of the fountain is to ensure smooth and uninterrupted flow of water. Bathroom faucets are designed acknowledges a shortage of water worldwide. Be sure to check their ability to save water.Intuitive:bathroom  faucets should not be very complicated. Necessary functions, such as the desired combination of hot and cold water should be easy to determine.
Bathroom Faucets Ideas

Bathroom Faucets
Bathroom Faucets
Configuration: bathroom faucets come in various configurations, including one arm, double and double injection mixer. Each type of fountain has its advantages and disadvantages. Make sure that the thought of a budget that you want.Categories: Style factor plays an important role. Faucets are available in brass, copper, nickel, chrome and polished ceramic.A set of bathroom faucets is available and ready to view at-Concept-zen.com. You will be able to search, compare and choose bathroom faucets from all leading manufacturers.

Bathroom Faucets Ideas

New Kitchen Ideas

New Kitchen Design


New Kitchen Design
New Kitchen Design
Today in modern kitchens observed a great variety of unconventional solutions. The new kitchen design  is a colorful, multi-purpose room and a classic design  in the area of housing. It turned into a transitional part of the house and opened the zone in which spent most of the time in the day. In this way, the new kitchen is close to most other rooms at home.

New Kitchen Design
New Kitchen Design 
In the creation of such a new kitchen design  is used reasonably and other construction materials - the fruit of modern technology. With these materials housewife takes care of the decor, according to its own taste. The order is a keyword in an open kitchen design  and living room, where innovation is most visible.

New Kitchen Design
 New Kitchen Design
New kitchen with dining room is a space which does not need more than thirty-seven square meters, especially if it is open on one side to the inner courtyard. Bleached oak parquet floor can bring a lot of heat in this room and at the same time to bring a touch of modernity. This flooring combines well with orange, which scattered over the furniture design , mitigate the coldness of stainless steel, which are made from electro gear and some other elements - part of the furnishing of a new kitchen design .

New Kitchen Design
 New Kitchen Design
New kitchen can be equipped only with inox furniture, these may be other elements of the interior, such as desktop. This is appropriate if the kitchen design  is being built in areas that have converted and glass construction, concrete or wood beams.Modern kitchen could be resolved and on two levels - one row lower new furniture and a row of them along the high furniture design .

New Kitchen Design
New Kitchen Design
One of the lines is usually a cold treatment products and the other is for cooking. This new kitchen can be entered in one corner of the spacious room of any dwelling, which is open to the balcony. When it is advisable to have green colors like various shades of gray color. With these colors the kitchen design  will be in contrast with the rest of the room, which is suitable to be equipped.

New Furniture Design

Modern Furniture Design

New Furniture Design
New Furniture Design
Strange as it may sound, the development of upholstered furniture due to the impetus of women's fashion! Most diplomacy was to develop new furniture for the new conditions, which in the XIX century occupies .Just because the correct approach to good design upholstered new furniture helps tired body to relax and rest well until the poor loads and lead to further problems with the spine, joints and muscles. On the other hand, all want beautiful furniture with unusual shapes and designs right here and accuracy of engineering makes it possible to calculate the correct structure for fixed furniture.

New Furniture Design
New Furniture Design
Fat trim, known for many years, initially served as a camouflage for the spiral - a revolutionary invention functions in furniture design  for seating. Softening spring seat and make seating and movement becomes easier and smoother. Innovative technology, which cover furniture design  with fabric was first implemented during the XVIII century beginning in the spring construction of the new furniture is installed on chairs for exterior use, so people have a comfortable seating position even when were not home design.

New Furniture Design
New Furniture Design
In XIX century the springs are used in large seats, which led to the emergence of today, our familiar furniture design  - armchairs and sofas. Remarkable is the fact that during the International Exhibition of new furniture manufacturers from around the world in 1867, each only recently joined, is now envisioned to master the extraordinary to decorate. At first arose as a necessity, upholstered new furniture design quickly received worldwide fame.

New Furniture Design
New Furniture Design
Centuries style new furniture associated with the architectural design, in XX century is undergoing rapid development interior design, which reflects the design of modern furniture. Proportion of new housing specifically lead to favoritism of upholstered new furniture in the interior as the main guests and recreational areas.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Wanna see something funny? (Before & After House Exterior)

Here's our house when we moved in this past Spring:

 

And here it is from the street now:  (Yesterday was a Snow Day!)

 

We had fun painting the door orange & left it that way thanks to many of you saying you liked it.  We also added a huge trellis on the front with jasmine vines and also few shrubs(all we could afford until next season).  Dave painted the cedar siding a dark warm gray:




... But didn't quite get to the sides or the back of the house before Winter hit:

Oops! 
Just keepin' it real. 
My neighbors must think there's something wrong with us.  ;)

xoxo,
lauren

Door color: Behr's 'Maple Leaf' (#250D-6)

Siding Color: Ralph Lauren 'Master Room" done in Behr exterior flat paint
Trim Color: Behr's 'Cotton Whisper' (#W-F-300)

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Oh Pretty Paisley

I think it's safe to say that this was the house seen 'round the (blog) world:


Many of us fell hard for it.  Jill Brinson's home feautured in House Beautiful is definitely one of my favorite homes to date.  I love everything about it.  But one of the touches that hit closest to home for me was the blockprint paisley. 


(Les Indiennes, above)  I've always had a soft spot for paisley.  Some people can't stand it (I've had clients who "hate" it) but I'll never forget the purple blockprint matching paisley outfits my mom made for us when I was around 4 years old...  I thought mine  was the prettiest thing ever...  I wonder if we still have it somewhere??  And then she had intentions of making us yellow paisley flannel nightgowns but didn't get around to it, but I still remember the fabric, which was always around in the sewing bin.  When I was in college I found a similar pink paisley fabric and immediately bought it and made drawstring pajama pants for myself.  I still love them:




A few years ago -  gosh, probably more like 4 or 5(?)-  Pottery  Barn came out with these amazing blockprint paisley quilts.  Does anyone remember them?  My favorite was a white quilt with bright beautiful green paisley.  I wanted it so badly.  But we'd just gotten married & had already purchased our bedding.  (This was before the concept of switching things out seasonally had occured to me or that quilt would be mine!!)  Anyway, they don't make them any more & I couldn't find a picture of it, but I still want that quilt. When I saw these quilts in the catalogs & in the store, I can't explain it, but I was almost upset...   Upset because I felt like they just took something right out of my mind & stole it.  Not like I was ever going to manufacture quilts or anything, but because I sort of felt like paisley was mine.  Especially that perfect green blockprint.  This was before I read blogs or design magazines, and so pretty much what showed up in stores & in catalogues was the extent of what I saw, so when I saw paisley making a comeback - probably way later than it did in design or blog world- I was a little harrumphed.  (Sort of like when Restoration picked up Bobo...  I was thrilled to see it & have it be accessible but secretly a little disappointed it was now mainstream.)   


Anyway, pasiley's in my heart & since it's making an appearance in so many beautiful rooms these days I thought I'd share some of my favorites.  Do you remember this insanley beautiful bedroom (below) by Tom Scheerer? (House Beautiful)  Love the rough hewn beams against the curvey bed.  The duvet cover is by Les Indiennes and now I want one. 


How fun is the wallpaper in this dining room by Alessandra Branca below? (via Girl Meets Glamour)

 

Check out the little blue pasiley pillow on the sofa(HB):

This bedroom below is just a perfect paisley cocoon!  It's by Cathy Kincaid (featured in House Beautiful & photographed by Reed Davis.)  The paisley on the walls & curtains is called Kashmir & is by Michael Smith. 


The quilted coverlet is by Aleta.  Here's another of their gorgeous fabrics:
 

Tom Scheerer uses lots of blockprints in his work.  The next series of rooms were designed by him.  How amazing is this canopy below?


A pretty little paisley chair: 

How awesome is this chair? (below)


 More paisley pillows: 


And seeing all these canopies has me itching to do one:


 Below is a happy paisley headboard.  Notice it's in the same fabric as the chair a few pics up?


You might remember from my post on Tom Scheerer that I'm apey for this fabric below:


Below is another gorgeous print from Les Indiennes and it reminds me a bit of my beloved Pottery Barn quilt. 
And finally we've got some rooms & fabrics by Peter Dunham.   


Below, the pillow on the chair is Kashmir Paisley by Peter Dunham. 


More blockprint on the walls, below.  From afar it looks like paisley but it's actually just another blockprint:


Here's a close-up of a Peter Dunham blockprint:

 


Loving this:


Now let's go back to Jill Brinson's to-die-for living room:



Did you see the Vamp's post here or Joni's post here in which she challenges us to create Brinson's look in our own homes like Valorie did?  Valorie (aka the Vamp) found these great inexpensive pillows here at Amazon ($22 something) to replicate the look of Jill Brinson's home in her own.:



I thought I'd share a few more.  I LOVE Jackie Von Tobel's designs and her paisley pillow cover(below, $95) is perfection.  Jackie is one of the nicest, most generous bloggers out there.  (And to say she's talented is an understatement.) 


Here is a Pacific & Rose paisley pillow ($20): 


And this version from Saffron Marigold ($22.99):


Anyway, wishing for a pretty green (inexpenve) version for my own home!  What about you on paisley?  Yay or nay?

xoxo,
lauren

ps- also check out Haven & Home's post on blockprints. 

and Thank you to Jennifer Sergeant for doing an article on our Better Homes & Gardens feature on her new blog, DC by Design!