Modern Outdoor Barbecue Design

Outdoor Barbecue Design

Outdoor Barbecue Design

Modern Outdoor Barbecue Design

If it is true the allegation that the kitchen is the heart of the house, do not know what we could say about outdoor barbecue. It is definitely not the heart of the garden because the garden looking for a man other aesthetic pleasures, but is also fair to say that any contemporary garden does not pass without a outdoor barbecue. A patio is not complete without the ability to prepare modern outdoor barbecue. Even the idea of organizing garden starts with the thought of a outdoor barbecue place. Therefore, the subject of outdoor barbecue is so important when discussing the modern design of the courtyard. The mere presence of a modern outdoor barbecue in the garden is loaded with the romanticism of a wonderful time with friends and family.




Outdoor Barbecue Design

Modern Outdoor Barbecue Design

Even the most ordinary garden party does not pass without to show mastery in the preparation of the outdoor barbecue food. When considering options for a modern outdoor barbecue in your garden, you should decide what type of grill you want to install: gas with PB with wood. It is desirable style outdoor barbecue also be consistent with the style of the surrounding garden furniture to achieve the necessary impression of comfort and elegance. Announces the amount of outdoor barbecue is in line with the proportions of the courtyard and the selected outdoor barbecue design solution for the furniture - round, rectangular.




Outdoor Barbecue Design

Modern Outdoor Barbecue Design

Nowadays the market offers ready-brick structures built in BBQs, outdoor kitchen facilities, along with refrigerators and sinks and modern outdoor barbecue design. Each of these types has its value and aesthetic techniques. The proud owner of outdoor barbecue must decide which investment is worth it.Last hit in contemporary garden furniture and spots around the world of outdoor kitchen furniture . More and more people are infected by the desire to create very cozy place to spend a pleasant family and friends during the warm summer months.





Outdoor Barbecue Design

Modern Outdoor Barbecue Design

Fireplace or modern outdoor barbecue emits soft heat in the cool evenings, and the game attracts the eyes of fire and predisposes to long intimate conversations. Our advice is to select this outdoor barbecue design, which is best corresponding on your personality, but is consistent with your ability. If in your garden is no place for outdoor barbecue stone, do not despair - the market is even portable barbecues. More importantly the idea and wish guests to be surprised with skillfully prepared food.

Modern Outdoor Lounge Chairs

Outdoor Lounge Chairs




Outdoor Lounge Chair

Your summer garden is a wonderful place for recreation and entertainment. An essential and indispensable component of its outdoor furniture are lounge chairs. If you want to create a real place for relaxation and pleasant entertainment, just located one of outdoor lounge chairs so comfortable beds and stylish outdoor garden to your favorite place - and the miracle happened - your garden has become the most elegant place to rest. Nowadays the market is offering different material types and design  outdoor lounge chairs. Buying right for your outdoor lounge chairs depends on the space you have and you want to become a place for relaxation, comfort and style by which seeks to create a garden with furniture of your preference, and of course, by means their disposal.

Outdoor Lounge Chair

Folding outdoor lounge chairs, originally arose as chairs for outdoor relaxation, stretching decks of passenger ships. Today, these comfortable and easy to maintain multiple outdoor lounge chairs have expanded its scope and can be seen all places, the beach, the balcony, around the pool, including the garden. Outdoor lounge chairs are an integral part of modern hotel furniture and except as intended - for relaxing outdoors, as they pursue other goals - style design interior and exterior. As the outdoor lounge chairs were originally intended to be used on ships, they were produced by very strong, durable materials that can withstand moisture, wind and other adverse conditions.

Outdoor Lounge Chair

Modern outdoor lounge chair can be made as of teak and other wood, also of metal and plastic rattan. What distinguishes today's outdoor lounge chairs from their predecessors is the pursuit of comfort that is achieved with soft pads, a variety of color and sound pillows, lounge design solution, which makes an impressive accessory accent in the garden. Folding sunbed model is easy to transport and storage, which is extremely useful when space is limited. Older models usually have a position for tilting so far in the back. Modern outdoor lounge chairs are often adjustable, and may include additional elements such as rungs that make them especially comfortable.

Outdoor Lounge Chair

 

Outdoor Lounge Chair

If you add to that outdoor lounge chairs are in the market plenty of cushions and benches, you've reached that comfort that you are dreaming. Nowadays, sunbeds are used everywhere in our life - at home, the balcony, the porch, the garden - scattered on the lawn, but because of the ease is very easy to be moved where we see fit. Outdoor lounge chairs are suitable for use and during hiking or camping trips, so that people are comfortable seating position.

Outdoor Lounge Chair

We suggest buying a set of modern outdoor lounge chair can be tailored to their future location, whether it will put them in the shade or sun, if you only use them in the garden or around the pool. Where will be stored under adverse conditions. Wooden outdoor lounge chairs, with or without armrests-style "executive chair" are quite popular. Some models are available from any wood and the seats of other models may be of canvas or nylon material. Some chairs can be set to different positions, ensuring your comfort.Outdoor lounge chairs are made from exotic hardwoods or oak as to ensure the sustainability of lounges, exposed to rain.

Modern Aquarium Design

Aquarium Design




Aquarium Design

You have a new home, you want to bring beauty of nature? Or just need a unique solution to refresh your home? If you just love it and aquatic creatures, then we have the perfect offer for you, add aquarium . This aquarium design small water playground will bring unique and stylish atmosphere around you.Everyone can afford to create a little paradise -aquarium - water provided to comply with a few basic things. The first and most important is to select the appropriate location. In this case you should comply with the light in the room.

Aquarium Design

Not good if you modern aquarium is placed under direct sunlight (near windows), because the later addition of plants that light can cause rapid growth of algae and also nervousness among fish.Also, it is inappropriate and dark corner. Sunlight must fall in moderation during the day but at night its absence is compensated by fluorescent lamps.After selecting the ideal time to comply with the size and shape of the aquarium design. These important parameters depend primarily on the size and number of fish that you want to grow.

Aquarium Design
Best advice on this option you can get on site by consultants in the pet shop as a variety of fish and aquariums is immense. Also, there is appropriate to select and sand or stones to use as a decorative surface with aesthetics and for places to hide a fish. A number of very different aquarium shape and color substrates.For arranging a beautiful modern aquarium design and caressing eyes with its natural state, it is better to first comply with their height. Most appropriate to select two or three bright and higher plants to put in the background. Modern aquariums can be stuffed with more roots in the substrate, giving the illusion of a slight hill.

Modern Aquarium Design




Modern Aquarium Design

Modern Aquarium Design

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Debra & Scentimental Gardens

{Love fig trees!!}

Last week we got to stop over to see our friend Debra Phillips at Scentimental Gardens in Geneva, IL and I was in Heaven!!  {Debra also recently opened up another store on Grand Ave in Chicago and writes the blog 5th & State. }  Debra & Sarah (below) greeted us at the shop and they are so warm & sweet.  Debra's amazing with kids & even gave Christian an adorable little concrete turtle he promptly named "Sammy."

{Sarah & Debra}

I was totally in love with this room and wanted pretty much everything in it.  The slate tile floors were hidden underneath blah carpeting when Debra first moved in. 

How adorable are the chalkboard signs/ labels? (below)  What a cute way to label a drink.

Check out the industrial tabe below (mm mm!) and lately I've also been been loving silhouettes.

And here's one last photo at Scentimental Gardens of us all before a yummy lunch:

{Dave, baby Justin, me with Christian, and Debra}

While we were in Geneva, we also stopped at the butterfly house at Peck Farm.  Christian's been very into butterflies lately (there's a Little Einstein movie about them) and loved it:

I thought this one, called a "Julia," was awesome:

If you can get to Geneva, it's so worth it!!  ...  Lots of great shops & an adorable town and of course you have to stop in and see Debra!! (And the butterflies if you're into that) One of the things I love most about blogging is making & meeting new friends.  It's so much fun to be with other design junkies & to feel like you already know someone before you've even met them.    

My Dream to Life

There are some projects that just get me deep inside.  Whenever designing a space, we think of all of the functions the room needs to have.  In this case- it was my dad's lakehouse bathroom and it needed to be practical and be able to handle lots of wear & tear from guests.  But beyond the functional, I always want something more. 

This cottage has been in my family since the 50s.  We've been been making memories here through now 4 generations.  I remember coming here as a little girl and the whole family piling into the cottage on summer weekends:  Beds pushed together, laughing & talking late into the night to the hum of the window air conditioning units.  This cottage was built in the 1930s and when my dad inherited it in the late 90s, he completely redid it.  I've been there helping along the way & we've had our disagreements believe me, but most of the time, I win.  I want to share with you one of my favorite finished spaces, the kids' bathroom.  We started with nothing.  There wasn't an original bathroom there, jusgt a small sitting room.  My dad raised the roof on the original cottage and made room for a large bathroom.  When I started on this space it was just rough- framing, sans-drywall. 

{Little galvanized buckets hold kiddie washcloths and toys}

There are details that my dad has filled in that were not the ones specified by me (such as the wall color, chrome outlet covers, etc.) but I am seriously trying to LET GO.  (It's not easy for someone like me..)  I got to this bathroom in spurts on visits and so it's not exactly as I want it but it feels good, which is what matters most to me.    I used fun bright colors- corals and aqua- to pull in the glass floor tiles and the scheme from the kids' bedroom.

A while back we made these little framed stamps of Christian's hands and feet:

I used the lobster print from the Natural Cuiosities centerfold:

{Still waiting to be properly matted}

And, finally, after years of waiting for the house to be finished, I got my dream last night:

The kids piled into the clawfoot tub!!  (It's not original to the house, but a new 7 footer.)  It was exactly as I'd envisioned and was seriously awesome.  I'm sure many of you feel the same way about creating a space:  you envision the way things will play out and "making memories" in the perfect setting.   We'd had a nice long day at the lake and then it was easy & fun to just run the bath water in the massive tub and pile them in at the end of the day.

i loved seeing them having such a blast. 

{Andrew, and poor Lily being squirted by Christian}

This is what it's all about and I just wanted to share with you.   When we're creating rooms we really are doing more than designing spaces.  We're affecting how we'll live.  I love it!!

*Sink: American Standard 
*Paint: "mountain haze" by Behr...  Eventually, I'll switch it to a more bluey/aqua-gray instead of the green-gray it is (the current undertones are wrong with the aqua floor tiles) or a creamy-warm-beigey-neutral  that works better with the glass floor   (...My dad used the leftover paint from another room ;)

Check out the Skirted Roundtable

I was so excited to be interviewed on the Skirted Roundtable by Megan Arquette, Linda Merrill and Joni Webb last week.  (Pictured in that order, above)  I'm sure most of you know, but for those of you who don't know  (my family if you're reading ;) -  the Skirted Roundtable is a weekly online interior design radio show hosted by Linda, Megan and Joni- megabloggers & interior designers.  They discuss everything from running a design business, to seasonal decorating, to magazine stories and bloggers along with interviewing an amazing stream of people in the interior design industry.  (To say that I am the least exciting/ known person they've ever interviewed is not at all an understatement, which is why I was really shocked/ thrilled when they asked me.)  

I've been addicted since the very beginning and it's really the only radio show I know of that broaches interior design and interviews interior designers regularly.  Like many of you, I find myself nodding along, laughing outloud and just being generally enthralled by the weekly shows.  I've left embarrassingly long comments on there because I just get so into certain topics discussed.  Anyway, you can imagine how thrilled I was when they asked me to be on the show... Excited and then seriously nervous because I've never been interviewed on a radio show before and typically hate to hear my voice even in an answering machine message.

But, in true Skirted Roundtable-style, I felt instantly at ease and comfortable with these ladies I've always admired- Linda, Megan and Joni.  Thanks so much to them for thinking of me & for taking the time to put the show together. 

If you have some time, I'd really love it if you could listen to the show.  I know many of you read at work (shhhh ;) so it might not be possible at your regular blogging time, but if you do get the chance, I'd love for you to check it out and to hear what you think of it.  You can go listen here: SKIRTED ROUNDTABLE INTERVIEW.  Thank you so much!!

My Little Man

Our little man #1 just turned 3.  Time's flown and you'd think things like cakes, icing, candles, etc. would get simpler.   I "bake" cake out of a box.  I love box cakes, esepcially the kind with the little colors dots inside the batter..  mm mm so good.  We had a really last-minute birthday party for Christian & invited some of our neighbors/friends over with their kids so I decided to do cake. It came out like this:

Yeah, haven't you ever hear of "Lightning Cake?"  I was seriously ready to serve the cake like this with icing on the side for "dipping" until my neighbor Melissa came to the rescue.  (I was at that point of 'who cares it tastes good they're toddlers and won't notice?' but all it took was a little push to get me going.)  First things first, Melissa fixed the mojitos we'd attempted with her secret recipe (dont' you love neighbors like that??) and then turned to look at my pathetic cake- "Ok, now we have to do something with that.  You said you wanted a car, right?"  So, enjoying the newly concoted mojitos, we got to work making a car cake & it was so simple of course:

{The car cake}

Christian was so excited when he saw it.  He's so into cars right now.  He said something about Lightning McQueen (a cartoon character-car) and I really didn't catch the rest, but I think that's 3-yr old for "I love it."

(Yeah, I know the icing isn't on the sides... we ran out.. Don't judge ;)

Happy birthday to my sweetie-guy. We love you.

ps- Just as I was finishing up this post (12 AM) I heard a knocking form his bedroom door & I went to get him.  He was standing there,  "Mommy, I choked up on my bed."  = vomit in bed.  yummy.