Showing posts with label Trends. Show all posts
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Monday, 20 December 2010

5 Fence Design Ideas, The Facade Houses Sweeteners

Fences are not just limiting the home, but also as part of a facade that can not escape the touch of creativity.

The fence serves as a barrier region our home ownership. The fence is also usually used as a protector of the home of the interference coming from outside. But the fence also should be an integral part of building facades. In addition, the fence must have a high aesthetic value, because the fence is the "face" for the imagery that represents the character of the household.

The following three fence design ideas can serve as inspiration for you.
Wood Facade Random Box

Timber elements are always charming. Natural fiber and color that gives its own beauty to your home fence. Unfortunately, if not careful, wood fences can make a house look old, rigid, and unattractive.

In this design, the weakness had been tricked by preparing a timber with a line up to cover a plot area of the house. To add a dynamic element, timber align with the random and oblique. Composition of wood put together with iron round that stretched from end to end.

Finishing touch that is not less important is to give the finishing transparent so that the fiber lifted. Now a very strong aesthetic impression emanating from the facade of this house.





The combination of New Material

Innovation of new materials such as cement and concrete fiber board aeration gives us an opportunity to innovate with the design of the fence. The right combination of form and field that is created from these materials create a unique design ideas. As this design, aerated concrete which is prepared cross, naturally exposed natural stone and fiber cement board as a sliding fence installed arch with random and iron construction. Hopefully inspired.

Other options to hedge is to use natural stone combined with the plant

Fence Eating Plants

Fences "alive" in fact already widely applied in traditional Indonesian houses. But now life is back flare fence with a more contemporary design approach.

Dominant fence with grass that is placed on not tilted 30 degrees. The slope is intended to enhance home security. Above the grass can still be planted with frangipani trees and various grain crops. Fences "live" matches to be part of your modern home design.

Thursday, 9 December 2010

The contemporary was revamped by Poggenpohl.

The more formal rooms at the front of the house exemplify this mix of traditional and modern elements. In the living room, Brown and Davis replaced the fireplace mantel with a carved limestone surround and installed new architectural moldings to create a classical backdrop to stylized, Deco-inspired furnishings. Instead of pairing sofas around the fireplace, they arranged seating areas at either end of the room and connected them with a floral-patterned carpet of their own design. “It was inspired by a late 19th-century Chinese import rug for another client,” explains Brown. “The furniture has a Deco flair and in terms of Deco interiors, Chinese rugs were often used.” Ivory upholstery on the chairs and sofas provides a contemporary twist within the room’s traditional setting.

The husband’s cherry-paneled study centers on four chairs originally designed by Brown Davis for the British Embassy, bedroom decorating ideas Designing of house photos House interior idea steel and glass house Washington
The husband’s cherry-paneled study centers on four chairs originally designed by Brown Davis for the British Embassy.

Across the hall, a similar contrast is evident in the dining room, which also serves as a music room for the couple’s three children. A baby grand piano faces upholstered chairs pulled up to a rosewood table and a banquette in front of the windows. As in the living room, the piano and furnishings are linked by a large rug in subdued tones to match the upholstery. In both living and dining rooms, marigold silk draperies add a jolt of color. “These rooms tend to be dark because they face north,” says Brown. “We chose a golden tone to warm them up.”

Abstract prints by noted American artists Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg and Richard Serra, and large paintings by Spanish artists Miguel Angel Campano and JosĂ© Freixanes underscore the contemporary feeling. “We think the art reinforces the importance of simple furnishings—the furnishings do not collide visually with the art,” says the husband.

In the master bedroom, Donghia wallpaper provides a dark backdrop to light-colored furnishings and a sleek stone fireplace mantel, modern kitchen cabinets bedroom decorating ideas Designing of house photos House interior idea steel and glass house Washington design minimalist small nyc apartment decor bedroom decorating ideas
In the master bedroom, Donghia wallpaper provides a dark backdrop to light-colored furnishings and a sleek stone fireplace mantel.

Upstairs in his study, Brown and Davis extended the same strategy applied to the living and dining rooms, but reversed the approach. Instead of ornamenting the walls with intricate moldings, they used streamlined cherry paneling and shelving as a modern backdrop to traditional furnishings, including four chairs the designers originally created for the British Embassy.

Contrast continues in the master bedroom, where light-colored bedding, drapes and upholstery are set off by raisin-colored silk wallpaper. “We were asked to make it a cocoon,” says Davis. “So we used materials to absorb sound from the street.”At one end of the room, a print by British artist Henry Moore hangs over a fireplace framed in a simple stone surround. “It’s our favorite room, especially in winter with the fireplace burning,” says the husband. “We are often there, reading or working late at night when the house and the city outside are quiet.”

Monday, 6 December 2010

Japanese home interior design



Japanese style decorating can make a room exceptionally unique. There are so many things that you can do to give your room a Japanese feel to it and it doesn’t have to be as difficult as you first imagine it to be.

If you are after a stylish and classy way to decorate your room, then why not consider using a Japanese interior design? You can use this theme in many different ways in order to either suit one room or your whole house. Some people may want this theme in their home, but when it comes to the practical side of things they are completely at a loss as to how to achieve it. So just how do you create a Japanese theme in the home?

Creating a Japanese Theme

The Japanese theme around the home is a popular choice for many people and the good news is that you can do so many things with this theme in order to bring the taste of Japan into your home.

If you are after something that is extremely popular and which looks great, then you should consider using Japanese shoji screens, which are made of wood and they tend to have a lattice design.

Home interior design trends




Concrete is no longer just for sidewalks. New surface treatment techniques have caused concrete designs to become one of the most sought after materials for concrete patios, floors, entryways, countertops, pool decks and more.

Because of concrete's porous qualities and neutral tone, it is the perfect blank canvas for topically applied color. Using acid-based chemical stains, decorative concrete contractors have been able to achieve rich, earth-toned color schemes resembling natural stone, marble, wood, or even leather, giving a completely custom look to cement floors, concrete driveways, patios, walkways, pool decks, concrete walls and more.

Most acid stains are a mixture of water, hydrochloric acid, and acid-soluble metallic salts. They work by penetrating the surface and reacting chemically with the hydrated lime (calcium hydroxide) in the concrete. The acid in the stain lightly etches the surface, allowing the metallic salts to penetrate more easily. Once the stain reacts, it becomes a permanent part of the concrete and won't fade, chip off, or peel away. Newer, water based staining techniques offer a broad array of vivid colors.

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