Do you aspire to recreate Thanksgiving table settings like the ones that adorn the pages of your favorite magazines? There’s certainly a lot of planning that goes into making a tabletop dinner party ready, but with the right pieces you can’t go wrong. Start with the foundation All good designs start with a beautiful foundation. …
As 2015 comes to a close some of this year’s most loved trends will go with it while others will continue to inspire designers and decorators alike, well into the new year. Bright contrasting colors against stark white walls are certainly here to stay. None more so than Greek Blue. Some might consider it a …
You do not think choosing a sofa for your home will be a choice you will need to ponder over for a long time. When you visit the store and see the array of sofas, you might get baffled, even if you had a particular style and design in mind. Sometimes, what you had in …
The bathroom is an important area of the home…many activities that relate to sanitation, relaxation and personal hygiene are performed there. Throughout history bathrooms had a spiritual and religious meanings , since bathing was a ritual and opportunity to take care of your body and mind Bathrooms have evolved since then …Below are some of …
Have you ever heard of “purple haze”? It has to do with an unexplained confusion …euphoria …Embrace it…Bring it to your designs , create;… let the passion take over….Associations of the color purple is royalty, extravagance, luxury, grandeur and a hint of mystery…Purple combines the calm stability of blue and the fierce energy of red….It …
One of design magazines favorite subjects –seems will be around for a while – is designs of minimal homes…And by saying minimal homes I don’t mean empty or almost empty white apartments with high ceilings…but about the choice of color , furnishings , art and details that transform an empty space into Awe… How you start Have …
Richard Meier has been designing modern buildings—with generous use of glass walls and white—since the 1960s. His firm, Richard Meier & Partners Architects, is constantly in the press, featured in museum exhibitions, honored with a range of awards, and it has built projects around the world. One of his first residential projects—and some claim …
Korean firm Samoo Architects and Engineers was ranked ninth in the world this year in BD World Architecture’s Top 100 architectural practices. Many of Samoo’s designs have a touch of what fifty years ago would have been deemed futuristic—and apparently that aesthetic of upwardly curving lines, twisting forms, and sleek surfaces did indeed represent the …