Archive for August, 2010

PostHeaderIcon Bamboo Blinds

The elegance of vintage wood creates a comfortable environment for your home. In Eastern cultures, bamboo has always been used to separate spaces and make distributions. In turn, this type of shutters adds to the ethnic issue and the charm of the interiors.

Bamboo is used a lot for the construction of bridges, houses, utensils, fences, toys, musical instruments, furniture and floors. It has also been used for centuries to decorate gardens and homes. The Chinese believe that bamboo is good for long life. The Japanese use bamboo in their temples to ward off evil spirits. In India, it symbolizes friendship.

The traditional way of bamboo blinds has evolved into a sleek design that is stylish, very classy, and remarkable functionality. There are several types of bamboo flooring, and blinds of this material can be seen both in home and in major companies. The windows and bamboo blinds are becoming the latest trend in window treatments and window.

This natural product can complement any room and any style of furniture, from traditional to modern. Many people prefer bamboo blinds varnished or painted to preserve the natural look rather than painting them with artificial colors.

The cost of bamboo blinds depends on where you buy and the quality. Today you can find many options online, but before buying, it is important to note the color, texture, installation, cost, and measurements.

They can perform as bamboo blinds, to be sure they have the correct size and shape. Another advantage of bamboo is that windows are very easy to clean and maintain. All they need do is remove dust regularly. The irregularities in the color and texture enhance the natural look of bamboo.

PostHeaderIcon Secrets of the Minimalist Decor

The minimalist decor is one that reduces the decorative objects to a minimum, dispensing with all superfluous or unnecessary elements to create relaxed environments.

The use of colors is based on standard notions, preferring monochromatic tones, with little variation. The basic walls can be white or light colors like coral or green. Reflexives are preferred and neutral colors, so that the light is distributed smoothly through space. By the lighting and colors, highlights the architectural features of the spaces.

Aspects of the minimalist decor:

The spacious, light and the careful study of the distribution of the elements, make the features of the minimalist decor.

The furniture is sleek lines, devoid of ornamentation. The walls look bare or populated for some time that, highlighted element in the environment.

The lines are pure and basic geometric shapes are dominant. The whole is harmonious and balanced.

The minimalist style originates in New York in the 60s, raised the minimum visual arts movement and geometric. In architecture precludes ornate decoration of the previous years.

The minimalist rooms radiate peace and calm, its clean lines and lack of accessories, combined with lighting to create quiet environments. It is an elegant and austere that innovates in its finishes and shapes. Volumes play with the lights and finishes, to form solutions of high coherence. Some authors define this decoration as “deco silence” because of its lines exudes a feeling of relaxation and simplicity.

The colors range from white to black and roasted, with minimal touches of some neutral color, which should be studied carefully to not upset the balance. The fabrics used are plain or geometric designs.

PostHeaderIcon Decorate the Room in Nordic style

The Nordic had their houses elegantly with many natural products, wood and original objects, giving an edge to sustainability.

If you like this style, you can start decorating the room with pastel colors and beige. The targets will be the favorites on the walls, and bedding and some furniture. The most traditional and natural floods the room with recycled wood, woven of flowers and bed quilts cross stitch, a trend that comes and gives beauty to any space.

Wicker baskets used for storing all kinds of accessories, shoes and some clothing. There are very good on the floor in a corner because they serve at the same time, decoration. This is not about flowers and plants, as the Nordic love plants of all types of spaces.

Or vaporous curtains surrounding the bed rooms are common in such countries. We may think that is old fashioned, but nothing is further from reality, we think that set trends in décor worldwide.

The vintage look is still imposed. You can excel in your personal things, bracelets and pendants in the bedside table, in light fixtures or toilet, and framed mirrors in 70 styles, break the elegant dynamics of the room.

The parquet floor in the best hits and carpets of colors are necessary to match the white walls.

PostHeaderIcon 5 keys of Feng Shui

The order and harmony are two keys concepts to consider in the interior. As you know there is an oriental philosophy called Feng Shui, which sets out basic principles that can generate harmonic compositions at home or at work, so we feel at ease and that the energy flow. But if this concept seems too complicated you do not worry because we’ll give you five keys to easily apply it to your decor.

1-The receiver is the most important part of the home, because it penetrates much of the energy. It must always be placed harmonious furnishings, unfinished-neck, avoiding the overhead of objects and the accumulation of elements that carry a low mood, such as invoices, photos of deceased or any other element that we generate sadness.

2-The windows are very important, they penetrate the sunlight brings warmth and good energy to our home. These must not be too small, because not provide enough light, not too large, because they would be our energy, and should always have a translucent glass. If you have a window of the street, take advantage and put a bench next to be able to sit and watch what happens abroad, it will help you to get away and create a connection between the exterior and interior of your home.

3-In the bedroom there should be no more than a mirror, and when our reflection may not be seen from the bed, as this will help to relax. The mirrors in Feng Shui are important because they retain their positive energy stored by the sun during the day, but an excess of these can be counterproductive. Also in the bedroom should be avoided electronics, especially televisions, because remaining energy to the room and prevent the rest.

4-The room should be the hub of the house, so it should facilitate the entry and exit of persons and reporting them. The ideal is to have a corner sofa that is situated around a small table, because it invited to share the day to day among the members of your household.

5-Finally, the bathroom should be well organized, with a separation between the shower and toilet, and if possible, incorporate some natural plant to provide balance to the room.

I hope these five keys will help you have a home more harmonious and balanced, because in this time when stress is part of everyday life, our home should be a space in which to relax and escape from everything.

PostHeaderIcon Wardrobe Vs. Dressing

As the seasons pass, more and more people buying all kinds of clothes and it will eventually need to order our room and of course clothing.

All these fashionable clothes need some type of storage which can be kept orderly. Their costumes are usually kept in a closet standing next to the wall where we puts all the clothes, but we must take into account how well organized they are because instead of being the solution is could be a place of wonder or horror.

Another place where you can keep your clothes are the clothes, a large wardrobe provides a larger storage and also where we can go back and take a selection of several boxes and crates to choose clothing that will be used once. It can also be used as a costume, because part of it is reserved for that purpose. Not only the clothes stored in the closet, but the ironing board, vacuum cleaner and all that is in use daily.

If you have a large space where you can build a wardrobe, then it is certainly a good idea. The advantages of having a locker is that you can get all your stuff in one room and leave behind the exhausting days of searching.

A typical dressing room includes a series of shelves for shoes, underwear, drawers, hooks, trouser, media liaison; a wardrobe of winter has special boxes for jewelry and enough space for a large mirror.

In addition, a locker is smaller than a closet. It is ideal for those who live in condos or apartments. A closet can help you save space and can be a very creative way of organizing things.

One recommendation is that those things rarely used, place them deeper in the drawers, while we know that casual attire is the most widely used, is placed at its disposal to prevent clutter.

The conclusion is that a closet or dressing room will be large if the order is too big!