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23 Feb 2011

The Best Home Design Combining Style and Functionality

Author: admin | Filed under: Home Decor

This is one of the most impressive homes we have seen yet. Its structure is a massive one, and the cutting edge shape fits perfectly into the scenery. The preferred materials for such a home is concrete and glass, to create both open space and keep the owners’ privacy. The design almost looks like a professional building where a business would be run, but this is actually someone’s home! Although this home is not situated in an area that would allow a huge outdoor space, the architects have made the best of its surroundings.

 

The side swimming pool is one of the best features it has along with the boundary green fences and walls that are meant to provide green textures that would soften the pavements. In front of the walls, the architect has used espaliered plantings that give the whole surrounding a leveled aspect that contrasts with the big concrete upper part of the house. The glass walls are high enough to give you a perfect view of the outdoors, but low enough not to rise above the green fences, thus offering the owners the privacy they need. The cutting edge house, seems to be an island of rough materials amongst the green outdoor space carefully created around it.

9 Feb 2011

Black and White Kitchen

Author: admin | Filed under: Kitchen

We have shown you so far kitchens in light colors amplifying the idea of space and calmness, but here is a unique black and white kitchen. Futura Cucine, the Italian kitchen designer, has a new proposition for us which we find very intriguing. This kitchen design is all about black and white; the designer has played with shapes and combined the two colors in such a way that the result is a very fashionable kitchen with a sense of style. This kitchen is designed following the minimalist style, however, this does not strip it one bit out of its functionality. Everything is put within quick reach but the items do not cluster the cabinets, on the contrary, space seems to have been a must for this designer.

The kitchen has a simple white table and a big white shelf that contrast with the cooking area. Moreover, the center piece of this black and white kitchen that is the expression of blending black and white into a perfect mix is the black and white cabinet that emphasizes the idea according to which the whole kitchen has been created. The designer was bold enough to use strong colors in this design however, the effect is impressive.

9 Feb 2011

Acrylic Chairs to Suit Your Most Hidden Desire

Author: admin | Filed under: Furniture

Jean Charles de Castelbajac is known to be part of the designers who are not afraid to be the promoters of an avangardistic trend, even when it comes to acrylic chairs. His chair designs impress not only by their uniqueness but also by the material they are made of: acrylic.

The collection of 25 acrylic chairs has caught the public eye particularly because of the impressive and interesting way each chair is created. None resembles another but they all have in common the material they were made of and this is what makes this collection unique. These chairs are not only a remarkable collection but a piece of contemporary art each in particular and one can see the creative effort that the designer has put into the making of them. Acrylic is not a common material to be used in making chairs and living room furniture, but who had thought that the effect they generate is astonishment and praise. The large variety of chairs allows one to choose their favorite or mix and match and the proprieties of the acrylic allows the designer to mould it in the shape and size not to mention color he needs. We would definitely recommend one in your living room.

9 Feb 2011

A Wooden Home Blending in With Nature

Author: admin | Filed under: Home Decor

One has many things in mind when they hear of a wooden home or cottage blending in with nature, but this new concept of housing is definitely not amongst the first things that come into mind. Many of you have dreamt of your tree house but how many have imagined it would be like this? This interesting building concept is envisaged to appear and merge with the scenery. The structure is made out of wood and metal, but wood is predominant, and can be found both outside and inside, in the finishing. The entire house is built using curves and wavy patterns, lofted towards the top. The house has many nooks and crannies therefore you can play with space and you can decorate it in many ways. The wood and metal structure has been particularized in such a way that it would complete the curves perfectly, without any abrupt interruptions of the smooth curved lines. The interior bears the same pattern that the exterior has already accustomed the eye with. The furniture is in the same tone with the rest of the house, mainly of natural wood and metal, with curved finishing in such a way that one can even feel a special flow running throughout the house.

19 Jan 2011

A Lavishing and Eccentric Billiard Table

Author: admin | Filed under: Furniture

This nice and clean billiard table is affordable only to those for which art and age mean an exquisite piece of furniture and who have the money to invest in it. This is one of the most expensive pieces of furniture for it to be used in someone’s spare time for actually playing billiards. Not only that this billiard table was made of the finest materials, but it is also engraved and decorated with state of the art motifs. The billiard table is built out of black walnut and the cushion friezes are decorated with quotations from famous poets and writers. As if this wasn’t enough, beneath the friezes one can see several panels with scenes from Queen Victoria’s life and scenes from different countries. Above each exposed part of the leg supporting the table, there are the small carved portraits of several kings of England. This pool table comes with a matching cupboard showing the Queen in four different stages of her reign. If this has impressed you to a certain extent, the price is twice more impressive, since we are talking of genuine black walnut and handmade carvings with splendid finishing, the price can easily go over £1million, even more so since this is a unique piece.