Posts from — July 2009

Whether your living room is a 21 foot length with a large picture window at one end or you live in a tiny apartment and the living room is bijou to say the least, there are living room décor ideas to suit you and your budget.

If I was choosing a color scheme for my living room I would go to the cooler colors on my color wheel chart – the blues and greens which can be used in different shades to achieve a ‘joined-up’ look of cool elegance.

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Besides white, Blue and green are my favorite colors, when choosing color for your room, related color schemes result from combining secondary and tertiary colors. For instance, the colors blue-green and green will evoke a calming effect because there are no jarring changes in color.(White decor)

Venetian mirror and blue commode.

Gray green sitting room with a blue green secretary.
Photos: John Kernick/House Beautiful

Living Room Color Ideas
May 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

Red, white and blue living room, a relax space.

Living rooms are where the stories of our lives are, well, lived, and the easiest way to revise those stories is with color. How to decide a color scheme for your living room?
Colorful Home Decor – An Italian Apartment
May 19th, 2009 ·
Orange in Kitchen
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Modern Room Color Schemes
May 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment

A modern room color scheme is simply a coordinated effort amongst all the colors in the room to create a group, or scheme that is noticeable from a distance.

Feature wall: A striking wall turns an ordinary room into an exceptional one. The intense richness of Redcurrant Glory on the fireplace in this image works brilliantly [...]

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A Blue And White Living Room
April 26th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Knowing how color will affect your emotional response will come in handy when choosing the mood of your living room. If you’re lucky enough to live in a period property with original features, painting the woodwork blue is actually an authentic look – just choose a colour from a heritage paint range. Furniture and accessories. [...]

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Girl's bedroom

When you are theme decorating a girls room, you should know that a good wall color is the best foundation you can have. From that one color alone, you can start choosing decorations that would fit. But since you are most likely going to start this whilst the kid is still a toddler then your mind must be going through palettes of pastels right now. There’s no problem with that, however, your kid would most likely outgrow the pastel and you could end up re-painting the whole room which can cost quite a bit. But if you are fine with that, then here are some great Girls bedroom decorating ideas based on certain kinds of colors and at the same time following a girls room theme.
Every little girl wants to be a princes, and decorating her room in a princess style will really make her feel specia. The most common color for a girl’s princess room is pink, so we’ll start with that. Pink can come in various hues from the light, pastel ones to the darker ones such as fuchsia and hot pink. Play with hues. You can start from a nice pastel pink color and add details in darker hues. Such as children’s bedding or a rug in hot pink. Of course, you would need to balance this out with a few white furnishing just so the room won’t end up looking monotonous. Pink is definitely fit for a princess so if you are decorating a room around that theme, the tips above would work very well for you.

Red, White And Pink Bedroom Decorating
May 5th, 2009 · No Comments
photo credit: James Carriere
Chocolate and Red Bedroom: A 19th-century Italian headboard, upholstered in Osborne & Little’s Tamara, is the centerpiece of this bedroom highlighted with chocolate, red, and a soft pink. Very romantic.

photo credit: Eric Piasecki
Deep Red Drinks Room: The ultimate red room. The walls and doors in the “drinks room” are upholstered in a [...]
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Pink Interior Design
May 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment
Country Homes & Interiors
a feminine pink bedroom
We have chosen two toning pinks for this exuberant yet feminine bedroom. Sexy Pink on the right creates a feature wall and is complemented beautifully with Sweet Pink on the back wall and Strawberries ‘n’ Cream on the window frames.
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The walls were painted Benjamin Moore’s Marshmallow Bunny; the sofa [...]
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Decorating A Small Teens Bedroom
December 8th, 2007 · No Comments

Of course you want to make a special place for your teenager, But if you only have a small space for their, what should you do? Here are some decorating ideas you can use to make decorating a small teen bedroom easy!
If you want to paint your teen bedroom, then the paint color that you select [...]
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Decorating A Little Girl’s Bedroom
March 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Decorating your child’s bedroom can be both a fun and rewarding experience for both of you. Before decorating your little girl’s bedroom, you need to have a basic idea of what you want and how it will be placed. A good way to start is to paint the walls a solid white, or other color [...]
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Girl's bedroom, storage

Color decorating can also be great help if you can’t think of a nice theme for your girls room. The color itself could become the theme which is not only easier when compared to having something like a French theme or a Princess theme . As I’ve said earlier, from one single color you can get numerous ideas for decoration. Just play around with the different hues to give the room depth. Never go for a single hue when decorating a room because doing so would leave it flat looking and too monotonous. (photos: housetohome, article: B Wilson)

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Color Scheme For Living Room
March 13th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Painting gives a new life to your living room, it makes the room fresh, new and clean, But we all know one of the most difficult decorating tasks is choosing a color scheme. Are you still thinking about a color for those walls for your important living room? Oyster White, Navajo White, Cielo Blanco, Off [...]

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The site is extremely long, narrow and steep. Courtyards are carved into the hillside for daylight and privacy. One enters at the center of the house.
The program is for a residence of approximately 6,700 SF, with a detached 3-car garage. The site is very steep, long and narrow – it’s 50’ wide by 400’ long with an average slope of 35%. Located on the west side of Mercer Island, there are panoramic views west towards Seattle and the Olympic Mountains beyond.


Structural Engineer: Jeff Albert
Mechanical Engineer: Rainbow Consulting
Landscape Architect: Alchemie (Bruce Hinckley)
Casework: Poliform
Contractor: EH Construction.
At the top of the exterior entry stair. Photograph by Tom Hille.

Architect Fearon Hay’s Own House – Fairy Tale House
June 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Fearon Hay has an excellent track record of inserting sympathetic slices of modernism into unbelievable landscapes. This is his own house in Te Kinga, beside the Lake Brunner.
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Barragán Fountain House
January 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment

　　This house should probably be called the “Barragán Fountain House” considering all the attention it has received because of the fountain on the property, which just happens to have been designed by the famous Mexican architect Luis Barragán. the City of Los Angeles has declared the fountain to be a Historic Cultural Monument.
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Did you know for £50k you can buy a Micro house – 8ft of living space….? “The micro house is a lightweight compact dwelling for one or two people. The micro house has compact dimensions of 2.6m cube making it adaptable to a variety of sites and circumstances, and its functioning spaces; sleeping, working / dining, cooking and hygiene, make it suitable for everyday use.” say M-ch.
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