Interior Design
Basically just find cool interior design things. Have fun? Mar 26
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Dear Lifehacker, My apartment is boring and I want it to be really cool, but I don't know much about interior design and I don't have very much money. What can I do to make my home look cool and not really dull? Making your home look nice is actually not as hard as you think. Although you'll want to know a few design principles to help you make the best possible choices, your primary goal simply needs to be to create an environment that exemplifies who you are. I spoke with Bradford Shellhammer , one of the founders of Fab.com (a site that offers steep discounts on all kinds of design items), for some guidance.
How Can I Turn My Boring Digs Into an Awesome, Well-Designed Home On the Cheap?
If you’re one of those pandas who read our magazine daily, you probably remember Anamorphic Medusa Inside a Factory by Truly Design or Anamorphic Typography by Joseph Egan we’ve talked about earlier. Well, it appears that these guys are not the only ones experimenting with this technique. Swiss artist Felice Varini has been creating illusions of flat graphics superimposed on three dimensional spaces since 1979 using the same eye-deceiving technique called anamorphosis .
Anamorphic Illusions by Felice Varini | Bored Panda
What is the first aspect that comes to mind when thinking about modern living rooms ? For us it’s openness . And since we already featured a post on Freshome showcasing 26 wonderful living room ideas , we decided to continue this amazing display with 30 open plan living rooms that are very much in agreement with the modern interior design trends. Not too long ago, Ronique wrote a post called The Pros and Cons of Having an Open Floor Plan Home , where she mentioned how today the open floor plan is a sought after amenity in any home, as half walls and visual dividers allow a family to converse and interact. In this post we did not only gather interiors that have the ability to connect, but also fascinating rooms with a well defined personality and a highly appealing look.
30 Thrilling Open Plan Living Rooms with a View
Home-Dzine - What can you do with an old pallet?
So many things! If you ever come across the opportunity to pick up a few pallets take a look at some of the ideas I have come across for recycling old pallets into furniture and other practical and decorative pieces. ABOVE and BELOW: Who would have thought that a humble pallet could be transformed into so many practical pieces. Make a coffee table, make a dining room table, even make a sectional sofa or daybed with a wood pallet. ABOVE and BELOW: Don't stop there... Recycle a pallet into useful furniture and accessories for a country or cottage kitchen.
Wow those too-cool-for-school tweens and teens with one (or a pair!) of these. The metal wire pieces are artfully shaped in a mix of twists, loops and lines to re-create two of the music lover’s favorite things. The guitar and headphones seem to leap off the walls as they move to the beat. $49
Wire Music Decor | Kid Crave
So far you know that white is classic but too much white might cease to be neutral and become and element of stress. The good news is that white goes well with any colors. Look at this apartment ! A spot of red or orange to stimulate your appetite in the dining room, some blue or green accents to calm you down in the living room and bathroom, orange and yellow for your kitchen and pastel colors in your bedroom; these are the color arrangements generally recommended by interior designers.
The Joy of Adding Color to Your Apartment According to Your Personality! on DesignRulz
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Shi Yuan has created a way to turn normally passive things into something with a life of its own.
Make Room! Cool Color-Changing Walls for Your Home « Dornob
This may be the best room-changing design idea since interior house paint: forget your white living room walls, green bedroom or brown kitchen and bring your favorite rooms to life with these incredible, changeable and colorful do-it-yourself pixelated wall displays.
Room for Color 2011 | Apartment Therapy
Congratulations to Alison, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, for her grand-prize winning colorful room. She made the most of a gorgeous vintage architectural detail in her home by choosing just the right color to highlight and give an updated feel to the dark wood trim in her living room. The deep teal-blue paint is an excellent backdrop to Alison's furnishings — from the dark gray sofa to a warm mustard-yellow rocker and in combination with the dark blue rug and navy and white patterned throw and pillow. The artwork, framed in black with light mats, shines against the strong solid color. The use of a fun, ultra-decorative wallpaper (by Orla Kiely) in the adjacent entryway completes the look and echoes the teal in the floral pattern. As Alison shares, "Pick a color you adore and use it in your house...you won't be unhappy when you choose a color that you love."“Tear Off” Wallpaper by ZNAK | Design Milk
Applying wallpaper to walls has never been so fun. With this perforated “tear off” wallpaper from ZNAK , you can customize the appearance of your space by tearing off the pieces as you please. The wallpaper is created out of non-woven material and the shapes are inspired by the the transformation process of snakes.IdeaPaint Dry-Erase Board Paint
If you’re like us, you’ve got notes everywhere– in old binders, on wall-stuck post-its, on your computer desktop… Having just moved in to a new office, we’d like to add a new dimension to our hand-written brainstorms, and a dry erase board is a logical step forward. Why get a dry erase board, however, when you can turn your whole wall into one? IdeaPaint Dry-Erase Board Paint can be brushed on to a wall to create a write-board of epic proportions. Your ideas and doodles wipe off just like a standard office board, ready to be replaced by newer and better ideas. We’re pumped to get this stuff going in our new office. [ ideapaint via uncrate ]IdeaPaint: Turn Your Entire Office Into a Whiteboard | Fast Company
Why didn't you think of this? John Goscha , at the ripe old age of 25 ditched a job offer at Goldman Sachs, and instead began marketing IdeaPaint , which is simply a paint that turns any paintable surface into a dry-erase board.The family needs a better place to gather than in front of the TV. IdeaPaint can turn virtually anything you can paint into a high-performance dry-erase surface, giving your family a place to interact, communicate and fully explore your creativity. No matter where you use it, it can keep your family connected.