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The Designer Pad - Zen-sational. This breathtaking loft is absolutely heavenly, a place to worship white and simplicity. Zen is the perfect word to describe the home of fashion designer Johanne Riis, who had the vision to transform a former warehouse into this incredible five-story multiple space where she now lives and works. The basement houses her atelier, the ground floor is where her shop and showroom are located, and the remaining three floors are dedicated to the living quarters. Without a doubt, there's a deep feeling of peace and serenity that surrounds all the areas, which are always changing thanks to the ingenious furniture solutions she created — like using ten individual tables to form one larger one for the dining room. Although most of the spaces are bathed in white, the sparce use of red and black tell the perfect story.

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Is It Wise to Go with Wooden Flooring? | Home and Gardening. Wooden flooring has been around for quite some time now but due to a few upgrades made to it, it is being considered as something new. Several people would not take wooden flooring as a wise idea overlooking the advantages it carries There were a few disadvantages of a wooden floor in the past but they do not exist anymore and there were a few myths that were not true but still many people do not like to go with wooden flooring what so ever because of so many different reasons. Not long ago, wooden floors were not that easy to maintain but this is not the case anymore in this modern era. Today, wooden flooring carries another top coat that is there in order if a refinish is needed, which is of course not needed all the times (required in some cases).

Some people today have really cheap wooden floors but they are maintaining them quite well through area rugs and floor protectors if furniture they have placed some kind of furniture over the wooden floor. Your garden in an electric light bulb | Home and Gardening. Posted on April 21st, 2011 by kikonja in Offbeat. Organic interior. ECO STYLE - ROMANTIC ORGANIC INTERIOR. Natural interior. Moroccan Bazaar | Moroccan Furniture & Accessories. Moroccan interior. Design Style: Japanese Inspired Interiors. If you’ve ever been attracted to the clean lines of modern and minimalistic qualities of decor and interiors, most likely that inspiration stemmed from traditional Japanese interiors. The Zen-like qualities of space, open floor plans, natural materials, and nature inspired neutral color palettes are Eastern civilization qualities of Japanese interiors in which we love our interiors to be infused with these same aesthetics. If you’re trying to bring Japanese inspiration into your home, here are tips to bring details into your home, which reflect this influential decor style.

Open spaced floor plans: In Western civilization, the tendency to place furniture closer together and in abundance is the opposite in Eastern civilization. Open spaced floor plans that keep walls to a minimum and embrace views to the exterior are a quality to bring into your home. Less is more, is the motto for Japanese inspired interiors, and minimalism and natural colors and materials fits your home seamlessly. Japanese interiors. 7 Principles Of Japanese Interior Design - Spacious Planet. Japanese interior design is not easy to define. It encompasses both traditional Japanese design and modern. Japanese interior design also incorporates countless styles and design elements that are not easy to draw into a single definition. However, there are several principles that are common features of Japanese interior design: 1. FlexibilityEfficient use of resources is a fundamental part of Japanese culture. Japanese rooms are typically multi-functional rooms that maximize space.

For example, Japanese futon beds are folded and stored in the morning allowing the sleeping area to be reused during the day. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Fusuma(襖) Fusuma are Japanese sliding panels that are typically made of wood and paper or cloth. ShojiShoji are Japanese screens made with a wood frame and panes of translucent paper. Tatami(畳) Tatami are traditional Japanese floors made of rice straw mats. Tokonoma (床の間)A Tokonoma is a alcove that is used in reception rooms such as tea ceremony rooms. Digg. Japanese Interior Decorating - A Simple, Sophisticated Style. Japanese interior decorating. If you are looking for Asian decorating, or an Oriental interior design style, why not concentrate on a Japanese theme? Japanese interior design is a super look for a modern home - sleek, sophisticated and beautiful... Oh, and don't forget - very calming and practical too... ...so why not check it out today...

I help you through the essentials, to get the look in your own home... Understanding the Look Japanese-influenced interior design is a wonderful look for any home. Japanese interior design is certainly a very specific look... And you may need to spend a little time and trouble, tracking down suitable or authentic furnishings, to get the look. But the results will definitely be worth it. A Japanese interior decorating style is very modern and sophisticated – but very relaxing, and easy to live with.

There are really some very beautiful Japanese objects and art works that you will love to bring into your home - and make it feel unusual... Walls and Color Windows. Kouichi Kimura Architects Stun With Black-White Contrast. The wicked folks from Kouichi Kimura Architects have done it again. This time they managed to impress us with a house that featurers a black exterior and a contrasting white courtyard that gets the eye. Highly modern, with some rooms dark and other rooms light, the house features the minimalist theme like a lot of Japanese architecture these days.

We love the full black bathroom (don’t see that very often) and the plants that somehow bring the whole structure to life. A dream house indeed … – via. Temptation. Every so often an email lands in my inbox from perhaps the cruelest man I know. Chris from Welcome Beyond dangles dream designs in front of me and it is all I can do to stop myself from hocking everything I own, jumping a plane and escaping to the hand picked boutique vacation properties that litter the pages of their website.

Chris has cruelly tempted me again with a Spanish beauty and oh the temptation! Alemanys 5 ... "located in the core part of Girona's medieval quarter, within the scope of the first wall and overlooking the Plaça de Sant Domènec, is the property Alemanys 5, whose original building dates from the Sixteenth Century. Its recent restoration integrates old and new, where sober and clean lines look for the enjoyment of essential elements such as space, light, shadow, fire, stone, water or silence.

" Naked Bedrooms: Interior Designs Dressed Down [Photos] You will not find these rough, rugged and raw interiors in any posh modern interior design magazines. Photographer by Andrew Moore captures these spaces without fancy dress or updated decoration; our simple, most private, as-is sleeping quarters in the nude – so to speak. Dressers are left open, accessories are strewn about, furniture sets sit in their existing configuration and decorating is left alone for each image. Shot everywhere from Russia and Cuba to Bosnia and Vietnam, some of these are hardly recognizable as made-for-sleeping spaces.

Chipped and faded wall, floor and ceiling surface paint shuffles slowly toward gray, black and white. Bent, broken and cracked furniture reveals raw wood underneath a finished veneer. The beauty in these pictures, in short, is tied to visual complexity that comes with natural age despite muted colors. Sometimes he shoots a bedroom space directly, while in other cases he takes photos from across another room peaking in.