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37 Sunny Yellow Bathroom Design Ideas. Aug 17 Yellow is a great color. For example you can easily make your bathroom more stylish and sunny with it. We’ve gathered for you a bunch of cool decorating ideas showing how you can do that. Yellow wall paint, yellow shower curtain, yellow floor tiles or any other yellow accents – everything would work great. Via digsdigs.com Similar Posts: 50 Ceiling Design Ideas. Complex mirror structure on a ceiling is a really unqiue desing solution for any room A lot of people prefer simple flat white ceilings. Sometimes that’s because of neglecting the possibility of ceiling design while other times that’s because of they think that’s the best solution.

Even though I think white ceilings are awesome there are also other very cool ways to design them. Whether it’s a bedroom, a kitchen or even a bathroom, a cool and creative ceiling design could give this room a unique look and impress all people who visit it. We’ve gathered an awesome collection of ceiling design ideas that might help you to make at least one of your rooms cool and unusual. You can find here as simply painted in other than white colors ceilings as ceilings decorated wood boards, moldings and so on. Some of these ideas could be used if you’re planning a DIY renovation. Wood Ceilings If you’re all into wood we also have a roundup that features only wood ceiling ideas.

Metal Ceilings. 5 kitchen design trends for 2012. Each year, the National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA) surveys its members to identify the latest design and specification trends in kitchen and bath design. This year, 350 NKBA members took part in the survey. Here are five emerging kitchen trends they identified: Cherry wood has consistently been the first or second most popular type of wood for cabinetry, jockeying for the top spot with maple each year. However, designers are slowly shifting away from it. While 80 percent of NKBA member kitchen designers had recently specified cherry cabinetry as 2010 approached, that figure dropped to 72 percent last year and fell again to 69 percent heading into 2012.

No one other wood species is taking that market share on its own, as even maple dropped in popularity this year, falling from 77 percent last year to 70 percent now. Source: NKBA Photo: Wellborn Cabinet Inc. Build your own transformer bed that turns into a desk. © Graham Phakos How did we miss this? Perhaps it's Kickstarter ennui, which I have suffered from for a while. After years of showing jazzy and expensive Italian transformer beds that change from desks to beds, Graham Phakos built one of his own and put it up on Kickstarter last November. He didn't get to his target, but promised to make plans available "in the next month or two. " Graham describes the project on his website: A desk that is also a bed! Desks are also very useful pieces of furniture, but beds predictably take priority. . © Desk Mode This is where the UrbanDesk comes in! It has a clever parallelogram suspension that lets you leave your stuff on your desk when it folds down, just like the more expensive versions.

Calendar made of matches on the Behance Network. Daily Design. Alcove Storage Ideas | Ideas for Home Garden Bedroom Kitchen - HomeIdeasMag.com. Staggered shelves You’ll be lucky to find a ready-made floating shelf that fits your alcove perfectly, so try this quirky trick instead. It makes a feature of shorter shelves, creating areas for storage and display without making the space look cluttered.

Firewood storage Take firewood storage to a whole new level with this fireplace alcove storage idea. Perfect for creating drama. Just don’t choose a piece of wood from the bottom of the pile. Organised office Liven up an all-white scheme by using slim shelves to display colourful books and photos. Kitchen storage A glass kitchen cabinet built into an alcove offers a place to store and display favourite items. Feature wall Turn the traditional concept of a feature wall on its head and wallpaper the alcove instead of the fireplace. Linen storage Bedlinen and cushions take up so much space and it’s a shame to hide your favourite things away. Multimedia zone Keep media in check with bespoke cubes. Top View all articles by Author. DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network.

25 Awesome DIY Ideas For Bookshelves. All-in-One Modular Fold Out Living Room Furniture Set. This incredible all-in-one furniture set from Matroshka is still looking for funding – so if you want to have one you might need to become an investor. Named after Russian nesting dolls, this remarkable furniture collection packs down to just 13 square feet but includes: bookshelves, a double bed, corner couch, dinner table, four stools, working space, drawers, a wardrobe and additional storage. Whether or not these are ever mass-produced this great step-by-step furniture photo shoot should at least inspire do-it-yourselfers to think about how you can create your own highly portable and yet remarkably simple modular furniture sets to suit your own spatial needs:

Color Scheme Designer. Small Spaces. Good Design For Living in Small ApartmentsAs people migrate to smaller spaces, good design helps a lot. This is something they figured out in Europe long ago, that if you don't have a lot of horizontal room you can go vertical. Tumidei in Italy makes some of the nicest stuff, like this unit with lots of storage under the bed. This unit just raises the floor high enough for beds to slide under. This one looks a bit clinical, but has two single beds plus a pull-out double bed in between. When you read in the New York Times that professional couples with children are moving into small one-bedroom apartments in Manhattan and sleeping in closets, perhaps this stuff could be useful. None of this stuff is cheap, nor, as far as I can tell is it available in North America, but there are ideas here that demonstrate how people can share a space and still get a little privacy, a good place to work and a lot of storage in a very small envelope.

Like this? Inner Child: Colorful Home. If kids could design and build whole homes, what would they look like? This so-called Rainbow House is filled with secret doors, slides that bridge between floors and multi-colored spiral staircases to wind you back up. Chutes and ladders, anyone? Dubbed a “magical oasis’ by its creators (AB Rogers and DA Studio, the busy and noisy road next to the building is matched by equally rambunctious and interactive interior decor. Stepping in off the street is a lot like walking into a fantasy looking glass or wardrobe portal. An over-sized sofa on the main floor ? Amidst the gleeful madness, though, there is much reason alongside rhyme – minimalist fixtures and functional cooking spaces are animated by their surroundings, but remain modern and somehow adult despite their setting. Bookshelf Porn.

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