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Amazing Diane von Furstenberg Home Collection

Bogdan — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:54:11 +0000

Diane Von Furstenberg may be famous for having invented the jersey wrap dress and other iconic fashion designs, but now she is also famous for her chic home collection: DVF Home. The collection, which debuted in February, includes a line of rugs, bedding and tableware and other home accessories. In an interview with House Beautiful, she said, “color and pattern are important in all my designs,” von Furstenberg says.

House Beautiful (via)

Shown here is an electric and gorgeous tablescape that von Furstenberg created for House Beautiful magazine. She’s always used eclectic prints and bright colors in her fashion collections and she’s carried on that love of print and color into her home collection as well. Just about everything here is by von Furstenberg: the flower vases, votives, place mats, flatware, plates and napkins.

Arbogast Design Blog via The Rug Company

Von Furstenberg has quite several rugs through The Rug Company that she has been selling since 2009, all of them beautiful, but this is my favorite (eh, what can I say? I’m a sucker for zebra print!). This 100% Tibetan wool rug would look gorgeous in any room! Make sure to add other accessories to the space such as table lamps, end tables, and mirrorsto pull the room together.

House Beautiful (via)

This serving tray, and many other items in her home collection, was inspired by Joan Miro. This tray is quite beautiful in person, I’d use it as a decorative object and place it on a mantel or a coffee table and a little collection of tchotchkes.

House of Anais (via)

Pretty floral batiks in vivid colors in this duvet will brighten up any room.

Belle Maison 23 (via)

This fabric, called China Vine, was inspired by a dress from her 2008 collection. This image is from Claridge’s Hotel in London that von Furstenberg designed. Yes, she’s an interior designer too!

House of Anais (via)

Von Furstenberg also sells a line of fabrics, so now fans of this fashionable line are free to upholster to their hearts desire. Pair a couple of throw pillows in blue leopard with a settee in black and tan tiger stripes. Von Furstenberg said, in an interview with Oprah magazine, that home “is a projection of who you are.” If who you are is bold, bright, glamorous and a little bit eclectic, then you’ll love this collection. You can find the DVF Home Collection at Bloomingdale’s or Neiman Marcus. Content provided by Arcadian Home Decor, a site that specializes in top quality home decor items at extremely affordable prices. Come visit us today!

A smart solution for organizing your notes on the fridge or on the walls

Bogdan — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:10:40 +0000

Gripet is a very handy way to hold recent notes, memos, invitations, photos, and any other papers you need. Gripet uses high-polished steel balls to hold onto your papers, eliminating the need for pins, blu-tac, tape, or anything else that could damage your paper or your wall. It has magnetic strips that can be mounted to a refrigerator or filing cabinet, and also comes with sticky strips to mount it to any other surface.

Available in white or silver.

Total Length: 40cm / 16"

Weight: 0.43kg / 0.95lb

Modern Glass Countertops – cook in style

elutzik — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:00:00 +0000

Bring a modern and artistic look to your kitchen with these striking art glass countertops by ThinkGlass. Your kitchen will be completely transformed and you will blow everyone’s mind.

Features:

Glass countertops 1.5″ thick or more.
A smooth, glossy contemporary finish on every glass countertops, with a huge choice of available imbedded textures.
Custom designs of your glass countertops with infused color to create your personalized artistic touch.
Single seamless pieces made up to 7′ x 10′.
Durability that rivals any common countertop product.

Tapi – so you can clean your mouth easier

elutzik — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:00:00 +0000

Tapi is an invention by Dreamfarm, an Australian company which transforms your ordinary faucet into a drinking fountain without disturbing the normal flow of the water. So, when you’re done brushing your teeth or drinkind water, you can simply press the bottom of Tapi to change the flow back to normal. You can even get them in various colors.

Wooden kitchen accessories

Bogdan — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:06:46 +0000

Nowadays, in their home kitchen, people tend to use a lot of iron or steel accessories. Few of them know the big benefits of wooden plates, furniture, cutting boards in the kitchen. For example, did you know that a wooden spoon won’t held the smell in it and it will never damage your expensive cookware? Did you know that it’s always easier to chop food on the wooden cut board? If you like to hang your pots, here’s a tip: a wooden pot rack will never scratch your French onion soup pot.

Another useful kitchen item that it’s very often made of wood, it’s the knife storage. Why you should consider getting one? Because it offers great protection for the knife’s blade and it’s very safe, for you and your children.

Above, I just pointed a few examples, but there are some manufacturers, like JK Adams, that offers a large number of wooden kitchen accessories, starting with the JK Adams cutting board, continuing with some beautiful wine racks, pot racks, furniture, knife storages and finishing with the very useful JK Adams spice rack.

Print your toast

elutzik — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:37:17 +0000

“Breakfast for geeks” is the idea of this one-of-a-kind toaster which prints your toast. It looks similar to a desktop ink-jet printer. Sliced bread is stacked and fed into the design from the top, it’s then toasted and ejected onto the base. This toaster won 2nd prize at the berner design award ’09.

Arizona air conditioning (how to cool the heat)

Bogdan — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:07:02 +0000

Everybody in the world knows that Arizona is a state in US, mainly famous for it’s desert climate, mild winters, and exceptionally hot summers. But with a gross state product of about $232 billion a year, Arizona would have the 61st largest economy in the world, so… despite the hot weather there people work really hard. You might wonder how is this possible: well, thanks to the HVAC Phoenix companies that will provide the most reliable air conditioning equipment in the world.

HVAC stands for Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning, a service that is very popular among the Arizona air conditioning companies in the two main cities of Arizona: Phoenix (the capital) and Tucson.

For home and smaller business located in their city, the air conditioning Phoenix companies will install A/C and heating appliances, air filtration equipment, fresh air ventilation, carbon monoxide detection, humidification systems and other related equipment, that will take care of dry air, smoke, chemical fumes, high humidity, pollen, cooking odors, pet dander etc. Don’t worry about pollution, these systems are eco friendly thanks to the last trend of going green on anything.

So, if you want to move to Arizona, make sure you will install all the above equipment in order to live a comfortable live at 90–120 °F (32–49 °C) in the summer, and sometimes exceeding 125 °F (52 °C).

Kitchen perfectly integrated into the living room

elutzik — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:48:51 +0000

This is a couple’s idea of integrating the kitchen into the living room so that you so that everyone could have free access to it without anything blocking the view of the people relaxing in the living room. Another problem they solved with this is keeping an eye on the children who were playing around the house. You can prepare something to eat or drink your coffee without leaving your living room. I believe it is perfect for those days when you have guests and you don’t want to leave them alone when you go into the kitchen to get the food. They used a Star model kitchen which combines an elegant and discrete walnut wood with distressed white textured lacquer and a stainless steel top that reflects the cooking zone suspended in the air. It is the perfect solution where the kitchen opens up to the rest of the house so they can see each other and interact as a family without everyone needing to be in the same room.

Amazing kitchen system

Bogdan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:54:37 +0000

This kind of furniture remembers you the year you live in. It’s modern, lightweight (at least looking), very practical, diverse, has lots of storage places and can be customized in limitless ways starting from the superlative minimalism design offered by bulthaup, an innovative German company.

Bulthaup has developed three main kitchen furniture system, one of them being the b3 system, designed for the people who want just one thing: THE BEST!

Every kitchen that is built on the bulthaup b3 system will be unique, thanks to the limitless number of solid and filigree shapes, floating elements and floor-standing blocks used to design a kitchen for each ones personal style. The result will always be a wealth of combination options in which one element always perfectly matches another.

The architecture of the kitchen system is using a multi-functional wall, used not only for storage, but also to serve as an esthetic link, merging the kitchen and living area into a single entity. The wall itself becomes the determining factor in the room’s architecture.

The wall also has the function to conceal water, electricity and gas connections and provides interior architects and designers previously unknown possibilities when it comes to using the wall.

The elements in the b3 system can be installed floor-standing, foot-supported or wall-hanging, making everything easy to reach, as ergonomics are an important factor for bulthaup. The most of the space from the middle functional area will be filled with boxes and elements built to maximize efficiency in an elegant way.

The main innovations in the kitchen system’s design are established by: the monoblock, functional gap and elements, functional boxes, solid wooden front, front in aluminum gray, seamless stainless steel, fire and water.

The surfaces made from stainless steels are exceptionally hygienic and easy to clean, and the b3 system makes sure those surfaces look lightweight.

The aluminum gray front creates an unusual look by changing it’s dark shading with the light, which lends the setting a warm, radiant look that radiates confidence and character.

If you are interested in more details, check out the b3 system on bulthaup website.

Colorful beach house for colorful people

elutzik — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:35:32 +0000

If you love color then you’ll love it. For many it can be a too colorful interior design but i think i would like at least a room this colorful.