Wednesday 30 June 2010

Minimalist Multifunctional Furniture: A Folding Chair Into The Ladder

Your house is a minimalist design? minimalism is the key word for the occupancy or minimalist homes, they need practical, concise, and multifunctional. This minimalist furniture is one of them:

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Tuesday 29 June 2010

Minimalist Furniture Design Multipurpose and Multifunctional

Your house is a minimalist design? location and limited space at home? The following furniture might be an option for home owners and minimalist. Form of simple furniture, modern and practical, as it can change the function, practical and change shape in an instant.
Sofa Design is simple orange in a flash can be changed into a Bunk Bed for 2 people

Daytime functioning as a desk, and at night becomes a comfortable bed.

Complete work space turned into a bedroom at night

One again, the Design the sofa to Bunk Bed

Sunday 27 June 2010

10 Most Unique Home Design in The World

Houses are a reflection of the personality of the owner. For a well-established, houses are often used as a reflection of his establishment, as a form of manifestation of the achievements in life. For a young family, a house desirable as a place that symbolized the start to live a long life full of struggle in order to achieve happiness.

For the realization of These symbols, many people are willing to reach into the pocket of her, in order to realize a dream house.

But it occurred to by your view of how an artist on a house? Type, such as whether the house they desire?

For an artist, the house is a 'canvas' or the media to realize the expression of his artistic soul. Curious how the forms? please see pictures below.


Pumpkin House Design

Hobbit House Design

Shoe House Design

Design House Round

Sphere House Design

Pink Castle Design

Kettle House Design

Design House Grass Ceiling

Half Circle Design House

Ball House Design

After viewing the unique design of the house. if you are interested in creating a design house like the one above?

Saturday 26 June 2010

Plan and Minimalist House Design Tips

Minimalist Home Designs

In building a house is minimalist, not easy as you imagine. many things to consider in building a minimalist home. the plan is a minimum. and interior space therein made to the minimum.

Minimalist house, there are only a few of my other family bird birds usually combined with sitting room, kitchen and living room there are only two bedrooms and a garage for one car only.

Minimalist house may not have a large yard for children to play, so that a child's room should be made as comfortable as possible. so that children feel relaxed in that space. I think quite a few tips from me to make a minimalist home.

Friday 25 June 2010

What is Architecture Minimalist? Minimalist House Design


The roots of minimalism in architecture is often traced back to the mid to late 1950s. Movement is a reaction to the new style of architecture - and lifestyle - which is being cultivated in the United States. In the U.S. boom in the years after World War II, there is a movement towards a large and exaggerated style of the building. During this era, groomed suburbs and supermarkets all over the map of the cave appeared, and there was a tendency garnish it. Minimalism was developed as a response to a lifestyle that increasingly commercial and consumer are reflected in the design.

Despite the minimalist art (which is sometimes known as a literalist art) has its roots in America, minimalist architecture was born elsewhere. Northern Europe, especially Scandinavia, and Japan is very important in the history of minimalist design, and in fact, this place remains one of the biggest embracers minimalism.

In general, the idea of minimalism can be described as "less is more," or as some designers and architects are fond of saying, "do more with less" minimalist architects use space as a design feature in and of itself .. Rather than attempting to fill the space with features, they create designs where space is as carefully thought out and used as the things they add to the room. basic shapes and straight, clean lines that are also important techniques used in minimalist designs, such as playing with various types of illumination. The result is elegant but not fussy.

Another technique often used is to provide a feature that more than one use. One example might be the floor beneath the heating unit, either form the basis for the room and heating room. This allows the designer to create the optimal utility without crowding the space.

Some of the important architects working in the field of minimalist design includes:
  • Lugdwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Buckminster Fuller
  • Dieter Rams
  • Luis Barragan
  • John Pawson
  • Eduardo Souto de Mouro
  • Alvar Siza
  • Tadao Ando
  • Alberto Campo Baeza
  • Yoshi Tanigushi
  • Peter Zumthor
  • Richard Gluckman
  • Michael Gabellini
  • Claudio Silverstrin
  • Vincent Van Duysen

Wednesday 23 June 2010

Minimalist Contemporary Design House in Brazil

This is a contemporary minimalist house design in Brazil. This project is a contemporary minimalist house designed by Arthur Casas is located in Iparonga, Brazil. Cumaru wood exterior panels with a warm, House in Iporanga is an architect who lives in the forest. "I always wanted a house in the woods, in a place where I can relax and recharge" my energy, said Arthur, from Arthur Casas.
This house is in great shape two simple, symmetrical cubes embracing an open space. As explained, 'reinforces the lack of integration with the environment home partition and add grandeur to a minimalist living area. A limit of a large terrace house, serves as a corridor to observe the surrounding untouched Atlantic Rain Forest, and the partition between the natural and built. Resigned, inched unlimited pool seems to pour into the thick vegetation. "
Private room at the side of the cube around. On the upper floor accessed by a thin bed of floating Cumaru catwalk leading to the ultra-thin profile. To the left: the guest bedroom and a private guest room. To right: master with en suite.
Below is the kitchen and the waiter places to the left, the guest bedroom and office to the right. This office has two large picture windows east and south. This seating area to be shaded from the sun-centered summer, shining in the east and west through the door of this room a big wind.

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Tuesday 22 June 2010

Modern Minimalist Furniture for Minimalist Home Design

This is an example of modern furniture for home design minimalist. Minimalist modern furniture needed to fill a minimalist space in your home. modern theme makes the room should be designed with the latest furnishings. We will provide pictures and minimalist furniture that will adapt to the modern concept of your home. This furniture design is the latest design we got from several sources on the internet. Hope can help you with design ideas to add to your room.
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Monday 21 June 2010

Modern Bookcases

We've been struggling with the decision whether to buy an iPad or not.  We are late adopter, or maybe even no adopter, type when it comes to technology.  There is something about holding a book and flipping the pages that is really satisfying to us. 

That is, until you want to carry ten books with you when you travel.  And most of them are hardbacks. Times like that make us wonder if printed books are going the way of CDs, you know. Like, who buys CD anymore?

But as we were driving down the Melrose Design district the other day, this gorgeous bookcase from the Poliform showroom almost caused us to crash the car.  It is STUNNING!  It's huge and it's perfect if you have a loft with very tall ceiling.


We don't have the pricing information for this item, sorry.  Poliform is very high-end and upscale, so it is probably really expensive.  But, if you have a really good carpenter, it's probably really easy to build!  And, wouldn't it be great as a room divider too? Just make sure your carpenter anchor it properly.

You see, there is always a place for books! Ipad or no Ipad.

To see more bookcases from Poliform, click here.

Home Renovation Tips to a New Home | Home Decor


Tips on renovating old houses into new houses, to renovate their house could be considered are as follows:

Select Places Who Want renovated
Notice the main part of which is to be renovated, whether that section would be linked with other parts of your house that allows damage / renovation can not be done only at the main site, kalau so then you will need a deeper study can be assisted by your architect.
From top design houses

Example:
Just want to renovate the roof? found in the roof there is a leaking water pipe flow, the roof is connected with other parts of your house, then it could be said renovation of the roof of the road plus replacing a leaky pipe, etc. fireplace design.

In such cases it is to be prepared if there is enough budget renovation that spread to other places.

Consult with both the architect who handles these renovations, make sure the architect to work according to the procedure, according to your agreement and plan an appropriate time.
Home renovation to make it look new

Home decor to make it look new

Sunday 20 June 2010

Five Ways to Make Your House Younger

Did you see "Hot In Cleveland" last week?  We didn't either, mainly because we don't even know how to find TV Land on our TV.  If you miss it, you can see the full episode here.

Anyway, the reason we mention it is because reading a LA Times review on the show we saw one funny line-- "To think we spent all that time and effort and money trying to look 10 years younger and 10 pounds lighter," says Malick, a recently unemployed soap star now being offered grandma roles, "and all we had to do was crash-land in Cleveland."

You'll have to be at that age to know what we are talking about!  You know, the age where we look at younger women more than our husbands do?  The age that we keep saying to ourselves, man, if I can only have my old body back with my current brain? 
Which leads us to this point, do you know your house can look 10 years younger too?  Most people don't realize this, but the way we decorate our house is very much like the way we dress, it literally can add or subtract a few years.

Here are five ways you can instantly update your home:

1) Use fresh and happy colors via use of wallpapers, paints and fabrics.

Wallpapers are so in now.  We love, love it.  Not as much to wallpaper every room like they did in the sixties, but by wallpapering just one wall or a small bathroom or dining room, you can instantly freshen things up.

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2) Get rid of things that are outdated.

You know how mom's jean just add 10 years to your age and 10 lbs to your butt?  Outdated things like ivy silk plants, sofa arm covers, oak furniture, shabby chic sofas (so 80s!) are the equivalent of mom's jeans. Worse yet, it screams "grandma"!

3) Update your furniture

Furniture is like fashion.  It changes with time.   You probably notice that furniture are not as heavy as they use to be.  The heavy, ornate look for furniture (think Real Housewives of Orange County/New Jersey/Atlanta) are as out as McMansions.  Rather, look for furniture that are modern and clean-lined with fresh designs.  If you have upholtery pieces with good bones (say, a very comfortable sofa), consider re-upholstering it with new fabrics.  The fabric choices nowadays are amazing. 




4) Get small little things that count.

Sometimes things are so tough that shopping is not an option (2008-2009, anyone?). But you know how sometimes a little thing can make us feel much better, say, a tube of pretty lipstick? It's like that for the home too.  We spend so much time in our home, it's ok to treat yourself a little bit.  Little things like dressing your bed with really good sheets, make your bathroom like a spa etc.  goes a long way.  You see this with a good hotel--it's the little details that make all the difference.

So consider buying a new rug, a couple of pretty pillows--it doesn't have to be expensive.  Homegoods is a good store for bargains like this.  Buy lots of books secondhand.  They make you look smart (and  great accessories too).



Note:  A good source for hotel things is American Hotel Registry.  They sell actual hotel sheets, pillows and mattresses and from what we can see, the prices are pretty good and that you can buy directly from them.  (We are not affiliated with this site in anyway)

5) Go contrarian. 

The problem with trend is that after a while everything looks the same.  Remember how Juicy Couture was all the rage just a couple of years back?  What happened now to those velour tracksuits?

Home trends are like that too.  After a while everyone's house look the same.  Enough with the granite counter already.  Enough with one paint color for each room.  And please, do we need 10,000 square feet home?

The best styles are the ones that buck against the trend, stay true to the classic, and retain its integrity.

Go with your personality and your style, unless, of course, you have no style (in that case, consider hiring help).

Just remember that simpler is better, and less is more.

Masculine Furnishings for Men

Men usually don't have that much say in the decorating of your home, do they?  We think because if we leave it up to them all they will buy is big screen TVs and Lazy Boy chairs.   Say what you will about stereotype.  It exists because it's usually true.

So consider this a "Straight Women for Straight Guys" intervention. Furnishings can be very masculine and stylish at the same time.  Here are some of our favorite furniture lines that have that combination:

Thomas O'Brien for Hickory Chair:
This line is what we would describe as modern American classic. Very clean-lined. Solid, neutral colors. A little bit pricey, but it's the kind of furniture that won't go out of style for a long time.


Michael Weiss for Vanguard Furniture

This is another one of our favorite collection. Manly, but not overly so. There are some soft touches in the details that we like.  Less expensive than Thomas O'Brien, and the quality is just as nice.



Brownstone Furniture:

If you are looking for an affordable line with coordinating and matching items, Brownstone is a good choice. Very inexpensive. They just added a new upholstery collection, which is really nice.  We like the upholstery collection a lot more than the casegoods (industry term for wood pieces).



Bolier Furniture

If your man likes really, really simple, clean-lined things he'll like this line.  Pricey (more on the wood pieces than upholstery-the upholstery products are a bit more reasonable).  It could be a little severe (because it's all straight lines and geometric and muted colors).


As always, warm up these rooms with accessories--such as rugs, artwork, fresh flowers, books etc. We can't emphasize enough what a huge difference this would make.

Ultra Cool Barstool

We love this new modern barstool from Nuevo. It's so sleek!
The seat is upholstered in Italian leather and the base is a solid steel. Very substantial and heavy. The seat runs a bit small in size. Shown here in black, it is also available in white and brown leather. The base is hydraulic, which means you can adjust the seat heigh.

The price is $475.

Home Design Ideas on The Slopes

Home Design Ideas on the Slopes

Built on the beach with a steep slope sites, upper-level modern home is designed to maximize the panoramic sea views with stunning architectural roof forms leveling. Semi-arched roof is designed as an accent evocative of sea swell. leveling Space in the atmosphere relaxed lifestyle design with a simple color scheme and homogeneous, making this home perfect for holiday events. Designed by TT Architecture.



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Saturday 19 June 2010

5 Tips to Make at Home Park Minimalist | Garden Design

Making the park is one of our efforts to bring the beauty of our home environment. Especially for home minimalist minimalist garden. Planning a good garden design on the front, side and rear of the house, it turns out we can do for themselves. Of course the question now is how to make the park? I explain some important points in a garden.

1. Determining Theme Parks
Pick a theme park in accordance with your wishes. For example you could choose the theme of Balinese-style gardens, tropical-style gardens, garden-style minimalist, or modern style. But you also have to consider the situation and condition of land that you have.

2. How the selection of plants
Selection of vegetation is a point that must be considered. Make several lists of plants that you like. Buy land in accordance with the requirements for your plants healthy and certainly also become a very important point. I have a formula to calculate the number of plants (based on the spacing of vegetation) are as follows:

So this kind of computation: if you have two square meters of land, and have plants that have a spacing of 30 cm, the number of plants you need is 22 222 (rounded to 22)

3. Garden Layout
Affect the beauty of the plant layout in designing the park. Always note the composition of vegetation such as grass (grass), crop cover (groundcover), shrubs (shrubs and feature plants), water plants (waterplant) and tree (tree). Strata of vegetation that must be considered like this: The tree is placed as a backdrop (the rear area), Perdu and shrubs placed as midground (middle area), and the last plants or groundcovers and grass cover is placed as a foreground (front area)

4. Growing Media Processing
Processing a good planting medium mixing soil with humus and fertilizer (organic or non organic) are very influential for the survival of our plants. A good watering should also be observed mainly in the morning and afternoon. To penyirama if you have more funds, you can buy a sprinkler (automatic water sprinkler), which can gives a chance as we want.

5. Drainage
In the rainy season is an important part of this note. Without drainage the garden or we can flood the park. Why? Because, basically, to regulate the flow of drainage water is diverted to the disposal of unused sewers (termed the gutter). But there are also alternative making this by making drainage holes biopori. Survivors trying to make the park.

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