Aug
12
Remodeling Tips
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With today’s economy, most people are very careful of how they spend their money. You don’t have to sacrifice your home’s style, however, by following some simple tips to updating your home’s look:
1. Update your floor’s look. You can change a room’s look by replacing your worn-out laminates with new tiles, installing new hardwood floors. Also, since you now have a better idea of the amount of traffic that goes through the room, you can now choose flooring that would be easier to clean and more durable, depending on usage.
2. Change your lighting. An accent that is usually overlooked, light fixtures can do a lot towards updating your room’s look. You can even help the environment and save on electric bills by choosing the newer energy-efficient models.
3. Replace your old wallpaper. If it’s peeling and dated, then please, throw it away and replace it. You’ll have a lot of fun choosing new patterns, and you don’t even have to be committed to using wallpaper again. You can repaint your walls if you prefer.
May
31
Kitchen Remodeling Ideas
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Adding a breakfast nook is a great idea especially if the kitchen area still has enough space for it. Another popular additional these days is a kitchen island. If you are patient enough to maintain your kitchen and you still want to beautify it, you can also apply a touch of marble.
A person who loves the kitchen truly feels happy and contented when he/she has a big and spacious kitchen with a big cabinet space. It will make you enjoy cooking and eating moments spent with family and friends in the kitchen truly memorable. For more kitchen remodeling ideas, you can refer to a number of kitchen remodeling websites found online.
Feb
25
Flexible Love
A single chair – that can seat up to 16 people? As hilarious as it sounds, the Flexible Love is indeed flexible to giving some love to standing people. Amazing how it can extend to accommodate 16 people, without having to worry later on if it will fit back to its normal place inside the house. Of course, it’s not everyday that you’d be having such number of people over but you just might, once they find out what an amazing furniture you have in your house. (They would love to check it out!)
Tagei
A graduate of Industrial Design, Akemi Tanaka came up with truly innovative convertible furniture. The Tagei is meant to be a regular coffee table on regular days but it can also be a special bench for special occasions. Bored with conversations over coffee? Extend the Tagei and punch up a party!
Mongga
Now that everyone’s seated, a table is in order. The Mongga, initially a solo elegant chair, can be transformed into a table. If all the munchies are gone, the Mongga can convert back into a chair for one more tired (and maybe tipsy) guest.
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Tagei
Mongga
Feb
20
Convertible Furniture Series: Shelf Solutions and Relaxation Too
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Chair Library
The Chair Library is just but perfect for book aficionados. As a way of organization, one can easily (and happily) load all his favorite books to this chair and it would be an easy reach every time he decides to relax and catch up with his reading. Big and bulky hardbounds such as Encyclopedias and the like may all take the shelf space on the walls but the most wanted reading collectibles have the privilege to “sit” with their collector. Photo albums and well-loved scrapbooks may also join this (honorary) chair-turned-shelf.
Thut Mobel
Initially a side table, the Thut Mobel is a remarkable option for a shelf. It can expand higher, may you need for shelf space, but can also collapse if you have rid yourself of some stuff and have free space. Interestingly, it can also be an expanding bed frame; just top it with a mattress that matches its width.
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Thut Mobel
Feb
10
Convertible Furniture Series: A Table for All
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Fletcher Capstan Table
This is an expanding table beyond compare. The Capstan Table is a round table that expands and doubles up its capacity for seating when spun at its external perimeter. Its beauty is seen as it remains perfectly circular despite its characteristic to expand and contract at any time. At its normal state, seating capacity is for six people and goes to twelve when rotated. Transforming the Capstan table lasts as fast as three seconds and varying its size is not a chore at all.
If ever there would be a sudden need for a table that can seat more people than your usual number of family members, the Capstan table is an easy convertible that shall accommodate your seating needs. You can also situate the table outdoors with no difficulty and it will blend with the garden feel, as it is made out of wood and which has a design that can be taken from dramatic dinner to backyard barbecue.
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Fletcher Capstan Table
Feb
1
The Top 10 Organizers of Apartment Space (Part 2 of 2)
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Continued from The Top 10 Organizers of Apartment Space
6. Stackable Plastic Drawers – look for drawers that can be customized. If you would only have space for a couple of drawers per room or corner, you wouldn’t have to worry of where to place that huge chest of drawers. Plastic drawers are cheap and can be stacked according to the kind of space that can accommodate it.
7. Hooks – hooks are very helpful especially when placed in the strategic places of your house. Use hooks for your coats, hats, umbrellas and bags. You can also use hooks for your keys, mobile phone, and ID card.
8. Shoe organizer – shoe racks are bulky and won’t even hold all of your countless pairs, while cabinets don’t have proper ventilation and would be more useful holding other stuff. Opt for the hanging shoe organizer, one that can go over your door or wall.
9. TV Shelf – the television is an essential home appliance and even houses with the smallest spaces give room for one. use the opportunity to buy a shelved TV rack, one that can hold not only your TV but as well a books, DVDs, magazines and the like.
10. Bed frame with drawers – this works like that of under-the-bed storage and it won’t collect too much dust.
Jan
10
The Top 10 Organizers of Apartment Space (Part 1 of 2)
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1. Wall shelves – great for maximizing vertical space. Use your wall space from the floor to the ceiling.
2. Door storage – there is a variety to choose from: whether shelves or racks, don’t hesitate to hook space savers at the back of your doors.
3. Trunks – Trunks are big and they’re spacious inside: perfect for storing linen or old books and toys. You don’t have to worry about the space it occupies for it can double as a coffee table or as a mini bench.
4. Ottomans – are very much like trunks, only the other way around. They’re initially made for seating or as foot rests but they do have space inside that can hold stuff as well.