Reclaimed industrial home decor is one of the hottest design trends this year, and with it has come a fresh new twist on the classic French country style that I like to call Parisian industrial. This look combines the grittiness of reclaimed industrial spaces with just a touch of the sophistication and glamor of a French inspired design. A big part of getting this look is choosing "found" pieces t...
It might seem like your options are narrowed to wood, tile, and stone, but that's really just the start of the search for beautiful
flooring. A lot of the best design flooring is a combination of wood flooring or other materials, and some of it is (surprise!) concrete.
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Creating an industrial style decor is all about embracing things that are old but not quite antique, and finding the artistic beauty in items that are generally considered to be purely functional. Like modern design, industrial spaces emphasize simplicity and minimalism, but rather than sharp, clean lines, it's more important to show off the human touch - whether it's a hand scraped wood floor or ...
The art deco style is a modern classic. Or maybe it would be more accurate to call it 'classic modern', since although it remains a relic of the jazz age, speakeasies, and old Hollywood, its influences are thoroughly modern. Emerging from the cultural landscape of postwar Europe and America, art deco takes its themes from innovation--brighter, bolder, and looking toward the future. Incorporated in...
Buying a big, expensive piece of
art is something of a rite of passage. Whether you're graduating from that print of Starry Night you had in college, a hand-me-down painting from gramma or a discount store, or finally moving on from your blank, unadorned wall, having a signature piece of art that y...
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I recently went apartment hunting with a good friend of mine who's in the market for an artist's loft. Regular readers might have noticed that I'm really embracing the trend towards a more
industrial style home, especially re...
If you follow our blog, you know that we're "green" at heart. I, personally, don't hug a lot of trees, but I do admire them and walk out of my way to pass houses with beautiful landscaping. Usually that means a flowering fruit tree or maybe a bush pruned to look like a giraffe. Recently, though, I found something that ties together my love of nature with my interest in landscaping and even my hobb...
Most wall mounted bathroom vanities share a similar aesthetic: they're simple and square with smooth straight lines and not a lot of embellishments. The similarities between designs become more pronounced the smaller the vanities get, especially once you get down to the
Five Ways To Build A Luxurious, Spa Style Shower (Without Tearing Out A Wall)
Big, luxurious, walk-in showers have become one of the most desirable features in bathroom design. They're convenient enough to use even if you have a busy schedule and scale remarkably well to the size of your bathroom and your budget. While the ideal you'll see on TV and in design magazines is a
shower built to ...
