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tranquil my kind of style love it

wish i were there now

boudour with a modern twist very interesting

AltaModa has come up with some really awesome modern concepts for children’s bedroom ideas. ‘Moby’, inspired by Moby Dick, showcases a decor scheme based on the sea and its creatures. It is bright and calming thanks to all that blue and white. Could be appropriate for boys and girls alike. The pink and white ‘Lolita’ room on the other hand, is geared towards girls, with the fun feeling of a ‘boudoir’ with a modern twist. ‘Spirit’ is a collection inspired by British equestrian style. Rich, warm colors make the room elegant and cozy – a happy place for horse lovers. For aviation fanatics, take a look at the ‘Willy’ collection. The room is fresh and modern, the color scheme is cool. The linear pattern of the lampshades and headboard bring in the perfect amount of visual variation. For a classy retro vibe inspired by Britain in the 60s check out the 'Denim' collection. Love those telephone booths. These contemporary children’s bedrooms are so interesting, every detail seems well thought out. Check out more ideas at AltaModa.

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29 Apr 2011 | Kids Room | Comments (0)

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Garden Fireplace Design with Short Wooden Pieces Inspired by the Norwegi an Turf Huts

January 23rd, 2011

fantastic garden fireplace design with wooden pieces

This outdoor fireplace can used any session, summer, winter, autumn and spring. this fireplace design for kids playroom in winter and night. for build its very limited budget, reusing leftover materials was a starting point that led the design to be based on short wooden pieces. Inspired by the Norwegi an turf huts and old log construction, a 5,2×4,5 meters wooden construction was built and mounted on a lighted and brushed concrete base. The structure is made of 80-layered circles. The circles have varied radiuses and relative center point in relation to each other. Every circle is made out of 28 pieces of naturally impregnated core of pine that are placed with varied spaces to assure chimney effect and natural light. Oak separators differentiate vertically between the pine pieces to assure airflow allowing easy drying of the pine pieces. A double curved sliding door was designed for locking the structure

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Colorful Apartment Decorating in Stockholm

Colorful apartment decorating is not scary when you have a neutral backdrop, like in this penthouse apartment in Stockholm. Many of us would love to add more color to our living spaces but the task seems daunting since color can have such a powerful effect. For those who are hesitant, keeping the backdrop neutral is a great strategy that allows you to experiment with color without making any costly mistakes. This means using furniture and accessories to color your space. This apartment’s fundamental color palette is black, white and brown; neutral. The sitting nook is the most colorful room in the home. But notice how the blast of color comes from the rug, the seating and the pillows. They chose a complementary scheme of blue and orange and threw in some patterns. The greatest thing is that any amount of color will have a big impact against a neutral canvas. Examine the red details in the home. Red pillows on the seating bench, red vases on the mantle, red stools in the kitchen. They make an impact without being overwhelming and they create a sense of unity between the spaces. And one must not underestimate the impact of books. Displaying your book collection on open shelves is an easy way to introduce color (as long as not all your books are black and white). See more of this apartment decorating ideas at Mixr.

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22 Apr 2011 | Apartment | Comments (0)

Swedish Home with a Remarkable Interior Design

The owners of this Swedish home are lovers of art and design and they have made some remarkable choices with their interior design. Contrast and color with key designer items make this space weirdly and wonderfully appealing. First, let’s address the wall composed of various stones and tiles. It was actually created by the original owner and thankfully they decided to keep it. It adds an instant quirky beauty to the space. The red Womb chair makes a nice modern contrast against it. The dining room is very stylish and warm – those Galaxy pendant lamps are great and they add a slight industrial quality to the room. The kitchen is ultra modern and streamlined, but their pottery collection on the open shelves provides a nice color and style contrast. Exceptionally bright and cheerful, the green room displays lots of art and a yellow Eames chair. A surprising metallic element is introduced by the oversized floor pillow. Overall, this home is stylish, modern, pleasantly quirky and very welcoming.
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GLITZ AND GLAM BATHROOM ABSOLOUTLEY GORGEOUS

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my boho inspired moodboard love all the colours and textures

my lighting inspired moodboard

vintage inspired moodboard with fabrics and textures

kitchen in pink and monochrome looks great... i love the fridge...i created this room on my deco

i created this little bathroom with my deco...very little haha 

in with the old






alfresco dining



i love this refurbished chair its inspiring

weekend lovelies ??? any day lovelies to me i would say

vintage style





sweet little vintage buttons i love all the colours

purples look great in this crochet cushion and not just because purple i one of my fav colours:-)

let me treat you ...oh so tempting they look

patch work cushion made up of scraps very inspiring

looks like a vintage party theme love it

theres no place like home

another patchwork cushion very ritz looking

vintage shades

button spree

a touch of vintage charm

strike a pose

bursting with colour

so true

		1950s The 1950s were the age of the consumer. The post-war boom brought massive changes in the home; it was out with the old and in with the new. Open-plan living was introduced, and the fitted kitchen with its brand new appliances was the housewife's domain.

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Houses were smaller than pre-war ones so furniture had to stack or be light enough to move about; trolleys, sofa beds and ironing boards are all 1950s inventions. There are several looks to choose from: the American diner look with bubblegum colours, neon and kitsch, or the designer look with furniture and textiles, which have both become design classics.

Style

• open plan
• fitted kitchens
• primary colours
• stacking furniture
• new materials - PVC, Formica, fibreglass, rubber, melamine, aluminium, vinyl, plastics
• abstract, geometric patterns
• animal prints

• America - diners, jukeboxes, huge fridges
• the 1930s and modernism
• surrealism - for example, the famous Salvador Dali 'lips' sofa
• scientific research - the structure of DNA was discovered in 1953.

• Charles and Ray Eames - husband and wife team producing sleek, leather, plywood and plastic furniture
• Robin Day - furniture
• Lucienne Day - fabrics that were originally sold in Heal's
• Arne Jacobsen - furniture such as Egg, Swan and Ant chairs

• 1951 Festival of Britain
• 1952 the first hydrogen bomb is tested by the United States
• 1953 Queen Elizabeth II's coronation
• 1955 Ruth Ellis last woman to be hanged in Britain
• 1956 Marilyn Monroe marries Arthur Miller

• Open plan - make your house as open plan as possible. If you can, knock through walls but always consult a structural engineer first to check if it's a supporting or load-bearing wall. Mezzanine levels are also typically 1950s.
• Floor - lay a chequerboard vinyl floor in black and white, red and white, or yellow and white. Use floor tiles rather than one continuous sheet because, if a section of floor gets irreparably damaged, they're far easier to replace.
• Fitted kitchen - in your fitted kitchen, choose Formica tabletops. Spray paint the doors and fittings. Some companies sell original reconditioned kitchens or sell new ones in a similar style and you can sometimes pick up cabinets in junk shops.
• Chairs - go for the diner look in the kitchen with chairs in chrome and vinyl in day-glo colours. Give a table a new lease of life with a Formica or Fablon top. Other typical 1950s furniture are basketweave chairs in a primary colour and white or 'Butterfly' chairs (a canvas sling on a metal frame).
• Fridge - a gigantic fridge is essential, especially in a bright colour. They're all over the high street or you can get original reconditioned ones.
• Appliances - fill the kitchen with big chrome appliances: blenders, toasters, and swing bins in chrome or plastic.
• Shades - choose between bright colours such as red, lime green, yellow, black, and delicious ice cream shades such as pistachio green, bubblegum pink and pale blue.
• Fireplaces - rooms generally don't have fireplaces. Abandon the dado rail, paper and cornice division of walls.
• Fabrics - are bright with abstract patterns, often with science-inspired imagery such as calyxes, starbursts, atoms etc. Or go for pretty, sprigged florals set against polka dots or stripes in sugary pinks, reds, blues and yellows. Use animal prints, especially zebra stripes and leopard spots for cushions, rugs and throws in fake fur.
• Accessories - look for accessories in black, white and red plastic coated wire, which usually have ball feet. Typical items include coat and plant stands, and magazine racks.
• Kitsch - fill the rooms with kitsch; nodding dogs, pineapple ice buckets, and flying ducks on the wall.
• Crockery - mix and match; traditional dinner sets are replaced by china in collectable individual pieces with a linked theme or colour. Tupperware is a 1950s invention.
• Pick up details - with ashtrays in the shape of artists palettes, toy Cadillacs, Roberts Radios, cocktail glasses, pictures of poodles.

• anything by Charles and Ray Eames, Robin and Lucienne Day
• Harlequin and Fiesta tableware
• ceramics by Poole pottery, Midwinter, Wade, Homemaker
• atom wall clocks
• Murano glass - especially stylised ducks with elongated necks

• Ed's Easy Diner, Kings Rd, London and branches
• The Design Museum, London
• Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture, Middlesex

• Fifties Source Book - A Visual Guide to the Style of A Decade by Christopher Pearce
• Miller's Collecting the Fifties by Madeleine Marsh (Reed International Ltd)
• Retro Home by Suzanne Trocme (Octopus)
• Retro Style by Marion Haslam (Cassell & Co)
• Modern Retro by Neil Bingham and Andrew Weaving (Rylands, Peters & Small)
• Fifties Homestyle by Mark Burns and Louis Di Bonis (Thames & Hudson)
• Fiftiestyle (Middlesex University Press)

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modernism(1918 to 1950)

Modernism (c.1918 to 1950) Modernism is more a way of thinking than a style. Modernists believed that the design of an object should be based purely on its purpose - that 'form follows function'.

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It was perhaps difficult to imagine how radical the idea of having no extra ornamentation in a room was at the beginning of the 20th century. It was a total departure from the obsession with historical revivals from neo-rococo to neo-Gothic that had not only dominated the Victorian years but for centuries before.
Modernism really took hold in Europe - where it became known as the international style - and particularly in Germany, with the Bauhaus movement, and Italy. At a comparable time, England was caught up in the fashions of art deco, art nouveau and Edwardian style. It was not until after World War I that the influence of modernism really began to be felt.

Style

• under-furnished, austere spaces
• use of tubular steel, plastic, laminated plywood, fibreglass
• abstract motifs
• bold primary colours

• industrial revolution
• growth of consumerism after World War I
• arts and crafts movement - shared its dislike of ornamentation
• engineering - methods such as the cantilever principle which was used for furniture construction

• Frank Lloyd Wright - architect
• Mies van der Rohe - designer and director of the Bauhaus art school
• Le Corbusier - Swiss architect and designer

• 1927 Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer - the first talking picture
• 1936 Edward VIII abdicates to marry Wallis Simpson
• 1936 Spanish Civil war
• 1939 The Wizard of Oz
• 1939 Hitler invades Poland - war breaks out in Europe

• Walls - leave your walls bare concrete or painted white.
• Mouldings - there should be no obvious decorative plasterwork or mouldings, but if you live in a period house paint them white to make them disappear rather than ripping them out.
• Wallpaper - wallpaper is generally out. You could fit mirror glass to one wall.
• Floors - flooring should blend seamlessly from one room to another. Choose wall-to-wall fitted carpet in a neutral shade or, if that's too impractical, lino or quarry tiles. It can be broken up with kelim rugs.
• Skirting - skirting boards should be very slim. Paint them the same colour as walls so that the eye doesn't notice them.
• Light - is very important. Long banks of picture windows are typically modernist. If you don't have those, then porthole windows are another typical feature.
• Windows - should be as plain as possible to let maximum light in. Hang simple curtains in natural fibres such as linen or a slub cotton from plain wooden poles or tracks. Otherwise hang plain white venetian blinds.
• Glass wall - install a glass block wall, either as a feature or as a dividing wall. They now come in a myriad of colours but it's best to stick to plain or opaque glass for this look.
• Furniture - should be made from a combination of tubular steel, bent wood, and leather. Don't allow any loose covers or comfortable upholstery. Modular seating of the type you see in office waiting rooms is perfect.
• Built-in furniture - buy or make built-in furniture such as cabinets and bookcases, but only at a low-level and not stretching up to the ceiling.
• Glass and chrome - choose other furniture such as coffee tables in glass and chrome with simple lines.
• Fireplace - the fireplace should still be the focal point of the room. Choose as simple a surround as possible. MDF is good painted white or just wood. You can leave brickwork round the fireplace exposed or add some white tiles.
• Lighting - by the 1920s everyone finally had electric light. Lighting designers borrowed techniques from industry so anything industrial looking is suitable. The angle poise is used for the first time.
• Heating - radiators are often exposed and made a feature of. There are some striking designs around from coils and springs which look like pieces of modern art.
• Plants - choose architectural plants such as cacti and succulents but only one or two.
• Accessories - ornaments are out but one or two pieces of modern art or sculpture are permissible. Go round the end of year degree shows at art colleges to pick up the names of the future.

• Charles and Ray Eames
• Marcel Breuer
• Mies van der Rohe
• Le Corbusier

• Guggenheim Museum, New York designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
• De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex
• 2 Willow Road, Hampstead London NW3 - former home of Erno Goldfinger. Tel: 01494 755570
• Trellick Tower, London - built by Erno Goldfinger
• Villa Savoye, Poissy near Paris - Le Corbusier

• Fifties Source Book - A Visual Guide to the Style of A Decade by Christopher Pearce
• Miller's Collecting the Fifties by Madeleine Marsh (Reed International Ltd)
• Retro Home by Suzanne Trocme (Octopus)
• Retro Style by Marion Haslam (Cassell & Co)
• Modern Retro by Neil Bingham & Andrew Weaving (Rylands, Peters & Small)
• Fifties Homestyle by Mark Burns & Louis Di Bonis (Thames & Hudson)

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