The bathroom

The bathroom is the place where we retreat ritually for bathing, pampering and relaxing. Make all bathrooms beautiful, whether you're looking for ideas for a new bath or just refreshing your current one, we just give you creative inspiration, and simple, practical advice for large or small bathroom.
Create a comfortable, casual bathing spaces with ease and style just with a fresh coat of paint, new bathroom linens, candles, art and plants. A quick change to the quality of the room's light, accomplished through new window treatments, mirrors, bulbs, or light fixtures themselves, can completely change the atmosphere of the bathroom. Every space offers individual opportunities for style.
Select the fixtures: the sink, tub, toilet and shower. Fixtures are the bathroom jewelry, and show your style. Fixtures are vessels and they come in a variety of materials, shapes, styles, sizes, colors, and finishes. Newly minted designs or reproductions of older ones, you have to choose the fixtures that you love. Selecting the fixtures and fittings is one of the pleasures of planning a bathroom. Even if you're not installing new fixtures, you can still accessorize. The fittings-the tabs and spouts, the faucetry are the jewelry of the bathroom, the decorative hardware that controls, mixes and direct the water flow- they are often made of combination of materials, from metals to semi-precious stones, porcelain and glass. Their range will inspire you to dress your bathroom up or down, according to your own style. Small details count as much as large ones, search for towel bars, drawer pulls, paper holders, medicine cabinets and mirrors that add

Tub and shower
It is essential, and possible, to fit comfortably in the space where you bathe. When selecting a tub, be sure that you can submerge comfortably, with your shoulders well under the rim and legs extended. Today the sizes have increase greatly from vintage and mid-century designs. The shower may be sited with the tub or given its own stall, but either case you can place the shower and head at the height you want.

Sink and toiletsink present tremendous design opportunity with a range of shapes, sizes, materials, and structures to choose from: old, new, or repurposed, porcelain, metal, glass, or stone. When choosing a sink, consider the height of those who will be using it. When selecting a toilet, choose a model that flushes powerfully and fills quietly.

Faucet and fitting basics
"fittings" is the technical term for all faucets, spouts, spigots, handles, tub fillers, and other hardware that move water to and away from a fixture. Lower spouts, whether straight or curved, offer an increased rush of water but less clearance, and so require deeper bowls. To avoid splashes, make sure the spout is log enough to overhang the rim of the basin and pour directly into the drain.

Fabrics

Fabrics
Selecting Fabrics for Decoration

When choosing a fabric (also know as textiles) for decorating purposes, one of the first things to consider is its suitability. You may need to choose fabrics for furniture upholstery, wall treatments, beds linens, window coverings, cushions, bed coverings. Fabrics can add warmth and color and ambiance to a room while bringing in different patterns and textures.

Fabric types

Brocade has a raised pattern, often floral, woven into the background fabric, typically silk. Early brocades were made in China. Persia, now Iran, has a long history of making beautiful silk brocades, often with gold and silver threads. Brocade was particularly popular in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Europe in the grandest of situations- in palaces and royal courts. Brocade was originally hand-embroidered, but is now almost always machine-made using a jacquard loom attachment, which gives it the look of hand embroidery. It is very elegant, special, and a rather fancy fabric. You might find brocade on curtains, valances, table skirts, a fancy bed canopy, or on a fine French chair. It is not suitable for constant wear and tear.

Living Room Decorating

The living room is a place to work, relax and play। It's also the room where friends and family come together, so it has to be a inviting place to linger.
It's the perfect place to "put yourself out there" and display the art, colors, and collections that you love. Living room decorating speak volumes about your personality and how you view the world, so make it accurate account.
The focus is to express your individuality in any design style that suits you. Furnished with comfort and style, a living room can be a place of refuge at the heart of your home.
The living room is the threshold between public and private life. Create a space that's casual, comfortable, and no matter how you furnish it, your room will always be full of life.

Living Room Furniture
The living room is the room for living. It's a gathering place, a place that embraces family and friends with relaxed style. If you want to enrich your life, create a family-friendly living room with areas for reading, talking, working and relaxing.
Before you order a coach, or pick up a paint brush, look at your space with objective eye. Whether you're redesigning the whole room or just refreshing it, open your mind to the creative possibilities, think about furniture and finishes, colors and textures, follow your own instincts, what counts is not a certain style, but your style.
Choose furniture, materials and colors that inspire you. Trust your own eye for and feelings about decor will generate the best ideas for decorating your living room. Start with the basics: a comfortable, well-made sofa, a versatile coffee table, beautiful drapes, a quality rug.
When shopping for new furniture, make safety and comfort just as important as beauty. Look for designs with friendly detailing. To increase the sense of comfort and good energy, arrange your living room furniture to form islands that you can move around easily. Appoint corners with any combination of enhancements, such as plants, sculpture, lighting, art and furniture.
An interior is the natural projection of the soul - Coco Chanel
To encourage social intimacy and relaxation, place the primary furniture-often a sofa- so that it commands a view of the room. Then give other seating a nice view, putting everyone at ease and making the room both attractive and comfortable. To assure ideal views throughout the room, make sure the corners in your living room are clear of A sense of uncluttered abundance is the key: all that's needed is present and plentiful, yet organized in a way that keeps the space open and livable.
Living room decorating expresses a sense of welcome and sets the tone for the rest of your home. By definition the living room is the space in a home that's most full of life and spirit

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Furnishing

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Shape matters, especially in white, uncluttered rooms. Take a piece of furniture and isolate it to reveal its form, but make sure it merits the attention. In a stark, simple room, the burden of proof falls on furniture. You want the pieces to combust with energy in a contained explosion of style. Don't lock a room into one particular period because consistency is boring. The only way to really appreciate a particular style is to juxtapose it with something from another period. Shapes must balance each other to form a coherent whole. If you furnish everything in the same style, you have boxed yourself in. A mix gives you more freedom to incorporate a new find without bringing down the whole ensemble. The point is not to create a rigidity uniform whole, or even a perfect, don't change a thing whole, but a dynamic combination based on the idea of change.
This is the time to get specific with the pieces you want to use, because their shapes and colors mean more in an elevation study than in a floor plan. Always think in terms of contrasts: high, medium, and low; rough and smooth; leggy versus voluminous. The character of each piece reads better in contrast to others. Think of the compositions as mutable rather than rigid hierarchies. A room with contrasting elements can shift easily as your point of view changes. If, five or ten years from now, you are thinking more traditionally, you can emphasize the more traditional pieces. A room will have a longer life if your initial concept embraces change.
Furnishing a living room
When selecting main furniture pieces (sofas, chairs, armoires, side and coffee tables), classics are always the best. Start with a large proportioned sofa. Add comfortable armchair. Once you have easy-to-live-with foundation pieces, you can begin to dress up your room with details that add personality and interest.
Choose pieces that you can arrange to take advantage of your room assets. How would you like the space to flow. Is there a fireplace you'd like to be near while nestled on the sofa, or a window with a great view that you want to call attention to?
When choosing furniture, keep the proportions of your space in mind. Oversized furniture in a small room can be overpowering and could compromise traffic flow, while pieces that are too small produce an environment where the space, rather than the people in it, dominates. Create a sense of balance by choosing furniture that is the right size, shape, and scale for the room.
Dissimilar pieces can be visually linked by grouping them closely together, or by relating them to a common line, such as along a wall or the edge of a rug.
Arrange furniture in relation to a backdrop, a large painting or an archway or other architectural element.
Think of groupings of furniture as islands you can occupy for different purposes: socializing, watching TV, playing with children, or writing letters.
Shapely basics that adapt easily are the best building blocks to accomplish this.
To achieve flexibility in your room, it's best to have pieces that easily adapt to different orientations. Look for multi-use furniture like a large ottoman or bench that can also serve as a coffee table. Changing slipcovers on sofas and armchairs, rearranging furniture, and using new accent pieces are all quick ways to adapt your rooms to changing functions and seasons
Changing a sofa's soft accessories is a quick and easy way to change the whole atmosphere of a living room. Use throws and pillows in different textures and colors to transform your sofa. Warm up the room for winter with heavier textures and deeper hues; lighten it for spring with crisp linens and refreshing blend of brightly colors can work year-round. Fabrics in neutral colors can work year-round; whites and creams can be dressed up or down in almost any surrounding

Decorative Mirrors

Use mirrors to open up a space and make it look larger and make sure that the mirror is reflecting something appealling to look at , an attractive chandelier in the living room, an attractive landscape, which will bring the vibrant energy of a garden...
Mirrors have many curative uses. Mirrors should never distort or cut into the image of a person...
Mirrors are useful in small spaces where they apparently double the size of the area. Large mirrors will make a room

Increase the light
They are also useful in dark spaces where you want to reflect as much of the available light back into the the room as possible. This applies to basement apartments or a room that only receives northern light.You may be able to strategically place a mirror so that natural light from a window is reflected back into a dark area of the room or a stagnant corner.

Workspace / Office

Working from home can give you a sense of freedom. A comfortable reading chair, the perfect desk lamp, the perfect desk, storage, working at home has an appeal that's hard to match. Whether it's in a traditional home office, an artist's studio, or a kitchen corner, the perfect workspace is one that works just the way you do. We all want our home offices to be stylish and functional. The best workspaces are retreats that inspire the imagination, when people can work from home there is much more opportunity to create uplifting environments

which really support them.
Create your own stress-free working environment:
The nature of the workspace and business life is changing extremely fast. Advances in computer technology and international communications mean that people can work from anywhere: forecasters say that by the beginning of the twenty-first century, over half of the population of North America will be working from home and this trend will be quickly followed in Europe. This revolution is having a dramatic impact on our lives, it is possible to create living and working environments that will sustain us. The key is to achieve balance in how space will be used and determine the boundaries, so that there is a way to shut the door and bring closure at the end of the end of each working day.
The ideal workspace marries purpose and passion. Design your home office to inspire creativity, to offer delight, and to help you complete the job at hand. As a matter of personal taste, a workspace can be elegant or rustic, sleek or cozy, traditional or individual. As a practical matter, what you're aiming for is ease of use and a place you look forward to returning day after day. Think about what makes you happiest when you work. Is it an inspiring view, or an absence of clutter? Perhaps you'd like to have a cozy chair for reading or a daybed for quick catnaps.
Other things to consider are those more specific to the type of work you do and the furnishings that make the most sense for it: a desk for a home office or a large table for an artist's studio. Choosing the right kind of storage open or closed, freestanding or built-in-and a sufficient combination of types of lighting takes careful planning too. Keep in mind office ergonomics as well: table height, chair comfort, room to stretch, and ventilation. Is there a space for a chaise longue? Create a room that makes you want to stay another hour in order to finish the work you have to do, drawing or household bills. A successful home office is one you're in no hurry to leave