With its smart, fastener-free architectural design and punchy palette, Leonardo by Bross easily earns a wide Mona Lisa smile. Enzo Berti designed the chair, which combines a straw seat with an oak frame that can be stained in wengé or natural, or lacquered in a variety of colors. 39-0432-731920; bross-italy.com . circle 422

With its smart, fastener-free architectural design and punchy palette, Leonardo by Bross easily earns a wide Mona Lisa smile. Enzo Berti designed the chair, which combines a straw seat with an oak frame that can be stained in wengé or natural, or lacquered in a variety of colors. 39-0432-731920; bross-italy.com . circle 422

With its smart, fastener-free architectural design and punchy palette, Leonardo by Bross easily earns a wide Mona Lisa smile. Enzo Berti designed the chair, which combines a straw seat with an oak frame that can be stained in wengé or natural, or lacquered in a variety of colors. 39-0432-731920; bross-italy.com . circle 422

With its smart, fastener-free architectural design and punchy palette, Leonardo by Bross easily earns a wide Mona Lisa smile. Enzo Berti designed the chair, which combines a straw seat with an oak frame that can be stained in wengé or natural, or lacquered in a variety of colors. 39-0432-731920; bross-italy.com . circle 422

Our Firm’s Cutting Edge: Abacus takes a contemporary approach to housing design, creating open, light-filled spaces that are comfortable for living and entertaining. They are designed to meet today’s needs and take advantage of the opportunities that modern forms and materials can provide.

Our Firm’s Cutting Edge: Abacus takes a contemporary approach to housing design, creating open, light-filled spaces that are comfortable for living and entertaining. They are designed to meet today’s needs and take advantage of the opportunities that modern forms and materials can provide.

A new home and garden portal from SPC Digital, MyHomeIdeas.com the digital arm of Time Inc.’s lifestyle subsidiary Southern Progress Corporation, will give away a luxurious Idea House in a sweepstakes that will run from August 1 to September 30, 2008. Individuals can enter once per day for a chance to win the prize package worth $1 million. The winning entry will be announced mid-October, and the lucky sweepstakes winner will receive a coastal home located in WindMark Beach, developed by The St. Joe Company in the Northwest Florida town of Port St. Joe. For a chance to win and for complete contest rules, go to: myhomeideas.com/myhome/homegiveaway.

The Idea House Giveaway is a cross-platform program with online, print and on-location components. MyHomeIdeas.com introduced a new channel on the Web site called “Home Giveaway,” which showcases ongoing original content and updates on the project. Online features on the WindMark Beach Idea Home will include floor plans, before and after images, interviews, footage with the architect and designer, a virtual 360-degree tour, extensive photo galleries detailing unique design elements, color and more. Interactive elements will include a blog where visitors can post feedback.
Promotional advertising for the sweepstakes is appearing in the July, August and September issues of select Southern Progress and Time Inc. magazines and will run in Web sites across Time Warner properties.
The aptly named Idea House will serve as a public showcase for innovative lifestyle and design ideas. Visitors to MyHomeIdeas.com will find hundreds of practical take-away decorating techniques from the home that can be easily applied to anyone’s living space, no matter what your style or square-footage. Read the rest of this entry »

The Adventure and strategy game, Sims there’s another part in the Sims series that appeals (even more) to people: the designing, building and decorating a house. Future architects can really let go. For them this expansion seems very suitable: even more stuff to approach your dream house! Of course people who pay more attention to playing with your Sims are left out cold. The new thingies don’t help increase the bars more than the old ones did.
Kitchen and bathroom this package brings you new mirrors, bath tubs, toilets, laps, furniture, devices and all sorts of decorative stuff

Even for wannabe-architecs things aren’t all great and shiny. In fact the amount of items is quite thing and you’re hooked to the entire offering: you may find a couple interesting things, but you’ve got to take all the rest along. Sometimes it aren’t even totally different designs but just color variations of the same thing. It’s not really difficult that way to get to the magical number 60 that’s listed on the box.

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The expansion isn’t only limited to kitchen and bathroom stuff; also a bunch of night clothing is present. Other things that wouldn’t have hurt in the kitchen are for example new tables and chairs, unless you’ve got enough Simdollars to put a fancy dining room in your house. But even then a problem remains: decorating your entire home in a similar style as your bathroom or kitchen isn’t possible, unless you’ve got even more additional expansion packs laying around.

Behind the scenes of a beautifully designed space, Interior designers protect the health, safety and welfare of the public. Companies entrust Galina Design Group to create their interior spaces by meeting baseline professional standards.
New Jersey Certified Interior Designers must meet the education and experience requirements set by the state law and pass the qualifying examination for interior designers, regulated by the NJ State Board of Architects and administered by the National Council for Interior Design Qualification. Certified Interior Designers must be knowledgeable about many important issues including building codes, space planning that provides proper means of egress, furniture and materials specifications that comply with fire codes, as well as accessibility issues, ergonomics, lighting and acoustics.

Channel 5’s Property File has chosen to showcase the home and workplace of Sheila Dunlop as part of a profile on people who “live the dream”.

Featuring in the episode will be Mrs Dunlop’s 200-year-old cottage on the outskirts of Bath, and her prestigious Ivy House Design School in Walcot Gate.

The makers of Property File are always on the hunt for beautiful places to live and work and were fascinated by Mrs Dunlop’s school, housed in a beautiful period building in the heart of Bath’s historic artisan quarter - Walcot Street.

The school attracts would-be Laurence Llewelyn-Bowens from all over the world and has about 200 students through its doors each year.

Its studios and grand 30ft-high hall are housed in what was once a Georgian farmhouse. Now it is an intriguing mix of styles from across the ages. Read the rest of this entry »