The typical college dorm room has generic furniture, bad lighting and a few pizza boxes flung across the floor. It’s no wonder a trip home comes as a relief to many. Not all Yale students, however, are satisfied with lackluster common rooms where the word “design” is irrelevant. Although a dorm room or off-campus apartment may never look like it sprung from the pages of “Martha Stewart Living,” …

The typical college dorm room has generic furniture, bad lighting and a few pizza boxes flung across the floor. It’s no wonder a trip home comes as a relief to many. Not all Yale students, however, are satisfied with lackluster common rooms where the word “design” is irrelevant. Although a dorm room or off-campus apartment may never look like it sprung from the pages of “Martha Stewart Living,” …

Your apartment may be small, but are you making it smaller? Are clutter and clunky single-function furniture stealing space in your new rental? Experts say it’s important to think beyond the box — and how much you can pack in it.

Your apartment may be small, but are you making it smaller? Are clutter and clunky single-function furniture stealing space in your new rental? Experts say it’s important to think beyond the box — and how much you can pack in it.

Your apartment may be small, but are you making it smaller? Are clutter and clunky single-function furniture stealing space in your new rental? Experts say it’s important to think beyond the box — and how much you can pack in it.

Home Comfort, the Lakes Region’s premier resource for interior design, unique home furnishings and accessories (http://www.homecomfortnh.com), and more is opening a new location in Bedford this summer, at 384 Route 101, next door to Granite State Cabinetry.

The new location will showcase Home Comfort’s design team, and, in its over 7000 square feet, unique lines of classic, stylish and casual furnishings, artwork, area rugs, fabric, bedding, lamps, window treatments, accessories, and everything you need to make your house a home.

Owner Luke Dupuis, who opened his first store in Center Harbor, NH in 1997, says, “The Bedford market is home to savvy, vibrant individuals seeking something different and original when it comes to furnishing their homes. We feel confident that our distinct lines of furniture and accessories, paired with our commitment to superior service, are just what the Bedford area is looking for. We’ve always done things a little bit differently, and we think it shows as soon as you walk in our doors.” 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.

The traditional furniture and antique design, shilhuette and contemporary classic design.
Interior designer Kat Burki launch a line of furniture, home textiles and other goods called Kat Burki Home.

The line, which Burki says combines European flair with updated classics, will be sold through a catalog to be mailed nationwide in August and online at www.katburkihome.com.

“I’ve always admired the attention to detail in traditional furniture making. I try to translate these techniques into a new category that is antique in design and silhouette and contemporary in spirit but will be sure to remain a classic,” said Burki, whom a press release describes as “Connecticut’s top interior designer.”

People around the world are increasingly aware of environmental issues,
but an army of the expansion in question “citizens of the earth” are to
extend the concepts of “eco-friendly ‘,’ sustainable ‘,’ green ‘and’
organic ‘from their interior decoration.

Thousands of
homeowners and apartment residents, with the help of prospective
architects, interior designers and manufacturers of products, are doing
something about toxic chemicals, emissions of greenhouse gases, and on
consuming non-renewable resources.

Fortunately, it does not
require a lot of cash, brain power or special education to join the
movement decoration which is determined to make a difference. And do
not forget that eco-friendly decor is simple for both the environment
and your family health.

Where do you start? The first thing
to do is take stock. According to Josh Dorfman, ‘green’ entrepreneur
and author of The Lazy Environmentalist, from the green on three key
areas: energy and water conservation, indoor air quality and materials
- and anyone can be affected by decorating choice.

As the
old standbys like turning off lights and fixing dripping faucets,
kitchen and bathroom manufacturers now offer beautifully designed water
and energy efficient appliances and materials that directly address
energy and conservation of water. You can also switch to
energy-efficient light bulbs wherever you can.

Silent and
attractive air purifiers help eliminate unhealthy pollutants.
Insalubres but also the air pollution comes from household chemicals -
cleaning products, air fresheners, even your laundry. There are dozens
of natural and organic alternatives now available to improve indoor air
quality.

Even if you can not choose the materials that were
used in your house under construction, which makes eco-friendly design
choice is a large part of “go green”. Many products of decoration, such
as flooring, above, carpeting, curtains and upholstery, even your bed
and paint on your walls all factors that contribute to global warming
and the depletion of resources in the way they are manufactured, or how
they are eliminated when we are at their disposal. Look for
“sustainable” or “green” manufacturers before buying.

Equally important, many chemicals incorporated into products decoration
contribute to chronic lung problems, eczema, headaches and a host of
other ailments. Furniture, beds, flooring and accessories made from
sustainable non-toxic materials such as towels “green” cotton or other
organic fibres, or by using latex beds, cotton and wool instead
synthetic materials, are a major step in eco - friendly home décor.

An excellent example of a “green” choice of decorative flooring is
FLOR, including carpet tiles are manufactured products wherever
possible recycled and renewable raw materials using renewable energy
sources and technologies. Not only can you custom-design your own
flooring - wall-to-wall or simply an area rug - using FLOR carpet
tiles, the company actually pays to have former FLOR carpet tiles
returned to them so that they can be recycled instead of going to
landfills. Eco-friendly decor is good for you and the environment. The
next time you’re doing a little decorating the house, see the myriad of
environmentally friendly products available