No matter if you’re renting or have your own place, it is important to make it feel like home. To do that, sometimes all you need is to bring in some new plants and hang up your favorite pictures or art on the walls. Other times, you need to get a little bit more elaborate to inject your personality into your space. That is where one starts taking up various DIY projects.
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Incredibly easy ways you can upgrade your IKEA IVAR cabinets! These cost-effective upgrades will make your IVAR look like you spent triple the amount on it!
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Sophie Ferjani, animatrice de l’émission de déco “Maison à vendre”, a repensé une bastide marseillaise. Elle en a conservé les caractéristiques et lui a apporté un confort contemporain, dressant un pont entre le passé et l’avenir.
IKEA has a secret website that not many people know about! That (actually not that secret) website is full of DIYs and IKEA hacks and beautiful ideas
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Explore a range of decorative ceiling ideas to elevate your home's design. From textures to patterns, find inspiration for every room style.
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Gavin Houghton’s latest creative endeavour – organising sketching holidays in Morocco – allows the multi-talented interior designer to introduce others to the bohemian pleasures of the city that he fell in love with over 20 years ago
Every home should be filled with books. In this post you’ll find 30 wonderul home llibary ideas and cozy readning nooks
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We have chosen a color! This is good, because the painter is scheduled to come in 5 days. Now that we’ve finally emerged from the process of choosing an exterior paint color, I need to tell you so many things to help you not agonize in the same way. After purchasing something like 10 samples (maybe more, maybe less, but my husband is reading this ;)) and painting them on the front, back and sides of our house, I started digging into the color’s Hue, Saturation and Value (using Encycolorpedia – lifesaver!) to determine what was common between what I liked and what I didn’t. Besides the general tips, I’ll show you the samples that we purchased (all Benjamin Moore) and explain how we found a color (finally!) using hue, saturation and value. Our exterior paint: BEFORE First, our caveat and yours: What exists on and around your home that should factor into your paint color decision? Ours were: (1) Big, orange-red brick pillars on our craftsman cottage (or bungalow for everyone not in New Orleans). We are not willing to paint them, as they are nearly 100 years old and original to the house. I’ll talk more later how to balance this strong architectural element. (2) Our neighbor’s house is yellow. That ruled out yellow for us. (3) We live in New Orleans. We feel as though we owe it to our street, and to our city, to pick a fun, vibrant color. So for you, this could be architectural details, the city or region where you live, your neighbor’s houses, your plants, etc. Alright, now you go merrily on your way to the local paint store (I suggest actually picking up paint chips, not just looking online), and peruse the colors that you think you’d like for your main house color. The secrets of choosing exterior paint color Colors look much lighter in the sunlight (especially in bright, Southern light) than you’d expect from the chip. We found that our target value (aka brightness) was 57-67. Again, you can search Encycolorpedia for named colors from major paint brands to see their HSV numbers. Colors look much more vibrant / saturated in the sunlight than they appear on the chip. If a paint color seems grayish on the chip, it’s probably a color you want for the exterior. We didn’t want too gray of a color (we live in New Orleans, after all) but we didn’t want a gaudy, blinding green color either. We found that our target saturation was 17-22. White exterior trim isn’t usually white. And the off-whites we considered for our interior trim didn’t even make the list (FYI, we used Benjamin Moore White Dove for the interior trim.) For exterior “white trim” think cream or even light beige. The more white the trim, obviously the starker the contrast. This can be good for angular homes where a high contrast between the main color and trim embellishes the detail (like a Craftsman). However, less white trim looks softer and brings out the detail in wood. Victorian homes or more traditional New Orleans homes are served much better by less white (cream, tan, light beige) trim detail. Benjamin Moore offers its most popular exterior trim colors on a chip. Photos online are nice and all, but we have NO idea how much any photo has been edited. For instance, I found one house tour with a color we loved — it had been profiled on three different sites. On each site, the color looked completely different because of the time of day the photo had been taken and according to the editor’s Photoshopping techniques. Plus, the same photo never looked the same on my mac, PC or phone because of monitor settings. You can not pick a color without painting a small sample on your home…. unless you are an architect, interior designer, owner of a construction company or paint store, or have an MFA… then, go ahead and do whatever you want. Our inspiration Inspiration: a townhouse with orange brick base and a vibrant blue-green exterior Inspiration: red brick Craftsman home with teal exterior Given that we have the big, orange-red brick columns, we started looking for inspiration every time we left the house. “Did you see that house?!” one of us would exclaim, then we’d have to circle the block to look at it together. After nearly a year of this, plus looking online (see inspiration photos), we realized that we would either have to keep our house a dark neutral (see BEFORE photo above) to balance the brick columns or go for opposite on the color wheel – the blue green spectrum. This left us with light, medium and dark green-blue options. Obviously, these inspiration photos show you what we’re leaning toward. Now, the problem of selecting paint colors that don’t look too light, too dark or too gaudy. Easy, right? Our paint samples Our exterior paint samples from Benjamin Moore Dark paint swatches from Benjamin Moore (click for larger) From top to bottom: Pleasant Valley, Benjamin Moore 696 Sage Tint, Benjamin Moore 458 Stratton Blue, Benjamin Moore HC-142 (Same as Del Mar Blue 704) Harrisburg Green, Benjamin Moore HC-132 Scenic Drive, Benjamin Moore 697 Mill Springs Blue, Benjamin Moore HC-137 We also briefly considered dark colors, but given the intensity of the sun in this subtropic city, we are worried this dark color will fade too quickly. But, for the record, those samples are: Hale Navy, Benjamin Moore HC-154 Evening Sky, Benjamin Moore 833 Old Navy, Benjamin Moore 2063-10 See our chosen color and our before and after photos!!
If you're looking for a way to give your space a light and airy feel, then consider perusing some boho bathroom decor ideas. This style is perfect for those who want to create a calming oasis, even in the smallest of bathroom spaces.
About The Amber Tiered Glass Easyfit Ceiling Shade Designed to help transform standard pendant sets, the Amber Tiered Glass Easyfit Ceiling Shade ensures a fabulous lighting feature in any room of the house. Measuring H24.5cm x W22cm x D22cm, the glass lamp shade pairs tiered amber glass with a chic gold ring that is designed to rest on top of the shade for the perfect final touch. Why We Think You Will Love The Amber Lamp Shade Finding a fabulous pendant light for every room of the house is not always an option, especially if you rent your home and are limited to what is already set up in the space. As a result, the Amber Tiered Glass Easyfit Ceiling Shade is the ideal solution. Designed to sit on top of existing basic pendant sets, the glass lampshade recreates the statement chandelier on a smaller scale and without the hassle of having to involve an electrician. From the on-trend fluted glass detailing to the warm amber colour palette, we adore everything about this versatile ceiling light shade and know you will too! How To Style The Amber Tiered Glass Ceiling Lamp Shade The beauty of the easy-fit design is that the Amber Tiered Glass Easyfit Ceiling Shade can be introduced to any room of the home where a basic pendant is already in place. One of our favourite spots for this amazing lighting accessory has to be the bedroom as the glass pendant lamp shade is guaranteed to instantly transform the room. However, the styling options are endless and the Amber Tiered Glass Ceiling Lamp Shades will also look gorgeous anywhere, from the kitchen to the bathroom or hallway!
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Every home should be filled with books. In this post you’ll find 30 wonderul home llibary ideas and cozy readning nooks
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A family home in Notting Hill decorated with recycled materials and painted in warm colors
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Launching this fall, the volume gives a personal look into the designer's Bellport, New York, home and studio
If you're looking for inspiration on how to redecorate or are a sucker for good interior design, you're going to love this subreddit. Hell, you'll probably enjoy it even if you're just bored and randomly scrolling through the Internet.
Hutton Wilkinson continues the Tony Duquette legacy with a collection of jewelry at Kentshire Gallery on Bergdorf Goodman's seventh floor.