Bedroom Furniture Inspiration

Bedroom furniture inspiration is another inspirational post from our bedroom design inspiration series. Today I’ve gathered another 5 beautiful bedrooms for you, and I hope that while you are watching these pictures a few inspirational ideas will hit you. If you would like more inspiration check our Bedroom section …I’m sure you’ll find a lot of inspiring bedroom furniture ideas there.

Room Decoration

Is your guest room also an office or cramped storage space? Do you shove your guests in a basement room with little more than a pull-out couch and an old pillow? If so, it's time to update your space and give your guests a room they can call their own. They will enjoy their time with you more, and the room itself can help make a great impression about your entire home.Transform that extra, unused room into an oasis to rival any boutique Bed and Breakfast with small luxuries and thoughtful touches that will really make your guests feel welcome. Here are 12 great guest room ideas just for you:Leave a sewing kit in a drawer. Any lost buttons or torn hems can be easily and quickly mended.Always put out fresh, luxury sheets. Opt for a higher thread count of cotton to give your guests the comfort of softness.Use a fresh quilt or duvet cover. If you can't wash your duvet or quilt, freshen it by spraying it with diluted lavender water and allowing it to air dry on a bright and breezy day.Put out nice, plush towels. Always leave your guests enough towels to get them through their visit and let them keep them either in their room or make space for them on your towel rack. Purchase enough of these towels in advance so there is a set for each individual who visits at the same time.

Modern furniture combined with good interior design; create atmosphere and style

Creating a cohesive interior design for you home isn’t that hard if you know some of the basics. In fact, decorating your home so that all the various elements combine to create the look you’ve always wanted can be a lot of fun. Following are some proven tips to help your house into a designer home: Taking the first step As they say, let’s start at the beginning. Chances are good that your home is a mish mash of furnishings, art, accents and accessories that have been collected over time. To create the perfect designer look, you want to first consider the purpose for each room, how you want it to look, your personal tastes, features that can and can’t be changed, and finally, the budget you have available. Star with the key elements The success of a room’s design lies in the balance you create. The basics of gook design are proportion, balance, contrast, rhythm, pattern/texture and harmony. Knowing how these elements work together will help you design your space so that it’s not only beautiful, but comfortable and functional as well. Proportion Scales is one of the most important things to consider when creating the look of a room. A room that is proportioned correctly will feel welcoming while an incorrectly portioned room will just feel crowded and unfriendly. The trick is to match pieces in terms of their scale. A large overstuffed sofa needs an equally large end table or coffee table; otherwise, these accents simply disappear as the sofa dwarfs them proportionally. When considering scale, look to the other rooms in home for furniture that may be a better fit with the focal pieces you have in your room. Balance When crating balance, there’s two ways to go here. The first is symmetrical design, where everything is perfectly balanced. With symmetrical design, there’s roughly two of everything or items are mirrored in the room. For instance, one chair is placed exactly opposite another one just like it. While this creates balance, it can also make a room look static and lacking any visual interest or energy. Experienced designers use asymmetry to create this interest. Objects balance well because they are judged by their visual weight, not pairings. For instance, you have a large sofa on one side of the room that is balanced by two large overstuffed chairs with an accent table in the middle and floor lamp behind. These pieces balance the sofa visually, even though they aren’t equal in size or shape. The design works because there is balance in the asymmetrical layout of the furniture. Contrast Imagine walking into a white room with white carpet and white furniture. Pretty boring, huh? Contrast helps draw the eye around a room through the intelligent use of color. Bold use of colors creates energy while the use of muted shaded in complementary tones crates calm. The more contrast you crate, the easier it is for the human eye to follow the intended design of the room, moving visually from one space to another, guided by the use of color and contrast. Rhythm While crating contrast with the use of light and dark tones can be effective, it can also create boredom. To keep the room connected, you want to use rhythm. This means reusing specific colors, patterns, textures or themes throughout the room. Pick a couple main colors and repeat them in different ways in tour paint scheme, fabrics and accents. Pattern & Texture As the eye moves about a room, it picks up specific patterns. These are grouped together, so a blue wall is combined with a striped piece of fabric that has the same blue in it. Patterns that don’t fit crate conflict in the mind, compromising the appearance of the space. Again, you want to pick one or two primary patterns or textures and vary them within the color palette you’ve already crated for the room. Right alongside the elements of contrast and rhythm decorating is pattern/texture. Harmony If you’ve ever heard three signers sing different parts that sound amazing together, then you already know what harmony is. The same is true for the harmony in your home. Different colors, different designs and different proportions combine to create a new look that was never there before, just as new notes are created by singers singing three different parts. The room is suddenly complete. It has a look that if you remove just one element, won’t have that harmonic fell to it any longer. When you’ve achieved harmony, you’ve achieved your design goals.

garden furniture of natural construction material

Garden furniture made of trunks and big branches of naturally grown wood - and a bunch of creativity result in a full set of garden furniture home-made at zero cost while having fun being your own carpenter.

All these and many more garden furniture are self made - you too can make such beautiful natural garden furniture. Most of these beauties are made of free material that is just lying around your home, in forest or even in a junk yard ... like the 2 wheels of an old cart used to create the beautiful garden swing.

A garden swing made of 2 wheels of an old cart found often on farms or junk yards.A garden bench made from a trunk and a few pieces of naturally grown wood

The Flowers for my Husband’s Birthday Party

Working with them was easy. I briefed Stéphanie about my theme, my color palette and that I aim for a masculine look. I sent her all the dimensions (table, shelf height, ceiling) with two pictures: one of my table and one showing where it will stand in the room during the event. Stéphanie came back with a croquis. As you can see, she integrated the details including the curvy legs of my dining table. Attached to the croquis were  pictures of the flowers and the leaves that they plan to use. I showed it to my husband to see if it pleased him. It did!

Now that I told you about the food at my husband’s birthday, another element that played a big part on the dessert table were the flowers. I was lucky to work with an upcoming star, a small floral studio calledO.xide Design founded by Geneviève Lamarre and Stéphanie Bélisle.http://info-abege.blogspot.com/2010/02/flowers-for-my-husbands-birthday-party.html
I chatted with Geneviève this weekend as she came to my house to get back their vases. We had a good conversation about their design philosophy. One difficulty in designing an event is that you work with several vendors, who may or may not know each others. This is why O.xide takes extra step to make sure their floral creations will complement and enhance your event design. They rely on a quick and easy way to do that: drawing a croquis of the flowers as they will look at the venue.

Wedding Centerpieces - Design Tips and Ideas

I love creating wedding centerpieces. They allow you to show your individual style and can provide that 'wow' factor to a reception venue.

You've probably seen pictures of celebrity weddings with lavish arrangements. The cost of these can soon add up. With an average reception having 8-12 tables they can quickly swallow your budget.

Here I've put together some ideas from real-world brides for your wedding centerpieces.

Design Tips

The main thing on people's mind at a wedding reception is chatting to old friends, listening to the speeches and generally socialising. Don't let your arrangements get in the way of this. If guests have to move your arrangements to talk to the person on the other side of the table, then you've failed.

Low Wedding Centerpieces

A classic low centrepiece is a posy arrangement of flowers that co-ordinate with the bride's bouquet such as roses and tulips.

For a modern look that is a bit different you could take a collection of different sized vases and use them as the basis for a centerpiece. Fill them to different heights with water and place various types of flowers in them. Colour co-ordinate them by using coloured granules in the bottom of the vases. Above is a photo showing this idea with cymbidium orchids.

Two vibrant centerpieces

The color palettes are usually more subdued during the Fall season. But if you are looking for more festive centerpieces, I invite you to take a look at these two centerpieces. I spot them when reading Room Service this afternoon.

Some clues on how to do these centerpieces

One trick of the trade is to fill the center with a filler materiel since they do not show. Use cheap coffee beans to cover the visible angles. You do not have to wait for the Holidays season to decorate with Christmas tree balls. Just use 2-3 balls with containers of this surface.

For the barn wood box arrangement, visit online Better Homes and Gardens to read the instructions.

Fantastic Table Centerpieces (Idea Gallery)

One of my favorite parts of Everyday with Rachael Ray magazine is their fabulousCenterpiece of the Month segment, where they invite different people – usually with very recognizable names – to create a centerpiece design to share with readers. Luckily,these ideas are archived online, so if you’re looking for some tabletop decorating inspiration, this is a great place to start!

A few favorites are pictured here – starting with the top image – “Sock It To Me” designed by the fabulous Orla Keily – which features mix-n-match socks used as vase covers…genius!

Pictured below (clockwise from top left): “All Choked Up” by Jackie Shapiro (of French Bull fame); “Veggie Garden” by home design guru Christopher Lowell; “Spool Party” by product designer David Stark; and “Recycled Chic” by cookbook authors Matt and Ted Lee.

 love how adorable and easy this next idea is… “Sugar High” – fittingly designed by Dylan Lauren of Dylan’s Candy Bar – features unwrapped whirly pops and suckers sprouting from a bed of candies. (The white flower pots are from IKEA.)

Pictured below (clockwise from top left): Tea Time by fashion designer Liz Lange (lovely idea for Mother’s Day!); “For the Birds“  by textile designer Angela Adams; “Under Cover” by home furnishings designer Annie Selke; and “Space Balls” by set designer Derek McLane (such a fun idea for kids parties!).

Last but not least is this “Picture Perfect” idea by design guru Isaac Mizrahi. This centerpiece might have you doing a double take… it’s actually pictures of flowers and butterflies, cut out and clipped to a store-bought wire photo hanger. The best part about this idea… these flowers will last a LONG time!!

Inspirational pics for Centerpieces/Decor/Giftbags!

Cool and interesting ideas for table centerpieces.

Solar-powered outdoor lighting system from Corona

If you cast a quick glance at it, this shining thing appears much like a UFO, but this galactical thing is nothing else but a new solar powered outdoor lighting system from Corona.

Designed by Tokyo born industrial designer Shane Kohatsu, this solar light is equipped with a voltaic cell that absorbs sunlight during the day, transforming it into energy. As the sun sets, it’s LEDs automatically start to glow and beautify the surrounding.

This light can be easily attached to a variety of surfaces or can be simply placed on the table top.

The solar light carries enough charm to transmit you into a different world.

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Bathroom Lighting Pictures

This bathroom has two light fixtures; one is on each side of the mirror for optimal lighting while getting ready for work.  Notice the symmetry and balance in this bathroom. 
A chandelier can provide all over lighting.  This is a great option for this smaller bathroom and it provides enough lighting for the room in combination with the natural lighting provided by the window.

These lights around the mirror are placed well, but give off a glow that make it a little difficult to see clearly.

Celebrating, Rain and Shine

by Ted Katauskas

The house called Rainwater is a complex composition of four simple volumes — residence, guest house, office, garage — each capped with a planar steel roof rakishly tilted to channel water down to a single cantilevered corner.

The divergent roof planes almost intersect, and the volumes converge into a single coherent element. But the singularity is elusive. No matter where you stand — above, on either side, or below — you never see the same combination of house, or, for that matter, the entire house. At least one of the volumes, one of the rooftops, is always hidden, just around a corner

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Respecting the Hillside

"We felt it would be good to have a subdued presence from the front," says Eimar Boesjes, an architectural software developer and Internet entrepreneur. "It doesn't say 'we're here!' like the other houses."

Boesjes collaborated on the design and construction of this, their own house, with his wife, landscape designer Anita Van Asperdt.

Although innovative in form and ambitious in size (5,000 square feet, or 465 square meters), Rainwater manages to avoid subverting the Craftsman theme of Moonshadow Lane, a densely built cul-de-sac in the forested South Hills of Eugene, Oregon.

The house is modest to its oversized neighbors, peeking over a shoulder at the street from its perch on a sloped, pie-shaped infill lot that drops into a mature stand of Douglas fir then merges with a protected open space area deeded to remain undeveloped.

Beautiful Old Oak Villa in Ljubljana, Slovenia

Beautiful Old Oaks Villa located in Ljubljana, Slovenia and designed by OFIS arhitekti. All of these house need 420 sqm and implemented in 2006-2010.
The house is a private residence positioned in the neighbourhood of 6 larger villas. The quality of the site is a beautiful view to the existing common park with oaks over 100 years old. Therefore the aim of the building was to open view from all main spaces of the house towards these trees. The building is constructed in half-floors. In the heart of the building there is a stepped courtyard, where all the main spaces open.

The building was to provide ideal daylight conditions combined with efficient indoor and outdoor climate concept. In Slovenia there are extreme climate conditions; with hot summer, when temperatures rise up to 35C and cold winter when they drop below –10C or more. In addition there is rain in spring and autumn.

Wilton Pool House with Wooden Interior by Hariri & Hariri

Using 1,200 sf plus 3,630 sq ft pool and stone terrace Wilton Pool House with Wooden Interior is one of the best Hariri & Hariri Architects design and located in WiltonCT, USA

The design of the pool house serves as a contrast to the traditional architecture of the exisitng home. The dominate extended ceiling provides shelter for those lounging around the pool, enjoying the water, or sitting on the patio.

Easy Maintenance Wooden Beach House in Maitencillo, Chile

Easy Maintenance Wooden Beach House or Casa Buzeta is a vacation family home located south of Maitencillo, over a creek 70 mts high from the sea. Since the place presents excellent conditions for kite diving, the house structure has a volume that confronts the wind, boosting the slope and generating a striking sight of the sea.

This volume is looking to the orient as and opaque façade, made out of a huge wood sticks look. The side facades have been worked with to round windows, which added to the west inclined façade, seem to be a ship over the sea contrast.

Inside the distribution is symmetric, organized by a double high space, where the rooms are.

A curved surface, inspired in pump up kite, covered by copper, goes around the house from east to west, forming a room alley, all of the looking to the sea.

The materials used are pine insigne in the structure, Oregon pine in the exterior and copper on the covers and fireplace.

Fall Wedding Theme Decoration and Centerpiece Ideas

If you are looking for a warm and intimate wedding reception, consider a fall wedding. As people start thinking about coming home more, and spending more time with their families, it's a romantic time for a wedding. Here are some fall wedding ideas to get you started.

Where to Have a Fall Wedding

Think of storybook fall setting such as inns, 18th century churches and meeting houses, old mills and even barns. A fall wedding can be casual yet elegant set in a beautiful old barn. You might also look at an apple orchard, a vineyard, or any place that will have a view of fall foliage. If you live in a climate where the leaves don’t change, look for a venue with lots of rich dark wood and warmth such as a gentleman’s club or university club. A fireplace is an extra special touch.

The Décor for Your Fall Wedding

Set the tone for your fall wedding as soon as your guests enter with sheaths of wheat or corn at the entrance. 

Choose either rich jewel tones to decorate the room, or a traditional fall color scheme such as reds, oranges, browns and yellows. A modern fall color scheme uses only chocolate brown with light-blue accents. Fill the room with the bounty of the season - pumpkins, cornucopias, acorns, and gourds. Make jack-o-lanterns with decorative patterns rather than scary faces, or use paper bag luminaria for a similar effect.

Fall Wedding Flowers
Generally you can find Mums, roses, daisies, yarrow, fall leaves, tallow berries and both natural and dried wheat for inexpensive prices during the fall.

A spray of wheat or a mum accented with a pheasant feather makes an elegant boutonnière. Consider hollowing out pumpkins for your centerpiece containers – if you don’t have the time, many craft and home stores now sell realistic fake pumpkins.

But if you go with the real thing, consider white or blue natural pumpkins for an elegant and unique touch.

Gallery of master bedroom decorating ideas

With some great master bedroom decorating you can create the perfect sanctuary for reviving both your body and your spirit. No room in your home is more personal than the master bedroom. It is the core of your private space, where you can truly be yourself. It is the sanctuary where you go to rest, relax, rejuvenate, and restore your inner self. This master bedroom design has a mix of modern and traditional elements. The floor, walls and bedding have been done in neutral colors, while dramatic color has been used for drapes and accents. The bed and loveseat have traditional lines, yet the night tables and occassional table are in a more contemporary style.