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Eco design for a green home
recycled lamps
Lamps made from egg cartons or coffee tables constructed with recycled books. There are many options to design your home with style, without neglecting the environment. The so-called eco-design or “eco-design” proposes an alternative model in the field of interior decoration, the market begins to use to advantage.
Lamps from egg carton
Decorate your home with some eco-consciousness involves keeping an open mind that allows otherwise understand interior design. To do this you must allow entry into your home with furniture made of unexpected materials, then you must distribute with the logic that makes a kind.
Saving energy and reducing the environmental impact of waste recycled materials are two of the keys to finding an ecological sense of interior design. Some companies have already begun to explode in search of a new consumer who knows the savings and commitment to the environment which may involve integrating this product range in your home.
Vase from egg carton
The recycled wood is one of the materials that should be most care in a home and enhance ecological. Tables, chairs, magazine racks and even lamps made of this material may be found in the catalogs from department stores and specialty shops in the furniture industry.
Decorating a home with little money
Some ideas to transform your home without having to spend much money.
Stairs and mirror
1. Paint the stairs: the stairs are a good place to bring a touch of color. You can paint only a kind of broker in the middle, or risk really and paint each step in a different tone, the key is to first apply a primer and then three layers.
2. Put flowers: the fastest of the arrangements are the flowers. A handful of fresh flowers provide an instantaneous change, but for a lasting effect, it is best to fill a container with flowering bulbs of hyacinths and daffodils, not only look fantastic, but they smell wonderful and are cheap (see how to put flowers and flower arrangements).
3. Wash the face to the shed: the humble garden shed will look fantastic if you apply a paint coating attractive. You can also plant a couple of climbing roses around the door to give it more charm.
4. Dress the windows, curtains, skirts, blinds … will choose what you choose, expensive fabrics and wooden folding blinds are cheaper. One option is to buy some blinds, wicker, and another is to buy a canvas and make ourselves cheerful curtains. View decoration, curtains and how to put a curtain.
5. Make an elegant patchwork fabric: covering a worn sofa with classic patchwork (patchwork). It is cheaper to do it yourself – can also use linen cloths, sheets, tablecloths … old no longer used, but they bring many happy memories.
6. Storage Cases: discovering a new storage solution is a pleasure, something as simple as these cubes from Ikea, one for each family member, is pure genius.
Put flowers at home
7. Under the stairs: with a little imagination, you can turn that dead space under the stairs into something useful and stylish. Instead of storing the wine in it, we can ask a carpenter to make the most of space by installing some kind of seat with storage space underneath (for wine).
8. Making the most: whether we will want tight money to make the most of what we spend, so you should spend on items that we will use and we meet every day. For example, a new set of cups or a fruit basket.
9. Resorting to the old: some new taps can give it a different to the bathroom, but the modern styles of fashion can go very fast.
10. Elegant front door: a good quality metal fittings and a beautiful paint finish can transform the simplest door. Recent trends in lighter shades of paint, especially gray, matte finish or semi-mate, going well pair or a contemporary style.
11. Renovate the kitchen: a new kitchen is a big investment, but may be sufficient to improve the model we already have. Changing the doors and the countertop will have the feeling of having a new kitchen for a fraction of the price. View Kitchen Decorating Ideas for more
12. Place a display case: it can expose objects that have sentimental value for us: empty perfume jars, old postcards, mismatched cups and plates and frames of family photos. Recognize the potential of our possessions is the first step to display them successfully. It’s amazing how things old and new, large and small, embossed and smooth can be all together and get along.
Home Library Design
As is known, contemporary homes, dwindling in size, make it difficult to dispocisión many rooms for specific purposes.
A desk, library, study rooms or listening to music, which in many homes before they had special rooms, today must be reduced to small niches, adapted in other rooms, like living rooms, dining rooms or bedrooms. We saw some elements needed to assemble a reading corner.
One of those elements is a library in which to organize our books, a functional but aesthetically consistent with the style of decoration of the house.
There are plenty of furniture for these purposes and in all styles and materials that we can always imagine what it will be easy to find one tailored to our needs. To locate a bibioteca we must first consider the amount of material available on the one hand, and secondly the physical space available to us and to determine the approximate measurements that must be our library. In terms of location should be in an accessible place and especially if there are students in the house, so as to facilitate access and maintenance of various books and magazines.
Another important point is the proper lighting. If the library is in a living room but do not want or can have a dedicated area for reading is recommended at least a couple of deep armchairs invite you to enjoy a good book comfortably. We must also take into account the preservation of books and avoid its location in very humid and where they would receive excess sunlight.
Study area at home
Whether in a nursery as a teenager, it is necessary to create a study space, an area of the room suitable solely for that purpose. And because it is a place where they must spend many hours are necessary to make this attractive but so as not to distract her attention.
To start the project this area requires a large space and good natural lighting wherever possible, this area of study is usually located in your own room, but can also move to another area of the house, provided that it is a quiet place where not carried out other than distortions avtividades study.
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Retouching summer at home
Yellow room bring the sun
The interior of a home is much talk about the personality of those who live. But with the arrival of the heat and sun must take into account other aspects such as light.
If the decor is dark-mahogany furniture, cherry-be advisable to add color with accessories. The furnishings in light shades is on the rise, many designers have replaced the previous timber for old elm or oak. For the election of the tissues of household items, must be run whenever possible, acrylics, and focus on the linen and cotton.
It will be advisable to take down the heavy winter curtains and replace them by simple textiles, steaming and fresh curtains. With the light of the summer season, the colors take on a special importance.
Use the yellow, if you need more sun. The blue to freshen a room. The green, to bring nature …. and white to increase light. ”
In summer enjoy walking barefoot at home, so do not forget the floor. Carpets are one aspect of winter and create the illusion of shrinking of the stay. The solution is to switch to summer cotton rugs, like waves that emulate the desert sand, or bamboo, if we seek a more oriental. Another possibility is simply removed, thus saving time and effort in cleaning. As for the arrangement of our furniture, no need to change them all at site with small moves will be enough.
If the table is positioned away from the window, we will reduce the embarrassment as he seated her, and, moreover, is placed near a wall, increase the feeling of freshness.
Blue to freshen room
SMALL AND WELL DETAILS Not to be left empty pocket to fill our house with a bit of summer. For lovers of the details, not major changes in commercial premises can find supplements that with a reasonable price, will give a summery touch to our home, such as cushions or bedding. You can also use vases and cups, making them a wild card decoration. We made some green element, and water, as suggested from decoratrix.com, filling a glass vessel with coves and Bygrass.
Indoor plants: secrets and virtues
Indoor plants generally require little maintenance, and offer many advantages. With just a time to expose to sunlight, and touched up a couple of times a year to stimulate growth, you can achieve a beautiful natural decoration.
Many think that spring is the best time for pruning and transplanting, but in reality, this is often not the case. If you are growing a houseplant that comes from an external environment, you must first clean and remove any pests with a pesticide appropriate.
To maintain this kind of plants should always expose them to sunlight, which is the best way to nurture their new buds, and then submit it to any subsequent pruning.
The following are some basic keys to their survival:
Transplant
Change container plant is especially recommended: thus achieved that the roots get water and nutrients they need to avoid that are “sold out” by becoming accustomed to its previous pot, and will give more strength to grow.
As a plant grows, its roots are expanding and need no place to weaken and roll (a classic symptom is the appearance of the tips of roots on the surface of the earth). When this happens will perform the transplant. Do not increase too much the size of the pot at one time, increases from three to six inches per year are best.
To remove the plant from its container to cover the surface of the earth with the palm of your hand, take the main stem between two fingers and tap the jar on a table before inverting and removing the plant. If this does not come easily, pass a knife around edge to loosen the soil. In some cases, if the plant is very large, must break the pot to avoid damaging the roots.
Modern Kitchens
Are you looking to decorate a modern kitchen? Here at dream homes group going to show you some amazing modern kitchen designs that will inspire you. As you can see in the following image gallery of modern kitchens, all follow the same pattern: minimalism. Minimalism is a key movement in modern times. Hardly a word can be used without mentioning the other. They are almost synonymous.
View pictures can give you ideas, and who knows if the next may arise from your head after seeing the following photos of modern kitchens. Feel free to leave your opinions, thoughts or criticisms in the comments of the article.
Decoration on summer
light colour rooms
Care for the planet and your pocket
Summers are usually a pretty tough time, since in most of the country’s thermometers drop below thirty degrees and walk the streets is very difficult. To counteract this heat, most abuse the air conditioning, which makes killing a lot of electricity consume the planet’s resources and seriously hurting our pocket.
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Decoration on summer
Throughout the interior, we can make the wind chill inside our homes is much nicer. Typically, the air conditioning putting a few hours a day and never at a temperature below 24 degrees, so do not spend much and get through our tricks the house will always be cool.
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Home Design : Minimalist in Black and White
The target to enhance the natural light at home, black for contrast and wood for warmth to a contemporary ambience with minimalist furniture lines.
Minimalist living room furniture
Minimalist dining furniture
Minimalist kitchen design
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Ideas for New Year’s table
To lift an elegant table that looks up to a celebration as it is New Year, combining perfectly with our dress and the guests, we have the basic tools needed for the table, and available by following some basic rules protocol, all of which will detail here below.
This year we can not settle to the old tablecloth always the same china as ever and give the home the same atmosphere as always. I think this year we must give the house a different environment, with things that are not expensive, and change the look of the table dramatically.
The dishes can be found in Chinese stores at low prices, is something to search and compare prices. Let’s see what things are essential to our table wearing this New Year:
A brightly colored cloth, napkins large
We begin with the tablecloth. The cloth must protect the table and avoid causing noise on her utensils. Must be a vibrant color that coordinates with the rest of the colors of the home and the dishes.
Bunny ears napkins
Tableware
The dishes as I said before, can go to buy it in stores in China that is cheaper and good quality. If you choose a red tablecloth, white china or acquire a moss green for contrast.
Colorful tableware
