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30 套理想更有间
Friday, November 20, 2020
更衣间—— 无论男女在出门之前都无法省略的居家空间
如果你喜欢打
该卧室的设计非常适合客房／小型旅馆的设计。明亮的采光
该更衣间乍看之下仿佛会有厨房的错觉，这是因为设计师还
全蓝色的实木橱柜设计，让人眼前一亮。这样的轻柔的颜色
该卧室的更衣间和床并行，占据了卧室的整个角落。简单利
全镜面的更衣室，让空间有种混乱的特殊感。落地窗使的覆
更衣间中的登报缠绕镜子设计，让人有股复古的气息。这样
卧室和更衣间用一个瘦条状的衣柜轻易分隔开来。让你的卧
购买餐桌前的10大考量
Friday, November 20, 2020
餐桌——无论大家庭或小家庭都不可或缺的家具。它不但让你在这里享用早餐，开启美好的一天；它也让你一家团聚，结束你劳碌的一天。
因此，Iko 就来跟你分享：购买餐桌前的10大考量
餐桌，真的是圆圆或方方，无法带出空间设计的风格吗？
当然不是，如果你喜欢的是中式设计，大气的视觉材质，才是你该选择的餐桌考量。另外，如果你喜欢的是简约北欧风的话，浅木色的餐桌也即可呈现出你想要的利落感。
餐桌的大小，形状其实必须考虑到您的家庭成员人数之外，它的占有面积也是很重要的。如果你有非常宽裕的空间来作为用餐空间的话，您可选择圆形桌。圆形桌除了代表着团团圆圆的好寓意之外，也有起到“方便夹菜”的好处。
反之，如果你有着相当有限的用餐空间规划的话，现在也流行伸缩性较方便的餐桌。为了附和现代人的多变，餐桌设计也显得多变。让大家可以随心所欲地定义桌子的用处，非常着重实用性。
餐桌的材质有很多种选择，以上就是可制的材质选项。但是，你想像一下一个你长时间会使用的家具，又有可能会沾到食物的污渍的家具，好的材质是否重要？
无可否认，任何材质都有利和弊，但是选用一个耐用容易保养的材质，对于餐桌来说是很重要的。因此，选择大理石桌面，不单有着独一无二的纹路与形状，还会呈现出大气的奢华感。
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Refined Dining: 8 Dining Room Design Ideas for Small Spaces
Friday, November 20, 2020
Space is valuable, but that won't stop some of us filling out our small spaces - and we've all probably experienced regret at one point or another when over-estimating shapes and sizes. To help you plan your ideal dining setting to serve your needs without cramping your style, we gathered the best design ideas for compact dining spaces here.
1 Against the Wall Probably the first thing you would try with an existing dining set in your small space is to push the table up against a wall. You would be gaining additional space with the sacrifice of seating at one of the heads of the table, but when making do with a small area one must be willing to give up certain formalities in favour of comfortable passageways.
A dining set in this arrangement also serves as a form of separation between spaces. Designer: Surface R
2 Bench Seating If setting your dining table against the wall doesn't free up the kind of space you imagined, consider forgoing formality entirely by replacing some or all of your dining chairs with benches instead. Benches make for a more casual setting and do not require as much space as individual dining chairs, however some sideways shimmying and impromptu leg raises would be needed to get diners to slide in and out of position at the table.
What this arrangement lacks in formality, it more than makes up for in the extra width of the passageway. Designer: Surface R
3 Restaurant-Style Banquette Seating Instead of setting the short edge of your dining table against the wall, conserve more space by aligning the long edge with a wall or divider and exchanging some dining chairs on the narrower side for a bench. Without the need for additional space for pulling out chairs, this arrangement occupies even less space and can be located in shared spaces such as a dry kitchen or an open layout living space to create a dining nook.
An intimate space is formed out of a square dining table, a pair of armless dining chairs, and a customised bench occupying the corner. Designer: M Innovative Builders
A variation of the dining nook is held in the centre of this open layout, with a bench formed out of a projection from the dividing wall. Designer: Jashen Interior Design
4 Conjoined Surfaces In our previous study of kitchen islands, we observed how joining dining tables to kitchen islands can expand your hosting capabilities, and combining them into a Teppanyaki-style setting can save space. If you have a kitchen island, consider having dining and kitchen share surfaces, or join them together to make the most of your small space.
Combine the dry kitchen with the dining space by joining a table with your island. Designer: Nu Infinity
5 Narrow Dining Tables If central placement and more formal settings are required of your dining experience, consider selecting a narrow dining table. As we discovered in our guide on choosing dining tables, surfaces shaped as skinny rectangles are most visually appealing in long and narrow spaces.
The use of a long and narrow surface in this dining area conserves the sense of space. Designer: Nice-Style Refurbishment
6 Round Dining Tables As we've pointed out before, circular dining surfaces are a more economical shape when hosting six or more diners with adequate elbow room - any less than that and a round table may seem overly large and imposing in tight quarters. If you forsee only small gatherings at dinners, stick with square tables instead - or sacrifice the extra elbow room for a small pedestal table.
A dining surface of any other shape and hosting the same number of seats would not be aesthetically pleasing, if it is at all possible, in a tight corner such as this. Designer: Mode Interior Style
A smaller round table is a viable solution for tight spaces, albeit with fewer seats and the sacrifice of ample elbow room. Designer: Bazarbayu
7 Unifying Style The decorative approaches that seem to work best in tight quarters - minimalist designs and monochromatic or pale shades should be applied in a cohesive manner to tie distinct spaces together. Especially in open layouts, individual areas will seem less imposing with only the most sutble of distinctions existing between living and dining spaces.
The minimalist style and monochromatic palette extends beyond the dining space, ensuring that it is subtly integrated with the rest of the home. Designer: The Roof
8 Transluscent Furniture Instead of falling back on designs in minimalist style, a monochromatic palette, or even pastel shades to make your dining room seem more spacious, consider seeking out transluscent furniture to pair with the reflective finishes of a modern or glam décor. The completely see-through furnishings will help to maintain an illusion of space when combined with wide windows or ample lighting.
The presence of this dining table is obscured by its transparent form letting light pass through it, rendering the lower half almost invisible. Designer: GDY Design & Construction
These dining chairs are nearly imperceptible, having been formed out of clear plastic and presented under direct light. Designer: Archicentre
Read about putting together some delectable centerpiece arrangements on your dining table here.
How to Decorate With Living Room Accessories
Friday, November 20, 2020
Strike a balance between functional additions and decorative frills to reflect the detailed complexity of life.
Perhaps for reasons that will never be fully explained, a blank canvas will attract a painter’s brush and masterpieces will come to be appreciated for their details more than the sum of their parts. Just as most prized paintings began as blank canvases, a living space sometimes starts off as a sparse array of furniture and accessories, increasing in complexity with time as the signs of life accumulate within it. A barren living space can be easily remedied with the addition of a lighting fixture or a piece of artwork to draw the eye - but if you seek to design an elegant living space layered in intriguing complexity from the beginning, then read on.
Personal Touch
Interior design by: M Innovative Builders
Sentiment binds us together with shared meaning despite our individual differences, with personal significance and nostalgia occasionally representing greater value than even the most commonly treasured of material objects. Aside from all the known characteristics that make up the range of decorative styles prevailing in our present time, the single most influential factor that differentiates an interior is self-expression. The designers of the pictured seating lounge, M Innovative Builders, demonstrate this philosophy in practice by bringing together favoured and seemingly disparate decorative elements to produce a space that is uniquely cohesive and tailored for the comfort of the residents.
Fine Details
Interior design by: The Roof Studio
Bland spaces tend to have little to say, but adding a handful of details in the background - or a few comforting accessories such as a coffee table or clutter tray in the foreground, imbues a space with layers of complexity to capture attention and entice the wandering mind. The Roof Studio demonstrates the striking effects of imposed detail by decorating this living room with an abundance of wooden surfaces and placing them in close proximity to the high-pile carpeting. The result is an elegant array of layers that evokes interest with complementary details in texture and shade.
Interior design by: The Roof Studio
Tips: The addition of a few accessories does more than provide some comfort. Without the necessary amenities (throw cushions, floor lamp, end table, coffee table, clutter tray, and potted plant), the result would potentially resemble a furniture showroom rather than an actual living room.
Interior design by: The Roof Studio
Repeat Motifs
Interior design by: ST Concepts
The pursuit of elegance entails a delicate balance struck between grace and ingenuity, necessitating careful consideration when selecting colours and materials. As decoration is simultaneously an art and a science, the creation of a décor should be subjected to creative and logical guidelines to achieve a cohesive and visually appealing arrangement. In the pictured seating lounge decorated by ST Concepts, complex layers of wood, stone, and light are created with a sprinkling of decorative and functional accessories - all unified in the complementary shades of the neutral palette so as not to overwhelm the eye with dissimilar elements.
Interior design by: ST Concepts
Tips: When you want to shy away from bold and colourful patterns, texture is your best friend. Neutral is never boring when a variety of textures are used. Mix it up! Repeating the same pattern throughout a room is also a reliable way to achieve cohesiveness.
Interior design by: ST Concepts
Art Aesthetics
Interior design by: X Dimension Design
Handcrafted artistic works represent countless hours of effort and are often valued for their uniqueness and irreproducibility - even more so in this age of automated manufacturing. The introduction of artwork does more than provide a splash of colour or texture - art has the potential to evoke emotion, inspire thought, and invite critique, with the results leading to a discernible rise in the complexity of a space and its character. To illustrate this, X Dimension Design incorporates serene landscapes into the décor of the pictured living room, with the artwork diligently curated to echo the hues of the space.
Interior design by: X Dimension Design
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Light Up
Interior design by: Sachi Interiors
Large pieces of furniture and glittering artefacts tend to draw the gaze of naïve observers - occasionally, to the detriment of a sparsely decorated space. Lighting fixtures are useful add-ons that serve to simultaneously highlight subtle decorative features and direct the eye away from default points of attention. In the pictured seating lounge, Sachi Interior Design opts for an intriguing floor lamp fitted with a robust diffusing shade to at once illuminate the furniture arrangement and throw an array of light and shadow into a corner for a visually striking effect.
Interior design by: Sachi Interiors
Tips: Even neutral coloured spaces can benefit from a beguiling display of light and shadow. This living room presents additional variations of the neutral shades with the aid of prominent lighting fixtures.
Interior design by: Sachi Interiors
Store More: 5 Smart Storage Ideas for Your Living Room
Friday, November 20, 2020
As living rooms are among the busiest spaces in a typical family home, most of us will eventually find ourselves swamped by an assortment of unintended decorations.
Don't wait until folks come over to visit before shovelling that mess out of sight. Keep your clutter in check while prominently displaying your prized decorations by including some of these nifty storage ideas in the living room.
1. Furniture With Drawers The simplest way to add more storage space, at least without drilling any holes in the wall of your living room, is by selecting furnishings that come with drawers. A coffee table with discrete cabinet handles or a long console with ample drawers would be able to contain the clutter that typically accumulates on the coffee tables of family homes.
Designer: Jashen Interior Design
2. Shelving Feature Wall Rather than having a purely decorative feature wall occupying usable wall space in your living room, consider incorporating shelving into the design of the wall decoration. Horizontal lines are abudant in these decorative fixtures - often used to create space-enlarging illusions; these surfaces could be easily converted into shelving with the addition of vertically oriented panels to support the weight of books.
Designer: ID Industries
3. Surround the Television As we have mentioned previously, inundating your television in horizontal lines for shelving can serve to camouflage the screen against a backdrop of assorted decorations on display. The space on most walls around the television tends to be left empty in reverence to the screen, creating opportunities for shelving to be added.
Designer: Latitude Design
4. Practical Walls Let's face it, walls are boring - but before taking out walls to aim for an open layout, consider replacing non-load bearing walls with dedicated shelving instead. With shelving in place of walls you get extra storage and display space in an area that has the airiness of an open layout, but with physical forms of separation cozily enclosing the living room with clean demarcating lines.
Designer: Beata Home and Office Furniture
5. Alcoves in Walls If the wall you wanted to take out leads to an immediate confrontation with your neighbour - or if it is load-bearing, consider cutting an alcove out of the wall instead. Just be sure to check with engineers to ensure that your alcove is adequately large for storage but small enough that the wall retains its supportive capability. If structural considerations do not permit cutting directly into the wall, build up a false wall or a facade to the depth that would accommodate your decorations.
Designer: Pocket Square
现代奢华风
Friday, November 20, 2020
整体空间结合现代摩登种巧妙地融入东方美学，清淡雅致的彩色在不同的材质碰撞中显得更独特，描绘轻易而细腻的空间意境，构成别具一格的现代居室。
从玄关而入，映入眼帘的是餐厅背景墙上的丝连垂吊艺术装置，宛如春日里的落英缤纷，在阳光的映衬下塑造出多元化风貌并存的空间表情，传达对艺术与自由的追求；餐椅靠背的黑白经典配色与沙发抱枕相呼应，在大面积温润中和的暖木色调中显露出与众不同的个性，干净利落，独特而自然。电视背景运用的栅格造型和电视柜上的水墨图案同为中式元素相辅相成，清雅得恰到好处。
在不同功能的领域划分中，有着截然不同的空间表达。高级灰作为长辈房的主调，用深浅变化刻画出空间多向性的层次美感；天空蓝是在喧嚣浮尘中获得安定新型的力量，细节处的陈设配置，展现出个性化的天真情趣。
主卧承袭了整个空间的温暖基调，家具造型新颖别致，透明材质的运用给空间带来更加轻盈的韵律，形成特定的气质内涵；水蓝色的点缀不落俗套，勾勒出独一无二的空间灵性，更添高雅韵味。
Soft and Sensual: 5 Best Window Treatments for the Bedroom
Friday, November 20, 2020
When people design a room’s décor, window treatments usually aren’t the main focus. But when it comes to bedroom décor, the type of window treatment you favour can have huge implications on how the room functions. Some people, for example, struggle to sleep when there’s too much light in their room; decorating a room to be both stylish and functional can be a challenge. With that said, there are plenty of options when it comes to window treatments and they can provide a wonderful complement to your existing décor. The key is finding what style suits you. Silk Drapes or Curtains Drapes and curtains are very similar except drapes tend to be made of a heavier material than curtains. This is one reason that drapes are used in the bedroom more than curtains – to prevent too much light from coming in. Heavier silk drapes are often used in bedrooms because they can add a touch of elegance as well as a true focal point to the room. It’s functional as well, considering the drapes can be pulled closed at night to screen out light and opened during the day. You can also dress it up even further with tassels and pull-backs.
Sheers with Opaque Drapes
When you combine sheers and opaque draperies, you get the best of two worlds. Sheers are made of a translucent polyester or gauzy cotton. They can add a bit of privacy during the day and provide an ethereal atmosphere; at night, the opaque draperies in a heavy fabric can provide a heavy curtain to block light from a street lamp and to block noise from traffic.
Shades
Shades are very popular throughout the home, and they come in a wide variety of colours and styles. A shade is usually attached to a rod or frame, is made of a material that is cut to fit the window and can be lifted with a pulley. Shades are a great item to get creative with and to add a pop of personality to your room.
Blinds
Blinds are probably the most common form of window treatment. This type of window treatment is made with slats of plastic, wood, or metal that run either horizontally or vertically. They are often used in the bedroom because they are a cheap way to conveniently provide privacy while also letting sunlight through. There are some truly unique blinds available as well.
Valances, Swags, and Cascades
If you’re the type of person who enjoys a more eclectic design, valances, swags, and cascades are a phenomenal choice. They add decorative fabric to the top of window treatments, adding an ornate personality to your dressings. Depending on the fabric you choose, they can provide much different statements to your room. They can be combined with sheers, drapes, and shades or blinds. Valances can also be made with widely varying fabrics.
There are plenty of combinations available to dress up your bedroom windows – and there truly is no “best” when personal tastes are at the forefront of the argument. With that said, these different styles of window dressings can be changed in color and fabric to suit nearly any taste you might have while also offering an easy convenience to your home.
Alex Briggs is a contributing author for Absolute Home Solutions.
Essential Décor: 4 Tips to Create a Minimalist Home for the New Year
Friday, November 20, 2020
As the year draws to a close, it is an opportune time to reflect on the past year, and get prepared for the new goals, resolutions and beginnings with the approach of 2018. To ring in the new year, many may take this chance to declutter and refurbish their homes in anticipation of the exciting new start. One could consider designing and creating a minimalist home, focusing on the important things that matter and to discard the excesses. However, a minimalist home does not need to be boring or devoid of character; in fact, a minimalist home is anything but that. It offers a lot of benefits, including a more aesthetically-pleasing appearance, an easier-to-clean home and a less stressful environment. Hansgrohe Singapore offers some tips on creating a beautiful minimalist home.
AXOR offers its Universal Accessories which are modular, multi-functonal and universally applicable. Designer: Uli Maier for AXOR / Hansgrohe SE
Accessorise Sparingly As renowned architect Antonio Citterio aptly explains, accessories have a “significant effect on the overall appearance of a room” and are “an essential part of its décor”. Like small jewels, accessories add the perfect finishing touches to rooms, including the bathroom and the kitchen.
However, it is important not to over-accessorise the home with over decorative features which can end up cluttering the home. Accessories should be used sparingly, and home owners could consider accessories which are multi-functional and space-saving for a minimalist home.
AXOR offers the high quality and timeless Universal Accessories range, which can be used individually or flexibly combined with each other. With its smooth contours, the grab rail can be incorporated together with the shelf, allowing for a generous accessories space as well as a towel holder. This simple and space-saving combination is a perfect solution for minimalist bathrooms.
Minimalist design is not only applicable for the bathrooms; it can apply for other rooms in the home, including the kitchen. As a space for activities such as cooking, cleaning and washing, it may be a challenge to design a minimalist kitchen that is suitable for these activities. However, with the aid of accessories, this can be made possible.
AXOR Universal Accessories also bring comfort and beauty to the kitchen. For those who treasure organization, this product range offers creative freedom while ensuring that the most important kitchen utensils and favourite herbs and spices are within easy reach. This allows home owners to keep their kitchens clutter-free while still achieving a beautiful, elegant and minimalist look.
With the use of accessories to lightly decorate and store objects in a home, this can help to make the living space much more attractive and less stressful to manage.
Light-Filled Spaces There should ideally be an abundance of light filling the space of a minimalist home, with light coloured surfaces and uncluttered spaces. The rooms could be designed to be spacious and clean, allowing for light to fill the room and freeing the home from unnecessary objects.
For instance, a bathroom can turn into a place of well-being with the liberal use of sunlight, made possible with large windows to create a spacious and comfortable ambience.
To complement clean and light-filled spaces, home owners can design their bathrooms with clean and minimalist bath fittings. The Hansgrohe brand offers the aesthetically-pleasing and high quality PuraVida bathroom fittings, which will be coveted for its award-winning sculptural appearance. Its DualFinish (white/chrome) brings a new design dimension to your bathroom, allowing surfaces to seamlessly blend together while brightening the bathroom with chrome and white.
With a good combination of clean and light-filled spaces with complementary products, the home can be transformed into a beautiful and attractive space with a lot of character and personality too.
Space-Saving Products The key to a minimalist home is to have products with clean and simple details, thus offering the freedom of space in the home. Open floor plans and modest storage areas are features of minimalist homes, just like clean cabinetry with simple minimalist details. What are the other ways to create more space in the home?
AXOR One Thermostatic module for concealed installation for 2 outlets.
Space-saving products are also important in freeing up space in the bathroom, which is increasingly becoming a sanctuary of retreat and rejuvenation, and not just a space for hygienic purposes. It is more and more common for different generations of families living together in the same space, sharing common rooms like the bathrooms, and it has also become important to make sure that the bathroom is uncluttered and easily accessible for everyone including the elderly and children.
AXOR One, designed with Barber & Osgerby, is a generously proportioned but fascinatingly clean masterpiece statement in the shower, which offers three individual controls in an all-in-one shower control element. With its monolithic but soft form, AXOR One creates a new spaciousness in the shower, evoking a pleasant feeling of clarity and tranquillity for the users when they use it to select between shower outlets, control the temperature or choose their preferred amount of water. The AXOR One handshower launched in 2017 complements the shower control, with its monolithic form, refined proportions and reduced design, thus creating a timeless statement in the bathroom.
Dual-jet Hand-Held Shower Head from AXOR.
Home owners can also consider products which help to free up more space in the kitchen.
Home owners will be thrilled to know that with the Hansgrohe brand’s recent foray into the kitchen sink business, the brand is now offering innovative sink products that not only help to save space but also are extremely practical and easy to use.
The innovative Hansgrohe Select technology is directly integrated into the Hansgrohe stainless steel sink itself. A large elegant button on the right sink rim turns water flow from the multi-jet kitchen mixer on and off. The clever button also opens and closes the drain so that no other control is required in or around the sink, or detracts from its visual appeal. This allows the easy control of the flow of water using the back of the hand of the elbow for the user, especially when he or she is holding a large pot with both spaces. The technology behind the Select button is purely mechanical. No electricity or extra devices are required in the base cabinet, therefore freeing up space.
In addition, home owners can opt to pair the new stainless steel sinks with Hansgrohe kitchen mixers with the new Hansgrohe sBox. The sBox keeps the base cabinet tidy and ensures reliable functioning. It stores the hose of the pull-out spray in a flat box specifically designed to fit standard base cabinets. This protects the hose from being bumped into by drawers and waste bins, and ensures comfortable, smooth and quiet operation.
Therefore, with such space-saving products found in the kitchen, the home can be transformed into a clean and minimalist space with added conveniences of cleaning and maintenance, which is very important for the modern home.
Simplified Colours By reducing the variety of colours and simplifying the colour schemes to two or three colours, this could help to achieve a more uniform minimalist appearance for the home and could be achieved by having the same colour but in different textures. This does not, however, mean that home owners cannot be creative or artistic in a minimalist home – in fact, a minimalist home is about having simplified and well-balanced aesthetics.
If the home owners decide on a darker colour scheme like black, grey or even any dull tones, they could consider choosing fittings in customised colours like gold, bronze, brass etc which would match perfectly and stand out in the bathroom setting.
Almost all of AXOR bathroom fittings can be made bespoke with AXOR FinishPlus, a special service offered in Germany, with a total of 15 special finishes possible for selection. These special finishes are created with the PVD (Physical Vapour Deposition) and the result is a more robust and brilliant product, which adds exclusivity and elegance.
One example would be AXOR Uno, designed with Phoenix Design, which epitomises purism in perfection with consistent construction: two precisely shaped cylinders joined together at a right angle. With AXOR FinishPlus, the products become as visible as the user desires from a bold gold to a subdued nickel finish, perfect for the home owners to complement their minimalist colour scheme.
Text and Images by Hansgrohe
5 Bedroom Styling Ideas to Inspire You
Friday, November 20, 2020
Looking for styling ideas on how to decorate your bedroom? There are many ways to do so: you can piece together different furnishings and decorations to assemble something approaching comfort, or you could design your bedroom with an achievable end result in mind. Here are more ideas to get you inspired.
Interior design by: SQFT Space Design Management
1. Romantic Impressions Time-tested classical detailing in combination with peach-toned architectural finishes and decorations lend this bedroom a delicately feminine personality. The lightweight décor is complemented by rich fabrics of various shades running from the tops of walls to the floors - with cream drapery, a headboard of button-backed upholstery, and other fuzzy accompaniments rounding off the edges of the bed platform.
Interior design by: Stylecraft Design
2. Geometric Variation A simplistic interior composed of geometric designs is kept from becoming overly uniform with a variation of shapes. The wallpaper bears a vaguely Asiatic repeating motif and the decorative feature wall frames a tight cluster of mirrored hexagonal tiles subtly backlit against the horizontal wood grains. The décor is layered with various wood tones and grains to add depth and complexity to the compact space.
Interior design by: SQFT Space Design Management
3. Diverse Influence The dark expanse portrays a space of the masculine persuasion, while the slender metallic frames born of minimalist philosophy and bevelled mirrored panels illustrate an eclectic personality with affluent sensibilities. To bolster the opulent ambiance, the square metal pipe frames are powder coated in a shade reminescent of gold, and the varied assembly is accented with Anglophilic decorations evoking imagery of Redcoats and the English countryside complementing the plaid fabrics.
Interior design by: SQFT Space Design Management
4. Dainty Sanctuary When a bedroom is planned with a walk-in wardrobe space and a transparent division between bed and bath, the result is an indulgant private space that would be cause any reasonable person to pine for home. The peach and off-white palette renders a feminine vibe, complemented with classical detailing and an abundance of reflective surfaces to create an intimate and luxuriously appointed sanctuary deserving of envy.
Interior design by: Stylecraft Design
5. Refined Simplicity In this bedroom, shades and shapes are reduced to their simplest forms for an elegantly minimalist décor - the pallete is limited to a two-toned combination of eggshell white and grenish grey, in the decorative feature wall lined with fine right angles and in the glossy, reflective panels framing the sides. The selection of white bedsheets, a blanket patterned with geometry, and the inclusion of a few cut fern fronds brings the pallette to a head.
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Light and Bright: 5 Kitchen Lighting Tips to Enhance Your Space
Friday, November 20, 2020
When a homeowner is busy remodeling the kitchen, often the lighting isn't considered to be a priority. However, having beautiful and efficient lighting in the kitchen not only adds to the functionality and adequate illumination, but also enhances the outstanding looks that can often be accomplished by rather simple and affordable remedies.
1. Plan Your Lighting
No one overhead ceiling-mounted fixture or recessed lighting can light the entire kitchen properly, so investigate the different types of light and the number and placement of fixtures needed for your space for the maximum benefit. For example, task lighting is most effective when it is placed below the upper cabinets with fluorescent under-cabinet lighting. Or you can install a chandelier hanging from the ceiling so that it makes it easy to read a recipe and do prep work on the work surface of an island or table.
2. Highlight Your Kitchen
Accent lighting gives depth and dimension such as adjustable fixtures inside glass-front cabinets that will illuminate precious collections, hobbies, art, china, glassware, knickknacks, and other items that will make your kitchen unique, colorful, and be a conversation piece.
3. Go White
White reflects light and bounces it back into the room, making the space feel brighter and well-illuminated while allowing a lower wattage of bulbs and a conservation of energy. So consider white for the walls, ceiling, cabinets, and countertops to maximize the light. A kitchen having dark surfaces requires one-third more light than a kitchen with lighter surfaces.
4. Use Pendant Lamps
Pendant lights not only give a lot of direct task lighting, but they also allow for a variety of sizes, shapes, colors, styles, and decorative features to add to the looks of your kitchen.
5. Install Dimmers
Have dimmers on the various lights so that you can have bright light when you are cooking and doing chores, but then be able to dim the lights to linger over a meal or dessert or create warmth and ambience.
Article courtesy of Patriot LED