http://www.betterimprovement.com www.betterimprovement.com Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:57:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.betterimprovement.com/selecting-paint-colors-home-exteriors/ http://www.betterimprovement.com/selecting-paint-colors-home-exteriors/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:50:08 +0000 Sargis http://www.betterimprovement.com/?p=65193 Now that fall home improvement season is here, many of your readers will be doing exterior painting.  The article below gives helpful, expert advice on color selection.  For more information, contact Debbie Zimmer, color expert at the (Dow Chemical) Paint Quality Institute, via reply email or at 215-962-5551.  Photo images can be downloaded from the [...]]]> http://www.betterimprovement.com/selecting-paint-colors-home-exteriors/feed/ 0 http://www.betterimprovement.com/german-modern-design/ http://www.betterimprovement.com/german-modern-design/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:19:39 +0000 Marina http://www.betterimprovement.com/?p=64822 On one hand the creators of  Art Nouveau strive for rational designs using concrete, glass, ceramics, tile, etc. On the other hand, the architects of modern Germany and Austria, Italy and France appear to wish to overcome the rough rationalism of the construction equipment. They appealed to the whimsical decoration and symbols in the ornamentation scenery in paintings, [...]]]> http://www.betterimprovement.com/german-modern-design/feed/ 0 http://www.betterimprovement.com/postmodern-design-details-interior/ http://www.betterimprovement.com/postmodern-design-details-interior/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:36:25 +0000 Marieta http://www.betterimprovement.com/?p=65015 Robert Venturi, Michael Graves, Philip Johnson and Robert AM Stern should be singled out among the well-known post-modernist designers should. Some of the styles of interior decor, which are defined as post-modern design, are Renaissance Crafts, which is characterized by ergonomic and artistic furniture. Judy McKie, a post-modern furniture designer is known for her details [...]]]> http://www.betterimprovement.com/postmodern-design-details-interior/feed/ 0 http://www.betterimprovement.com/curtains-interior/ http://www.betterimprovement.com/curtains-interior/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:00:43 +0000 Marina http://www.betterimprovement.com/?p=64826 As you know there are no “small things” in the interior design, as it entirely consists of details. Making out even the most unpretentious interior, you need to pay attention to decorating the windows ,because the windows and curtains attract attention and largely determine the comfort and coziness of the room. Textiles in the interior [...]]]> http://www.betterimprovement.com/curtains-interior/feed/ 0 http://www.betterimprovement.com/red-interior-advantages-disadvantages/ http://www.betterimprovement.com/red-interior-advantages-disadvantages/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:29:21 +0000 Marina http://www.betterimprovement.com/?p=64941 Red is the first of the primary colors, and probably the most difficult of all. No other color has so many characters as the red has. It symbolizes both love and passion (red is the symbol of Valentine’s Day, and red lights are the signs of blemish), courage and danger (the sign “Stop”, gas cylinders, [...]]]> http://www.betterimprovement.com/red-interior-advantages-disadvantages/feed/ 0 http://www.betterimprovement.com/white-color-interior-design/ http://www.betterimprovement.com/white-color-interior-design/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:44:58 +0000 Marina http://www.betterimprovement.com/?p=64948 Perhaps white is the most complex and multifaceted color of all that you can choose to decorate. In every culture white color has a special place: somewhere it’s a symbol of purity and innocence, somewhere it’s the color of death. But in any case, white color in the interior is always refined and elegant. In [...]]]> http://www.betterimprovement.com/white-color-interior-design/feed/ 0 http://www.betterimprovement.com/flos-launched-unusual-wall-piercing-lights/ http://www.betterimprovement.com/flos-launched-unusual-wall-piercing-lights/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:02:16 +0000 Marieta http://www.betterimprovement.com/?p=64777 Freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of expression – and every time in the streets you meet originally dressed young people with colored hair, completely covered with tattoos and studded with piercings. I don’t want to leg behind life, the Italian company Flos decided to join the fashion and presented the unusual lights in [...]]]> http://www.betterimprovement.com/flos-launched-unusual-wall-piercing-lights/feed/ 0