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 [...]
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 [...]
As it is known, the color scale is crucial in the interior design of an apartment. The color of the walls, furniture and accessories, will depend on the visual perception of a space. When choosing colors for your apartment, pay attention to several points. Tone and contrast in the interior If you observe the “behavior” [...]
Living in a city apartment you may have a question “Where to take the guests?” Everyone decides everything on his own. The main issue in the design of the living room is so called thematic center. Previously, such issues did not exist: it was a fireplace or hearth, and the reasons why the company gathered [...]
Violet, lilac and mauve are colors that require a delicate attention in residential interior design. We need to be a bit be over diligent, as from a colorful, romantic and tender area we can get aggressive environment, causing irritation and fatigue. Lilac-violet gamma is rich in variations, which makes it possible to create any desired [...]
Design, whether it is interior design, landscape design or any other, means the creative process. If you trust the design of the interior to the professionals, there is no doubt that the apartment will be changed: it will be attractive not only in terms of aesthetics, but also functionally. However, whatever style is chosen by [...]
If earlier, an important point in creating the interior was “the most fashionable interior”, “interior on the latest technologies”, then today it does matter how the interior and its elements influence on human. It turns out that by skillfully made interior can increase work efficiency, improve mood, develop the talents and even raise children. On [...]
Comfort and peace – these are the feelings that should wander around the inhabitants of the house in this room. As you may have guessed, the talk will focus on the bedroom. Here we dream, see colorful dreams, love each other: the style of bedroom is different from the other interior design of rooms, but [...]
Modern requirements for office space are high enough – there must be a cozy, working environment, which will not distract employees from work. Monotonous interior design of office space is not an option, so the constancy begins to put pressure on the staff consciousness and its ability to work begins to decrease. Therefore, the interior [...]
Green plants and flowers bring harmony, aesthetic pleasure to our life, promote psychological unloading. In the space of modern apartment this role is conducted by indoor plants among which monsteras, balsams and rubber plants are now very popular. To design spaces a variety of herbal compositionscan be used, it can be a tabletop miniatures, or [...]
As it became known recently, the company Pantone, the indisputable authority in the field of color, has announced the “Turquoise” color of 2010. Over the past few years, this color has become one of the most fashionable and topical, both in fashion and in modern design. Many fashion designers and furniture designers have made it [...]
Nowadays along with qualities like beauty and comfort another quality has been added to describe apartment interior: eco-friendliness. Eco-friendly interior has become not only a tribute to fashion, but an objective necessity. Here are current eco-trends in home design and decore. Creativity and natural motifs Currently décor items inspired by the nature are very popular [...]