Wall design

Wooden scaffolds for exterior

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The wooden soils are really beautiful, and they contribute warmth and crossbeam to any housing. But not only we have the option to use them in interiors; for time scaffolds have being placed in areas of exterior, like patios, verandas or surroundings of swimming pools, they obtaining a really attractive and interesting aspect, in replacement of the classic soils of tiles or stone.

The treated wood has been the whole discovery inside this field. The scaffold of the image is called Lunawood, and in this case, the wood has been treated in conditions of high temperature to obtain an ideal resistance to the water and to the extreme conditions of the outdoors.

There are other very interesting solutions, like the scaffolds than r ealizan by means of virutas of recycled wood agglomerated with cement; in addition to resistant and attractive, they are of the most ecological. This material in particular is more expensive, but his resistance to the passage of time and the absence of maintenance that it needs there are motives for his installation being thought.

To support in the good state a soil of wood treated for exterior, the best thing is to apply one or two times a year good oil to him for location (for example, the oil by means of natural derivatives Carl's Deck Oil is a good election). The wood will recover his color depth, and you will prevent from cracking or cracking.

The scaffold Lunawood and the oil Carl's Deck Oil distributes Gabarró Hermanos.

Wooden scaffolds for exterior

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The scaffold Lunawood and the oil Carl's Deck Oil distributes Gabarró Hermanos.

It decorates his life with flowers

2010-01-16T21:23:00.003-08:00

We already have the Christmas to the return of the corner and it is an hour of being preparing the list of all those friends, family, parents, coworkers that we have to congratulate. The typical thing there is the handy card, virtual postcard and the sms that every time triumph more in these times.

But I am sure that there will be special someone whom you will want to congratulate of different and special form so that him one has left recorded in the retina your desires of peace and prosperity for this Christmastime and for the next year.

A congratulation that in addition to transmitting your feelings, decorates his environment and the king of your life makes him feel and or her, let's not discriminate for sex, the most dear person sits down.

This year will choose to congratulate with flowers and plants and these marvelous proposals that I have found in this web 12flores.es

This is a fantastic detail, it mixes natural plant with an exquisite wine, surprising and warm.

Beautiful Orchid anchored in rind of tree, the whole detail of very good taste.

It looks at the combinations, simply they are brilliant, I love.

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Manualidades in felt, Christmas adornments

It decorates his life with flowers

2010-01-16T21:23:00.001-08:00

This year will choose to congratulate with flowers and plants and these marvelous proposals that I have found in this web 12flores.es

This is a fantastic detail, it mixes natural plant with an exquisite wine, surprising and warm.

Beautiful Orchid anchored in rind of tree, the whole detail of very good taste.

It looks at the combinations, simply they are brilliant, I love.

Also you can be interested in:

Manualidades in felt, Christmas adornments

Reductions Merkamueble 2010

2010-01-16T17:20:00.001-08:00

Once again, we call them reductions but in the different establishments they have other names: Knut, Opportunities … In this case, it is a question of the reductions of the catalog of Merkamueble, but they call them a Liquidation of Surpluses. The opportunities are marvelous; if Merkamueble always offers good prices, in this case they are unbeatable.

With discounts of up to 60 % on the original price and a few marvelous facility of payment, Merkamueble puts at the disposal of his clients this liquidation in all his establishments of the Peninsula and Balearics.

Juvenile bedrooms and of marriage, furniture of lounge, incidental for bath, couches … A big number of offers that, for financed buys, 10 % of additional discount takes also.

Have you seen what prices? In clothes of bed and table you will be able to find also fantastic offers; together with the reductions of Zara Home, this liquidation is perfect to renew the textile equipment of the hearth or to do a marvelous gift.

Also, since you can see in these images, in the catalog they offer us the transport and the completely free assembly, what also supposes an enormous advantage. If you want to see all the offers, you can find the finished catalog in the Merkamueble web.

Walls decoration with sockets or friezes

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The options for interior decoration do not happen only for painting walls; also skills can get together to obtain more dynamic and different results. The sockets or decorative friezes are a marvelous idea to renew spaces, and they can belong to wooden muds or PVC, entelados, papered with role identical or decorated with painting.

A good idea is to separate two top and low parts for a frame or strip of wood, of wood or PVC. If the socket is painted or papered, of that time also it is possible to paint a mopboard with the skill of the stencil or to give one of identical role.

If what you want is to do or to paper, the sockets to vertical stripes are a wise move. If you want to paint them, divide the wall in stripes of the same breadth, give coachbuilder's tape and paint the streaks with plastic painting and roller of short hair. When you remove the tape you will remain pleased with the result, which you can finish off, as I have already said, with a frame or strip of wood.

The wooden sockets, DM or PVC by means of dovetail slats are a perfect solution to decorate and to isolate spaces, so much thermal as acústicamente. They are placed in the wall, screwed to her or to a few strips of wood previously fixed, and can be finished off by a table superficially to create continuous, perfect shelves for infantile and juvenile rooms.

This is an original super idea of Bricomarkt: to place a frieze in horizontal, of varnished wood, leaving space identical with the wall at the top and for below. It is a super idea avant-garde and very simple to do.

The narrow corridors are spaces difficult to decorate, and the sockets as one meter high there can be the best solution. This is a good example: a socket identical with white and brown chocolate, finished off by a white frame. The walls in target and the door lacada complete a perfect ambience, visually wider and dynamic.

Images: Quintaesencia58, Bricomarkt, Decoradecora, Micasa.

Chairs of plastic Classic

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The new chair of plastic designed by Pili Wu, it is an adaptation of the popular one and never well exaggerated chair stool of plastic that is existed trasformado in a universal object. The stool of classic plastic that we all know has been re-defined by the student of Industrial design Pili Wu. “Classic is a chair of plastic that has two personalities in only one body”, tells his creator.

“Taiwan was usually the kingdom of the production of plastic, the chairs and stools have been present in a lot of time, but curiously nobody meets the creator or inventor of the stools. His price, simple structure and rapid production has allowed his popularity, and it is so popular that it has turned into an outstanding figure without nobody of account of his reality”, telling Pili Wu.

The cheap stools produced in mass, live in streets and alleys put of street sale of food in Taiwan and practically everywhere of the world. On the other hand, the curved chair or ringlet is an outstanding figure in the traditional furniture of China, which represents a higher social status with his elegant and reliable structure. Classic turns then into a contradictory chair: cheap and expensive design, culture of street and Chinese traditional furniture.

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Recycled pasteboard | chairs of pasteboard Vouwwow

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VOUWWOW is a made portable chair of recycled pasteboard, of light weight, which has just gained the contest Thonet Mart Stamprijs 2009 Chair Design Competition. His design has been created by the designers Joost Van Nort and Maartje Nuy. According to the Thonet jury, the chair “stands out for the design, the serviceability and the sostenibilidad in all the aspects”.

The chair made of pasteboard honeycomb pattern, has gained prestige for his rational use of materials, facility of assembly, portability and innovative Bohemian esthetics.

The chair proposes the recycling of a material that it is usually considered to be how “to use and to pull”. Vouwwow forges new esthetics, a new way of town planning, which recognizes the need for a new paradigm for the things that we produce and deshechamos every day. With Vouwwow, the Dutch duo suggests that instead of simply throwing the pasteboard: why not to do a chair with him?

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He marries container modern

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Elegant, simple, elegant and modern, are words that one is not used to using when container talks each other of a house. We have seen many of these houses, nevertheless, this design manages to assemble the adjectives of a comfortable housing. The factor limitante of the containers is the breadth. It is difficult to design a house in such a narrow space.

But in this case, the trick was to add secondary spaces that allow the house to turn out to be much wider. In whole 8 elements have been placed towards out of the structure of the central nucleus, including the kitchen, bathroom (with wash-basin, shower and toilet), bedroom, office, lounge and corner of reading and closet and larder. Of course some of these functions need additional connections.

A combination of simple panels of natural counterplated wood and of brilliant red color they emphasize the spaces and accentuate certain areas.

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Couches and armchairs of Patricia Urquiola

2010-01-14T20:25:00.001-08:00

The recent creation of Patricia Urqiola, Log Sofa continues a line of furniture that the designer began in 2008: wooden furniture of solid beech made of a beautiful Japanese carpentry. Curved supports, light paws and skin of goat.

This new line also is constructed in wood of massive beech and the couch is provided with similar lines, but more placid global esthetics. With a textile that there remembers the icónico B5 of Marcel Breuer, Urquiola investigates between the modern thing and the primitive thing.

The plush cushions have smoothed the character of the armchairs. “The sewed details are clearly chic, with a selection of taken textiles of the masculine clothes”.

According to the proper Patrician one, “professionally I have been born in Italy, of teachers like Bruno Munari, the intellectual father of the school milanesa. At the same time, I am considered to be very Spanish: the Asturian one with Basque ancestry”.

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Reductions Zara Home 2010

2010-01-14T16:04:00.001-08:00

If a few days ago it was teaching you some of the articles of the Catalog Zara Home 2010, today it is the day of throwing a glance to his spectacular reductions. Because the prices of Zara Home go down in a noisy way this January, from the 7th until February 1; or that there is no time to lose if we want to make use of the discounts in the collections of the signature.

I personally love the bed clothes of Zara Home. The prices now are super reduced, and for example, this so stately bedspread only costs 29,95 euros of 79,95 original euros.

There can be discounts that come up to 50 % in clothes of bed and hearth, chinas, silverware, carpets … And quite without impairment of the marvelous quality to which in Zara Home they have us used.

In this photo we see the set of sheets and bedspread Lucy. The sheets lower from 19,95 to 7,95 euros, and the bedspread, from 89,95 to 59,95 euros. Elegant, marvelous and cheap: truth?

As soon as I have seen the glass Stage, I have fallen in love with her. I do not meet anybody with a game of glasses so original that how are you … the unit can be acquired by 3,95 euros in games of six, when earlier it was costing two more euros every glass.

The materials of that the tablecloth Tulip is done are of more noblemen and natives: linen and cotton. You will be able to obtain it for the most luxurious tables decoration, at a price for 19,95 euros (earlier it was costing 49,95 …!).

The perfect complement for the luxurious table: this silverware decorated with motives that resemble the lace, and that is precisely his name in English: Lace. The big silverware costs 1,95 euros each one, and has been exempted in two euros of his original price.

There is no space in this blog to publish the big quantity of marvelous offers of Zara Home for this January; the best thing will be that you enter his web and throw a glance to what more you were interested in …

Interior decoration | Bedroom

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Continuing with our series on the interior decoration in the different stays of the house, today it touches him the shift to the bedroom. Of marriage, infantile, juvenile bedrooms … Every member of the family has its own space, the most personal of the whole house. From two-color and austere tendencies of more contemporaries even the most classic and coloristic, the options are great.

This elegant bedroom registers in the tendency of black and white decoration, although the touches in purple and fuchsia bring him a new dimension. Who had these conference! Attention to the black brilliant soil and the dark walls; dared, but very guessed right.

The seventies and the oriental decoration they unite in this relaxing space infested with tones ocres. To continue the rules of the feng shui in the bedroom is a good tendency, since he supposes serviceability and stability for the inhabitants of the house.

The ambiences in blue are always a sure bet; it is a color that the whole world likes, does not happen fashionably and is easy to combine. The target and the blue ones believe so nice and evocative ambiences as this one, where the lamp of role, cheap and decorative, is the protagonist.

The red one is a color more difficult to combine in a bedroom, but in this case it remains perfect with the wall of seen stone, as well as with the bedspread and the white lamps. A very intelligent lighting completes the set.

As for the bedrooms in green, it is necessary to say that it is a marvelous color to paint the walls because it is the most relaxing tone that exists (that's why the clothes of the doctors and surgeons of the hospitals are green). It combines perfectly with tones chocolate and browns, and also with walls in target and gray furniture.

And to end, one of the colors most used by decorators and individuals: the yellow one. Leaving behind the tendency of painting all the walls in this color, in the photo we see the yellow wall of the headrest that it combines perfectly with the very dark wood, the white bedspread, the entertaining mosquito net and the cushions in the same color.

Rustic tables of wood of Lex Pott

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The Dutch designer Lex Pott of Holland presents a series of wooden tables, mixes of industrial design with natural elements. The designer constructs these tables with conventional planks of wood and branches recovered after the serrated one. The assembly of these fragments they give as turned out the hybrid, only furniture and irreproducibles, with inspiration both in the nature and in the industrial design.

“Fragments of the Nature” there is a collection of furniture that tries to support the integrity of the original material. As result achieves an interesting miscellany of geometric forms with organic structures. The designs are simple and ideal for those that prefer to decorate his house with elements that they remind to them and evoke to the nature.

The tables are accompanied by a series of banks, by what one can arm a finished and homogeneous set.

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To paint walls | modern Stencils

2010-01-13T18:10:00.001-08:00

Under the English name of stencil or Spanish of stencil, there is included a skill that consists of doing simply with staff. The simplicity of achievement of this type of motives and it nice that stay it has transformed to the estacido into one of the skills to decorate walls (or to paint furniture) more popular.

But the times change for all: persons, tendencies, fashions … And the stencils of today have not anything in common with those of a few years ago. Now, to paint the house there take the big motives (similar to those of decorative, so fashionable vinyl right now), distributed of random form, and of abstract and asymmetric type.

Although earlier small staff and short paintbrushes were used to stencil, now they are used big plastic or roles that are fixed to the wall to paint the motives with a roller and acrylic paintings.

In this image you can see a classic stencil, in roof mopboard; and in the following one, the achievement of a big motive of modern type. The colors are very similar, but the conception and the design turn out to be completely different.

The motives in the shape of mopboard and styles pompeyano or art déco they are remaining obsolete, and now there take more the asymmetric and random, very coloristic patterns, how are you flowers in living tones that they imitate to the identical role.

The stencil is a very simple, accessible and rapid skill to paint the walls of an entertaining, esthetic and very personal form. Sign up it and …: Hands to the work!

Window that it transforms into balcony

2010-01-13T12:44:00.001-08:00

In this today article I am going to show you a really incredible solution for garrets and attics under covering. It is not the typical window of roof that places so that between light in the space, but a window that trasforma in balcony. Yes, you have read well; it is of the signature Velux and in this image you can see his exterior esthetics, in the shape of window and balcony.

This window of roof, of Goatish name, offers the possibility of making use to the maximum of the low space covered, extracting party to all the available meters and giving place to the option to be able to appear to enjoy the exterior space, in addition to the light and the ventilation.

When it is closed, the window Rafter continues the line of the roof, integrating with the covering material. But it is when it is opened when it transforms instantaneously in a balcony on the roof, which a wonderful one provides seen on the outside and offers to architects and innumerable draftsmen possibilities.

In this image you can see the window Rafter completely opened from the interior, demonstrating that there proves the best way of making use of the with a sloping roof space and the light of the sun. The top part of the window has an opening with a maximum angle of 45th. This window - balcony integrates to the perfection the comfort of the hearth with the free air of the covering, offering the best conference and a comfortable access on the outside.

More information: Velux.

Reductions KA International 2010

2010-01-12T16:27:00.001-08:00

The reductions about which I am going to speak to you in this post are very special, since not every day exists the opportunity to acquire cloths of so good quality and so nice, at so spectacular prices. We go, almost not in the flea market …! The signature KA International has just inaugurated his reductions with scandal prices for every meter of many of his cloths.

I admit that I am assiduous to the liquidations of stocks, reductions and rakes of this signature, and I always find something that is worth it. The cloths are of an impeccable quality, and the designs you already know them: of the most elegant and easy to coordinate.

The streaks in tones of the same scales, combined with broken targets, are usually one of his sure bets. The ambiences of KA International are almost always elegantly rural, very British, with furniture stylized in finished strippings and something aged.

That's why it is very advisable to approach the reductions of his shops: from only 9 euros from now on you will be able to find cloths to the last one with which your armchairs, cushions, curtains or other carpeting will be the envy of anyone.

The reductions will last this January, but the stock usually fly, I guarantee it to you. If you need textiles for the hearth or cloths of hangings, do not forget to give yourselves a return for KA International.

You reduce Leroy Merlin 2010 | Opportunities

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We continue with our Reductions special ones in Decorahoy. This time touches him the shift to Leroy Merlin, the centers of do-it-yourself and decoration where we can find marvelous prices the whole year, but even more in this epoch. 2010 in Leroy Merlin they call them to the reductions Opportunities, and the period to obtain the best prices is understood between 8 and on January 25.

The offers are marvelous in all the fields: accessories for bath, soils and scaffolds, heating and chimneys … And as for the discounts, since you can see in these images of the leaflet, they come and overcome 50 % on the original price.

Those who need accessories and furniture to organize the different stays are also of congratulations: shelves for the bath, the lounge, the kitchen, the bedroom … Also, the buys can be financed and begin paying from April.

As for the lovers of the do-it-yourself, they will find fantastic prices in hardware of garden or carpentry, for putting two examples. It is the moment to renew the old auger or to buy to him the dreamed sander, since you can save yourselves more than the half of what you had to spend thought-out.

Do to spend the opportunity (or rather the Opportunities …), and empezad already to do the list for the reductions of Leroy Merlin.

Hindu decoration

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The Hindu esthetics and the whole decoration proceeding from the millennial India it has become fashionable very much, thanks to the phenomenon Bollywood and movies like Slumdog Millonaire or The wedding of the Monsoon. Based on very baroque, coloring interiors and with images profusion, the interior decoration in Hindu style can be a marvelous option, if we can dose his components.

The carved wood is typical of this decoration. The identical and golden furniture are very attractive, especially when it is a question of antiquities; but also we can recycle and paint furniture that we take as our house giving them a new air, like the chair and the mesita of this photo.

The color is fundamental in this type of ambiences. The combination of old furniture with finished rustic and half-washed in colors cake, with hangings and cushions of intense tonalities learnedly combined, obtains results as attractive as that of this image.

And what to say about the characteristic identical furniture? Very similar to those of decoration oriental, are real works of art painted to hand. The combination of this type of furniture with walls of strong colors (red, orange …) and you stay awake learnedly placed will obtain relaxing, propitious interiors to the meditation …

The cushions profusion, to sit down in the soil or to have a short rest in couches, also is typical of the Hindu decoration. In this image we see a few models of the collection of Versace, in silks beautifully colored that will contribute luxury and wealth to any stay.

Images: The hearth, Imageshack, Decorablog,

Reductions Ikea 2010 | Knut

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The Reductions of Ikea for this new year 2010 begin with a very special name: Knut. Although this word turns out to be to us completely a stranger, for the Swedishes it has a very festive and special meaning. Knut means the end of the Christmas and the welcome to the longest and luminous days; and in Ikea they celebrate it starting a few marvelous winter reductions.

If the prices of the catalog of Ikea 2010 are already of for themselves marvelous, with these reductions they turn into real bargains. From 7 until January 17 there will be discounts in the shops, of up to fifty per cent on the original price of the articles.

On the pages of Knut's catalog you will be able to find offers as interesting as those that appear on these pages: shop windows, couches, closets, lamps, objects of decoration … With them you will be able to save yourself many euros in your buys.

Perhaps be the best moment to consider to renew the decoration of your lounge, kitchen or bath, or to equip again the quarter of games of the children, the bedroom …

He remembers: until January 17 you will have the opportunity to come to the Ikea winter reductions, or as the Swedishes call them, Knut. We will celebrate with them the arrival of the light …

Decorating with cushions

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With a few cushions you can give him a new look to your room, only it is necessary to know some tricks to implement a small big change.

A few cushions of good size remain better than many children. He always chooses an odd number: 3 or 5, will turn out to be much better than of to pairs. Place them in asymmetric form without accumulating them, they must seem chance, for example place two in a corner of the couch and a third one in another end.

Bear in mind the size at the time of choosing the patterns. A limited palette of colors and big geometric patterns on carpeting or smooth surfaces they work well in a modern ambience. The select cloth must be of tight textile, like the cotton and the linen.

The cushions of silk and velvet remain marvelous in the classic ambiences. The variety of textures, patterns, sizes and colors does that they turn out to be more animated. To combine a pattern recharged with simple other, forming pairs like that of the photo, sometimes it works very well.

Also you can repeat the same scale of colors that has a picture that exists in the room. Or a carpet or a blanket.

Route / Real Simple

Earlier and later | to Remodel the guests' bath

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This guests' bath was remodeled completely with incredible results. To gain space one added to the original surface of the bath a closet that was giving to a small contiguous corridor transforming it into shower.

A wooden cooking top was constructed with shelves to place above a modern wash-basin which grisásea one gave a blue patina. The existing mirror re-used with a new frame with the same wood blue - gray and a nice Ikea lamp was placed on him. The faucet and the wash-basin belong to Lowes.

The old linoleum apartment, it was replaced with marble tiles, with which also the walls were covered. A big change really, the result a sophisticated and elegant bath.

Route / Design Sponge

Accessories for bath | heating towels Radiator

2010-01-10T05:42:00.001-08:00

A heating towels rack is definitely one of the top in the list of luxuries for the bathroom. With a radiator Bosporus de Aeon as this one you will be able to wrap yourself in a lukewarm towel on having gone out of the shower or bath of immersion.

With a design minimalista the towels heater consists of a stainless steel radiator style stairs that it increases in depth from the base up to the top part, forming a storage platform with space sufficient for a battery of rolled up or double towels. There are two models one with a heat exit of 630W, other that it expresses 1272W.

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Route / Tréndir

Juvenile bedrooms in blue

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The carpets in the shape of butterfly were the starting point for the election of the scheme of color of this quarter for young people. A personalized bedroom, only one wall has made itself up in intense blue, which is sufficient to heighten a scheme of simple color in tones of light blue, natural wood and colors cremates. Above, a fan of roof and accessories of contemporary lighting with calbe electric cord to add form, outline and color.

An alone color more white color must be the form easiest to combine colors, but undoubtedly with dark blue walls it is the best option. The furniture in melamina half note and the frames provide a high spectacular contrast for a masculine and young room. The bed clothes with geometric forms in the same tones, can be to modify easily the decoration of the quarter if it changes for floral motives or other colors are included.

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To decorate infantile or juvenile bedrooms

Route / Better Homes and Gardens

To paint furniture | decorative Examples

2010-01-09T07:27:00.001-08:00

The identical furniture not only are very decorative, but also they offer us the possibility of recycling old pieces of furniture and past fashionable objects and of giving them a new opportunity. Furniture with finished strippings, with patinas to age, skills to dye wood … There Are many options available for painting our furniture.

The finished strippings are very popular and they do not happen fashionably. The half-washed and aged target is super elegantly, and it remains perfect with any ambience. If the furniture is of wood to the native, we can apply a watery painting to him so that transparenten the seams, as in this beautiful table.

To paint furniture it be usually necessary to apply first a priming selladora. In this case a DM furniture is covered, but also it can be done by varnished furniture, lacquers or of melamina, sanding them lightly and applying later a synthetic selladora.

A marvelous idea is to recycle old furniture (that not ancient or of noble wood; they are too valuable) giving them an aspect surf. For example, this console of classic style has painted with a lacquer lilac to itself, and the modern color contrasts in a very effective way with the most ancient lines.

Also it is a marvelous solution to paint the furniture in the same tones as the walls of the room. In this case a DM cajonera has been decorated in target, and he has placed himself on the paws of a past mesita of center fashionable, that in blue (like that of the wall) receive new value from the lacarlas. The resultant combination is perfect.

Oriental decoration

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One of the tendencies what more is marking the interior decoration for any years is the oriental one. The ambiences proceeding from China and Japan are having an interesting influence in the western housings, and many furniture of well-known signatures, like Ikea, Habitat, Kibuc Avant Haus, are inspired in the style of the Far East.

It is a custom to decorate with golden, accompanied by rich and sumptuous cloths and colors that combine the dark wood, the blue ones and the blacks, as well as the red and green lacquers, they are typical of this type of decoration.

The low furniture and the mats of vegetable fibre are typical of ambiences of Japanese style, with big screens and screens of clear wood or role of rice. Also the cushions are very typical to sit down in the soil.

The open spaces to see straight the exterior and to gain access to him without hobbles of any type are constant in the Japanese ambiences. Scaffolds of clear wood and screens of bamboo finish off the set.

As for the furniture, we are two tendencies: straight and simple lines, with heavy volumes and profusion of drawers with knobs decorated (above), but also furniture with filigrees and openworks typical of the overloaded Chinese ambiences.

The lacquers are constant in this decoration, as well as the dark and carved wood and the pulimentados varnish, fruit of the constant work of the craftsmen and the millennial skills. Combined with brilliant silks and sumptuous textiles, they shape the most luxurious ambiences of the East.

To save energy in the hearth | Advices

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During the winter we spend a lot of more energy than in the rest of the year, due to the falls temperatures, which do that we have to put the heating for many hours, and at a few hours of light that they force us to have the burning bulbs almost constantly. But it is possible to save enough energy in the hearth if we bear in mind some councils of the experts.

The temperature of the housing is one of the principal factors to control. The thermostats installation for the heating in the different rooms helps to reduce greatly the expense, since it supports the stays to constant temperature. Although during the day a temperature of 20 grades is sufficient to be to taste, to sleep it is sufficient with 15 grades. Bear it in mind when you extinguish the lights in the night …

Of course, it is fundamental to be provided with a good isolation in the housing, which will achieve that the heat does not escape and the cold not between. Windows with thermal bridge and double glazing, walls and well isolated roofs and doors and windows protected with draft excluders are some of the keys.

The bulbs of low consumption will be shortly an obligation, since the normal ones are going to stop being commercialized. These bulbs save up to 15 % of electric power compared with the standard, and last much more in spite of being more expensive. The lamps with sensor and programming of burning and subdued are also very practical.

The water is a good so scarce that there will never be said the sufficient thing that is necessary to economize on it. Each of us we can go so far as to spend up to 170 daily liters throughout the day … The systems to save water, about which we have already spoken in this blog, they help to take care of the environment and they will save a good money a year to those who install them.

Images: Decoration 2, entire Cologne

Catalog Kibut Collection 2010

2010-01-07T10:13:00.001-08:00

The catalog of furniture that I show you today has been realized and designed by the signature of Cordoba Poplars Baltanas, and corresponds to his series Kibut Collection for 2010. The same signature has other collections of the most varied, but this one is especially attractive and contemporary.

It is a question of finished ambiences in which the furniture has a special leading role. The designs, like this bedroom in black, are very bold and avant-garde, and they combine the minimalism of the straight lines with the vistosidad of the details, like frames or knobs.

But the classic lines also have his place, inside the avant-garde style that it characterizes to this collection. The furniture in noble wood beautifully banizados, with an elegant style that there reminds Art Déco to, are different of the bets of the signature.

Once again we meet the bet of black and white decoration, which all the signatures of furniture and interior decoration are recreating in his collections for 2010. In this case we see an elegant sideboard in black with the original detail of two mirrors (instead of the only one) hung on the wall.

The contemporary classic style has a space reserved in the collection Kibut. Furniture of straight lines once again, in which the crystal receives leading role together with the wood and the metallic knobs.

A new bet in tones contrast, but this time is replaced the black with an elegant gray graphite. Attention again to the details of the big frames, the smoked crystal and the original asymmetric shelves.

Route: Infurma.

Interior decoration | Lounge

2010-01-06T18:11:00.001-08:00

The lounge is the place where we do most of our life. It usually talks each other of the widest stay of the house, and sometimes it gets together with the kitchen forming the classic American kitchen, which now it has become fashionable thanks to the tendency of the lofts. Also it is where we can allow to demolish more our imagination at the time of deciding how to decorate the lounge, since it is the most crowded space and with more possibilities of the house.

The black and white decoration keeps on being an outstanding figure, as well as the tendency to the barroquismo that is going to characterize many interiors of this year 2010. This lounge is a marvelous example of overloaded elegance.

Tendencies as the walls in target are allied of very effective form with wide spaces decorated in an intense color, or with the wall surfs and decorative vinyl that are right now so fashionable.

If for what you look is a lounge decorated with an ethnic touch, ready attention to this ambience. The detail of the sculpture and the vase combines to the perfection with the furniture of clear wood and the red walls. It is an idea of Hulsta.

In Ikea they always have marvelous ideas and very good taste at the time of decorating. This lounge is characterized by his austerity and his purity of lines. A white couch, a few piled up cushions and dark furniture is everything what they need to be right of plenary meeting.

The lounges of 2010 offer a lot of possibilities for all the tastes. It is a question of being able to choose personal yours.

Images: Interiors, andy-exclusivedesign.

Catalog Zara Home 2010

2010-01-06T13:45:00.001-08:00

It is a reductions time, but also of new collections; it comes the year 2010 with many innovations in catalogs of the shops of decoration. In Zara Home they have not wanted being less and have presented a fantastic collection full of elegance and barroquismo that, also, is characterized by the marvelous prices that this signature always supports.

Clothes of bed, furniture, chinas, accessories of decoration …: Up to purses and complements for man and woman! The big variety of articles of Zara Home for bedrooms, kitchens and lounges is enormous, always tastefully and marvelous quality.

The bed clothes are one of the stars of this mark. In his new collection we find very unlike styles, like the romantic target of this beautiful set, of name New Seersucker.

And the sumptuous textiles, of oriental esthetics, also have his place. This set of bedspread and sheets is called Rania and is worth of an oriental emperor … But it is accessible for any lover of the most baroque interior decoration.

The esthetics of tablecloths and furniture to decorate the table also come this year loaded luxurious and I shine. The details gilded on white sound one of the strongest tendencies, since we can see in this tablecloth, which takes the name of July.

And without forgetting the accessories and objects of decoration, these details that give the special touch to any house. Golden frames (like these, of name Flax and that mirrors, vases send to us to esthetics based on the seventies), boxes and jewelers, … Everything necessary to have a house to the last one, but without we having to ruin ourselves.

More information and images: Zara Home.

Rapid and cheap prefabricated houses

2010-01-05T10:50:00.001-08:00

The topic of the housing and stá more and more complicated in our country. The apartments are expensive, there is no financing on the part of the banks, the salaries do not come … It does a time we publish in this blog an article about the cheapest apartments in Spain, and there being still good offers, it is very difficult at present to go so far as to buy to him one. A solution for those who have an area edificable is to place in him a prefabricated house, especially bearing in mind the current offers.

The company Casamisura is one of the most interesting in the field of the prefabricated houses. S us housings have wooden structure, and the best thing of everything is that by only 69.900 euros there can be obtained a house of design, of two plants and: in only 30 days!

It is a question of the house Cubic House, which you can see in the mock-up. Of esthetics minimalista, very different from the typical huts, it has three famous "Bs": good, nice and cheap.

The interior decoration is also spectacular, as you can see in this lounge. The company, also, offers the posibildad of furnishing it and equipping it completely, including up to the last detail (clothes of bed and tables, chinas, furniture, domestic appliances …) for 15.000 more euros.

In Casamisura they have also other available real estate, with finished in mortar he monogelds and different sizes.

It is necessary to remember that these houses are prefabricated but not mobile, so they can only get up in urban areas or urbanizables. His advantages? They are much cheaper that to construct a house of bricks and cement, and also in only thirty days you have the keys in the hand.

Cheap Puffs

2010-01-04T21:27:00.001-08:00

The puffs are an already classic element in the current hearths. Entertaining, comfortable and economic, they extract us of troubles when it is necessary to accommodate unexpected someone and we have no place in the couch, or simply when we feel like placing the feet on something to watch TV …

The children adore the puffs, and for this motive there are a marvelous element to furnish the quarter of games of the children, with little presupposed and many imagination. They like to be able “to throw itself” for the soil on his puffs, or to accommodate in them his friends. And with this one so original with form of defín it will be still better; it belongs to One way Furniture.

But if what you want is to find puffs cheap and elegant, of that time your virtual shop is Mipuf.es. In her you can acquire Internet route so comfortable and stylish puffs as these.

In fact, this furniture is not a puff but a very low stool, but his height makes it very similar to the outstanding figures puffs. And only it costs 49 euros.

This one yes that the outstanding figure is puff a pear, very comfortably and, in this case, super coloring. It serves for interior and exterior, and his price is 66 euros.

The same model “pear“, but in this case with a pattern for more stylish and elegant bedrooms. He is the model Deco and he costs 69 euros.

In orange acid I like this puff very much for his peculiar cubic form. It is possible to acquire in many intense colors, and his straight lines make it much adapted for decorations minimalistas. It costs 49 euros.

Interior decoration | Kitchens

2010-01-04T16:48:00.001-08:00

The kitchen is, increasingly, one of the most important rooms of the house. After a few years in which the persons were meeting in rooms and lounges and were leaving the kitchens only to prepare meals, now we have returned to the ancient tradition of the spaces wide and open where we can eat, rest and even receive the friends.

From rustic kitchens as those of the country-houses, where the flavor of the ancient thing is coordinated to the perfection with the most modern equipments, up to the most modern kitchens like this incredible circular design where everything centers about an island and his bell, the options to be chosen are multiple.

The spaces in target keep on being of the most select, due to the luminosity and cleanliness that they contribute to the kitchens. The kitchen cooking tops, which can be of materials like the Silestone the most current and practical (option), are exception protagonists on having constituted an important visual focus and a necessary work surface.

Another space in red and white, that are two of the colors covers with stars for the kitchens of the year 2010. The ambiences tend to the modernity and to to imitate a little to the industrial kitchens, leaving a little behind the most classic solutions.

But the red one and the target are not the only colors to be chosen; some outstanding figures as the blue also have treading loudly, especially in combination with the steel or the crystal. A good idea is to use an ambiences simulator to limit what are the colors and the style that we want for our kitchen.

And the seventies are still present in the decoration, one more year. The wood also is used very much for the kitchen furniture, but more that in his rustic slope it will be present following the style of this emblematic epoch. This kitchen is a marvelous example.

Images: Decoration - interior, Squidoo.

Magnets for the icebox

2010-01-03T04:33:00.001-08:00

The magnets for the icebox, completely unknown simple and entertaining gadgets a few decades ago, are already something that is not missing in practically any housing. Of propaganda, of design or done by one himself, who more, who less has his own and exclusive collection in the door of the refrigerator.

Letters, calculators, texts, sneakers, “food“ of plastic … Almost any motive is capable of being reproduced in the shape of magnet for the icebox. But also you can do them yourself of the simplest form, for your own kitchen or to give; they are manualidades very easy and nice. Next I give you a marvelous idea.

First of all, you will have to obtain the materials. Only you will need a pasta pill to shape (you will find it in any bazaar, stationery or shop of manualidades), acrylic paintings or témperas, instantaneous glue, magnets and varnish in aerosol.

It extends well the pasta to shape on a flat surface with a roller or a crystal bottle. It leaves an iron with a thickness of approximately 10 mm, and felling different forms with confectioner's knife for dough.

It allows to dry the forms and, when they are dry, it sands the rims to round with sandpaper of the nº 180. Later, they dust; it is the moment to paint them with the acrylic paintings.

It allows to dry again and gives the magnets behind with the instantaneous glue. You can already varnish them with the aerosol and, once dry …: To the icebox!

Vïa: Gastronovedades.

Catalog Merkamueble 2010

2010-01-02T10:31:00.001-08:00

Happy year 2010, dear readership and readers! I hope that you should have spent a marvelous New Year's Eve, and that this new year should bring us to all the best moments of our lives. And now, we go to ours: the decoration. If another day we were commenting on the innovations of the Catalog Ikea 2010, today we are going to begin a glance to the catalog of another important signature of furniture and decoration: Merkamueble. In his web we have found marvelous offers of all the styles and for all the tastes.

The bedrooms of marriage of pure, more baroque lines or of rustic and classic type, are one of the strong points of this signature. Do you remember what it was telling you on black and white decoration? Since this bedroom is a marvelous example. His modernity makes it very functional and elegant.

The lounges are also beautiful in Merkamueble; in this case, I have chosen a rustic ambience so that you could see all the styles. The natural wood combined with smoked crystal and straight lines, without much ado I adorn that the proper simplicity of the furniture, it shapes a very attractive set for any housing.

Merkamueble has a really spectacular kitchen line, like this marvel with central island, exempt bell and furniture in dull target. On his web page there is a section with the most attractive images. The cooking tops, the accessories, the complements … you will be able to find Everything.

The detail of this entry, of the most original thing, I have loved. The simplicity of the set, perfectly harmonized with the colors green, black and white person, is in line with the last decorative tendencies for this year. Attention to the furniture of hanging in the wall, on which they have treading loudly.

And especially, a lot of attention to the special offers of the signature Merkamueble: in these moments, they have promotions as marvelous as this couch with chaiselongue and drawer of storage, which is selling at half of his original price with a discount of 50 % (now it costs 690 €). It is only one of many offers of the signature. To what waiting to give you a return?

Decorative vinyl in Sight in your Interior

2009-12-30T14:42:00.001-08:00

Finally slightly radically different in decoration! And above, to do one himself. The signature is called a Sight in your Interior, and they commercialize self-adhesive vinyl for wall. Yes, yes, either I know that either we have extracted more products of this style … But it is that the motives of this mark are fantastic, super changed and of all the sizes.

On the Sight web page in your Interior you will find the original motives to the sale, separated in different sections so that it is much easier to choose the one that more you like to you. And also you can unload the catalog in pdf to print the motives and to see which remains better in every stay.

With names like Curlicues, Oneiric, Textual, Infantile …, the vinyl adapts itself to your style and that of your housing.

Also, also they have a section of Outlet where you will find a heap of offers at reduced super prices. That, without relying on that tomorrow it finishes his Christmas offer: 15 % of discount to those who acquire a vinilio of the signature before January 1, 2010!

Since you can see in the photos, the elegance and the actuality are the bases of these beautiful designs. To place them yourself is very easy and you will be able to see in the web how it is done; also, they give you a spatula to facilitate the installation.

For the whole wall or only for small details; abstract, floral motives or text; infantile vinyl … Everything for what you look to decorate the walls of your house, you will find it in Sight in your Interior.

Interior decoration | Baths

2009-12-30T10:17:00.001-08:00

The bath is one of the coziest and agreeable spaces of the house, and also one of that it offers more possibilities at the time of dressing it and decorating it. So much if it is a question of modern baths, as if there are a type vintage, rustic or minimalistas, at present almost quite it costs inside the decoration of the baths, always inside the elegance and the good taste.

The most current tendencies continue the line of the minimalism and the rectilinear forms, as it is possible to appreciate in this ambience of Ideal Standard. Sanitary ware with almost cubist esthetics, mirrors without frame, almost invisible screens of shower and neutral tones are the tracks to be continued. Elegant baths, for spaces of the post-industrial age.

The accessible baths for persons with low mobility and the systems to save water in faucets or sanitary ware are more and more common, and there is a big variety.

The tendencies in wash-basins accept almost any material and design, and if not, to see what you say to me about this spectacular wash-basin - aquarium. The whole pleasure for the sight and the senses …

Nevertheless, the classic ambiences also are in the comb of the wave in what it refers to baths. The gray and white tones keep on being a tendency, but in this case the sanitary ware evokes Belle Épocque, as well as the beautiful cartels beautifully framed.

The color also has his place in the bathroom. Although the simple lines are what more takes, the contrast of the colors is also a note to be emphasized. The green stripes that decorate these simple furniture, and the elegance of his paws of steel, are the perfect complement for the soil of big tiles of potter's clay and the wooden scaffold of teak.

Catalog Ikea 2010

2009-12-29T22:21:00.001-08:00

Although we all know that the Catalog 2010 of the Swedish signature of decoration Ikea went out during the summer of this year, there is not badly to remember the innovations that for this period it bears in mind on his pages. Again, it is a question of a publication taken care to the detail, with sections for the whole house (lounges, baths, kitchens, bedrooms, areas of work …), prices and detailed explanations.

We know the motto of this year also for the television publicity: "Where 2 fit, 3 fit ″. Really it is a motto “anti-crisis“, which supports the use to the maximum of the spaces and the resources not to have to wear out a fortune, when let's want to equip our houses with the whole style and the possible services.

Once again, the Ikea innovations demonstrate that it is possible to sell quality and design at popular prices. His furniture keep on being beloveds for legions of fans and lover of the decoration.

And other one of the things that are grateful to this decoration signature is that it supports many of his prices, and it even lowers them. Nearly money we can buy small tables, tables, furnish the kitchen, acquire shelves, a new table for the computer, an office organizer …

The photos to any color are beautiful, and the ambiences have been decorated by professional stylists to obtain this marvelous result.

In this catalog the whole scale of furniture appears in kit and folding, so that where we had a lounge, let's have also a bedroom for guests “surprise“. And what to say of his kitchens and the storage systems … The catalog of Ikea is 2010 infested with good solutions for the hearths of the XXIst century.

Ambiences pretender

2009-12-29T17:50:00.001-08:00

In this blog we have already spoken sometimes about the decoration pretenders, a few practical hardware that allow you to "paint" with virtual colors your house or images of home-loving ambiences, so that you verify the effect that the different colors do in the walls and what are the tones that enter every scale of paintings.

In the today post we are going to speak about a very practical pretender: that of Icipaints, which in a very simple way allows to give color to photos provided by them with all the colors of his scales, so that you try how the different combinations stay.

Kitchens, baths, doritorios … Of all the styles and with all the possibilities of color. When you bring in in the web the first thing that you appears it is the top image, where you will have to choose the stay that you want to paint and the style: rustic, modern …

Next it is the turn to choose the palette of colors to be used. Inside every palette there are several options, like the green yellowish or bluish ones, the red ones and the roses …

Later, the only thing that you have to do is to drag the color wished the area that you want to "paint". The pretender selects the areas for you: doors and windows, frames and caps, roofs, soils, furniture, sockets, walls …

When you have already stopped coloring the stay, you will be able to extend it to see the final score. I have decorated a rustic kitchen with green yellowish to obtain this beautiful ambience.

You already know it: when you are going to paint your house, do not forget to give yourself a return for the Icipaints pretender to realize well what are the colors that more you like.

Decorative boxes

2009-12-28T17:17:00.001-08:00

If earlier we were speaking, in the previous post, on the importance of having a good organizing office system for the areas of work or of study, not less important it proves to have the well tidy house. And there it is where there enter the protagonists of our article about the evening: the decorative boxes. A few years ago became fashionable, with the arrival of signatures like Ikea or Muji, and now they are indispensable for the closets, the shelves or the sideboards.

In the lounge, the kitchen, the bath or the quarter of games of the children, the boxes fulfill a fundamental function to keep, for example, the clothes or the footwear of other periods. And what to say about the toys, the paintings, the white clothes …? At present there are boxes for all the tastes and budgets, and also for all the uses.

The Christmas presents also we can deliver them in beautiful boxes well bought like those of the photo, well wrapped or decorated by ourselves. If you want ideas on how wrapping Christmas presents, you will find them also in this blog.

These happy and spring boxes are the model Barnslig de Ikea and only the couple they cost 2,99 euros. A good idea is to place them in high shelves, almost to roof evenness, so that they do not hinder and contribute a color note in the bedrooms.

For office, which resemble the ancient offices with all the flavor of the vintage, I love the metallic boxes. Why to limit his presence to the offices? In his hood you can place tags to indicate what they contain, you photograph of things or of members of the family … They Give a lot of game. These are also of Ikea and his name is an Emu (5,99 euros the couple).

And of course, always the handmade option stays. There are many shops (and many positions on Christmas markets and of craft) where beautiful stationery boxes are made made, identical and lined to hand. The most attractive thing that they have, in addition to his aspect, is that there are the only pieces. And if you cheer up to do them yourself with some skill of manualidades (decoupáge, craquelado …), then they will be better that you could have.

Office organizer

2009-12-28T12:55:00.001-08:00

That we spend moments working at home are known by us how most important the order is in the table of the computer. A well organized office saves time, work and complications. An organizing office system is a very practical element and there are models that, also, turn out to be very decorative. Also it is important to be to taste while one works or it is studied! In the today post I show you some ideas for aquipar well a corner of work or original office.

This fantastic Dcoremuebles furniture is not really a “organizer of office”, but almost a finished office. With space for all kinds of accessories and a completely sober and innovative design (attention to the paws), it turns out to be very decorative and functional.

But it is not necessary to wear out a fortune in the whole furniture if we already have the mounted office. With a few suitable complements as that I teach you next, to arrange the office will be to sew and to sing.

At present, the most modern sets for office incorporate compartments for the last technological gadgets, like this attractive design into space and system loader for the Iphone.

This model, of Ofishop, is more discreet and simple but the same way attractive. His soft curved lines and the intelligent disposition of all the accessories turn it into a perfect complement for the computer table.

From the Ikea hand I bring to you the most handmade option. I love! The braided wicker contributes to any office a touch ecological and colonial, very different from the plastic ones in which we are usually used. With a few plants around, our office will seem extracted of the movie “Mogambo …”

Coloring, economic and functional, also of Ofishop. An organizer for the most discreet tastes, but also with his color touch in cards, post-it and the entertaining paperclips.

A marvelous way of starting the year 2010: organizing the "chaos" of our desk or the area of study of our children. And also there are marvelous gifts …

How to take care of the environment

2009-12-26T19:59:00.001-08:00

The sostenibilidad and the ecology are fundamental in our hearths. A decoration and an equipment by means of solutions compatible with the care of the environment are at present real needs, and they are not so complicated to carry out as it could seem. To save water, to use recycable decoration objects and ecólogicos, lights that save energy … The options are great. We are going to give them a small revision.

The water saving in the garden and the housing shows campaign to raise public awareness with the ecology and good sense. The devices for it are many, and more bargain sales of what imagines you. Systems exist to save water in the bath and the kitchen that they turn out to be very effective: perlizadores for the mouth of the faucets, cisterns of WC that control the water quantity that unburdens itself, faucets that only release water when we put the hands below, cisterns to accumulate rainwater with which to water later the garden … Consults in your hardware store, vivarium or center of do-it-yourself and gardening.

Also it is fundamental to save energy, and for it the class domestic appliances are A as for energy efficiency. The Department of Industry has in march a Plan I renewed to replace your old icebox, washer, dishwasher, etc. for new more efficient and ecological domestic appliances. With them in the kitchen you will spend great less energy, and for it we will limit the emission of CO2 to the ambience.

The isolation systems are fundamental in any housing. A well isolated house helps to support inside the heat during the winter, preventing the entry of the cold, and to avoid that between during the summer. With a good isolation we will save a lot of energy in heating and air conditioning, what, in addition to being compatible with the care of the environment, will help us to save a good money a year.

The recycling is fantastic; to recycle old furniture and equipment, giving them a new life across finished and decorative skills, not only is ecological but also very satisfactory. It paints your old furniture with finished strippings, and recycles the decorative objects that you already do not like with skills like the craquelado, gilding, decoupáge …

Since you can see, we all can contribute our sand granite in our houses. It is very important to make aware us of the topic of the environmental care; the planet needs it.

Feng shui in the bedroom

2009-12-26T15:32:00.001-08:00

The Feng shui, this millennial oriental art that consists of harmonizing basically the decoration of the spaces with our mind and our organism, is especially a positive in our bedrooms, since there are the places where we dedicate the time fundamentally to the rest. In fact, the basic premises of the Feng shui are based on the logic and the common sense, in addition to the oriental concept of the harmony between different invisible forces.

This bedroom has been decorated by the study of Stefania Sagnotti, specialized in projects of Feng shui for decoration and interior design.

One of the principal prescripts is that of the lighting. It is not advisable to place the familiar hanging roof lamps, since they suppose an aggressive invasion of our space. From the point of view of the oriental philosophy, it is much better to have several environmental lights that direct the light from the soil up. If you put lights in the roof, decide on discreet halogenous foci. And of course, a good source of exterior lighting (wide windows) is always desirable.

A lot of care, as always, with the furniture, his forms and his disposition. The variegation is an enemy of the Feng shui … And also of the serviceability. There are enough good closets, simple small tables and one or two armchairs; forget the triangular forms and the furniture with several bodies. The natural materials (wood, bamboo …) and textiles like the cotton are perfect.

The wall that is opposite to the bed should be free of objects and furniture, to allow a free circulation of the energy for the bedroom. And as for the area of the headrest and surroundings, the best thing is not to have electrical devices or of audio (for example, alarm clocks connected to the network; much better sound those of batteries, and marvelous those of rope) that express negative waves for our mind, obstructing the sleep and the rest.

Although often we have listened to that one of that plants must not put themselves in the bedroom because during the night they consume oxygen, in fact this is an exaggeration. The plants, in his measured joust, are beneficial, and the feng shui recommends to have one or two plants that become oxygenated the air during the day. The espatifilium is a marvelous plant in this sense, since the ambience becomes oxygenated and purifies the poisonous elements, like the smoke of the tobacco.

A bedroom decorated according to the rules of the feng shui will contribute to your well-being, both organic and visual. If you continue his advices, you will notice the benefits …

Innovations Ikea | Furniture and decoration

2009-12-26T11:05:00.001-08:00

In Ikea we surprise them with new articles with a lot of frequency, and it is suitable to give him a return for the shops occasionally or to enter his web. Right now what more we find there are Christmas adornments, but also they have extracted recently new furniture and decorative objects at the marvelous prices that have us used.

For example, this marvelous double wash-basin of black, completely original and avant-garde color, is part of the last incorporations to the Ikea collection. His nobmre is Bredvikken and he sells at a price for 268 euros.

For all those who love the sails but they do not want that the furniture fill them with drops of wax (and also want to forget to be lighting constantly the subdued sails), the candelabrum Kallt is the solution. And what better than to make use of his elegant figure to modernize little our Christmastime … Only for 19,95 euros.

The laminated panel Fastbo is the perfect solution to cover surfaces that have to be cleaned often, like for example the hoods of the kitchens. His price is of only 12,50 euros the square meter, and his designs are happy and coloring.

One s ofá of skin is always a marvelous investment that contributes dominion to any ambience. And if above it has the attractive and avant-garde curved lines of the model Smögen, since much better. With reminiscences of the 70s, this beautiful couch will fill with luminosity the lounges, at a price for 1.199 euros.

And this entertaining armchair has the name of Karlstad, and although in fact it is not an innovation, yes there it are his hangings. Based on the esthetics pop and inspired in floral motives, can be the perfect counterpoint for a decoration white in tones and black. His price? 69 euros only …

If you want to see more innovations, enter the Ikea web and throw a glance to the decoration that comes for 2010.

You design on storage | purses Organizer

2009-12-26T06:43:00.001-08:00

The women we have many accessories, which they can convert even to the best closet into a chaos. It is really a challenge to support clothes, shoes and organized purses and at sight. To have the expensive purses in a drawer or in the shelves is not the best solution, since they can be deformed or get damaged, in addition to that they can never be when they are needed.

This purses organizer seems to be really a good solution, a storage. It hangs by the barral of the closet and it is provided with four shelves and three pockets in every side. It is done of resistant cloth and it will support safe from the handbags, from dust and dirt, in addition to supporting everything at sight and in a very accessible place. You can obtain it in Holdn'storage

Also he can be interested:

Muji Madrid and Barcelona | catalog

It transforms the disorder into glamorous decoration,

To arrange and to organize the kitchen,

Shelves that they decorate.

Route / Luxury housing trends

Elegant and coloring baths of Delpha

2009-12-26T02:19:00.001-08:00

These baths with eclectic design of Delpha are undoubtedly visually fascinates. With his unusual elements miscellany, these baths seem truly timeless. The principal characteristics are first of all, the use of bold and brilliant colors. Red and black redcurrants to create a rich and sensual flavor, while the yellow, orange tones and roses have the most refreshing effect.

Secondly, the small used mosaics, they produce an exceptional effect. The mosaic tiles shine in metallized and iridescent tones, turning out to be very attractive and practical simultaneously. In spite of being a played design, he feels completely habitable due to the careful attention to the detail: a vase of fresh flowers here, some sails there, and the battery of soft towels in the corner. An elegant and chic bath.

You can see many other designs of elegant baths, and our section Bathed

Route / Tréndir

Decorated closets of Spazzi

2009-12-25T21:50:00.001-08:00

Spazzi has excelled himself himself once again with these impressive decorative doors for the closets. Spazzi is a Spanish company that devotes itself exclusively to furniture of kitchens and closets. Beauty and functionality are the premises of the company that from 1986 offers solutions to a more and more demanding public.

It renews your closets with these these replaceable, capable decorative panels to make any room happy. Available in a wide scale of floral motives and of sheets, in fresh and vibrant colors as to give life to the most boring bedroom.

You can see more on furniture clicking here

Route / Tréndir

Contemporary design: Exhibition in Milan of Deepdesign

2009-12-25T17:25:00.001-08:00

Today the post of the morning goes of contemporary design, one of the topics that more I like. In particular, it turns on the exhibition about the work of the workshop of design Deepdesign, a study of Milan especially interesting on the subject of new ideas for the everyday life. The exhibition has opened his doors in the museum Trienale of Milan and it will be opened for the public until January 17, 2010. Lamps, domestic appliances, tables … With everything these intelligent creators dare.

These are Matteo Bazzigalupo y Raffaella Magiarotti, the founders and members of the group, with his light Dandelion (dandelion), which imitates the "sunshades" that these plants form in spring for sejar to demolish his seeds.

The lamp illuminates with LEDs, what turns it into an ecological and efficient solution facing the energy saving. But they have more interesting super objects; next, a few more.

Another lamp, in this case a prototype called Bluebell. His three tulipas and his conical base they shape an object that is almost a work of art.

Super interesting is the following furniture: it is a prototype called Flat Piano, which unites two furniture in one: a piano and a table of dining room. For those who have no place at home when his son says that he wants to be a future Mozart …

The hoover Flexica is not a prototype, but it is made and commercializes from the year 2005. What cannot you put the hoover under the couch or the somier? Flexica is the solution; his articulated arm comes all over.

And lsiguiente gadget is neither more nor less than a washer. It is called Pulsate, it is in prototype phase and works making use of the centrifugal force. Again a solution unnaturally sustainable of every to the energy saving, in addition to having a design surf. Would you have ever imagined to have a washer like that in your kitchens?

Intelligent and contemporary super solutions, without neglecting either the esthetics or the functionality. If you are lucky to travel to Milan this winter, which one does not spend this exhibition to you …

Source: Communicated Sabine Schweigert.

Photos: Melina Mule.

Decoration Tables of New Year's Eve 2009 | You design in target and gilding

2009-12-18T11:31:00.001-08:00

More ideas for your celebration of New Year's Eve: what seems to you to receive the New Year with the happiness and the luminosity that the tones always contribute oros and white? With them, your tables will be original, luxurious, radiant and especially, very optimistic. White chinas and transparent glassware will be everything what you need to start; the rest is a thing of your skill for the manualidades, and of our inspiration, of course.

The base of this beautiful table that we teach you is simply a white tablecloth, which can be any strong cloth that you have. On the tablecloth there have scattered small golden stars, guy confetti, and on them there has been placed a light white tulle, which holds them and allows them to make out thinly.

The adornments gilded in the shape of star are bought, but you can replace them in an effective way with balls of the Christmas tree or pineapples painted with golden aerosol. He looks for objects that you already do not want or need (sails, pineapples, adornments, statuettes or even fruits) and paint them of gilding to give a very original touch to the table.

The cards with the names of the guests are the whole detail that will do that they feel as princes. If you do not want to lead them to printing, you can write them yourself, print them from the computer or even cut away the letters of magazines or newspapers, to be the most original. The bond with the piece of cloth of network is an idea for the adornment, but there is many other: accounts of crystal, caramels, bonbons wrapped in golden role …

And now, we teach you how to do these conical adornments that they simulate entertained arbolitos. Simply we have taken a series of small hats of holiday of pasteboard and have dismantled them. Then you have to paint them with golden aerosol, mount them again and adorn them with tulles, bonds, pinocho role or cellophane, pens …: Ah! And the detail (arrives) of the pens boa about the plates it is important; buy it in haberdasheries, for meters.

Source: BHG.

Christmas presents 2010 | Hardware for the garden

2009-12-18T04:31:00.001-08:00

The Christmas and the Kings are perfect to give hardware and useful to the fans of the do-it-yourself, and also to the gardening. To me me someone falls down every year, and do not see how it is grateful … it is not necessary that you have a big garden to use true useful; there is enough a balcony or a patio, a small space of lawn, so that you realize the practices that prove. For example, the multitool ACCU Isio serves so much to prune and to give form to shrubs and topiaris, as to cut the rims of the footpaths away.

These are two possibilities that it offers: the same tool can take the scissors recortabordes, or the saw of molding. The price of the ACCU Isio with both sheets is 95 euros aprox.

These scissors of pruning electricity companies to battery are called Ciso, and are an innovation; in fact, it is a question of the only scissors of pruning without cable of the market. His court force does that you do not have to leave the fingers to yourself being too tight to cut the hardest branches. PVP aprox.: 95 euros.

The cortabordes Easytrim are one of the most comfortable scales of using of the hardware of garden of BOSCH. His practical mast does that you do not have to stoop to cut away the most inaccessible areas of the garden; also, since they are to battery, they do not have cables that could bother you in your displacements. Approximate PVP: from 40 euros.

And certainly, a lawnmower is fundamental for all those that have a lawn extension. BOSCH has also a specific scale called Rotak, very light and manageable for anyone. And the best thing: also they work to battery, without uncomfortable cables that we have to worry about without cutting … There Is a lawnmower perfect Rotak for any keen gardener, from only 133 euros.

Photos: Bosch.

More information: Robert Bosch España.

Ceramic soils that imitate the polished cement

2009-12-18T00:04:00.001-08:00

A few days ago we were speaking in this blog on the soils of polished cement and the innovative and avant-garde solution that they suppose in interior design terms. The problem of these so elegant pavings is that they do not turn out to be too resistant, especially as for the cleanliness of the spots of fat or the rayons; for these motives, in any areas of the house, like the kitchen, there are no best idea to place.

But a solution exists to avoid this problem and power to enjoy a very similar beautiful and resistant paving: the ceramic soils that imitate it. By means of potter's clay tiles porcelánico, already there are several companies that make them and to commercialize.

The last collection that has gone out is of the signature Aspavisa; Arketipe commercializes it and the series is called Microcement. In this one and other images you can see the beautiful results that it provides.

The best of these soils is his enormous resistance and durability; so strong as any potter's clay paving porcelánico (the best ceramic material for pavings), they are cleaned peacefully with water and detergents and can settle in any place of the housing.

Also, the soils of ceramic tiles are the best idea for the houses with radiant soil, since they are marvelous drivers of the heat. Perhaps the biggest disadvantage that they present is his price, higher than that of the habitual polished cement; but this turns out to be compensated fully by the longest duration of these pavings in the perfect state, what turns them into an authentic future investment.

There exists the option to place soils of this style in finished natural, semi-dull or of high sheen, like that of this photo. The collection Microcement, specifically, has several tones (Flock, Brown, Mink …) and two finished ones: Native and Lapatto (in semi-sheen).

More information: Aspavisa, Arketipe.

Decoration tendencies 2010 | golden and stamped Tiles

2009-12-17T19:41:00.001-08:00

In our decoration blog we have already spoken one day on the ideas of interior design that they combine gilded with other tones and materials. In fact, it is one of the most interesting tendencies that come for 2010; not only the golden ones, but all the metallized ones. And in this post, the signature of ceramic revetments he confirms Greek Potter's clay to us with his series Venatto Orquídea, which they will present the next year in the fair CEVISAMA.

This beautiful revetment is realized by means of potter's clay tiles porcelánico technologically of the highest quality, as the mark Venatto has us used. But the peculiarity in this case, is the intense golden tone of his tiles, which have printed also a few discreet and elegant floral motives.

The impression is realized by laser, what he is awarded by a perfect definition and a few very well delineated lines. Also, the resistance of these surfaces to the cleanlinesses and the graze is completely guaranteed.

For those that you are not too much “baroques“, the Venatto proposal is that you combine his tiles of the series Orchid with others of other scales of the same mark in smooth colors, as you can see in the images. This way you will be able to obtain a result simultaneously classic and current, but without falling down in the exaggeration.

The series Venatto Orquídea has tiles of 40×40 and other measurements, between which we can find also list them and mopboards, as well as decorative blocks. If you combine this revetment with dark wood, mirrors that recreate the ancient cornucopias and wash-basins exempt from golden metal, the result will be like that of this photo: a round success.

Source, images and more information: Greek Potter's clay.

Center of table with Easter flowers | How to do it step by step

2009-12-17T15:19:00.001-08:00

We continue with our Christmas ideas to adorn our housing ourselves, and and a fortune does not wear out. In this case I am going to teach you how to do a beautiful center of table of the most natural, using branches of the most popular plant in these dates: the Flower of Easter or Poinsetia.

The first thing that it is necessary to do is to compile the materials: an old drawer of wood (it can serve a box of bottles of wine), role cellophane, two foam blocks of florist's shop, wooden crusts, dry sticks (the curved ones usually sell in the bazaars and shops of plants and flowers), branches of poinsetial, wires, transparent accounts and thread of agave.

First of all, the box lines the fund of with role cellophane so that the wood is not wetted when you dampen the froth. It puts the foam blocks in the drawer.

It cuts the branches of poinsetia or flower of Easter and fire lightly the ends, so that they are sealed and do not release the milky liquid of the interior of the stems.

It punctures the poinsetia branches in the wet and stuffed froth the hollows of the fund with artificial moss or other natural materials: dry grass, straw, wicker, pineapples, etc.

Take a few wooden crusts (in this case they are of birch) and puncture them with wire in the froth, to give to the center a more rustic style. The dry sticks are adorned by the crystal accounts; these branches are of willow, but it costs any other one, enclosed the artificial ones. The accounts submit with agave thread to the branches. Puncture them also in the froth, and end up by surrounding the center with some sticks and accounts, as well as a few Christmas balls.

Images: Stars for Europe.

To paint the house | Advices so that you have left perfect

2009-12-17T10:52:00.001-08:00

With the arrival of the New Year and the good porpósitos, to many the desire brings in us of renewing our houses to give the welcome to the spring. To paint a housing is not complicated one himself, although yes it implies enough work. If you cheer up and do without the painter to get involved with the rollers and the paintbrushes, insurance that the following advices you will be super useful.

Choose the color that you choose (for example, this elegant gray graphite), it always leaves the roofs in target. Also it is a good idea, if the tone is intense, that some of the walls is also a half note so that the stays "breathe" visually speaking. And another option is to paint them in different tones of the same scale: one gray darker (the one that more light receives), others clearer …

It comes to a shop or store of paintings and acquires products of upper intermediate quality. There is no why to buy the most expensive paintings but neither the cheapest, that sure that they will cover much less and you will have to give more hands. He chooses colors that could then recur easily, if you run out of the painting.

Before painting any wall, he washes his surface him to dust and refills the holes with pasta tapagrietas. You will have to sand it so that it stays enrasada. It protects walls, furniture and soils with plastic, and gives coachbuilder's tape in the caps, the frames of the windows and doors …

As precaution measurement, it gives a hand of fixer of latex reduced with water in the proportion that indicates the packing. This product will facilitate the grip of the later painting, and will prevent from becoming detached with the time.

The best thing is to wait to the spring to do, when the days are longer and luminous and the time is more warm (so that the painting dries off well). To cover perfectly all the walls you will have to apply at least three painting hands. On having ended, it withdraws immediately the coachbuilder's tape so that it is not difficult to you then to detach it, and appear, already of step, lacar your doors so that your apartment stays: perfect!.

Images: They Petites Vogues.

To paint surfaces with electrical guns

2009-12-16T02:36:00.001-08:00

The painting is one of the most grateful activities of the do-it-yourself. Few things give so much to please in the house than to see the old renewed surfaces, with colors and finished new that grant them a proper and shining life. But the paintbrush and the roller are not the useful only ones that we can use to do: the electrical guns also are to our scope, and the results that they provide are very professional.

To use one of this hardware it is important to be able to do it in a place where we do not stain the rest of the surfaces (like the exterior), or in that it is not important for us that the painting spreads; for example, a workshop or garage. Also it is necessary to provide of a mask not to inhale the poisonous steams of the painting.

The guns to do can be of compressor or electricity companies. Those that we are going to treat are the electricity companies, more commodes and easy ones to use for the fans of the do-it-yourself, and also more economic.

There are different types of guns, depending on the importance of our work; but they all are right in his task. To use them, you will have to refill the deposit reducing the painting with the suitable dissolver as indicate the packing. The painting jet there is that vaporizarlo at a distance of approximately 35-40 cm, so that it does not form drops in the surface, but that it covers it thoroughly. The past ones are done in zigzag, of above to down and in horizontal sense.

When the first hand has dried off we will happen to apply the following one. As the painting spreads of very uniform and light form, it is not necessary to sand between hand and hand; you will surprise the marvelous finished, smooth and regular one, which is obtained. It is a marvelous solution to paint furniture or lacar surfaces like doors of interior or exterior, fences and fences, etc.

Images: Courteousness of Bosch.

Center of table with Easter flowers / How to do it step by step

2009-12-15T12:47:00.001-08:00

First of all, the box lines the fund of with role cellophane so that the wood is not wetted when you dampen the froth. It puts the foam blocks in the drawer.

It cuts the branches of poinsetia or flower of Easter and fire lightly the ends, so that they are sealed and do not release the milky liquid of the interior of the stems.

It punctures the poinsetia branches in the wet and stuffed froth the hollows of the fund with artificial moss or other natural materials: dry grass, straw, wicker, pineapples, etc.

Images: Stars for Europe.

To paint the house / Advices so that you have left perfect

2009-12-15T08:27:00.001-08:00

Images: They Petites Vogues.

Decoration of Christmas and New Year / easy Ideas

2009-12-14T09:46:00.001-08:00

If you have not begun decorating the house for the holidays yet, do not worry; there is still time. And so that you do not have to get into the whole pother of the positions and markets of Christmas adornments, here you have a few simple ideas that you can do for very little money, with recycled or natural objects and with many imagination.

This center minimalista is the whole find. To create it only it is necessary to have a salad bowl of crystal, a few fixed dry branches of any park and a few metallized balls and of crystal (you can use anyone that you take as a house and paint them with silver aerosol). A center of elegant super table and of the simplest thing.

Do you like the pistachio nuts? Insurance that yes, and also now you can use his rinds to make this beautiful pineapple to hang by the knob, the lamp or the tree. Only you need a piece of rigid froth (like that of the florist's shops), white cork, wood or any material with form of egg and the size that you want; it gives the rinds with a gun of sticking down, fixes the bond and ties the "pineapple" with drawstring gilded to hang it.

This is the most sweet tree of all our blog. It is done neither more nor less than with …: fairy cakes! To fix it, we have placed a foam cone for floral centers in a white square flowerpot. Later we have lined it with role sulfurizado (it serves also the silver foil), and only it stays to puncture the fairy cakes with toothpicks … and patience. It inserts caramels between them to refill the hollows, and adorn them with a glazed one or sirope.

If you live in an individual house, a detached house or a low one with entry for the garden, these nice lamps will be the ideal reception for your guests. They are done by cut away bags of role, inside which there is a small sail got in a crystal boat of those of yogurt. They will create a magic driveway to your house … Of course, if you are not at home, do not make them burning.

Do you want more decorative ideas to spend a different Christmas? In our blog you will find all want them, and more. Throw a glance!

Route: BHG.

Do-it-yourself: the drills and his applications

2009-12-14T05:20:00.001-08:00

So necessary as to know the functioning of the auger and the skill to use it, is to know what differences are between the different drills (the tops that are used to pierce the surfaces) and why each one is used. They are for walls, wood, metal, crystal, universal … Here I leave a small summary to you.

In this photo you see a drill of the calls of spade. They are used to pierce wood and derivatives, when we want to do big holes. These drills, in fact, are disappearing, and now there are used the called drills Forstner (cylindrical, they are those who are used to pierce the orifices where the furniture hinges are fitted into kit or of kitchen).

The drills for wood with diameters standard also are called drills of three tops; in the center they take a top centradora that serves to support the drill in the material, fixing it lightly, so that it does not move while the auger is in march.

To do holes in walls of all kinds (bricks, concrete, cement …), there exist the drills of widia, like that of this photo. Also they are of harder and resistant materials, to be able to perforate walls of load or very hard surfaces.

The drills for metal can be of several types. More currents are of black color and quite fragile; they can pierce aluminum, iron, sheet … But also it has rectified them to do holes in very hard metals, like the steel.

This curious drill with spearhead or lanciforme it is of the signature Wolfcraft and it serves to do holes in crystal and ceramics. What do you want to make use of this beautiful bottle of wine that they gave you to do a lamp? Since to perforate the fund and to spend the cable you will need a drill as this one.

With this selection and a good auger, there will not be material that resists you …

Images 1, 2 and 3: Courteousness of Bosch.

Ecological Christmas trees and of design

2009-12-11T18:34:00.001-08:00

If in addition to having the most contemporary and avant-garde house you have an ecological mentality and the conservation of the environment worries you, not that's why you have to resign from your Christmas decoration. The thing is to look for articles that are ecological and respectful with the environment, and that also neither turn out to be ostentatious do not even stay out of place. For example, these trees that I show you in the today post

Elegant, simple and schematic, they are realized in birch wood and thanks to them you will avoid the indiscriminate trees chopping during the Christmas, but also you will not have to load with the typical fir of plastic that so much creaks in the decoration … These beautiful arbolitos they are of the signature Matteria and they are perfect for ambiences with decoration minimalista or natural.

Here you have another two examples, in this case of the signature Bureau North. The idea is the same: a series of wooden surfaces troqueladas and cut away doing filigrees, which are fitted some with others to form the three-dimensional figure of the Christmas tree.

And to finish off the move, you can adorn your design tree with these handmade wooden details, also of the signature Matteria. They present before themselves in kits to mount easily yourself, and you will be able to find balls, hearts, reindeers, angels, birds … The perfect alternative to the espumillón and the tinsel of the Christmastime, for those with more discreet tastes but that do not want to remain without his corresponding Christmas.

Route: Casaoriginal.com

Tendencies in decoration 2010

2009-12-11T14:09:00.001-08:00

The new year 2010 will bring to us also many innovations with regard to the decoration of our housings. We will see coming novel revetments, some tendencies that have sprouted timidly they will be confirmed and new furniture styles, so many minimalistas like baroques, will fill the shop windows and the shops of the luckiest. To big features, in this post I give you some tracks of where the shots are going to go.

The stones soils and building materials, like the polished cement (in the photo), are going to be the stars without any doubt. New stony revetments with reliefs and textures, pavings of resins and quartz and especially the cement they will lead the new spaces.

The polished cement, the more and more used most interesting material, is applied spilling a thin layer of a special cement called Multibeton, which later polishes off with an industrial machine and is polished by products and special waxes. Although it is really nice and is not expensive, it turns out to be slightly fragile and gets scratched with facility; also there are ceramic soils of tiles that imitate it to the perfection.

The integration between different ambiences, something that comes from the famous persons lofts, continues to the rise. The spaces are more and more diaphanous and the only one can integrate the kitchen, the lounge, the dining room … And up to the bedroom. The separation dividing walls are disappearing little by little, leaving place to muretes and bars.

The color will be present strongly, after a few years of white walls and tendencies much minimalistas. But instead of painting all the walls, it will be reserved for some outstanding surfaces. The colors will get together with white walls, and between those who come with more force we can emphasize the fuchsias like that of this kitchen, the metallized steel and the black, the whole discovery.

Attention to the oriental esthetics: it will be a tendency. The every time major popularity of oriental disciplines as the yoga, the meditation, the shiatsu, the Thai one - chi, and of terms as “Zen“, about our housings increasingly to these distant countries. The furniture of Chinese and Japanese esthetics, with straight lines and intense lacquers, will be the protagonists of many interiors.

Photo 1: Constructing a house.

Photo 3: Fashion and hearth.

To dye wood: the products and the skills (II)

2009-12-10T18:31:00.001-08:00

We continue with the topic of the dyes for the wood. If in our previous post we were speaking of how obtaining tones similar to those of the noble wood, in this case we are going to go a little further on and we will see how we can dye the wood in colors, to obtain results as spectacular as that of this blue sideboard.

Again we have to depart from clean and well sanded wood, to be able to be of some clear tone (pine, beech, black poplar, birch …) and with the very open pore. The dyes can be, as in another case, to the water or to the alcohol, and can present themselves in the shape of dust (anilines) or already prepared.

The dyes have more tenuous colors, type to the water cake, and they are easier to handle, although also they are less copulating. You will find many colors in shops of manualidades and centers of do-it-yourself.

But if you do not want to wear out very much, also you can do your dyes yourself using paintings to the water (plastic and acrylic, or témperas). You have only to mix them with water and remove, liquefying the painting more or less as you want a darker tone or the more intense one. For example, the green obtained in finished of this furniture of oriental style is perfect for any design.

Another option is to use dyes for cloth, like the Iberia of the whole life. In this image an intense red dye is used to dye an individual bamboo tablecloth. As soon as the product was applied it is necessary to allow to dry well the piece and to give him a hand of tapaporos (if we have used a dye to the water; if it is to the alcohol, the best thing is to give an acrylic varnish). Later 0000 is sanded with lanilla of steel nº and it stops being protected by an acrylic varnish in aerosol.

Photo 1: I paint my house.

Photo 3: Lasmanualidades.com

Christmas presents for the kitchen and the table

2009-12-10T14:08:00.001-08:00

It is sure that you already walk all like madmen turning and more returns to buy the familiar Christmas presents and Kings: truth? Since in this post I am going to give you a few decorative and cheap ideas in which to dress the table, obtain cards - gifts and equip the kitchen of the fans of the culinary art.

The chinas and complements for the table of Ikea are known by all the fans of the decoration for his attraction, modernity, quality of the materials and good price. In the establishments of the Swedish signature you will find articles as nice as these bowls of black ceramics or these mugs lengthened in yellow mustard, perfect for a breakfast of the most coloring thing.

If you want to do a good gift to a fan or keen of the kitchen, there are many accessories in specializing shops that will help them to prepare the best plates. These varied and original molds are of silicone, what guarantees that no cake or sponge cake will stick, and you can find them also on some Internet pages, as todoparatucocina.es.

Zara Home guarantees us whenever we will find the chinas and more elegant complements for the hearth and original. What does look like to you this beautiful china decorated with floral motives? Of oriental esthetics, it is very attractive and it can be the perfect gift for any housing.

And an Ikea note: until this next Sunday, the 13th of December, the Swedish signature will deliver a card I give loaded with 80 euros for the buy of any set of chairs, tables and sideboards which amount overcomes 400 euros. Make use of the opportunity!

The cheapest apartments in Spain

2009-12-09T21:34:00.001-08:00

The price of the housing in Spain keeps on going down. This tendency registers for already 28 months, in which the price of the apartments has gone down way ininiterrumpida. In November, 2009, there registered an interannual fall of 7,7 %, according to information of the INE. Some analysts indicate that the real estate sector will fit gradually in the next months, nevertheless, the housing is one of 10 topics that more worry the Spanish nowadays, together with the unemployment and the economic problems.

According to the portal to compare housings prices, Nestolico.es, the cheapest apartments are at present in Extremadura and La Rioja. The average price of a housing in these communities is 131.302 euros for Extremadura and 146.146 euros for La Rioja.

Finally, the autonomous regions where the apartments are more bargain sales are:

- Extremadura with an average for 131.302 euros for housing
- La Rioja 146.146 euros
- Aragon 146.148 euros
- Asturias 153.327 euros
- Gallicia 154.639 euros

On the other hand, the communities where the apartments are the most expensive of Spain are:

- Madrid, where the average price of a housing is of 234.371euros
- Catalonia 235.596 euros
- Basque Country, where the highest average of the whole Spain registers, with average price for 256.996 euros the housing

In these three communities, the average price of the housing is almost the double than in the cheapest communities. For example, in the graph of Nestiloco, comparing Madrid with Extremadura, we can see that the prices in Madrid are almost 114 % more expensive than in Extremadura.

According to information of October, 2009 of the Department of Housing, the most expensive cities of Spain are:

- San Sebastian is the most expensive city with an average price for 3.923 euros for square meter
- Sant Cugat del Vallés, in Barcelona, with 3.500 euros the square meter
- Guecho, in Bilbao, with 3.410 euros for square meter.

Creative tone: Fair of Manualidades in Madrid

2009-12-09T16:54:00.001-08:00

This December an important event will take place for all the lovers of the manualidades and the decorative skills. His name is a Creative Tone, it is a fair of four days (from December 10 until December 13) on decorative arts and it will be celebrated in Madrid. If you are interested in these topics, do not get lost it because the offer of activities, workshops and product s will be very important.

The entry costs six euros and with her you will be able to gain access to the enclosure, visit the stands of the most well-known signatures, buy products at very reduced prices and be present at workshops and courses.

Some workshops are free s and others are of payment, but the prices are very popular. If you want to see what has this fair to offer, you can enter his web to see the schedules and the activities.

In the fair you will find products stands d and all kinds, like decoration of crystal and shop windows, materials and publications for different crafts, schools and workshops of offices …

Manualidades as the scrapbooking, the découpage or the decorative painting; textile arts as the patchwork or the cross-stitch; handmade offices and applied arts; ceramics, painting and sculpture … The creativity and the fine arts are going to give themselves appointment soon in the capital. Do not get lost this fair!

To dye wood: the products and the skills (I)

2009-12-09T11:02:00.001-08:00

The species of noble wood possess a few beautiful deep and very attractive tones: the mahogany, the walnut, the oak … Nevertheless, the most current and popular wood, like the pine or the black poplar, are clearer and they have less personality. Although to turn a pine wood into one of mahogany is logically impossible, yes we can apply a series of dyes to him to obtain a similar color and a surprising effect.

So that a wood could be dyed well it is very important that it is clean and without treating, and that it has the open pore. Normally, before applying the products, it is advisable to sand well the wood in the sense of the seam to clean the surface and to open the pore to the maximum.

Later the dye is applied in the sense of the seam (as in this photo); the best thing is to do it with a sponge or a muñequilla of wool, or a cloth that does not release hair, to extend well the product and to avoid the brochazos.

The dyes can be of many types. Those who are already prepared can be to the water, to the dissolver or to the alcohol; it s dyes to the water are less poisonous and they have more natural colors, but they penetrate worse. The dyes to the alcohol and to the dissolver cover more, and can be used to give color to the gum - lacquer or to other varnish, oils and waxes.

The dyes in dust are called anilines and to prepare them they are mixed by warm water or by alcohol, depending on the type of aniline. The most well-known is the nogalina, the extract of the crust of the walnut. These dyes can be mixed between themselves to extract different tones.

Once the wood is dyed, it is necessary to apply to him a finished one that can consist of varnish, wax, gum - lacquer, etc. In next posts I will speak to you of different finished and how to obtain them.

Adornments for the tree: manualidades Christmas

2009-12-09T01:58:00.001-08:00

In the today post we continue with our good ideas to do one himself, with that to decorate the housings facing the Christmas, more and more next holidays. In this case I will teach you some adornments for the Christmas tree that you can do yourselves easily, and even invite your children to take part in his dressmaking.

This elegant pasteboard star is very simple to do. We have made it with gray pasteboard, cutting it carefully to do two pieces that fit one into other one. Later it is necessary only to line them with role of blue silk and white tail, and to paint a few spirals silver-plated with acrylic painting. An agave thread passes to him for a small hole and …: I list!

Here you have a detail very special and original, completely different from the typical balls. This beautiful bracelet is done of false "pearls" and accounts of necklace, which you can find in shops and specializing haberdasheries connected in a hoop of wire for necklaces. To hang it of the tree we have placed a beautiful green bond and a thread of transparent agave.

In this case, we have renewed a few blue balls (that also you can paint with enamel) giving a few old metal buttons, using for it a gun of warm tail.

And these two so attractive and handmade adornments are both made ones with board of okume, cut with a saw of drawing and a sheet of thin teeth. Then they make themselves up with acrylic paintings and the details stick with warm tail and gun (the caramel takes two entertaining adornments done with a few cases of role for fairy cakes), as well as the bond or the tape to hang them. They are beautiful!

These details will do of your tree a very special and different motive. You already will see prompt what begin your friends to ask you that where you have bought them …

Source and images: BHG.

Lacar doors of interior as a professional

2009-12-08T21:37:00.001-08:00

Another day I was visiting the house of a friend who had done an important reform, renewing his apartment almost in its entirety. One of the things that more attracted attention of me there were the doors, of a very decorative shiny white tone. When I commented to him on it, he said to me that there were the old doors …: Returns to lacar! It seemed so interesting to me, that I have decided to tell you how it is done.

It is not even necessary to sand them thoroughly or to take the old varnish from them; good is enough to clean them, to dry them and to sand with sandpaper nº 280 so that the priming fights.

After sanding them in a superficial way, it they dusts and two hands apply of selladora synthetic materials to themselves with a roller of enameling, allowing to dry between hand and hand.

It is the moment to apply the first lacquer hand. We can use a shiny white enamel - lacquer, type Titanlak, which we will apply with a flat paintbrush of good quality for the frames and the piers. After every hand it is necessary to allow to dry well l to lacquer.

After the third lacquer hand, it is necessary to sand the surface with sandpaper nº 400 and to dust to give the fourth and last layer. This layer also will be sanded carefully.

The finished one is finished off applying a light hand of colorless wax and extracting sheen to the surface with a brush to shine shoes wrapped in a clean average. The knobs and knobs it is preferable to cover them of coachbuilder's tape to prevent from getting dirty of painting.

Image opening: Nathan Y.

How to do easy Christmas adornments with sails

2009-12-07T17:54:00.001-08:00

The simplest adornments are the most beautiful, for this Christmas you can make something so simple as fill a glass vase of nuts, chestnuts, bilberries, berries, or what occurs to you and place a sail with a support that will remain secret between the dry fruits.

Another way of doing a center of table or Christmas adornment with sails. It is very simple, you must only obtain a crown of box bought in a shop and place several thin sails inside secret short candelabra in his center.

You can place an individual light with a card personalized with the place that every guest was occupying in our Christmas dinner.

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Christmas adornments with pineapples

2009-12-07T13:34:00.001-08:00

Nothing better than to adorn the house for Christmas with small details done by one himself. Elaborated projects are not needed, the simplicity is the slogan that has been born in mind to create these Christmas adornments, which we show you as inspiration. For example, it turns your table in a forest placing pineapples in children bowls, small cups or candelabra and crown each one with a pasteboard star and decorated with brilliantine.

It hangs pineapples of every door of the closets: It forms a ringlet and a bun with a red tape of level, and give it with warm glue by means of the pineapple.

This is another way of doing adornments with pineapples, ideal to hang by the rails of the stairs for example, only you will need to paint the pineapple with painting in aerosol silver-plated, and then to adorn it with a tape and a sprig of berries.

Also in an arrangement of red flowers you can incorporate pineapples to make it more Christmas. It uses a humid oasis to insert the stems of the flowers and the green branches and inserts some pineapples.

It gives in the rims of a wicker basket pineapples of different sizes to do a surprising basket for fruits, cheeses or other aperitifs

Also you can be interested in our previous post on Christmas

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Soils of technological ceramics of Venatto

2009-12-06T11:18:00.001-08:00

The revetments of Greek Potter's clay, specifically those of his line Venatto, are of marvelous quality and big style, as I have showed you in other posts. In this case I show you the series Venatto Crete, by means of pieces in colors terracotta and visual effects to create very dressed and elegant ambiences, with a modernity touch.

The walls and the soil of this beautiful bath vintage have covered with the same model of the series Crete, contributing to the space an interesting continuity effect. The tiles present all a different motive and without repetition, giving a sensation similar to that of the marble or the natural stone.

In this case it is a soil the one that has covered with the series Crete, in rectangular format and with the pieces placed to the tresbolillo (with the alternate meetings). The tone terracotta is warm and sugerente, and it remains perfect both in modern and classic ambiences.

The collection Venatto Crete is formed by pieces of ceramics made of mass later to be rectified, obtaining the only and original revetments with a completion gently texturada and the aspect of the natural stone.

Also, at present you can obtain this revetment with twenty-five per cent of discount on his original price, thanks to the promotion starting for Greek Potter's clay.

Black and white decoration / you design

2009-12-06T02:14:00.001-08:00

The colors (or rather non-colors) white person and black combined between themselves, had his epoch of splendor in the 70s and then they fell from grace. But right now this combination is the whole success if we can dose the tones up to creating a cozy ambience, surf and modern. Here you have three examples.

This Moblerone lounge has adopted an idea at first very risky: to paint a black's wall. After there combine this surface with a white soil, other gray walls, black and white simple furniture radical and an intense natural lighting, the result is a wise move by one hundred per cent.

This another combination comes from the Kibuc hand and also it bases his esthetics on the decoration in black of the principal wall, combined with the white furniture of lines minimalistas and the soil in white ceramics. Attention to the carpet of gray hair and to the furniture of wall; there are two very current and perfect designs for this type of esthetics.

This lounge, on the other hand, is completely different. More classic than others two, in him all the walls are white, as well as the frontal shelves. The enormous black carpet is the one that gives depth to the space, and the touch surf of the couch stamped on skin of cow is a detail to be born in mind. In this ambience we find details in other colors, especially in yellow ocher and green.

The black and white spaces are fashionable. If you do not dare with the whole room, decorate only one corner or a more limited place, and you will see how it gains your housing in originality and style.

Christmas presents / original Bundles

2009-12-04T21:52:00.001-08:00

The Christmas would not be at all without the gifts: truth? And sometimes, the bundle where we present them is almost so important as the content. Wherefore? So because a gift wrapped tenderly and dedication means that the person who does it to you has thought very much about you. It is not necessary to leave a fortune to him buying roles, details or cards; it is only a question of stopping that our imagination works.

A marvelous idea that has a lot to do with the recycling. The role of speeding up gives a lot of game if we can combine it; it is discreet and elegant. Here we have given a heap of buttons, doing an entertaining figure of tree; and to finish off, instead of a bond, you can use a few strips of natural wicker. A different and very natural gift.

How we like the caramels! And not only to eat, but also to decorate. Here we have arranged them “in formation”, decorating a brilliant red role and finishing off the set with a simple tape, without bond. The caramels are so coloring, that you can combine them with any role. Give them with a gun of sticking down or with universal glue.

The photos of the family are a perfect resource to wrap gifts; you will see what surprise is taken by the one that receives it. It will spend so much time to itself looking at the bundle, which perhaps even forgets to open it … you have Only to print photos that you have in the computer, and give them in a box where you will put the gift in question. If you put a bond like that of the photo, the result will be ten.

And to end, the most elegant gift; and once again, pure recycling. This one we have done it lining a box with role strips of papering, extracted of a collection of samples. You can ask in some shop them to give you old collections of samples, to make use of remains of roles (also they cost of gift) that you take more vintage as a house, mopboards, wide bonds … Of: truth?

You design to decorate small Christmas trees (II)

2009-12-04T17:28:00.001-08:00

In the today post I keep on giving some ideas so that, although you do not have very much it spread at home, you could have also your flaming Christmas tree … Although it is of "mini" size. Here you have a few ideas more to decorate small trees, of the most original and nice.

We start with the classic tree decorated in white and red on green … But with an innovation: the crochet hook adornments. The handmade thing and nature l keeps on being fashionable this Christmastime. If you can do them yourself, marvelous; and if not, look for them in haberdasheries and shops of the branch. A drawstring will be enough to put them to hang them, and to combine them with a few small balls.

The gifts on the foot of the tree always suit, and give a sensation of very agreeable Christmas illusion. They do not have why to be "really"; it is enough to take a few boxes and to line them to game with the adornments, and I list.

This so elegant arbolito would do the delights of Alice in the Wonderland … Put in an elegant china teapot, the adornments are big cups and kidlings of the same material, as well as cards and thin white bonds. You can buy small tea games in any bazaar, or make use of pieces descabaladas of several games.

White person, white person … And whiter. The white Christmas is always of the most elegant thing. We have decorated this mini-tree with a snow aerosol up to covering it completely, and the decoration is so simple as a few silver stars of big size and a few discreet white lights. Placed in a metal bucket as flowerpot holder, it remains beautiful in any corner.

And finally, a detail of the “tree of the grandmother”. For the lovers of the seam and the works, this idea is not only original and nice, but also a super sale. We have decorated the tree with buttons, pincushions, spools of thread and thimbles, combined with tape measures of seam and some bonds. I love the idea! And to you?

Screen of automatic circular shower of Rock

2009-12-02T22:44:00.001-08:00

The Spanish company Rock has designed this cabin of quite unusual shower since a screen has perfectly round that opens and closes automatically. Of extremely contemporary design, the shower TransTube is one a curved casing, of glass without frame, which seems to float, without weight. Ideal for baths minimalistas, where the slogan is: "less it is more”.

The revolving doors operate automatically with a movement sensor without hinges or screws. In his interior the column termostática chrome not only seems marvelous but also it helps to save water and energy, with a system conscious echo. His form also makes her adapted for small baths and with style.

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Solar lamps for gardens and courtyards

2009-12-02T18:00:00.001-08:00

An ideal lamp for a veranda or one an exterior courtyard any space where you want to create a relaxed ambience. With his soft resplendence she will turn out to be much adapted like center of table for romantic dinner for two in the garden, or to decorate a holiday placing several here and there on low tables.

The lamp Solar Frosted Scroll Lantern can be placed at any place since it feeds on solar energy, for which he will not need an electricity source in his outskirts. Without need for wiring or facilities you complicate you will be able to enjoy of 8 hours of light his finished load. It will not unplunge any expense to you to leave the whole burning night illuminating the garden, without being waste not renewable energy resources. Dimensions 10×22.5cm of high place.

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To illuminate stairs with roof windows

2009-12-02T13:40:00.001-08:00

Again, the signature VELUX offers us a solution for apoder to make use of the natural light by means of the installation of windows of roof, in this case in the stairs. Because the stairs of the attached housings is usually placed in the center of the house, without access to the front; and a simple work to install a roof window in his top part can be sufficient to transform a dark space and without life, in a cozy ambience that will serve to distribute the natural light to the rest of the rooms.

Before starting, he asks a professional for advice so that he should help you to study all the possibilities to promote the hollow of the stairs. Be which be the distribution of your housing, I recommend to you to make use of any possible solution to gain natural light and this way to reduce the electrical consumption.

The windows laying in high places favors the natural ventilation for the “effect chimney”, renewing the quality of the air and reducing the relative moisture in less than one minute. Namely that in addition to light, your housing will gain in healthiness and comfort.

He remembers that the stairs hollows are usually areas of difficult access. It chooses a model that you could handle over a distance; it can be a question of windows with access bar, or even better, with remote control. Even they are that they work by means of solar energy and do not need electrical installation.

And a good option is to transform manual windows into electricity companies with control; the signature Velux has a kit that allows to turn a window of already installed manual opening, in an electrical window driven by solar energy, without need for any wiring. Easier, impossible!

Decoration of tables of New Year's Eve 2009/2010

2009-12-02T08:20:00.001-08:00

The day of New Year's Eve (or the meal of New Year) is a perfect moment to exhibit our best decorative arts and like hosts. A table since it must be can include completely unexpected and original details, which will do the delights of our guests. Here you have a few easiest ideas that you will be able to put into practice in a little time.

If you decorate the glasses of the table with these nice adornments, nobody will remain indifferent … They are very easy to do: you have only to curl a thin costume jewelry wire and place several crystal accounts or plastic in him. It places the aritos in the base of the glasses and …: I list!

It does illusion to the whole world to feel the only and special. That's why, your guests will feel as princes and princesses if you put a few napkins with his name in a card, with a beautiful tulle bond. And if you cheer up to stencil a few letters with his initials in a few white napkins (with painting for cloth), the success will be insured.

The champagne bottles are big protagonists in this night, and for this motive also an outfit is deserved in accordance with the moment. With a few pieces of cloth of organza you can sew a few bags that you will decorate with details of golden painting, and will close with drawstrings of the same tone.

And for those who refuse to leave the Christmas spirit not in only one night, this idea minimalista and super elegant will be a wise move. Place a white way of table in the center and decorate it with trees (points and to the half) of green felt, in which habrás given a few circles of the same material, red and violets.

Marvelous ideas that it was sure that they had not occurred to you … And the best thing, very easy and cheap. Do not worry; soon, more and better!

How to do centers of table for Christmas / Advices

2009-12-02T03:59:00.001-08:00

Today we are going to speak again about centers of table for Christmas. Join well prepared table it is not the same without a nice center that gives him importance and leading role. The options are different, but they all must be personal, elegant and attractive. Here a few ideas and advices go.

The use of original receptacles that we take as a house, like for example these two sources for pastries (placed one on other one) is always a good idea. To decorate them, it uses branches of pine and open pineapples; a few white and silver balls and a few branches of red fruits (they can be artificial if you do not find natives) will complete the set.

This center is marvelous for long tables, and also it allows to the messmates turn the faces to be able to communicate. It is realized by sheets of magnolio (they are also artificial) and a few semidull balls of color fuchsia. The kidlings frutitas golden are the ideal complement; if you do not find them, you can use ball garlands or do with golden aerosol the artificial some.

It looks at what more spectacular and natural center: we it have done with a box of big wood (those of wines can be perfect for the occasion) full of branches, white and red sails of different heights, account garlands also red … and little more. In this case, the sheens shine for his absence (cost the redundancy) to achieve a very natural result.

But the lovers of the luminous twinkles and the details metallized also have here his idea. It looks at what preciousness: one treats of s eis white sails gathered with silver tape, and placed in a metal fruit bowl accompanied by balls silver and garlands in profusion. This center will be (never rather) the “center of attention” of all the guests …

Do you want more ideas? Since you do not lose us of sight, because during these weeks we will continue with the topic. The nicest centers for your tables will have here his place.

Source and images: BHG.

Coloring baths of low budget

2009-12-01T23:37:00.001-08:00

Sometimes there is enough a little of ingenuity and good taste to renew a bath, simply adding a color touch. Especially when the budget is scarce or talks each other of a rented house, combining colors and painting walls or accessories it can be a big solution. As in this bath vintage where panels have got together in different tones of green and role carpet in the top part. The red flowers give him the necessary contrast to make the set happy.

Also color accents can get in details as in the exterior painting of a bathtub with paws of claw, which inclusive it you can do with a layer of priming of latex of quality continued by two layers of exterior painting of latex in the grade sateen yourself or of finished semibrilliant.

To cover the walls of the shower with coloring tiles adds color, designs and texture, in hundreds of beautiful forms like a scraps bedspread. The tiles you can obtain them of balances with which you will save money and will give him a personalized touch and vintage to your bath.
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Advices on ironing boards

2009-12-01T19:14:00.001-08:00

Ironing is a tedious task and that consumes a lot of time and even can cause injuries in some cases. In the last hundred years there has been few innovation in the design with regard to the ironing board, but undoubtedly to have one simplifies enough the tedious task. The ideal thing is to place it in the laundry room if you are lucky to arrange of a comfortable space where to wash, to dry, to iron and even to do small repairs in the clothes. But if you do not have space sufficient for a finished laundry room, you will always find a place to conceal a table desplegable of ironing that can be installed in a wall in vertical or conceals behind a door.

Est submits to ironing board and slides perfectly eliminating inside a drawer when it is not in use. Ideal for a dressing-room, or even a clothes closet of the bedroom, laundry room or it even can hide in a closet of the kitchen.

The ironing board Liika or tiliza cupping glasses that allow him to be fixed to any not porous surface. This eliminates the paws offering major safety and also the comfortable height allows to fit for the one who uses it, eliminating the tension. The articulated arms, which they can rotate and turn, offer a wide scale of movement and allow him to adapt themselves to almost any area of the hearth, such as cooking tops, tables, windows and walls.

To decorate interior doors with photos

2009-11-30T20:29:00.001-08:00

It is sure that in your house you take a few so bland and smooth doors as those of this photo, and sometimes you habrás raised to give them some exchange rate of look. But it is not so easy as it seems: truth? Since now, the signature Style Your Door helps you with photos of big size that will change the aspect of your doors of radical form.

And now when we are almost in full holidays, you have the opportunity to choose images of the most Christmas to make your doors happy in a moment. This photo of a door of rustic wood with crown of green fir and the red bond is perfect.

The contemporary art, in the shape of f otografías risked and much rompedoras, also has his place in the web of Style Your Door. Images as this one will remain beautiful in the doors of the most modern spaces and minimalistas. Also, the photos cost only approximately 79 euros, and as this money you will have quickly a new and different door in your house.

The trampantojos also have his place in the collection; for example, that of this luminous corridor …: Do you imagine the nice thing that can stay in your house? The photos are resistant outdoors, so also they can be used in exterior. The measurements are 210 x 245 cm.

You design to decorate small Christmas trees

2009-11-30T15:55:00.001-08:00

Not the whole world has a big lounge where to place the rigor fir to give a special touch to the Christmastime; in the houses and current apartments, the space is a very scarce good, and if we put an important tree we run the risk of us stumbling over him whenever we have to happen for nearby. But the option is within reach of anyone: we can put a well decorated small tree, which will remain perfect in the showiest corner of the house.

This model, for example, has placed himself in the kitchen; a different place, but also adapted to remind to us that it is a Christmas. His decoration is very baroque and it is overloaded with adornments of handmade type and garlands without sheens. The lights are of fallen layer; now he competes more for the natural thing.

This small natural tree has been decorated of a form completely different from the previous one: a few good adornments with form of star distributed, a burlap sack with a red bond to conceal the flowerpot … And I list. The idea of placing the tree along with a mirror is marvelous, and it will duplicate the Christmas effect. A few pineapples in the base also are a good idea.

Another example of abstinence and minimalism. The small trees can be adorned by big and showy accessories, whenever we distribute them with intelligence. A good red bond in the center and a few golden bells, together with some green sheets, is everything what this small artificial model needs.

And we are going to end with an idea to cross-current: a small tree in blue and white tones. On the artificial tree, we will place a few strips of blue and silver espumillón and a few balls of small size in navy blue tones and turquoise. The auction in the shape of star is the only thing that he lacks to be different and very special.

Christmas trees decoration 2009/2010

2009-11-29T16:46:00.001-08:00

The tree is a Christmas symbol that is not missing usually in any house during these dates. The traditional birth or nativity scene takes decades sharing leading role with the tree, a tradition imported from the northerly countries, and his presence full of warmth and ambience any hearth that boasts. The decoration of the trees changes little year after year, but we always find innovations or original ideas in the new periods, as in this winter 2009/2010.

We begin with this simple and elegant tree devoid of the lights and the sheens to which we are accustomed, but the same way coloristic and decorative. The traditional balls have been replaced with animals troquelados of wood (if you are a handyman or a lover of the manualidades, even you can do them yourself), and the garlands are of the same material. A stylish and ecological decoration to ceiling.

It is possible that in your house you do not have very much space, or that you do not like the trees of the whole life and you go more for the side minimalista. Since this tree is the solution for you: of the signature Lagoa, he adheres to the crystal for electrolysis and it is possible to detach and to use again. The shop has also other models to stick to the wall. Very ecological and of the most original thing. For those who have no time to hang adornments it turns out to be perfect …

Another idea for the wall; this adhesive tree in target and gray, as well as the stars, belongs to an American company; but if you do not find it, also you can cut it away and give it you same s of an adhesive vinyl. It is an imagination question!

What does this idea look like to you? Really, it is a question of trees done with decorative wide bonds. A few resistant bands of role of gift can do the same effect; with a flowerpot, a wooden bar and a little of skill you can obtain an effect as surprising as this one.

Really, this is one of my favorites. Live through the recycling! A tree done entirely with bottles of green crystal, pacentemente collected during the whole year and placed with skill on crystal discs. If a few lights garlands are placed to him inside, the result can be spectacular: truth?

And as finish off, there is phantasmagoric and ethereal tree done with cut away role and troquelado. To hang by the roof, it is ligerísimo and very specially. Patience and skill is needed with the scissors, but little by little you can be cutting forms away and interlacing them carefully to obtain a tree than to place on a lamp or a bulb.
The most original solutions, for all the tastes. Anyway, that if someone has no tree, will be because he does not want …: Is not it like that?

Christmas adornments Ikea 2009

2009-11-29T12:26:00.001-08:00

And we continue with our approach to the holidays, which little by little are outlined in the horizon … With the arrival of the cold, which we have surprised this weekend with the first strong snowfalls, it longs to continue placing at home the tree and making the ambience happy. From Ikea they make it very easy to us once again, and if you want to be the most original without spending a fortune, the Swedish signature proposes the nicest and entertaining Christmas accessories to you, at the best price.

In the Ikea shops you will find espumillón not even moss for the nativity scene, but yes many incidental craftsmen realized with natural materials, cloth, felt, wicker … Many of them are inspired in the Swedish traditions of the Christmas. For example, this set of made adornments of wicker will surprise very pleasantly more than one guest.

If in your house there are children, it is sure that they will be ready to begin a hand with the decoration of the tree. These small cloth dolls have seemed charming to me, and they will do the delights of the smallest. The box costs only 2,99 euros, and in addition to hanging them on the tree you can put them in the lamps, the knobs of the doors, the knobs of the furniture …

For the lovers of the brilliant and luminous n avidad, here you have a kit with everything necessary so that your tree or any corner of the house shines with proper light. Garlands, chain stitches, hearts … Quite in the most elegant metallized tone, which never fashionable raisin.

The self-adhesive vinyl is more at present in walls decoration. The Christmas also is present in the Ikea models, as you can see in this sample. Beautiful motives perfect for the holidays.

And to end, an elegant super option for the most stylish trees: transparent adornments with form of schematic trees, with a red touch to integrate with the rest of the decoration. Beautiful, thin and cheap. Who gives more?

Golden frames: how to reproduce them easily

2009-11-28T13:17:00.001-08:00

The golden frames are typical of the ancient mirrors and of the storied pictures. I, personally, love, and in fact I have two in property (with his respective ancient, cut mirrors and charmingly beveled). The skill of the ancient gilding is very complicated, by means of bread of thin gold, polishing with agate stone for expert gilders. To learn it needs time and patience, but with other more accessible materials we can do quite acceptable reproductions.

On a wood it cleans, it is important to refill all the hollows to leave a smooth surface. You can do it applying a thin pasta layer tapagrietas (type Aguaplast); allow to dry and sand with sandpaper nº 400 up to perfecting it very well.

Later you will have to paint the white base with an acrylic or plastic painting. The habitual color is red English, but you can do tests with other tones: navy blue, bottle-green … It Gives two well widespread hands.

Next, it does above with a golden painting, preferably to the water. It will remain better if you do not cover the whole painting, but you leave areas without covering, as if they were worn out. Do tests in a piece that you do not need up to taking practice.

To end, you can give him a classic touch to your golden frame applying above a patina to him to age, done by you or bought in a manualidades shop.
Images: Lara 604 (1 and 2), quinn anya (3).

Rustic kitchens: three beautiful examples

2009-11-28T08:57:00.001-08:00

The post that we publish yesterday on the cellular concrete has given me the idea to write this one of today. The kitchens of work, which we were mentioning like one of the possibilities to construct with the material, are typical of the rustic and rural ambiences, but they can get together also perfectly with materials of last generation.

This first example shows us a spectacular and big kitchen of a country-house. The space is opened to leave place to the occupants, and the cooking top is distributed between the wooden furniture of the left, finished off with one on of tiles vitrificados, and the kitchen peninsula of the right, which carries the battery and the kitchen. To emphasize the ceramics combination between the hood of the left wall and the mopboard of the peninsula. And the detail of the white furniture in the front is perfect.

Another beautiful example of rural kitchen, in this case more classic if it fits that the previous one. Here the leading role is already of the work furniture, that they have been tiled learnedly with white ceramics. I like especially the hoods of the wall, with the tiles placed to triangle, and the doors realized in dark wood. The contrast between tones is relaxing and luminous.

And finally, a solution more modern that I love. The kitchen splits into two spaces separated by a dividing wall in which there have got together the stones auctions, the green stucco and the blocks of pavis. The part of the dining room is provided with a big wooden table, and to the right a brick furniture with wooden cooking top is combined by the murete of the kitchen. To emphasize the domestic appliances of steel of the fund and the yellow estucado. An ambience 10!

Images: Karol.it, rustic Art.

Do-it-yourself: To upholster chairs seats

2009-11-27T19:01:00.001-08:00

Certainly, here I do not try to teach you to upholster an armchair of ears or an armchair with moving van; for that the marvelous professionals of the branch are already. But to place a seat quilted to a chair that has lost it, or to renew an old carpeting with foam rubber, is easier than it seems.

To start, you will need a gun stapler (if it is electrical, much better), a board of DM of 12 mm of thickness (in the case that the chair has no seat), a piece of foam rubber of average thickness of approximately 15 cm of thickness, a loneta or retor fortress, staples and the cloth in itself.
It starts by cutting the foam rubber with a wet cutter (they cut much better) and giving him a form lightly rounded for his part top. It gives the foam rubber to the board or to the seat with contact tail.

It covers the froth with the loneta or retor and grápala for below, trying not to do many creases and tightening well the cloth.

Next, it places the definitive cloth (it should be of hangings) on the loneta and grápala also to the low part of the seat. So that the staples and the creases are not seen, I recommend to you to cover the low part with a piece of cloth of hangings, which you will fix with special upholsterer tacks.
You can already place again the seat in the chair. Much more comfortable and decorative: truth?
Photo: Bosch.

Cellular concrete: a very versatile material

2009-11-27T14:36:00.001-08:00

Have you heard to speak one day about the cellular concrete? Aunue talks each other of a building material, his simplicity of handling and the versatility that it shows they turn it into a perfect material to do works inside the housings.

Well be to construct a work kitchen, as to raise a murete or a separation dividing wall, this material onlooker (acquaintance in Europe for decades, but that in our country is not used so much) is light, insulating and very easy to manipulate.

The blocks of cellular concrete are cut simply with a saw, without need to use an amoladora or a chisel. And also, since dovetails come, they are placed very easily giving them with a special cement - tail.

Since you can see in this photo, the whole kitchen can be mounted by means of blocks. And if you do not want to get into so ambitious projects, I will say to you that also it serves for all kinds of furniture, from kitchen islands up to shelves of work or low furniture.
One of the companies that distributes this material in Spain is Xella (the material that they distribute belongs to the French company Ytong).

Christmas decoration in red, white and green

2009-11-26T21:40:00.001-08:00

And we keep on preparing the house facing the holidays. The "official" colors of the Christmas, the red one and the green, also they usually accompany of the target, which symbolizes the snow. The combination of the three usually gives good results, but it is important to give him a more current personal touch so that it does not stay like that of the whole world. Attention to these ideas.

This luminous dining room shows us a simple super decoration: the table takes only a red central way (you can do it yourself with a band of cloth), an identical mirror and a few hanging details in target and crystal.
On the mirror there has painted the word to herself Joy (happiness in English) with a thick acrylic painting, which then can come out easily with a rascavidrios.

Attention to the detail of every plate: on them a flowerpot lined in role has been placed pinocho or of green silk, with a bag to red and white stripes (or a role in these colors) full of sweets of Christmas. A beautiful gift that is finished off by the brilliant green bond.
And the details on the sideboard lacquer in target (in another post you can learn how to give this one finished) are also of the most discreet. The flowerpot with small flowers (they can be of cloth if you do not find them) it is, of course, of white ceramics, that it coordinates with the big bottle of crystal full of circumferences of pasteboard (that imitate Christmas balls) graffiti in white and red, of course.

Decorative revetment of DuPont ™ Colaugh ® by means of panels

2009-11-26T17:20:00.001-08:00

Those of DuPont ™ Colaugh ® they spend the life to themselves giving us "decorative" happy moments; it is a question of one of the signatures with more initiatory in research and development, and his ideas and innovations are between the mejorcito of the world of the interior design, the architecture and the decoration. Although not long ago we were speaking about the collection of furniture that they had extracted, now it is the shift of these spectacular panels to cover interior walls.

The collection is called "3D" because the panels are not flat but they present in his troquelados surfaces and reliefs, which transform them into an experience not only visual, but also tactile. A new option apart from the painting of walls, the identical role or the ceramics of the whole life.

The first materialization of the collection 3D is the series “Math“: it is a question of decorative panels of interior revetment, inspired by theories of famous mathematicians and by mathematical functions.

This series consists of the models Fibonacci, Gauss, Moirè, Fourier, Voronoi (all with measurements of 2400 L x 700 mm H) and Phyllotaxis (700 L x 700 mm H). It is a question of the result of the creative effort of the architect Corrado Tibaldi, of DuPont Building
Innovations, who looked like external design consultants for the engineer and teacher Alessio
Erioli, as well as to the architect Andrea Graziano. In addition to for covering walls, also they serve to separate spaces.

The result of the idea is so spectacular as you can see in the photos. The DuPont panels constitute a breath of fresh air for the interior design of the XXIst century, and I would dare to affirm that they are going to be very excellent in the decoration of the future.

Luxurious house - ship in half of the Seine

2009-11-25T13:30:00.001-08:00

The house that taught you in the today post us has brought especially the magazine elle, and it is a question of the va more in decoration: a certification marries ship with that to slide for the romantic waters of the Seine, in the middle of Paris … And decorated with a charming furniture miscellany vintage and of last generation.

It is called Him Boudoir de Serendipity and is a property of Marie and Mickael. This couple fell in love madly with an old barge of goods that was floating in the river, and six months later finished the reform of which it would be, since then, his Parisian hearth.

One of the most guessed right details of the decoration is without doubting the miscellany and the eclecticism. The beach chair of Him Corbusier mixes without problem with completely kitsch objects, and the furniture stripped in target coexist with methacrylate chairs …
An ancient bed of worn-out metal faces to the entertaining chairs of the 70s, all of them contemplated by the incredible clock of cuckoo …: rose!
And also, I love the hanging bulbs, of more originals …: Although I do not know if they will be very practical when the ship moves with the waves! Anyway, it is necessary to congratulate this couple on his good taste, his originality and the fantastic house ship that does that we die of envy.

To varnish correctly wooden surfaces

2009-11-25T02:20:00.001-08:00

Many you will be able to think that varnishing is simply to plicar a varnish on the wood with a paintbrush, and I list. Really of that it talks each other … But also it is a question of being right in it. A well varnished wood remains much nicer and resistant. Today I will give you the rules to do it.
First of all, it is necessary to choose suitable products and of good quality. The wood must be clean and without dust; if it is sanded, it is advisable to apply a hand of transparent tapaporos to him and to sand then the surface with lanilla of steel of the nº 000.
If you reduce lightly the varnish with the suitable dissolver (it usually indicates it in the packing) and leak it with an average, the result will be much better. Apply it with a paintbrush of good quality that does not release hair, doing past crusades.

400 sands the varnish with sandpaper nº and soapy water once dried. It cleans the surface and applies another hand; it repeats the operation two or three times more.
It ends up by sanding for last time and giving a layer of colorless wax for furniture, to which you will extract sheen passed a few hours. You will surprise the result …

Christmas adornments done by you

2009-11-24T21:55:00.001-08:00

The Christmas tables not only "live" of linens, chinas or glassware; also they ask us "loudly" to personalize them so that all the messmates are participants of the spirit of the holidays. A nice and elegant center or a few sails strategically placed, there can be the just detail so that your table shines this Christmas.
What do look like these so nice portavelas to you … and so sweet? Made with caramel canes, there are the most original solution for your sails. They are the simplest to do; for it you will only need a thick sail, the canes and expensive double tape to give carpeting.
It gives the tape on the base of the sail and detaches the protective role. It sees giving the canes (or another type of hard caramels, if you want) about the sail, good in vertical sense, lightly well inclined. The caramel canes not only will decorate the sail, but they will bring him stability.

And a center of elegant table also is something that will remain perfect in your table. Forget the high branches of flowers, which prevent the guests from conversing and turn the faces, and of the balls of the whole life, and sign up to the natural centers.

The center of table of this photo is beautiful. To do it, you will need froth of florist's shop, special wire for centers of tables, green apples, twelfth two of white roses, special impermeable adhesive tape for centers and red grapes or green.
Soak the florist's shop froth in water and give it on a base (candelabra, a source, a wide vase …) with the impermeable tape. It uses the wires to puncture the bunches of grapes and the apples to the froth; it refills the hollows between the fruit with the roses.
Source and images: BHG.

Flea market of KA International: from November 27 until November 30

2009-11-24T17:04:00.001-08:00

This is a marvelous opportunity to be able to obtain the fantastic articles about such an emblematic signature in textiles and clothes of house (in addition to furniture) like KA International. Once again, the company is going to establish four days to sell his products at infarction prices.
And so that you do not get lost the opportunity, here I put to you the direction and the schedules of the flea market. The promotion is called Friends and Family and only three days stay so that it comes, so you still have time to plan the weekend.

KA International is a signature that is characterized by the beauty and quality of his cloth s, which take decades commercializing in our country (it is a question of the ancient “American Kilo”, from which his initials KA go out).
In this flea market not only you will be able to buy cloths, but also furniture as nice as the delas you photograph: chaise-longues, armchairs, couches … Of primerísima quality and design, and at incredible prices (up to 70 % of discount).

Christmas Manualidades: more ideas easy to do

2009-11-24T12:40:00.001-08:00

Did you see what good idea that of the yesterday post? A few canes of caramel, an apple center … And the house seems different in Christmas. Since the posibilidaes are great, and in this post I am going to give you another three ideas so that you do the Christmas adornments yourselves without having to wear out a fortune.

My first option is the recycling. Why to buy anything new being able to make use of what we already have? In this case, the idea consists of recovering the old balls of Christmas and other adornments of the tree and of giving them a new look. Very simple: it spills white tail in a soup plate, spends the balls for her and s alpícalas with beads of those who sell to do necklaces.
If then you arrange the balls in centers, like that of the photo, the result will perform the most spectacular thing.
Following idea: silver or golden, and great painting nature in the shape of branches of pine and pineapples. A return for the field is always a marvelous idea, and if you can do gathering of crusts, pineapples and branches for your centers, much better.

Later, do with a brush of watercolor and silver or golden glitter (that goes in tastes), and decorate the balls with spirals, points, stars … In the photo you have an idea to combine the elements, but insurance that occur to you many other.

And now, an economic and very special tablecloth. It takes a few meters of white tulle and paints in all his extension small spots with golden glitter. You can combine everything with a few decorated white napkins equally, and with details as napkin rings or identical fruits. To what that remains beautiful?
Source and images: BHG.

Radiant heating in soils and roofs

2009-11-21T09:23:00.001-08:00

The radiant heating is one of the most effective systems that there exist at present for climatizar the housings (good, not only heating; the systems also can include air conditioning). The reasons are different: it is a very ecological heat, with which it saves itself very much (it is necessary only to put the system to 20ºC so that it is efficient), is healthy and antiallergic, very comfortable and it is not necessary to place radiators.

The problem of the radiant soil rests on that to install it it is necessary to do an important work, and the budget goes off. Also, it is not compatible with wooden soils, since this material does not transmit well the heat.
The solution we have it to these problems in the systems of radiant roofs. Much easier to place (they can put themselves in a false roof), they do not prevent in our housing from having beautiful wooden soils and contribute the same comfort.
The radiant roofs take a system of pipes along which there circulates the warm water (or fry in case of the air conditioning). These pipes can they are inserted in an iron of laminated plaster, similar to those of Plasterboard, or anchored to the roof and covered by an iron of this type. Also they accompany themselves of other one of polystyrene expanded to improve the isolation.

The heat distributed this way, from the roof, is distributed of form more homogeneous than if we radiate it from the soil. Other advantages are the best yield of the system as for air conditioning and, as we have already commented, the easy thing that is to install it.
There are several companies that devote themselves to install this type of systems, like for example Solarsom, but this system is not yet very widespread. Nevertheless, from Decorahoy we augur a splendid future.
Images: Group Solarco, Solarsom.

Design hotels at good price

2009-11-20T08:50:00.001-08:00

The nicest hotels, with the decorated wide rooms as the tendencies of the moment, they are usually really prohibitive for most of us … But that is not completely true. In fact, the magazine elle has located some beautiful hotels, with rooms worthy of the j et-set, at prices that (without being the cheapest) we can afford although it is occasionally.

To start by a national hotel, we have this marvelous example in Oviedo, the beautiful Asturian capital. The role of the walls, combined with the set of the curtains and the carpeting to stripes, gives agility sensation and, at the same time, of classicism. The decoration is sober, combining objects furiously contemporary with more traditional others. The hotel is called Frames, and the double room can be reserved from 96 euros.

This curious hotel which reception is really infested with “verdure“ is in Brussels, Belgium. It is necessary to emphasize the interesting carpeting of the armchairs, with a pattern in green tones much pop, and the cascade of mistletoe that falls down of the roof. The wooden lamp is the whole find … It is the Hotel Bloom, with double rooms from 70 euros.

And we finish our trip in the capital that right now, it is very fashionable: Berlin. The room of the Hotel Otto (double room, from 100 euros) takes as a headrest a series of panels of colors, which at the same time contrast and complement each other: green and fuchsia. Aim to you at the idea; it is marvelous! The design small table is so practical as decorative, and the combination between gray anthracite of the soil and the clothes of white bed are the morello cherry of the cake.
If you want to find more design hotels at good prices, throw a glance to the elle web; the options are great …

Decoration with the exchange Pattex

2009-11-20T04:17:00.001-08:00

The contest “Exchange of the Pattex” has finished already two weeks ago, and now the couple shows us his house decorated with the winning objects. In this peculiar contest, the couple Pattex was offering us an object of his house in exchange for a decorative object that the candidates were offering. From Monday until Friday, from October 20 until November 2, they published in his blog elblocdelospattex a photo of the object that they were ready to offer.
The candidates had to publish a comment with a photo of the object that they should exchange. Passed a few days, the Pattex would choose an object of all the offered ones by the candidates. The winning person of that time, took the souvenir of the Pattex to his house more a lot of products Pattex for do-it-yourself tasks in the hearth.
The frikadas offered by the Pattex (defined this way by them the same) were: 2 screws, a glass with rod for batters, role of green wall and target, old tiles, faucet of shower, an ancient cushion, a yellow T-shirt, Chinese painting (“The Car” of Ching Fui), a roof lamp, between other things.
The frikadas that chose to decorate his house are: a Pelocho in exchange for the old tiles, a multicolored T-shirt for the yellow T-shirt, a Goose for the cartel of the Radiopato, a reindeer for the cushion, a Chinese clock for the Chinese painting, one rocker plants for the faucet of shower, an alarm clock for the Fever lamp, an elephant for the parrot, an image of San Pancracio for the wall role, a black cat for the screws.
And we can already see some photos of the new decoration of the renewed house of the Pattex.
The elephant in company of others in a shelf with books.

The black cat with other objects worthy of a movie of terror.

The Goose in the couch.

Mister Pelocho with his nephew.

The plant rocker close to the loudspeakers, lists to dance.

The T-shirt in the icebox.

The clock on a few books.

The reindeer in the wooden hut.

San Pancracio in his altar.

Natural trees of Christmas inspired by the nature

2009-11-19T23:53:00.001-08:00

To decorate the Christmas tree is a beautiful task that needs that our inventiveness improves year by year. Since sometimes we feel that the shops offer us always more of the same and we would like in our slightly more innovative tree or with a more personal touch.
Have you tried to look for inspiration in the nature? Here we show you some examples, like this tree of Christmas decorated with butterflies. He imagines it impressive that will be seen you are butterflies floating in the branches with night lighting.

A fruits basket in a tree? This tree has been decorated by apples, grapes, or redcurrants, dry fruits, and golden adornments and to finish off, a star. They give desire of making use.

East other has inspired in the garden, with sprinkling cans, gloves of gardening, cartels of gardening, butterflies, mini birdhouses and other adornments inspired by the gardening.

This one is a little more traditional, with baskets and stars. The red, white and blue colors give him an aspect of typically American tree.
Also you might be interested in:
How to do Christmas trees with flowers
Tree of Christmas gilded in lounge vintage
Manualidades in felt | Christmas adornments
Route / Mother earths garden

Design jail in Austria

2009-11-19T12:06:00.001-08:00

I do not refuse in the today post to show you the images that there have come to me by e-mail from one of the places any more soprendentes that you could imagine. Really, and although it looks like everything opposite, it is a question of an Austrian jail where the interiors can rival with the houses of many magazines of design. The prison is in the city of Loeben.

The common spaces are diaphanous and luminous, with crystal walls that allow to bring in the light of the sun. And what to say about the presence of the ultramodern sculptures and minimalistas …

The color is also a protagonist of many of the spaces, with simple volumes that promote the space and grant leading role to noble materials like the wood, present in the hood of the photo, along with the stairs.

In this image we see the area where the prisoners communicate with his relatives and relatives. The crystal panels give largeness sensation, erasing the sad image of the bars. The red chairs, the details in wood and the high roof and troquelado are the most interesting points.

As for the gymnasium, nothing has that to envy to those of the best chains … flexible Soils antiblows, illuminated areas straight connected to the exterior and the best of the equipments are details to be observed. Anyway, already you know it: if you have in perspective to hold a bank up, perhaps the best thing is to do it in Austria …: Just in case!
Source: Lujazos.com