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FASHION INSPIRATION 1: JUNYA WATANABE

... Fashion has always been a big inspiration for me, and has translated itself in all facets of my work. Im going to be featuring some of the most inspirational fashion designers to me in the next few posts, followed by fine artists, musicians and the like that inspire what i do. Interiors are merely the space in which we live, the details that fill these spaces bring them to life. art and life combined into one. Without further interuption, I present one of the most inspiring people to me Junya Watanabe, from Comme de Garcons to solo work...an inspiration all around.

Desain interior Elegant Minimalis

Desain interior ini kami buat untuk permintaan dari Bakpao Telo yang ingin membuat desain interior kafe INTELOKTUAL, sebagai kafe penghubung antara dua kota Surabaya dan Malang. Kafe ini diharapkan mampu memberikan nuansa yang nyaman bagi para pebisnis maupun pengendara yang melintasi jalan utama antara kota Malang dan Surabaya. Konsepnya: terkesan smart karena terdapat fasilitas wi-fi untuk

Desain Rumah Minimalis

Desain rumah akhir-akhir ini mengalami perkembangan yang sangat cepat. Kita bisa mendapati berbagai jenis desain rumah yang berkembang di masyarakat dewasa ini, antara lain desain rumah minimalis, modern, mediterania, klasik dan sebagainya. Hal ini merupakan keharusan sesuai perkembangan jaman, kita semakin menyadari bahwa peran desain dan arsitek sangat berpengaruh bagi keindahan desain rumah

Dubai Has Always Been Bankrupt

Dubai is finally financially bankrupt – but it has been morally bankrupt all along. The idea that Dubai is an oasis of freedom on the Arabian peninsular is one of the great lies of our time. Yes, it has Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts and the Gucci styles, but beneath these accouterments, there is a dictatorship built by slaves. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/dubai-has-always-been-ban_b_

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desain rumah dengan lokasi terbatas

Saya sering kali mendapat kiriman email atau komentar-komentar di weblog ini yang meminta referensi desain rumah, perlu diketahui bahwa antara 1 desain dengan desain yang lain selalu berbeda. Hal yang menyebabkan setiap desain berbeda adalah: space/lahan yang akan ditempati membangun rumah atau bangunan biasanya tidak sama, dan kebutuhan ruangan dari tiap-tiap keluarga juga berbeda. Tetapi untuk

LOVE HATE

In this profession my client's have a love/hate relationship with me... My clients love me...my clients' husbands...well...love to hate me. Hate my bills, that is. I say...no pain, no gain, right?

So...I saw this Chinese apothecary chest downtown. I bought it and had it delivered to my client.


Okay...I don't know what the hell they will put in it...maybe it is a really expensive pill organizer for when they get forgetful? Regardless, it is truly perfect right where it is. Anyway...a few hours after it was delivered I received this text from my client's husband...

Client's Husband: (Picture of chest in his entry included in text) What is this?

Jen West Design: I have no idea. I have never seen that in my entire life.

Client's Husband: You lie!

Jen West Design: Very well.

Client's Husband: :-)

Hahahahahahahaha! Isn't that hilarious? I love my job.

Modern Design

Interior Design

Before you start considering spending your hard earned money on decorators and interior designers maybe you should consider carrying out the work yourself.You will find it fun and exhilarating , watch your home come alive with your designs and ideas. If you want to redecorate your entire home interior design software might be the way forward for you, especially if you don't want to hire a

Braaten Cabinets

Congratulations! Your passport to the most exclusive line of custom-built cabinets has arrived. At Braaten Cabinets, our designers bring their individual expertise and signatures to each project,

Penjualan Perumahan di Jakarta Naik 75%

Jakarta - Pada kuartal III-2009 penjualan perumahan di DKI Jakarta dan sekitarnya meningkat 75% atau mencapai 2.560 unit dari kuartal sebelumnya yang sebesar 1.400 unit. Foto: dok.detikFinance Demikian disampaikan oleh Head Of Research and Consultantcy Procon dalam Property Market Outlook 2010 oleh Procon Savills di Gedung BEI, Jakarta, Rabu (11/11/2009)."Kenaikan penjualan tersebut

Property tax revenue plummets with home values

As banks feverishly dump foreclosed homes at cut-rate prices, and as neighboring homes change hands at similar bargain-basement rates, those amounts are enshrined as the new basis for determining property tax until the homes are sold again. Under Prop. 13, that basis can rise a maximum of just 2 percent a year, even if the home is worth significantly more. The consequence is likely to be a

Rahasia Memulai Bisnis Tanpa Uang : Kawan Sebagai Jaminan

Ketika saya memberi seminar Kewirausahaan di Pondok Pesantren Krapyak Yogyakarta bersama kawan saya, Pak Maryono. Setelah saya membeberkan bagaimana menjadi pengusaha yang cerdas dan bagaimana strategi memulai dan melambungkan bisnis, giliran kawan saya Pak Maryono bercerita tetang bagaimana ia mengawali bisnis untuk pertama kalinya. Pak Maryono mengawali bisnis sebagai penjual buku-buku

Tips Memilih Water Heater

beberapa hal penting yang harus diperhatikan sebelum membeli water heater untuk rumah anda.Ukuran rumah anda, water heater dapat dipasang secara terpisah untuk setiap kamar mandi ataupun dipasang terpusat dan mengalirkan air panas ke seluruh kamar mandi. Kapasitas air yang dihasilkan, water heater menampung air dan memanaskan air yang telah ditampung untuk kemudian disalurkan ke kamar mandi.

Membangun Atap Rumah

Atap rumah dahulu biasa dibuat dari dari tanah liat atau yang biasa disebut dengan genteng, namun beberapa wilayah di Indonesia juga menggunakan atap dari bahan kayu ataupun rumbai. Saat ini atap bangunan semakin beragam, mulai dari atap asbes yang murah meriah sampai atap genteng keramik yang terlihat mengkilat. Berbagai jenis atap tersebut memiliki kekurangan dan kelebihannya masing-masing.

Luxury Spanish House Design Ideas Contemporary Styles

This is Spanish house design ideas from James Glower for your house remodeling inspiration. This is absolutely modern Spanish house design combine with classic traditional styles. Here it is best sample Spanish home design photos gallery with luxury and contemporary styles for your inspiration.


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TIME OUT

Always some excitement at my house... We are taking out this 100 foot 80 year-old deodar cedar.


Not that we wanted to...but it abutted right up to our neighbor's house. It naturally shed three giant limbs. Crushing their house three times.


We told naughty Charles that we are going to put a spiral staircase around it with a time-out chair on top. If that won't shape him up, nothing will.

Office Interior Designers

Interior designers often enter a home armed with a veritable arsenal of creativity and subcontracted resources. In many cases, the secondary services a decorator brings in under his or her invoice adds a certain specialized expertise to robust décor. Professional lighting equipment and lighting design services are crucial to this mix. With the right levels of light, both glare and shadow are dispelled, and the texture and color of artwork springs to light.

Phantom Lighting Representatives, located throughout North America, Central America, and South America, are available to help the interior designer utilize some of the world’s most unique and aesthetically superb lighting equipment on the market.

If you are currently working with an interior decorator or interior design firm, we recommend you point them in our direction if they encounter any of the following scenarios relative to fine art and display lighting systems. While a great many interior designers are already working with Phantom Lighting products, many are still discovering us for the first time.

Your interior designer will most likely recommend new artwork as part of his or her overall plan for creating a new look within your home.

Private art collections can transform an interior into a realm of sophistication with very little physical change to the room. The trick is to find equipment from a lighting fixture manufacturer that will maximize the impact of your new collection without damaging the artwork itself or interfering with general room lighting. Any interior designer will tell you that the two biggest aesthetic obstacles to overcome when lighting art are shadows and glare. Any curator or experienced collector will also add that the greatest technological threat to art lighting is ultraviolet radiation and infrared heat—both of which can literally destroy priceless works of creativity and many hours of hard work on the part of your designers.

Office Room Designs

Tired of finding colored pictures among your invoices? Have you ever discovered random lego pieces among your inventory? If so, you must own a home business, and you must be working from anywhere in the house but your very own office. So you need a home office. How does a home business owner move successfully from the living room to the office?

First, the home business owner needs to establish his or her own space for an office. Find a spare room or a room you can easily concert into an office. Even a corner of the garage will do for a first-time home business owner. Remember to start small and invest little at the beginning, and then when you can afford it, you can build or create the office of your dreams. If you do not have your own space, however, you will be doomed forever to finding peanut butter smeared on important documents, and you will sacrifice the professional look that you need to exude to have a successful home business.

Secondly, once you have your space chosen and established, organize your goods. Invest in some organizational materials like shelves (cheap from the hardware store), categorizing materials like labels and sharpies, colored boxes, and a filing cabinet. Once you know what you need for organizational materials and invest in them, organize your office with two frames of mind: organize it so that it makes sense to you, and organize so that if something should happen to you and those you love most would need to find important documents quickly, they would be able to. So your system should not just make sense to you, but it should make sense to just about anyone. It should be simple enough that your fifth grader can understand it.

Modern Interior Design

Interior design is a profession with a long standing tradition. Everything from office buildings to private homes has been created using various design principles to give a wonderful, lasting impression of beauty and art. When considering how to redesign any interior space it is important to consider just what type of style you will incorporate into the plans right from the beginning. One of the most popular design aspects that has been used for many decades is known as art deco.Initially art deco was used as a purely decorative style of design and was very popular during the 1920’s and into the late 1930’s. Back then it was viewed as functional, elegant as well as being ultra modern. Art deco is an extremely eclectic style, drawing influences from a variety of different sources. Some of them are considered primitive like Egyptian and African, even Aztec Mexico. Other include streamlined technology like aviation. Binding together with techniques routed in Cubism and Futurism, art deco has a wide range of functionality and expressiveness. A home decorator using this style can be free to do a huge variety of different things in the interior of a space.The type of materials used in art deco interior design consist of stainless steel, lacquer, aluminum, inlaid wood, even sharkskin and zebra skin. Stemming from this use of harder, metallic materials is the celebration of the machine age. Art deco does this through the repetitive use of these man-made materials and also through symmetry. During the Great Depression the use of art deco saw its heyday because of its practicality and simplicity.

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When most people move into a new home, there is some changes that they want to make. The rules of interior design are especially powerful when it comes to the ladies of the house who can walk through any home and easily spot furniture that needs to be moved and cabinets that need refacing. The entire idea behind interior design is to make the home that you have purchased your own. It stands to reason because you are living in a home that was built by someone else and their style may not be yours. Interior design and home improvement is the way to go.

Most people consider home improvement to be a daunting task, which it can be if you go to extremes. Those who attempt to completely renovate their entire home at once are faced with a multitude of problems that are associated with having to move furniture and other items out of the way so the interior design process can take place. For others, it is easier to do a little bit at a time to make sure that each project gets completed with the minimum of hassle and interruption to daily life.

One of the easiest things to start with when it comes to interior design and home improvement is cabinet refacing. Cabinets that you are going to reface will not interrupt the day to day activities as other type projects can and will when doing home improvement. To reface cabinets it is best to start with the doors as they simple to remove and take to a workshop or basement. When you reface you are basically just changing the tone of the wood that is used for design of the cabinets. This is done most times because the color or tone does not fit with the new furniture that has been purchased. This is a common practice among existing home buyers who want to create their own personal style.