Plants bring out the freshness in our home and create a refreshing ambiance. Add up the elegant planter like the Bones, you surely will get not only a refreshing but also an elegant ambiance. The Bones planter from Vondom has clean lines and glossy white finish making it an ideal addition to your interior design. It makes an ideal décor for your windowpane, terrace, poolside, and even in your living room. In addition, it can also be a perfect planter on top of your office cabinets and counters. With its sleek and glossy finish, you surely can match it with any of your décor and furniture pieces without any problem at all.

In home designs today, gas fireplaces can be found in any room of the house. From bathrooms and bedrooms to living rooms and outdoor spaces, these gas fireplaces are sure to spark some creative design ideas in your own space.

Amenity combined their durable hemp fabric that’s blended with certified organic cotton and a classic Amenity print to create their new organic pet bedding collection. The look is natural and sophisticated and is something you’ll love to look at while it adds cozy comfort for your pooch all in eco-friendly style.

Brave Space Design is a group of three Brooklyn-base designers concentrating on bringing modular, multi-functional objects into the home and office setting. Dedicated to providing quality, high-end furniture that is both playful and modern, the designers at Brave Space draw from a common set of influence ranging from video games to minimalist sculpture Introduced into the Stagger Line, the Server is a low Stagger shelving unit ideal for kitchen or dining room storage. This irregular and asymmetrical shelving allows for a less traditional display of objects. With modular cabinets, you can determine the amount and location of closed storage on the shelves.

Sliding doors are generally not common. However, this is the common door style o design in Japan and neighboring countries. Hailed as the Japanese Shoji Screens andsliding doors , this stylish Japanese door will not only serve its function but also, it can be your elegant décor at home as well. If you like, you can have these doors as your room divider, cupboard, curtains and the like. Other than being the wall and décor in one, the Japanese sliding door particularly those that are installed to be as the home’s curtain, the sliding door helps regulate room temperature, which is essential particularly to those in cold countries.

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Baby boomers, or the 75 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964, are getting older, with the first wave of boomers turning 65 in 2011. Baby boomers will have a very different sort of retirement, though. They’re more likely to work longer, start a second career, volunteer or take classes than their parents’ generation. And while previous generations headed for Florida and nursing homes, baby boomers want to stay put.

The weather forecast predicted a comfortably warm day, so you decide to wake up early and enjoy as much of the weekend as possible. With a yawn and a stretch, you rise up around seven and begin your daily activities. After you take a refreshing shower, brush your teeth and complete your morning exercises, a pot of coffee and a hearty breakfast of scrambled eggs and bacon are just enough to invigorate you. Stepping outside into the fresh air, you exit your home onto the starboard side, walk forward and admire from the bow the rising sun — you are, of course, emerging from your very own houseboat.

We all love the beautiful furniture designs that IKEA have. However, due to its popularity, similar furniture as yours is very common to IKEA furniture lovers. If like any other, you also hate the idea of having similar furniture sets as your co-IKEA lover neighbor, then you surely would love to try MyIKEA. MyIKEA allows you to redesign your IKEA furniture to make it more beautiful, personalized and most of all unique. All you have to do is to choose your desired bare furniture, then pick your desired design, and finally start re-designing your IKEA furniture. In this way, there will be no way for you to have similar IKEA interior with any other.

You’ll be inspired to create the cabin of your dreams with the exciting collection of 62 cabin floor plans in “Compact Cabins.” These creative cabin designs feature innovative storage, mix-and-match modular elements, and off-the-grid energy options — all in less than 1,000 square feet.

Though cabins may have a small footprint, with good design, they can offer a comfortable living space. The challenge is to create that feeling of space in a small cabin. I find that, in particular, high ceilings and strategically placed windows make even very small cabins feel comfortable.

Kallista. The maker’s first cast iron kitchen sink offers a dual-basin undermount design and sophisticated aesthetic. The shaped basins allow for a single-hole kitchen faucet with additional drillings to accommodate a soap or lotion dispenser and side spray. The unique single-hole drilling allows the space reserved for the faucet deck to be reclaimed by the basins, creating a roomy space. Measuring 33 inches wide and 9 inches deep, The sink can accommodate even large cookware. Made from 93% recycled or reclaimed materials, the sink is composed entirely of cast iron and finished in an ultra-thick layer of glossy enamel that is guaranteed not to chip, crack or burn. Two stainless steel bottom-basin racks help protect the finish, which is available in white, linen, or black.