Furniture Trends to Watch For In 2012
Mar 8th
Are you ready to redecorate? When guests walk into your home, do they think they’ve stepped backwards through time? If so, you may be interested in the latest interior decorating trends. When it comes to furniture, styles change, and for 2012, they have changed dramatically.
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Give Your Livingroom an Exotic Look With Bamboo Furniture
Apr 26th
If you are getting sick of the same tired look in furniture choices, bamboo furniture can be a welcome change of pace. Bamboo furniture is hot right now and comes in many styles to fit in with nearly every design scheme because this furniture is flexible and easy to work with. Plus, it holds up very well. If you want to make an impression, bamboo is definitely an interesting pick because bamboo is deceptively strong and durable.
About Bamboo
Bamboo is actually a large breed of grass. You would never know this by the good looks and durability that this plant provides. There are hundreds of bamboo types that grow all over the world. Bamboo designs have been a benchmark in Asia for a long time. It is beginning to become very popular the world over. Bamboo has especially caught on because it is a renewable source that is friendly to the environment. This is a good choice for those of you that are interested in eco-friendly living.
Bamboo Furniture
Designers are getting very innovative in their use of bamboo. There are complete bamboo furniture creations or blended use designs. Many people begin using bamboo on patios as outdoor furniture because it holds up so well. Woven bamboo designs are particularly attractive and easily blend in with other furniture types.
Using bamboo furniture is a great way to add inject an Asian or pacific feel to nearly any room. Tables, chairs, and stools made from bamboo make a great addition by adding some contrast and interest to more traditionally styled rooms. A nice bamboo chair can break up the monotony of an otherwise traditional room.
You can also go all-out with bamboo and design an entire room with this beautiful furniture. For those who are especially concerned about the environment, choose renewable bamboo products to ensure that you are being eco-friendly with your furniture choices.
Going with bamboo will make any room an interesting and relaxing place to spend time. Be sure to get some nice cushions to soften up chairs and couches. Easy to maintain and clean while providing extremely attractive looks, bamboo is a great choice to add some flare to your home’s design.
Take Chances on Your Design Projects – Style Rules You Can Break
Apr 26th
Getting in a rut can be a tiresome ordeal. Doing the same things, the same way all the time is not good for your creative side. That is why changing up styles in your home can be such a liberating experience; it’s a chance to do something new. If you are thinking about changing the style in your home, be sure that you don’t just move from one rut to another.
A lot of people begin new home decorating projects very excited, but quickly lose that fervour. What happens to dull their passion? One setback may be a huge set of home decorating “rules.” When new designers begin to read up on different design ideas, they hear professional stylists telling them, “Do this, but never do this…” It can be enough to make anyone nip their own creative impulses in the bud. Here are a couple of the “rules of design” that you can feel free to break.
- Keep things symmetrical. This is nonsense. While a symmetrical room layout can be very inviting, it can also be very boring. Take chances with your design. Put things where you think they look best. Let your personality shine through. None of us are perfectly balanced people; so why should our rooms be perfectly balanced? Have a little fun!
- Stick with one theme. Consistency is a great thing, but you don’t have to be bogged down by the limitations of one style over another. Feel free to add a little funk to a traditional country look with a post-modern painting or sculpture. Keep things interesting.
There are plenty of other, hard and fast rules that you can break as a designer. Be sure that you know the rules well, before you break them. If you are breaking rules, just to be breaking them, you are likely to end up with a stylistic nightmare. You want to use the breaking of the rules to make a style statement not to cause people to be uncomfortable. Remember it’s OK to be a fashion outlaw sometimes, you might just surprise yourself.
Richness of Country Cottage Furniture
Dec 26th
One of the trends that is becoming increasingly popular today is country cottage style furniture. The reason that most people adore such a unique style is that it successfully blends the old with the new, the modern with a traditional style, to gives your home diversity and uniqueness.
Country Cottage Furniture
One of the characteristics of country cottage style furniture is that they are usually crafted from materials like birch, white pine and oak woods and can be white washed to bear somewhat of a vintage look. People who enjoy traditional pieces and vintage furniture will definitely love this style of interior design that makes the room more comfortable and inviting.
Beach Cottage Furniture
A subsequent type of country cottage furniture is beach cottage furniture. In essence, this type of cottage furniture is based on distressed wood that creates a soft look for the furniture. Moreover, it adds meaning to the entire house by creating a deep sense of personality and style.
Outdoor Cottage Furniture
Cottage style furniture can also be used in an outdoor setting. Outdoor cottage furniture can certainly lighten up any home, especially on a patio or veranda or even within a garden.
Country cottage furniture creates a unique style that originally came from French and English styles of furnishing. This type of furniture can be used creatively inside and outside of the house in order to create a setting that encompasses the past and present.
Home Furniture Styles with Personality
Nov 23rd
Decorating your home and choosing new furniture is all based on your personality. Modern furniture is what screams out individuality. When purchasing furniture to decorate a room, you want something that has an exceptional sense of unique style. Something practical, yet stylish. Furniture all depends on what type of theme you wish to incorporate into your room. It is supposed to bring out your personality and creativity. Furniture is more than just a fixture in a room, it can be very plain and simple, or it can have a dramatic design.
Today’s furniture fashion is categorized in major types of styles. Basically, there is the traditional look which is more a look of formal elegance. If you are an individual that loves the conservative look, than you most certainly want to stick with the same colours. Combining rich, dark wood finishes can add a lot of detail in your furniture. As for fabrics you admire there are brocade, and chintz. The traditional look is best for show rooms which are strictly used for taking photos. The type of wood used for this furniture is generally the most expensive type. The most expensive and formal types of wood that you would have to look for are anything along the lines of cherry, mahogany or oak. The type of style and cut of the furniture is the ancient Victorian look; which had generally first come out of England. As for fabrics, they usually tend to be patterns like jacquard.
Do you want a more laid-back type of furniture? If this is the case, you are basically looking for something that relates to your lifestyle and hobbies. For example, if you like sports, you would want a more comfortable, easy to clean type of fabric. For fabric you want to stick with very neutral colours such as beige and creams etc. Materials best suited for this would be suede and other soft materials. Using soft material will bring more warmth and coziness to your home. If you want to create a home theater atmosphere, focus on big leather sofas. You may also want to invest in recliner sofas. As a different style for the furniture, many find sofas’s that have material and wood incorporated together. If you notice that there are pieces of wood, try to match the same type of wood that is on the love seat with your coffee table, they will complement each other if you do so.
Finally, you have the modern look, meaning you are looking for furniture that will make a bold statement. Look for sharp direct clean styles. If you want a nice contemporary look, instead of having wood incorporated into your furniture go with steel, glass or chrome. This gives a different look and can also compliment the surroundings. When looking at fabric’s look for simple but classic bold colours such as blacks, gray’s and even whites. If you don’t prefer a cloth material due to the fact that it can get dirty faster and the colour can diminish, I suggest you go with leather, it’s the next best thing. However, commonly the modern look goes with the simple leather and microfiber styles.
-Theresa Sebastiano
