Urban Romance in Bedroom Design
Romance style’s sophisticated sister, “Urban Romance” captures the romantic design spirit, but in an updated minimalistic classic-modern form. Pinks, blues, lavenders and other “feminine” colors are replaced with black, white, silver and grays. Patterns are restrained, never over-powering. Attention to detail is critical – whether it’s the button-tufted Caviar Chair by Bailey Street or the [...]
Design Trends 2009 – Home Décor Trends Sneak Peek
Design trends for 2009 are diverse, interesting and eclectic. There is a design style trend for everyone – Parisian Apartment, Safari Chic, Globally Inspired and so many more. We can’t wait to share them all with you. Today we offer a sneak peek at four of the many design trends that will be covered in-depth [...]
Modern Design Bathroom Vanities – Design Trend Luxury Baths
Bathroom design trends are all headed in the same direction: modern art inspired, and well-edited. No room for fluff or the extraneous. The lines are sleek – in some cases reproducing the look of modern sculpture. The details are strong yet restrained, as shown in the “X” motif legs of Porcelanosa’s Blank vanity (above left). [...]
Organic Baby Nursery Style – The Nursery Issue 2008
Soothing, comforting and organic by design and color. Simple geometric patterns, a neutral color palette and natural materials create a nursery that is serene and balanced. Inhabit Axis Stretched Wall Print ($70) – inhabitliving.com Paper Cloud Sunflower Pendant Lamp($185)-paper-cloud.com Luca Glider by Monte Design( $900) – montedesign.net. Campaign Crib by DucDuc ($1700)-ducducnyc.com NettoCollection Loft Changing [...]
What’s Hot in the Nursery Design Industry – The Nursery Issue 2008
Nursery and specialty baby furniture retailers are buzzing about: Nursery Furniture and Décor retailers were abuzz when presented with the modern chic Madison Sky Empire rocker/glider and ottoman in shades of the very popular and very NOW blue and brown palette. Chair from $1,210. Ottoman is $360. (AngelSong.net). Casa Kids Ola Collection Brazilian hardwood multi-purpose [...]
What's Hot in the Nursery Design Industry – The Nursery Issue 2008
Nursery and specialty baby furniture retailers are buzzing about: Nursery Furniture and Décor retailers were abuzz when presented with the modern chic Madison Sky Empire rocker/glider and ottoman in shades of the very popular and very NOW blue and brown palette. Chair from $1,210. Ottoman is $360. (AngelSong.net). Casa Kids Ola Collection Brazilian hardwood multi-purpose [...]
Eco-Friendly Convertible Baby Cribs – The Nursery Issue 2008
The Green Design movement has unleashed a desire among environmentally-aware expectant parents for more than the status quo furniture for baby and home. Savvy parents now look for furniture that grows with baby and works hard. Baby cribs with changing stations are a start but what’s really hot in today’s baby furniture industry are cribs [...]
Elegant Princess Baby Nursery – The Nursery Issue 2008
The ultimate fairy-tale princess nursery comes to life in beautiful pastels, shimmering crystals, comfortable cottons, and whimsical artwork and area rugs. This nursery style is a design mix of shabby chic and modern traditional with uncluttered lines, patterns and rich elegance. Bunny Topiary Art – doodlefish.com Art for Kids Furniture Cherubini Crib in Versailles Crème [...]
Modern Baby Nursery Furniture & Decor – The Nursery Issue 2008
Contemporary baby furniture and nursery decor is hot, hot, hot in 2008 and the trend is showing strong for 2009 and beyond. Expectant parents who love modern and contemporary style décor and furniture can now extend their personal design style to their baby’s nursery. Oeuf classic Mini Library(Birch) for nursery and children’s room – Oeuf.com [...]
Modern Baby Nursery Furniture & Decor – The Nursery Issue 2008
Contemporary baby furniture and nursery decor is hot, hot, hot in 2008 and the trend is showing strong for 2009 and beyond. Expectant parents who love modern and contemporary style décor and furniture can now extend their personal design style to their baby’s nursery. Oeuf classic Mini Library(Birch) for nursery and children’s room – Oeuf.com [...]
6 Nursery Design Trends for 2008-2009 – The Nursery Issue 2008
Nursery furniture continues to undergo a major design transformation from the days of Victorian styled cribs, and the use of traditional design. Today contemporary and modern styled furniture is quickly over taking the nursery design market as more and more parents purchase baby furniture that reflects their own modern style preferences. For the remainder of [...]
Contemporary Nursery Changing Tables – The Nursery Issue 2008
Changing diapers will be a (big) part of your daily life as a new parent, so why not make change look really good? We found these gorgeous, functional hip and modern design style baby changing tables that will make baby’s next diaper change a more pleasant task. LOFT Nursery Changing Table – OneStopModern.com Casa Kids [...]
Organically Chic Interior Decor and Furniture
Palecek Open Cane Leather Club Chair ($2200) is a visually light chair with a subtle feminine feel. The Bungalow 5 mod design with leave cutouts buffet ($2100), is another visually light eco-friendly furniture that proves that eco-decor can be chic and stylish. A personal favorite, Tracy Glover Studio Globe Floor Lamp ($708), illustrates the beauty [...]
High-end Outdoor Living Design Trend
The backyard is no longer just a place to grill some hamburgers and hotdogs on holidays and weekends. Now it’s all about living outdoors as you would indoors. With the introduction of high-end outdoor living furniture like all-weather beds, outdoor plasma flat screen televisions, luxury grilling kitchens and outdoor showers – the outdoors has become [...]
Hot Bedding Trends 2009
Luxury linen design trends for 2008/2009 encompass: a wide range of styles from chic, tailored contemporary designs to rich, opulent traditional styles; a varied range of colors from crisp whites to spa-blues to bright orange hues; a diverse set of global influences with ethnic design styles borrowed from Mexico, China, Morocco and India. The only [...]
Real Simple Design On A Dime Housing Works 2008 – Exclusive Photos
The Real Simple Design on a Dime benefit for Housing Works was a success. Raising $650,000 for the New York charity Housing Works that “strives to ensure that homeless and low-income people living with HIV/AIDS and their families have adequate housing, food, social support, drug treatment, health care, and employment.” – from housingworks.org. Thanks to [...]
Chaise Lounge Chairs Outdoor Luxury Seating
Chaise lounge chairs are ideal for a variety of outdoor living areas: terraces, poolside, patio, beachside, and garden. The chaise lounge derived from the French “chaise longue” meaning long chair has a rich history, think back to images of Romans and Greeks laying leisurely upon an early version of the chaise lounge. This multi-purpose chair [...]
Outdoor Rugs Design Trend 2008
Terraza, an outdoor and indoor rug from The Rug Market, illustrates the bold, bright earth inspired colors and patterns. Koko Company Green Classic outdoor mat gives traditional design a twist with a lime green color that is unmistakably modern. Also from Koko Company, a new addition to their quirky, colorful and interesting rug collection, the [...]
Organic Sophistication
Who said Green Design has to be ugly? Perhaps a true statement five years ago, but today eco-decor is chic and sophisticated. The Morocco and Tangiers linen pillows from Bliss Living Home are available online at blisshomeliving.com. The Dunemere Chaise by Martha Stewart for Bernhardt debuted at last fall’s home design shows and is not [...]
Home Decor Trends 2008
The top 10 design trends for 2008 are: 1. Home Design Style with a Conscience – it’s all about eco-friendly design, products and implementation – focus on organic, natural, recycled and re-purposed products. In the past eco-friendly or Green design could be summed up in three words: ugly, dowdy and boring. That isn’t the case [...]
Bathroom Design Trends – Sinks
NEW Read our 2009 Bathroom Design Trends – What’s Hot Now. Sinks – Bathroom Design Trends continues below: Before you swipe your credit card for that glorious glass over-the-top sink think about this…bathroom designers are predicting that contemporary artsy sinks are on the way out.I’ve got the latest information on what’s “in” and what’s on [...]
Decorating 2007 Forecast from Design Maven Lynda Reeves
The Vancouver Sun reports that Lynda Reeves, president of House and Home Media, which publishes Canadian House & Home magazine, has forecasted the following home decorating trends for 2007 (Color 2007 report link follows below): Canadiana: It’s all about the Martha Sturdy resin bowl, the reclaimed maple coffee table from Roots Home Design and, from [...]
Miami Beach Home Show Trends 2007
Traditional and transitional decor were a rarity at the Miami Beach Home Show. Contemporary design inspiration was found at many of the vendors – one particularly strong theme was the modern re-interpretation of traditional seaside design. Modern clean colors such as turquoise, aqua, coral, bright yellow, light green and fuschia pinks were the standouts – [...]
Miami Beach Home & Accessories Show
My staff and I will be attending the January Miami Beach Home Show this week and we will bring you back lots of colorful design and product photos – that will capture the upcoming trends for Spring and Summer 2007. Stay tuned!
Miami Beach Home & Accessories Show
My staff and I will be attending the January Miami Beach Home Show this week and we will bring you back lots of colorful design and product photos – that will capture the upcoming trends for Spring and Summer 2007. Stay tuned!
