Fun and colorful room designed by Krista Salmon for her girl Lou

I’m sure you all remember your childhood. I personally have lots of nice memories from that period. Still, there is something that I wish I had back then: my own room. Well, it’s too late to wish for that now so let’s take a look at someone who has it and be happy for that kid. This is a very room that was designed by Krista Salmon of Kiki’s List for her little girl Lou.

This is Lou big girl room. It’s very beautiful and fun, even though the colors are not as vibrant and dynamic as I would have imagined. Still, this doesn’t make it less fun or charming. In fact, the colors have been very well chosen and they result in a very inviting and lovely décor. I really like the pastel tones of turquoise and red. The ceiling has been painted with red stripes and it has a very beautiful chandelier. The room are pale blue and the whole room is very bright and fresh. I also like the curtains. The little red ribbons are very cute and they go really good with the rest of the colors.

Lou is very lucky to have a mom that has such talent. But this is not everything it takes. You can also com up with a lovely design for your kid’s room. Just use your imagination and don’t forget to also involve the children in the decision-making process. It’s a family fun project and everyone can contribute.

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The Donut table lamp

A lamp is usually a great accessory. It’s both useful and it makes a beautiful decoration. Since the practical aspect is so easy to be taken care of, the designers now tend to focus more of the actual shape and design of the lamp. This is the Donut lamp. The name is a little misleading. I would have expected to see something more fun and creative but I can’t say I was disappointed when I saw this lamp.

The Donut lamp features a curvy and elegant shape. It has a certain id-century modern look mostly because of the shape and the color. It’s a modern metal sculpted lamp with a compact shape. It has a metal base with a cut-out round hole that resembles a donut and was probably the element that imposed the name.

The overall dimensions of the Donut table lamp are 25.5”h / shade: 18” diam x 11.5”h. The metal base has a satin brass finish. The large white drum shade is the perfect shape to complete this look. The lamp has a 3-way switch and uses one 150w type A bulb. It also includes an 8’ long cord. The same model is also available with a silver base. It’s a beautiful accessory that would make a great addition to any desk, table, living room, bedroom, office etc. the Donut table lamp costs $385.

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Very Flat Folding Table by Lodovico Bernaradi

The “table” project by Lodovico Bernaradi is a very clever and useful item for those people who often invite guests and make a table for them. This table presents itself as a very flat folding table which could become an ideal extension of the main table. It consists of only one panel of plywood with a simple cut and some holes. It even could become the main dining table by itself if you haven’t one. In a matter of seconds you could set it up as indoor as outdoor. When the dining table is folded, it occupies so little space that you easy will find a place to store it. If you want more information about this flat folding table then you could find it on Lodovico Bernaradi site.

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Black and white housing complex by Holgaard Arkitekter

The black and white combination is timeless. It’s always been beautiful and elegant and it will always be and that applies to just about everything, especially interior design. This is an interior design of an industrial building located in Copenhagen. It was a project by Danish firm Holgaard Arkitekter. They were asked to redesign and refurbish this place in order to turn it into a housing complex.

They had to build a new glass façade framed in bronze aluminum and to change the interior as well. He building which once was the A-House has then been transformed into STAY. It’s a complex that offers a couple of hundred apartments with great interior décor and beautiful views. The building also provides shops, commercial spaces but mainly service apartments.

These are apartments that are fully furnished and attached to hotel facilities such as cleaning, laundry, breakfast and fitness center that can be rented for a day, a month or a year, depending on the client’s needs and interests.

The new construction features a very beautiful black and white interior. I especially like it because it’s also including tones of gray and it makes you feel like in an old movie. With the renovation and refurbishment, the building now has a unique character. It’s modern but it still retains some of the old features and this gives it a unique look.

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Hugh Newell Jacobsen house in Pittsburg

Lou and Amy Weiss, a couple from Pittsburg, always dreamed to have a Hugh Newell Jacobsen house. The couple has been admiring the architect’s work for years and they really wanted to someday have one of their own. Still, they couldn’t afford it. So they started to do research in their own. They consulted a series of plans presented by a magazine and then paid $550 for the plans of Washington, D.C.-based Mr. Jacobsen. Then the couple hired a local architect to customize the house to their needs.

Their new residence was finished last December and the couple paid about $700,000. It’s a four-bedroom house that sits on four acres of land. It’s larger than the plans but this doesn’t bother them at all. Mr. Jacobsen even said that the hours turned out unusually well but that’s because the client’s followed the plans and didn’t make changes he wouldn’t have approved.

The couple can now say that they finally have their dream home. The house has white walls and no drapes. The walls and the ceilings have no moldings. The furniture is modern and simple and the decorations include paintings of barns and houses by Mr. Weiss’s father which are actually very close to Mr. Jacobsen’s architecture. Even though they followed the plans, the couple also made some changes. They expanded the house in order to gain some more space and they made the house more sustainable.{found on wsj}

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Seating Furniture Combined With Plants – En-Gi by Mono Goen

En-Gi is the latest line of mono°goen° products which consists of different seating furniture objects combined with living plants. Each plant grows. perpetually changing the look of the furniture. Each piece is also based on a concept, or a story, if you will, created by art director Chie Morimoto. In case you like cool and fun furniture, the new line would be definitely interesting for you.

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Eco Friendly Children Playground Design Concept by You Song Young

It is a good sense to care for the future and start it from the children, after all they are the bearer of future, right? And it all start from playing, and it is not surprising that the result will be manifested in attitude and behavior later on when the child reach the stage of life to make his/her own decision, especially in regard to the future of the environment we live in. the main idea is materialized through an experimental learning playground, which advocates kids to recognize the significance of global resources and realize the possibilities of renewable energy through a series of eco-friendly play apparatus such as the Benjamin Franklin’s kite, a solar-powered optical illusion, a pinwheel cycle which illuminates a traffic sign, a seesaw which turns a waterwheel, a pinhole camera, a videophone periscope, a pedal-powered radio and an airplane flying in the air. Designers : You Song Young, Jin Soo Yeon, Ahn Ho Sang, and Lee Sung Jae

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Emily Dupen-Hopkins Interview: Beautifully Burlesque

If the thought of adorning your living room walls with black-and-white wallpaper depicting 1940s-style women doing household chores in stockings and suspenders – or serving a traditional British tea topless – doesn’t appeal, then look away now.
The wallpaper is the creation of Emily Dupen-Hopkins, who has designed what she calls a “cheeky” collection of not only wallpaper but also cushions, ceramics, wall tiles and lampshades, all embedded with a strong retro feel that hearkens back to a more innocent era.
Dupenny, the company she launched in 2009, doesn’t seek to offend. In fact, it has only one mission, according to the 29-year-old designer from Brighton in southern England: “to make the world smile”.
“Most of my inspiration comes from retro and cheeky retro things,” says Dupen-Hopkins, who studied illustration as an undergraduate at Brighton University.
“I especially like the old illustrations Gil Elvgren, an illustrator from the 40s and 50s who did ladies with their skirts caught in things and stuff like that. He has been quite inspiring to me. I just love the cheekiness, really.”
Alternate Career Path
Dupen-Hopkins didn’t always dream of becoming a burlesque illustrator. In fact, she originally studied music at college but then lost most of her hearing in both ears, and so had to take a different career path.
“I started going deaf when I was 18, and over the next four years my hearing deteriorated more and more,” she recalls. “I think it was the result of listening to too much loud music. There was a club I went to that was really loud, that sort of triggered it off.
“I used to do a lot of singing and unfortunately I found that I couldn’t play anymore, so I had to change direction. I thought about doing illustration but I didn’t really know what it was, as it was a new course. But as art was my second love after music, I sort of fell back on that.
“I switched on the recommendation of a teacher, and I took my teacher’s advice, although I didn’t know when I was letting myself in for. It just all went on from there.”
In her final year at university Dupen-Hopkins “finally” got a cochlear implant and miraculously could hear almost normally again. But by that point she had decided to continue in the field of illustration, and it was all uphill from there.
“I support myself doing it, just about. At the moment everything that is coming in is being spent on building up the business even more, and it has been moving quickly. There is always more to do to grow the business – but it is definitely getting there and moving forward.”
Call Me…
One of Dupen-Hopkins’ most popular products is her Call Girls wallpaper, which she describes as “one of our naughtiest designs to date”. It actually started life as a university project celebrating the anniversary of the traditional red English phone box (booth).
The idea to do the wallpaper came to her when she was visiting the neighborhood of Soho in central London, which is not the most wholesome of areas. “I used a phone box and the inside was covered from head to toe in call girl fliers. I thought, ‘Oooh, I could do something with that!’” she recalls.
After looking at the wallpaper that was currently on the market, she realized there was a “huge gap” as virtually all the wallpaper was boringly traditional. “Even the modern stuff was based on floral patterns,” she says. “So I thought, ‘Why not do something with the call girl fliers, so that you can hang them on your wall at home?’”
The result: Call Girl wallpaper in black and pink, depicting fliers advertising the women’s services with green sticker stars you can stick over the rude bits. “Elegant Mature Busty Blonde” says one; “Spanking by Angry Miss,” reads another.
Other cheeky wallpaper designs, which are digitally printed but can also be hand-screened, include her Burlesque Wallpaper design with traditional black-and-white burlesque characters; Housewives Wallpaper depicting women vacuuming, ironing, putting food in the oven, hanging up clothes and performing other simple household tasks in suggestive poses, and Time for Tea, which shows topless women holding pies, cakes and teapots in front of their bosoms.
What kinds of people buy the wallpaper? “Mainly women, or women buying for ladies,” says Dupen-Hopkins. “That said, often men buy the Call Girls line for their bathrooms.
“The Burlesque one is cute and definitely geared for women. They put it in their kitchens or bathrooms, although some people will even line drawers and wardrobes with it, it shows up in sneaky places you don’t expect.”
Less suggestive imagery includes the English Garden wallpaper; Circus! Circus! with childlike circus figures; Splash! featuring synchronized swimmers, and Geometric Wallpaper in either color or black –and-white.
Ceramics and Tiles
While wallpaper is Dupen-Hopkins most popular product, she has started branching out into other lines of homeware as well, such as lampshades and ceramic plates and mugs. She is planning soon to launch her own line of wall tiles.
“We are trying to find other ways to get into more interior decorating,” she explains. “Tiles are quite a big thing at the moment; they are making a comeback so we are doing a range of those at the moment.
“We plan to have the same types of designs but adapted with a different girl on each tile, for example, maybe they could order a picnic range to get all the different characters.
“We are still having a play around with them at the moment, but they are coming soon, probably in the New Year.” Other homeware products include cushions, lampshades and upholstered antique chairs.
Design with a Conscience
Dupenny’s products are described as having a “fun design with a conscience”, and all are hand-made in Britain using traditional printing and manufacturing techniques. Dupen-Hopkins strives to use sustainable products “as much as possible”, which includes the packaging.
It appears to be a recipe that’s working: Dupenny has received numerous awards since its launch, including the Shell Livewire Grand Ideas Award in May, 2009 and the 100% Design Bursary Award in September, 2009. It was also short-listed for the Elle Decoration British Design Awards that same month.
And in case you’re wondering if the designs are a bit sexist, worry no more. “We are going to move on to do some men at some point, some gentlemen with moustaches in particular, so we can start taking the mick out of them,” Dupen-Hopkins says. “I get asked quite a lot when we are going to put men in our wallpaper and other designs, so they’re definitely on the list.”

Images: Dupenny
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Alex Levin is a writer for Granite Transformations,  a green remodeling company that advances sustainable construction practices by finding new ways to reduce waste and recycle such as using broken Skyy vodka bottles to make countertops.

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Modern Japanese House by Studio SKLIM

Studio SKLIM created in Nagoya, Japan a modern house with modern techniques.It is made out of timber from a renewable source, a building material which has the strongest wheight to strenght ratio coupled with steel bracketing to reduce movements during earthquaqes, a very common thing in Japan.

This modern structure  contrasts highly :the interior with the exterior.If from the outside the building looks futuristic and out of the box on the inside is really warm and welcoming.Shiny wooden floors,white plain walls, big windows make from this household a nice livable place .Dark wooden panneling on the walls also create an intimate working and living place, as we can see here.A major importance was given to the interior decoration.

From walls to book shelfs, from kitchen appliances to tables and chairs, from comfortable couches to lighting system, everything was carefully chosen to be part of a wonderfull clean interior design.We all know that the Asians follow some rules derived from nature regarding design and decoration also building.

Thereby the exterior design of this home may look a little strange but it is indeed a combination of modern looks with functionality.Looking from the street straight to it almost an optical illusion is created,like upstairs is an empty room with a window in the back and no wall towards the street.As I was saying, this is a representation of modern looks and clearly defined rules about living standards.{found on archdaily}

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Contemporary Raw Stone & Wood House – Casa Nordelta

This house is designed with outside and inside integration in mind. It’s located in Buenos Aires, Argentina so the weather isn’t complication in that. Its exterior incorporates only natural materials like stone and wood and consists of bearing walls and steel columns that allow greater openness to the garden. The load-bearing walls are made in stone, providing greater insulation and waterproof. The house is oriented north to catch beautiful lake views with floor-to-ceiling windows. The house’s shape is two blocks connected with entrance. The house features as public areas as private spaces as for adults as for their kids. Private areas are separated in order to give family members an autonomy. Sternberg Kohen Architects

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