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• Friendly, Youthful and Fresh: Propaganda Hair Salon in Texas
• Interview: Adding Color to Ikea Furniture with Mykea
• Bold Fully Automated and Eco-Friendly Hotel Design: HI-MATIC[Video]
• Repurposed Furniture Collection: “Not So Fragile” by UXUS
• Interesting Design Elements and Rental Features: Nowhere but Sajima House
• Exquisite Interior Design Within a 12th Century Oil Mill
• SHANGHAI Extendible Glass Table by Tonin CASA

Friendly, Youthful and Fresh: Propaganda Hair Salon in Texas Posted: 02 Jun 2011 06:01 AM PDT Propaganda Hair Salon was designed by Becky Jeanes from Dick Clark Architecture and is located Austin, Texas. The place has a very youthful feel and looks quite inviting. Here is a description from the designers:  “Walnut cabinets along the outer walls consolidate varying programmatic needs into one continuous design element and delineate individual spaces within the open plan.  Reception, retail display, makeup artist, stylist stations, color technicians, dressing rooms and smock closet all integrate into the language of the cabinets as they transform through the space. The shampoo area, implied by a dropped wood ceiling and sheer curtains, provides a serene environment remote from the activity of the stylist area.  Auxiliary spaces – break room, restrooms, and office – appear as tall white volumes to create gallery-like walls for photographic display.  Below an open ceiling and exposed building systems, a textured spine connects the two entrances and highlights the open plan with a dramatic perspective“. We really appreciate the friendly and open atmosphere this unusual hair salon inspires and are looking forward to your opinions on this project. Ready for more amazing design ideas? Check below ! Hair Chair Designed by Baron & Baron Black Box with Strong Graphic Images in White Lines : Sin Den Interesting White Building : Shiro by 1980/Takuya Hosokai + Hiromasa Mori Mixture of Eastern and Western Traditions : Texas Hill Road Residence Keep Your Stinky Shoes Fresh with Shumidor Eco Friendly Furniture – PLI Click here to connect with Freshome on or on

Interview: Adding Color to Ikea Furniture with Mykea Posted: 02 Jun 2011 04:21 AM PDT Mykea is a company which redesigns Ikea furniture by adding fun and vivid decals. We challenged the team to a short interview about their line of work and we were surprised to see how promptly they responded. Enjoy these fun Ikea furniture conversions as well as the answers from Mykea below: Freshome: How did you come up with the idea for a company that customizes Ikea furniture? Mykea: How we came up with the idea is probably how it usually goes, by experiencing something and not finding the answer (or in our case, the product). Most of the people we know have been to an Ikea store and have had the pleasure of assembling their furniture. So did we when we were furnishing our new office. After a long day of shopping and putting the furniture pieces together we looked around our new office and found out we only had two colours; white and black. Someone said, there is something missing. Its like we are in an Ikea store. Can we not get some cool graphics and apply them onto our interior and make it a bit more 'us'. This is how our idea started. We got online to see if we could find a website for Ikea decals, we couldn't find anything like it. We sat down to discussed if we should start a website ourselves to customize Ikea furniture with graphic decals. Looking at the online possibilities and supply of customized products we came across a lot of websites who work together with artist that create designs for Iphones, laptops or t-shirts. Designs made for well known and well sold products to let you, as a consumer, stand out from the crowd. We thought everybody knows Ikea, and a lot of people have Ikea furniture in their interior. But don't we just love and hate Ikea at the same time. We like the well-designed and affordable aspect of Ikea but we don't like the fact that we see the same interior everywhere around us. Maybe we can, with our designs and website, make people proud again about their Ikea furniture! Freshome: When did you start your business and where do you see yourselves 5 years from now? Mykea: Around 6 months ago we launched a test site to get a first reaction and impression on what visitors thought of our concept. The reactions came form all over the world and where very positive. 5 weeks ago we launched our new site. We've added more furniture pieces and everyday there are new designs coming in. We developed a new graphic vinyl, together with Avery Denison, witch is very easy to apply a can be removed without leaving marks. At the moment we're having our first skype calls with a very cool US company to cooperate on design and to manufacture the Mykea products in the USA. So where we are within 5 years we don't know yet! Who knows, we may work together with Ikea… How would you characterize your work in thee words? Mykea: No Naked Furniture! Freshome: Please describe the process of converting an Ikea furniture piece from the moment you buy it (how do you choose what furniture to purchase?) until the moment you sell it forward. Mykea: We have selected the most sold and well-known Ikea furniture pieces. Ikea self calls these pieces their most important furniture (source ikea.com 2010). We measured these furniture pieces and created a special designers kit. Artist and designers can download the kit from our website to create designs that will fit Ikea furniture to the millimetre. On Mykea you can select the furniture piece you have at home or office and explore the designs created by our artist to redesign your Ikea interior.  Mykea designs are printed on demand and will be shipped to your home address in 5 till 7 working days. Freshome: How does your target respond to your designs? Mykea: We've had great responses to our designs. We are constantly working on a good mix of easygoing and more high-end designs. We are getting questions from visitors who like our design but don't have Ikea if we can make the design available as a wall graphic. So we will shortly add designs witch are also available as a wall decal. Freshome: How many members does your team have? Please describe the work atmosphere at your office in a few words. Mykea: The work we do at our office is great. All the wall are decorated with designs and if you enter the front door be aware not the trip over any Ikea furniture. Working together with a creative team of designers, web developers, project managers and of course our international artists is great. The best thing is that we work locally with our close team and very international with our developers and artist. This gives an extra global fibe to our office and work. Freshome: What is your favorite Ikea customized design so far? Mykea: The amplifier design by LouLou & Tummie! Giving some retro DJ feel to your standard Expedit bookcase and turn it into a more of a design object. For us it's about making fun and unique designs available for the crowd. We'll have the Amplifier soon available as a unique Wall Designs as well. Freshome: Anything else you would like the world to know about Mykea ? Do tell us witch Ikea furniture you'd like to see customized! And if you're interested in Mykea please send us an email at info@thisismykea.com     Ready for more amazing design ideas? Check below ! IKEA Spring 2008 Catalog Ikea Organizes Furniture Swap Ikea Employe Job Test Ikea Started Selling Second Hand Furniture Online IKEA Assembly Service Ads by Grabarz & Partner Ikea Catalogue 2010 is Now Online Click here to connect with Freshome on or on

Bold Fully Automated and Eco-Friendly Hotel Design: HI-MATIC[Video] Posted: 02 Jun 2011 03:16 AM PDT The HI-Matic Hotel in Paris, designed by Matali Crasset, greets the travellers with a colourful mix of bold design and eco-friendly service. This hotel strives to be a new type of travel-friendly concept, “mixing codes of an urban hotel and country side bed and breakfast, with strong ecological values.” Each of the 42 rooms of the hotel offer a discrete and functional space that cares for any need: “the room in HIMATIC uses the codes of a cabana: functional yet fun, triggering childhood memories. The platform bed with a shape memory mattress is in the centre of the room to maximize its space using it as a large sofa during the day and in the evening enjoying a good night's sleep.” Besides being fully automated, the hotel located in the Bastille area is also environmentally friendly. The facade is covered in mineral organic paint, the restaurant menu includes only organic products, they only use recycled paper and recycle waste, they use ecological cleaning products and even the staff’s t-shirts are made out of organic cotton. Next time you visit Paris, you should check out the HI-MATIC Hotel. Ready for more amazing design ideas? Check below ! Exquisite W Hotel in New York by BBG-BBGM The Worlds Most Inspiring and Creative Hotel Rooms The Cube Condo Hotel Incredible Everland Hotel in Paris with Front Row Seats to Eiffel Tower Frame Bar: Flowing Bands For Exclusive Interiors Brad Pitt to Design a Luxury Eco-friendly Hotel in Dubai Click here to connect with Freshome on or on

Repurposed Furniture Collection: “Not So Fragile” by UXUS Posted: 02 Jun 2011 01:51 AM PDT “Not So Fragile” is a unique furniture collection designed by UXUS featuring recycled furniture wrapped in neon orange packing tape. Here is a statement from the designers: “By subverting the use of ordinary objects and assumed perceptions of beauty, our orientation of what is expected for those things begins to acquire a poetic quality. The commonplace transcends its origins, becoming evocative and engaging in the unexpected circumstances of misplaced use. Not So Fragile is a one-of-a-kind repurposed furniture collection composed in neon orange packing tape, taking on a new life and shedding expected perceptions to become evocative furniture elements. This is furniture for the post materialist, a collection that is at once unique, sustainable and iconic.” Do you have any repurposed furniture items you would like the world to see? Ready for more amazing design ideas? Check below ! Buddhism-Inspired Furniture by Tangle Creations Colorful and Creative Multi-Use Furniture Collection: Hybrid by allê Garden Furniture: Emu’s Ivy Collection Bendo Collection – Minimal Furniture Fresh Furniture Collection Combining Elegance and Creativity Sports Furniture, a Solution for a Small Gym in Your Home Click here to connect with Freshome on or on

Interesting Design Elements and Rental Features: Nowhere but Sajima House Posted: 02 Jun 2011 12:13 AM PDT The Nowhere but Sajima House has proven to be an outstanding modern vacation home for its inhabitants. Located approximately 1 hour away from Tokyo, in a small fishing village, the vacation house designed by Japanese architect Yasutaka Yoshimura brings fresh architectural inspiration for those in need of new ideas. Offering extensive views of Mount Fuji and the Enoshima peninsula, the Nowhere but Sajima House mimics an urban setting at a perfect distance from the crowded city. This offers the opportunity of enjoying a week or a weekend away from urban developments for different tenants. The house is perfect for different activities, from relaxing after a stressful period to parties and even weddings. Its architecture allows the tenants to explore a triangular structure with tube-like spaces that can easily adapt to any need. Although the house faces other buildings across the water, the main openings that serve as frames for the view were designed to only capture the extraordinary water panoramas, thus making curtains or other view-obstructing elements obsolete. How would you feel if you had the chance of renting such a spectacular house?   Ready for more amazing design ideas? Check below ! Designs for Rent : 5 Tips for Decorating your Rental Fashionable Home in Denver, A Showcase of Luxury And Style Life Off-Shore: House on the Water Modern Home in Bainbridge Island with Sustainable Features: Ellice Residence Impeccable Design and Architecture: Sotogrande House, by A-Cero Architects Impressive Architecture Project: House -=+ by Less Is More Design Click here to connect with Freshome on or on

Exquisite Interior Design Within a 12th Century Oil Mill Posted: 01 Jun 2011 10:04 AM PDT Located in Extramadura, a community of western Spain, this amazing building was first constructed by the Jerónimo monks in the 12th century and later became an oil mill. Due to its historic value, its original architecture was kept intact. In order to rehabilitate the building and transform it into a proper living space, the current owners transmitted their request to architect Ricardo Elizondo, who reinvented the space, after almost two decades of utter neglect. Found on Nuevo Estilo, this fabulous crib characterized by austere lines and natural materials is bold and dramatic, making it a perfect home for lovers of genuine experiences. Colorful materials give the place an inviting touch, while iron and steel elements make an intriguing contrast with the old brick walls. Vintage furniture is aesthetically mixed with modern wooden items and paintings liven the heavy atmosphere. We absolutely love seeing old buildings having kept their architecture in such a creative manner, don’t you? Ready for more amazing design ideas? Check below ! Exquisite W Hotel in New York by BBG-BBGM Jessica Helgerson Remodelling a Modern Ranch Interior Design Patterns from Hand Impressive Apartment in Stockholm Bringing Together Old and New Modern Interior Design by Reese-Roberts Interior Design Fail Click here to connect with Freshome on or on

SHANGHAI Extendible Glass Table by Tonin CASA Posted: 01 Jun 2011 08:33 AM PDT An extendible table is a must-have these days, when space is more and more of an issue. SHANGHAI is one of the most eye-catching pieces of "inspired by nature" furniture collection designed by the Italian architect Angelo Tomaiuolo: an extensible table with central aluminum guide bar, tempered glass top and extensions. According to the producers at Tonin CASA, the base is characterized by the sensuousness of its sculptural shapes, suitable for those who appreciate a fine and ageless design. Easy to expand and then bring back to its original dimensions, you are looking at a product that is not only elegant, but stunningly practical. Moreover, its minimalist design can be integrated within various contemporary arrangements. The table is available in different finishes and colours. For impressions or suggestions, don’t hesitate to leave your comments below. Ready for more amazing design ideas? Check below ! Sleek, Modern and Contemporary Plasma TV Stands Hello Kitty House in Shanghai Casa Gutierrez in El Salvador by P&P Architects Ghostly Feet Tables Grizzly Bear Table Charming Modern Residence in Concrete and Glass Click here to connect with Freshome on or on

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