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- 15 Best Autumn Decorating Tips and Ideas
- New Form of Indoor Art by Mike Stilkey : Book Painting
- Perfect Mattress for Kids : The Pebble Mattress
- Rubik Cube Locker, a Puzzling Furniture Item
- Practical and Easy to use 5 in 1 Outlet
- Contemporaneous Eco-Friendly Container Home in Chile
| 15 Best Autumn Decorating Tips and Ideas Posted: 21 Sep 2010 05:27 AM PDT The return of cooler temperatures, fall colors, and nature changing before our eyes is all the evidence we need that autumn is officially here. Adding autumn touches of décor to your home will help you transition into the new season with excitement of the passing of the year. From the exterior to the interior of your home, fall décor colors can be rich and robust or subtle and subdued. Choose your style and see how these 15 decorating tip and ideas will make you want to jump into a pile of leaves to celebrate autumn!
2.) Dining room table centerpieces/settings can welcome in fall: Depending on if you want to go formal or casual for your table, choose colors that reflect your home décor and the season. Consider using red and yellow apples for an informal organic and edible centerpiece. Remember, the centerpiece doesn't have to be stagnant, add or detract from it throughout the season for added visual interest. For more formality consider place settings and table linen that has hints of fall colors and themes. 3.) Dress up your front porch with fall inspiration: Use tall corn stalks, raffia, or straw to wrap around entry porch columns and mailboxes. Use thick colored ribbon in deep oranges and browns to contrast with the straw. Carry these same materials into lanyards or garlands around your front door and entry.  Source - Pottery Barn 4.) Use your fireplace to showcase seasonal décor: Your fireplace mantel has been waiting for this season! Whether you look in your yard, or you travel to an arts and crafts store, dried leaves and pine cones make great décor. Small pumpkins, gourds or dried leaf vines, and colorful candles will brighten your mantle and spirits. 5.) Cooler temperatures mean cozy sitting areas: As the temperatures begin to fall, bring out the fall colored throw blankets to place on couches or in adjacent baskets. Complimenting fall colored throw pillows will complete any cozy nook for you cuddle up and enjoy a good book. 6.) Bring the aromas of fall into your home: Fall decor can be visual but it also involve your other senses like smell. Pumpkin pies, cinnamon apple cider, and first burning of your fireplace are all welcome aromatic ways to make your home feel full of autumn inspiration. Consider using candles, incense, or boil a pot of spices – cinnamon sticks, cloves, and nutmeg to instantly transport your home into fall mode.
8.) Fill jars with seasonal colored items: For simple and inexpensive display items, fill mason jars or decorative glass jars with candy corn, or other colorful novelty items. Try filling various sizes with colorful dried beans, or healthy after school snacks for the kids. Décor can be functional and beautiful! 9.) Welcome guests with a beautiful autumn wreath at your front door: Simple grapevine wreaths are gorgeous on their own. If you prefer more adornment consider adding pine cones, leaves, berries and corn husks to your wreath. If you have a large home with many windows that face the entry of your home, consider placing matching wreaths hung from these windows as well.  Source - Pottery Barn 10.) Bring fall to the exterior of your home with light: Luminaries are not just for the winter holiday season, they are perfect for fall too as the sun starts to set earlier in the afternoon. Battery powered candles placed inside paper bags with sand in the bottom, makes perfect luminaries. For the traditional type, place candles inside bags and light individually at dusk. 11.) Change slipcovers over furniture for simple color change: Colorful slipcovers can quickly and inexpensively add color to any room. Slipcovers can be formal or casual depending on the weight of the fabric and color. Decide on which fits your décor, and consider formal dining room chair slipcovers, as well.
12.) Alternate accessories in individual rooms: Add fall colors to every room in your house by changing throw pillows, area rugs, bed and bath linen to fall colors that blend with your décor. Try grouping small pumpkins on a kitchen counter top to add instant color and fall inspiration to an ordinarily boring counter top.
14.) Plan fall activities with family: The fall is a great time to celebrate homecomings for school sports, attend sporting events and pick apples in orchards! Involve your family and enjoy the outdoors before the cold winter creeps up on us! 15.) Hang heavier drapery and curtains: Now that the cooler temperatures are settling in, prepare your home by switching out the lighter fabrics for heavier ones. Deeper colors and heavier fabrics will feel warmer and hold more air out of the room. Changing to fall shades to match your decor will bring instant color from floor to ceiling. Enjoy the fall with these 15 decor tips and ideas. Bring in warmth and enjoy your home before it is bustling with activity for the winter holiday! Freshome reader’s share with us your ideas on decorating for the fall. We’d love to hear them! Ready for more amazing design ideas? Check below !
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| New Form of Indoor Art by Mike Stilkey : Book Painting Posted: 21 Sep 2010 03:15 AM PDT Mike Stilkey, aka “the man who paints on books” is an artist from Los Angeles who “has always been attracted to painting and drawing not only on vintage paper, record covers and book pages, but on the books themselves”. With the help of paint, colored pencils, ink and lacquer, Mike manages to create interesting artful scenes which complement the books’ story lines. His works are usually based on unusual characters inspired by fairy tales and fiction writings. We decided to dedicate a Freshome post to this original artist, because we appreciate the originality of this painting-on-books idea and we consider his projects something that most people would like to have in their living room bookcases. However, in the case of the mosaic paintings (last three photos) we do not know if it is possible to read the books after the artwork is finished. Would you consider having such a painting in your home?
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| Perfect Mattress for Kids : The Pebble Mattress Posted: 21 Sep 2010 01:29 AM PDT The people from Nook Sleeping Systems chose a very cute name for this one of a kind mattress: the Pebble Mattress. Inspired by natural pebbles not only for the visual effect, but to keep air circulating on the surface, this gorgeous mattress will create a sleeping pattern that fosters sweet dreams while protecting the whole body from toxic microbes. Created for infants by an army of scientists, designers, social psychologists and parents, the Pebble mattress offers many features that don`t go unnoticed when it comes to a child`s health and well-being. The soft pebbles motif creates valleys for airflow and this layer can be taken off and thrown into the washing machine.But if you want, you can have a fitted crib sheet that goes beautifully with any crib. It seldom needs washing because it is made from stain, water and microbe resistant fibres. The exterior pebble fabric is made from temperature-regulating organic cotton.
Fire resistant organic wool sustains the healthy interior of the mattress and the natural latex core is filled with channels that improve the air circulating on a deeper layer while supporting the infant`s body. The form itself rapidly bounces back when weight is removed. This proves the reliability of the Pebble mattress once again. There is one more feature that raises interest: the Eucalyptus fibres used for drawing moisture away from the child`s body and ensuring a good, long, uneventful night`s sleep. Plus, the eco-friendly environmental impact of harvesting eucalyptus is the lowest of any other natural fibre – so it is safe to ask what better mattress is there for your child? Too bad they don`t make them for adults because I would be the first person to change my normal mattress with this incredibly gorgeous sleeping aid.
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| Rubik Cube Locker, a Puzzling Furniture Item Posted: 20 Sep 2010 02:28 PM PDT We are sure most of you imagined how it would be like to have a bunch of Rubik Cubes lying around your home. Here is your chance to see this idea turned into reality. This particular Rubik cube serves as a locker, as one of its sides opens up and lets the user store different objects inside. Its dimensions are 100x100x100 cm, not too big, just perfect for an atypical storing unit. We really like how this cube fits in a room and the playful feel it seems to give away. Another practical aspect is that the user can choose which colors to expose, in case his or her apartment has a certain color theme. Sure, it would have been even more puzzling to see a mixed-up cube, rather that a solved one, but this design idea is great nonetheless. The locker-cube is available here for the exorbitant price of 980 €.-via Decosfera
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| Practical and Easy to use 5 in 1 Outlet Posted: 20 Sep 2010 10:38 AM PDT It looks like a normal outlet but it holds enough power for 5 different appliances. Relogic has come up with this simple, one touch declutter system for outlets. With one simple push, the Letout Outlet transforms into 5 different outlets. There is no need to have cables all over the house or search for outlet multipliers when you need more than just one power source. The 4 outlets stay safely in the wall compartment until you need to have additional power. With only one push on the top, the Letout Outlet (great name, by the way) reveals the 4 other outlets that are ready to use. It saves time and energy, not to mention that it looks beautifully simple. This would be a great addition to any home so … how many Letout Outlets would you need? Ready for more amazing design ideas? Check below !
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| Contemporaneous Eco-Friendly Container Home in Chile Posted: 20 Sep 2010 09:46 AM PDT Infiniski Manifesto House is a beautiful project from Infiniski designers James&Mau (Jaime Gaztelu and Mauricio Galeano). Eco-friendly, made from reused and recycled materials, this modular architectonic beauty sits tall in Curacavi, Chile. The interior design and furniture was created by Comodo and different styles were mixed in order to achieve an elegant and modern interior. Manifesto`s exterior is made from wooden panels on one side and from recycled pallets on the other. The exterior panels describe a very important feature in all Infinski designs: eco-friendly sustainability. Being made out of wood coming from sustainable forests, the panelling had to be placed smartly so that air can circulate and cool down the entire house. The two floors are actually four containers mounted on top of each other. On the bottom floor, a large opened living area was created. Huge windows and sliding doors help to naturally ventilate the home. A nice addition is the porch`s folding screen that offers shade and comfort in the warm Chile weather. It only took 90 days to take this from an empty terrain to a modern, contemporaneous and ecologic home. On the 160 square meters rests a lot of hope for the future. Colours, textures and natural materials, combined with renewable energy sources used in more and more homes all over the world bring a better understanding of the surroundings. This home not only uses renewable energy but it can be constructed very fast and it doesn`t cost much. These characteristics are of extreme importance in a fast paced world where resources are dwindling. Ready for more amazing design ideas? Check below !
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