Posted May 16th, 2012
by Lilly Kibble
Own small living spaces is not a sad thing, but the condition can spur our creativity about how to organizing things under the house. One of difficult thing is organizing kitchen stuff. Kitchen pantry design, whether it to store foods, or other kitchen appliances, should be neat and perfect in organizing. Cool kitchen pantry design ideas below are about how to create cool pantry for small living space, so there are saving spaces for another function. Let’s review steps below from easiest solution (step 1, and step 2) until DIY kitchen pantry design (step 3):
1. Easiest and simplest way is use holders, drawer organizer, and basket, like built in spice rack at your kitchen pantry cabinet doors. T
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Tags: Kitchen Pantry, Spaces Posted in Home Design Tips
Posted May 14th, 2012
by Patrick Eldershaw
Once again, I see the spectre of age-rage happening around the blogosphere. Whats with all the lets-get-the-young-people-gardening angst and counter-angst?
It might help by starting with a quote from Marshall Macluhan to set the stage, Youth instinctively understands the present environment the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.
When you and I were young Maggie, we implicitly understood the nature of television and laughed at those who told us it would rot our minds and ruin civilization as we knew it (maybe as those radio folks knew it) When rock and roll burst onto the scene, the young implicitly understood the message, the old never did figure it out.
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Posted in Home Electricity Design
Posted May 7th, 2012
by Bethany Rolph
If there is one thing a design student should be familiar with, it is that feeling that if they dim the lights after your all-nighter you will nod off and fall out of your seat in class.
Student Matte Nyberg has a solution for your sleepy study breaks a basic chair in most regards, complete with wooden legs and seat cushion, but which stretches upward along one side to give you something soft to lean against.
Matte Nyberg is currently a Masters of Industrial Design Candidate at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Pre
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Posted in Home Design Reviews
Posted May 6th, 2012
by Lilly Kibble
I like bed side table lamp that you can hang on the wall. This lamp Duii mini is a collaboration of Italian clothing brand Diesel and lighting company Foscarini. Inspired by both: its namesake Disney character and a form of ‘the headlight of a classic car’, ‘Duii mini’ is available in two colors; bright yellow or dark grey and the design was presented earlier last month at the Temporary Museum For New Design in Superstudio Piu.
From the designer site: “The instant appeal aroused by Duii has now been transferred into a mini version, designed to be used on the bedside table but also on the wall; it is also flexible due to the free cable and easy to transport. The press
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Tags: Duii Mini, Foscarini Posted in Home Design Tips
Posted May 5th, 2012
by Patrick Eldershaw
Dutch designer Ka-Lai Chan has produced a limited edition of the SheLLf bookcase for Kristalia that will only be at Salone Internazionale del Mobile.
The title of Ka-Lais latest product is in fact a linguistic and conceptual amalgamation of ‘shell’ and ‘shelf’. Like a shell, it undulates from flatness to depth, creating a dynamic space. Made of separate compartments that are arranged in a gently increasing and decreasing way, it seems as if the shelf is crawling across the wall, literally growing out of the wall, like an animal crawling out of its shell.
The cabinet’s outside has a perfectly smooth, glossy black mirror-like textured surface. Inside, a
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Tags: Chan Posted in Home Electricity Design