Creating children's bedroom, we need to keep the nature, naughtiness and color choice of children which is a perfect place for all their fun and frolic, we also need to create a kids corner to make them relax, learn, play as well as enjoy. Don't forget to complete another facilities like bed, almirah, study table, chair, pen racks, etc. This colorful kids corner is perfect for all kids and is completely reliable as well as cost effective. This picture is taken from www.bofurs.com.
Kids Bedroom Furniture, for Your Smart Children
Creating children's bedroom, we need to keep the nature, naughtiness and color choice of children which is a perfect place for all their fun and frolic, we also need to create a kids corner to make them relax, learn, play as well as enjoy. Don't forget to complete another facilities like bed, almirah, study table, chair, pen racks, etc. This colorful kids corner is perfect for all kids and is completely reliable as well as cost effective. This picture is taken from www.bofurs.com.
Minimalist Kids Bedroom
We need just small space to create our kid's bedroom, but ideally, rooms would be cool funky (so the kids like them), good quality and affordable (so you like them), and preferably keeping with the style of decorating in rest of the house (so they don't look like a preteen tackatorium).Children doesn't like to had a large bedroom, they were more likely to play in outdoor room, so, if we had just a small unused space, we can use it for creating children bedroom. This picture is taken from www.hgtv.ca, see another room design there!
Wall Design for Baby Bedroom
Baby bedroom is dominated by bright color such as pink color, with another wall design pink colored, the room will more attractive, commonly, the most important thing to create a baby bedroom, is the hanging toys, and another toys located around the room. We can place several baby dolls or sweety pinky hanging lamps.
This super hip baby girl wall paper border is done in a fun pink "scribbles" print. This unique baby wallpaper border measures 9" wide and is prepasted. This unique baby border is sold in 15 foot spools and is unique for your baby bedroom. This scribbly pink baby wallpaper border will help to bring together your baby bedding and your baby girl bedroom decor!
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Bradbury Building -- Steampunk or Cyberpunk?
All the Bladerunner references in the recent Jake von Slatt interview reminded me of this link I had tucked away for just such an occasion. The Bradbury Building in LA was the set for J.F. Sebastian's home in Bladerunner, and even though Bladerunner is seminal cyberpunk, there's some definite post-apocalyptic Victorian industrial style here.
The Bradbury (almost certainly, but not conclusively proven) designed by George H. Wyman, reputedly based on a science-fiction novel set in the year 2010, was built towards the end of the 19th century.
So what do you think? Steampunk or Cyberpunk?
Credits: Images and history from BRMovie.com. Found in a steampunk context on MovieGeekette. Jake von Slatt interview found via BrassGoggles.
Lingfield Garage Door
This Lingfield garage door are manufactured by Hormann, This door used Hormann Retractable Framed style, refers to a door with fully retractable operating mechanism and a steel fixing sub frame. The frame is factory fitted and has to be fixed to the garage structure.The overall dimensions of the garage door with the frame are the ordering width plus 140mm overall and height plus 57mm.
Here are the complete descriptions:
Manufacturer: Hormann
Door Type: Up and over
Style: Retractable Framed
Width: 7'0"
Height: 7'0"
Normal retail price £1190 plus VAT
The Carteck sectional door for Your Garage
Designing garage must consider several thing, the important thing is the size of the garage, the other thing is the security of the garage, using special door for the garage is one solution to make our garage save. One of garage door design is provided by The Carteck. The Carteck sectional door like most of the very latest sectional doors on the market can be installed behind or inbetween the structural opening of the garage.
Here are the features of the door:
Benefits
- Maximizes drive through width and height of garage opening available.
- Easier to install without the inbetween installation kit and cladding to legs and possibly head of frame.
- More secure as attack and lever points are behind the structural opening not exposed.
- Keeps the installation as insulated as possible as the side and head frame are only single skin steel.
- Could make garage slightly shorter for vehicle if replacing a garage door fitted inbetween the opening.
- Could expose rough brickwork, stonework or blockwork previously covered by a timber frame.
- Can look odd if your brickwork returns are very deep. Also beware of twin garages where the central pier is not the same depth as the corner piers!
Swimming Pool Design with Landscaping
Bring the sense of elegance to our home with elegant swimming pool with landscaping design. Choose the right material for the wall, decoration, and the floor, we can also use natural stone or brick paving to bring the sense of natural home. This picture is taken from www.contemporarylandscapes.com.au
The garden design responds to views out from the new garden room and extends the living space outdoors by means of a granite terrace adjacent to the building and a timber deck in a remote sunny corner. To creating garden design, we can also use a granite bench, and natural stone for the wall, brick paving for the floor, and other ornament to make the garden comfort. I take this picture from www.edinburgharchitecture.co.uk, by City Design Co-operative.Landscaping Design, a new lease on life!
Gardening design is one of an important thing to in creating a comfortable house, suitable landscape in the behind of our house will bring a positive sense for our family. So we can also bring the natural image into our house. Reducing in gardening maintenance is important, so we just maintaining our gardening occasionally. That's why, we should choose suitable material to create our landscape with minimal maintenance. Usually, we can use some brick paving and choose the plants or flower with minimal wasted leaves. This design is taken from Contemporary Landscapes, Contemporary Landscapes is a WA owned and operated business established since 1996. They pride on their innovative garden designs, hard working attitude and quality customer service. They can do anything outdoors for your home or commercial property. Visit www.contemporarylandscapes.com.au to see more informations.
An Antique Home Design
This striking house is one of unique house, it is designed by Norman Jaffe with angled style. The house is a series of wedges with tilted roofs that allow for massive expanses of glass walls. Details of the home include a copper roof, stone and cedar paneling and a wedge-shaped pool with waterfall and whirlpool spa, it seems that this house is not using commonly wall, because almost all the wall using a glass material, so it will not need lighting anymore. 
How to make small space looks more wider
Small space of our house will looks more wider if we can design as smart as possible, in this picture, the room is not large enough, but it's look larger. The most important thing to design or doing a house remodeling your minimalist room is the choice of the room color. Use calm and bright color to make the room more details, so we can use small space in every corner of our room. The second thing is the size of the windows, use large windows to let the natural light entering our room. The third thing is the choice of our furniture and decorations. Choose a special shape sofa for reducing the complexity of the room, we can also choose the small multifunction table so we can replace it easily. If you like to reading a book, don't worry, we can also creating small space above the window to safe the books.Library in a staircase
We love libraries, don't we? Ben just pointed out this library in a stairwell from Apartment Therapy (with the comment "we should do this"). Not stylistically steampunk, but it has the library appeal and the secret spaces appeal, so I deemed it blog-worthy.
Personal Living Room Design
For small family, some times we need a personal living room, for watching movies or home theater room. We can start by choosing our favorite color for the wall, lighting, floor and another furniture or decorations, second, use big sofa and small table. Some times if we feel so tired, we can also sleep in this sofa. This design is taken from www.mavianodesigns.com, visit www.mavianodesigns.com to see more details.
Waiting room design for hospital
In several hospital in my country, Indonesia, almost all hospital waiting room used white color to make the room looks clean and bright, Why don't we try to use another color?, maybe it's not commonly, to use another style, but nowadays, there are several choice for designing another color for hospital waiting room, we can use such as blue floor or simple lighting, so, it's not make us bored anymore. This design is taken from www.jupiterimages.com, visit this to see more informations.
Completed Waiting Room for Small Office
Some times, if our office have several guests came in the same times, we need special room for the guests for waiting. In order to build the room, we need considering how large our office and the number of another room, and can the room used for another functions?, for customer care office, use large waiting room, but for personal office, use just small waiting room. the most important thing to build this waiting room is the decorations of the room, "Don't make the guests feel uncomfortable!!". This completed waiting room design is taken from www.mavianodesigns.com, designed by Deanna Guzzi.
Renovated Living Room
Bring your living room to life!, By renovating ugly room to make the room looks comfort and entertaining. Use right choice for the floor, by natural such as wooden style, use also some beautiful silk fabrics, elegant oriental rugs and the last, suitable wall color with the floor and furnitures. This design is a beautiful renovated living room and dining room in Riverside, Illinois. Designed by Suzanne Maviano, see more details about this design at www.mavianodesigns.com
eBay find: drafting stool
eBay currently has a great maple and iron drafting stool listed.
Starting at $175, or buy it now for $225, its a bit more expensive than the CB2 version for $129, but this one has tons more style.
Thrifting Steampunk Style
I've had a couple of comments recently about budgets and the cost of many of the wonderful hand crafted items that show up on this blog.... While I don't think anyone wants me to stop featuring the wonderful, horrendously expensive works, I do want to make steampunk style available to the rest of us. I've not been adverse to featuring things from Ikea or Target, but the best source for steampunk goodies for the person with more time than money is your friendly neighborhood thrift shop. Although I know my born and bred cheapness doesn't always come through in my writing, I shop thrift stores on a weekly basis and have found a lot of wonderful furniture, accessories, and project materialsAbove is a child's wrought iron table that I *didn't* get for the steampunklet and have been kicking myself for ever since. It was $20. Below is a Spanish Gothic looking table I spotted at a local Salvation Army store. The Edison Bar had one just like it tucked into a corner. I didn't need a table, so I passed, but it was a lot of style for just $165. (Looking again, I see that the table is extremely similar to the one in the Minimalist Steampunk post.)
To the left is a gear teal light holder -- my sister scored 8 of these for me for Christmas at a small town junk shop for $1/each. I'm working on converting them from a very chrome bicycle finish to a more brass steampunk finish.The point to all this is to show that it can be done -- with persistence and a good eye you can find all sorts of neat things for your steampunk home, without blowing a budget.
Goodies for making things. Nothing was over $3. The box on the right became my mad scientist lamp.p.s. While it would be fun to feature thrifted goodies that you, dear reader, have discovered, I think that might be a bit too frustrating to everyone else to see too many one of the kind, unreplicable finds. If you are interested, though, feel free to post them to the (new!) Steampunk Home flickr group.
Digital Art Painting for Wall Design
Don't be afraid to use a digital art painting for wall design, why?, the first reason is, it's not too difficult to create an artistic picture with computer design, and the second reason is, it's not too difficult to print the design using modern printer, so just try to use this design. This design is taken from www.crystal-fox.com, who also provided another art painting and other artistic material for your wall design.www.crystal-fox.com
Large Natural Wallpaper for Wall Design
Sometimes we confused to design and choosing the color for our wall. In order to match with the floor and other furniture, we can also using large wallpaper or artistic paintings to make the room more comfortable. This interior office design is taken from www.metlin.org, you can see another wall design by visiting their website.
Small ceiling fixture on eBay
Remember Gary and his Steampunk Sink Alcove? I just got an email from him showing off his newest creation, a ceiling lamp fixture, and letting me know he's selling a second one on eBay.
Brass, copper, wood, glass, crazy wiring -- it has a definite mad scientist appeal.
Wide Roof for Wide Room
Log home design is an alternative way to build a strong building, designing wide roof will need much material, for strong roof design, this design is the most suitable for extraordinary great room, we can use a full-log roof, A full-log roof system is something to behold. In addition to bringing strength and character to a structure, it also defines the overall aesthetic of both the interior and exterior roof lines. This design was taken from www.nevilog.com. See their site to get order and getting more information.Strength and Beauty with Log Roof Systems
This sample is one of several perfect roof design from www.nevilog.com, based on two basic design of modern home architect and traditional home style, a log home design can give us a strong home architect. They design and build many interior roof design. Both the dramatic form and design of this room would not be possible without the use of these logs. The logs completely define both the structure and overall aesthetic of this home. By using special wood and junction system, the roof not only strong but beautiful. So we can feel warm and comfort, this design also suitable for tropic country and and one of several anti-earthquake home design.Drydock
A reader identified only as Introspect Services pointed this out to me today.
A house? A boat? The last remnants of a once powerful empire? Your guess is as good as mine.
It's from tredowski at CGSociety.com.
A house? A boat? The last remnants of a once powerful empire? Your guess is as good as mine.
It's from tredowski at CGSociety.com.
European Traditional House in Japan
Nowadays, it's so difficult to search an ancient home design in the middle town as Hyogo - Japan. One of several ancient house is The Yamamura House. The Yamamura House, situated on a ridge overlooking the affluent city of Ashiya, was designed in 1918 by Frank Lloyd Wright as a retreat for the family of a local sake brewer, Tazaemon Yamamura. Construction began in 1923 and was completed in 1924 under the direction of two of Wright's disciples, Arata Endo and Makoto Minami. In 1974 the Yamamura House was designated an Important National Cultural Asset. It was later opened to the public under its new name, the Yodoko Guest House.
The Japanese rooms, guest rooms, and bathrooms are located on the third floor and accessed by a short flight of stairs. The long entry corridor connecting these rooms is enclosed by floor to ceiling windows on the west exterior wall. In the afternoon natural light streams into the corridor, casting delicate shadows of leaf-like patterns across the floor through decorative copper window plates. This same motif is repeated on other windows, doors, and door transoms throughout the house, blurring the distinction between exterior and interior.
Maximalist Steampunk: Roger Wood's Studio, redux
And just in case I horrified you yesterday with my minimalist and decluttering posts, here's some images of Roger Wood's -- the original steampunk magpie -- Klockwerks studio. (just for you mouthful...)
The above is from a flickr set by Cory Doctorow, documenting Roger's studio. The below is one of a group from flickr user Studio-Eleven.
You can't have steampunk both ways, but you can have it your way.
Earlier posts on Klockwerks:
Roger Wood's Studio
The Klockwerks Newsletter
Best Bungalow Style
What is Bungalow? When you see a cozy one storied dwelling, with low-pitched roof and very wide eaves, lots of windows and an outside chimney of cobble or clinker-brick half hidden by clinging vines -- that is a bungalow, whatever other houses may be.
Today's bungalows continue a living, eclectic design tradition. Wall sconces, art glass and stenciled decoration highlight the original beauty of architectural features like wainscoting, box-beam ceilings, and wide wood moldings around the fireplace.
The palette is muted: quiet greens, creams and mustard enhance natural wood, stone, terra cotta and brick. Natural light and the treatment of the garden as an "exterior room" link indoor and outdoor space. Craft is made visible in mortise-and-tenon furniture, hand-hammered copper fixtures, built-in benches and bookcases.
Here are the description of the design:
- Walls: wainscoting, stenciling, muted cream, yellow, sage. Fieldstone, brick.
- Ceilings: beams, log accents.
- Floors: wood, tile or stone.
- Cabinets: built-in shelves or hutches; details like mullioned doors, beveled glass. (Bungalows in California tend to use redwood, while Midwestern and east coast Craftsman houses use more oak.)
- Fireplace: stone or brick with wide wood molding on the sides, a mantel above, a beveled glass mirror. Decorative tile around the edges. An over mantel rustic landscape or scenic tiles.
- Furniture: built-in benches, breakfast nooks. Mahogany with mortise-and-tenon and peg construction, inlaid tiles, green marble.
- Lighting: Craftsman lights on either side of mantel. Prairie style lamps with leaded glass panels, brass base. Simple hanging globe fixtures in inglenook. Hand-hammered copper candlesticks.
- Windows: Lots of windows for natural light; many-paned windows, particularly large lower panes and small upper panes; stained glass with Arts and Crafts designs.
Best Basement Design
A basement need not look like a basement…A basement is usually used only for vehicle parking or for store another goods, but by designing as well as possible, we can maximize the function of the basement, with sufficient lighting, decorations and locating another vital room such as bathroom or toilet. Usually, basement's floor are designed simplify, we can change the floor with color and surface matched with the wall. The picture was taken from www.southamdesign.com
Best Bathroom Design
If we want to create a sleek, contemporary, clean lined bathroom that would leave a lasting impression. We need to provide sufficient space with large window and near the bedroom. We can transform the guest room adjacent to the master bedroom.Creating a subtle division between the two by allowing for a large 45” wide barn door as the separation between the two rooms. Maximize the size of the existing window by doubled to allow for a large amount of light to penetrate the space. This is my best home design for bathroom I ever known.
Strong geometry was key to this space. The floating lacquer vanity is framed by a 3” thick asymmetrical concrete counter. A 48” rectangular, 2 person sink is balanced by the floating 48 x 48 medicine cabinets made of walnut. In order to create the unconventional while maintaining the functional, the cabinet storage is accessed by side pull-outs - his and her. The elevation is completed by the addition of 3 walnut niches above the toilet.
The tub deck/shower enclosure also creates a strong statement. The tub deck, made of concrete supports the ‘vessel’ tub, which sits 4” above the deck. For the moments of contemplations we added a recessed plasma tv above the tub for viewing pleasure. The bold statement made by the grey-toned polished concrete is balance by the cream, polished 12x24 tiles in the shower.
Of course in an open concept design well thought out storage is a necessity. We designed a floor to ceiling, wall to wall storage unit consisting of 15x15 walnut, flat panel doors. We rotated each panel a quarter turn to create a basket weave grain design. A small detail with large impact. Functionally, the base cabinet of this unit houses a large laundry pull-out that can be accessed by the adjacent laundry room!
A perfect example of a design where the sum of the parts create the whole - Asymmetrical in nature while creating a perfect balance. The design was taken from www.southamdesign.com, visit the web and order it.
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(This is the first of a irregular series where I share my decidedly amateur wisdom on how to decorate a home in the hope of helping you move from ideas and inspiration to execution. I call it The Steampunk Home Primer. More shortly.)
Whether you subscribe to the minimalist approach or not, if you have too much stuff, it’s hard to do things that make your home beautiful – it’s hard to rearrange furniture, to paint the walls, or to install flooring. I also believe that a cluttered home weighs on your mind and adds stress to your life. Your home should be a retreat, and oasis of tranquility for you and your family. Having clear tabletops for eating and working on projects, open expanses of floor for kids to run through without tripping over anything, drawers and shelves in which you can find the things you know you have – all of this makes your life calmer and more in control. (But enough of my soap box…)
I learned about clutter “management” from Flylady, an online housekeeping coach. She has a book, a website, and a mailing list. The mailing list was the kick in the rear end that I needed to learn routines to keep my house in order – 20 or more emails a day, reminders and motivators and positive toned “lectures” that taught me habits of thought and activity that I still use, years after unsubscribing, to keep my house in order. If you are overwhelmed with clutter, this is where to start. If you just need a little bit of help, buy the book, browse the website, or try some of the ideas below.
One of the Flylady techniques is a “21 fling boogie.” Despite the silly name, it’s a great technique for making progress on cleaning up a room with minimum pain or commitment. Here’s how it works: Grab a trashbag and walk around a room, with a goal of grabbing 21 things to throw away. When you’re done with that, do it again with a goal of finding 21 things to give away. That’s it – you’re done. Do it again tomorrow, and the next day, etc, and eventually your room is clear enough that it becomes easy.
Another technique is to identify your “hotspots” – areas that collect clutter on a regular basis – and clean them up daily to keep them from getting out of control.
Another good source for decluttering advice is It’s All Too Much by Peter Walsh. Here’s two good tricks:
1) If you really love something, then you should honor it by giving it the space and prominence it deserves in your house. A shelf with three carefully edited knick-knacks shows them off better than one filled to overflowing with ten.
2) Figure out how much space you have for something, and declutter down to that space. Example: let’s say you have a lot of DVDs, and a 3 foot shelf dedicated to their storage. Measure how many dvds will fit into a foot space, multiply by 3, and you have your target quantity of DVDs to get to. Go through your DVDs, deciding if each is special enough to merit space on your shelf. When you get down to 3 feet’s worth, you are done. If you buy another DVD, make room for it by getting rid of one. (This method also works well for clothes in closets.)
The best filter I have, however, is “If you do not know something to be useful or believe it to be beautiful, get rid of it.”
One of the most important insights I’ve learned is that clutter often represents unfinished work – or unfinished projects. Because you see the potential in something, it’s hard to get rid of it. Since steampunk has such a strong “do it yourself” component, this is becoming a problem for me, and maybe for you. The best advice I can give for this is to designate specific spaces for this sort of material, and not to let it exceed its space. (My “in progress” steampunk material currently lives in a laundry basket in the garage, for instance.)
Unsolicited advice, just in case you want to embrace minimalist steampunk, or just need help getting started on your home.
(This is the first of a irregular series where I share my decidedly amateur wisdom on how to decorate a home in the hope of helping you move from ideas and inspiration to execution. I call it The Steampunk Home Primer. More shortly.)
Whether you subscribe to the minimalist approach or not, if you have too much stuff, it’s hard to do things that make your home beautiful – it’s hard to rearrange furniture, to paint the walls, or to install flooring. I also believe that a cluttered home weighs on your mind and adds stress to your life. Your home should be a retreat, and oasis of tranquility for you and your family. Having clear tabletops for eating and working on projects, open expanses of floor for kids to run through without tripping over anything, drawers and shelves in which you can find the things you know you have – all of this makes your life calmer and more in control. (But enough of my soap box…)
I learned about clutter “management” from Flylady, an online housekeeping coach. She has a book, a website, and a mailing list. The mailing list was the kick in the rear end that I needed to learn routines to keep my house in order – 20 or more emails a day, reminders and motivators and positive toned “lectures” that taught me habits of thought and activity that I still use, years after unsubscribing, to keep my house in order. If you are overwhelmed with clutter, this is where to start. If you just need a little bit of help, buy the book, browse the website, or try some of the ideas below.
One of the Flylady techniques is a “21 fling boogie.” Despite the silly name, it’s a great technique for making progress on cleaning up a room with minimum pain or commitment. Here’s how it works: Grab a trashbag and walk around a room, with a goal of grabbing 21 things to throw away. When you’re done with that, do it again with a goal of finding 21 things to give away. That’s it – you’re done. Do it again tomorrow, and the next day, etc, and eventually your room is clear enough that it becomes easy.
Another technique is to identify your “hotspots” – areas that collect clutter on a regular basis – and clean them up daily to keep them from getting out of control.
Another good source for decluttering advice is It’s All Too Much by Peter Walsh. Here’s two good tricks:
1) If you really love something, then you should honor it by giving it the space and prominence it deserves in your house. A shelf with three carefully edited knick-knacks shows them off better than one filled to overflowing with ten.
2) Figure out how much space you have for something, and declutter down to that space. Example: let’s say you have a lot of DVDs, and a 3 foot shelf dedicated to their storage. Measure how many dvds will fit into a foot space, multiply by 3, and you have your target quantity of DVDs to get to. Go through your DVDs, deciding if each is special enough to merit space on your shelf. When you get down to 3 feet’s worth, you are done. If you buy another DVD, make room for it by getting rid of one. (This method also works well for clothes in closets.)
The best filter I have, however, is “If you do not know something to be useful or believe it to be beautiful, get rid of it.”
One of the most important insights I’ve learned is that clutter often represents unfinished work – or unfinished projects. Because you see the potential in something, it’s hard to get rid of it. Since steampunk has such a strong “do it yourself” component, this is becoming a problem for me, and maybe for you. The best advice I can give for this is to designate specific spaces for this sort of material, and not to let it exceed its space. (My “in progress” steampunk material currently lives in a laundry basket in the garage, for instance.)
Unsolicited advice, just in case you want to embrace minimalist steampunk, or just need help getting started on your home.
Minimalist Steampunk?
There's a design style called minimalism that is based on an the philosophy of removing extraneous things -- too many objects, colors, details -- in order to have a calm and simple house where everything is well thought out and carefully placed -- or removed.
To a certain extent I agree with it -- I do believe that less is more, and better is better -- that you should focus on winnowing out the things that don't bring you pleasure every time you look at them, and be willing to slowly build a home that reflects your style and values, without all the extraneous goods pushed on us by the relentless pressures of our consumer society.
So the question is: Can you have a minimalist steampunk home?
I ran across this old Anderson Windows ad yesterday, shortly after reading Zen Habit's Guide to Creating a Minimalist Home, which started me down this road.
It's a pretty minimalistic steampunk (with a lean towards the Gothic) room. It's obviously designed to show off the window (lovely, indeed), but I think there's a lesson here as to what works. Small amounts of beautiful furniture, sparse accent pieces, along with "good bones" like the window can evoke a style without having to go overboard.
While ruminating on this, I was reminded of this picture of Jake Von Slatt's monitor & keyboard -- the pieces of craftsmanship are left mostly alone to garner attention.
Then I was reminded of Mr. Watter's Steampunk Dorm Room, which manages to do a lot with very little.
The styles that steampunk inherits from are generally not minimal, but the wonderful artwork and objects that are being created in the steampunk style deserve to be highlighted, on their own -- imagine a Klockwerks clock sitting in the center of the mantel, with not much else around it; a mad scientist light alone on a side table, garnering admiring glances and comments from guests; a Datamancer keyboard sitting on a clean desk, bringing you pleasure every time you use it or look at it.
So what do you think? Is minimalist steampunk a possibility or an intrinsic oxymoron?
To a certain extent I agree with it -- I do believe that less is more, and better is better -- that you should focus on winnowing out the things that don't bring you pleasure every time you look at them, and be willing to slowly build a home that reflects your style and values, without all the extraneous goods pushed on us by the relentless pressures of our consumer society.
So the question is: Can you have a minimalist steampunk home?
I ran across this old Anderson Windows ad yesterday, shortly after reading Zen Habit's Guide to Creating a Minimalist Home, which started me down this road.
It's a pretty minimalistic steampunk (with a lean towards the Gothic) room. It's obviously designed to show off the window (lovely, indeed), but I think there's a lesson here as to what works. Small amounts of beautiful furniture, sparse accent pieces, along with "good bones" like the window can evoke a style without having to go overboard.
While ruminating on this, I was reminded of this picture of Jake Von Slatt's monitor & keyboard -- the pieces of craftsmanship are left mostly alone to garner attention.
Then I was reminded of Mr. Watter's Steampunk Dorm Room, which manages to do a lot with very little.
The styles that steampunk inherits from are generally not minimal, but the wonderful artwork and objects that are being created in the steampunk style deserve to be highlighted, on their own -- imagine a Klockwerks clock sitting in the center of the mantel, with not much else around it; a mad scientist light alone on a side table, garnering admiring glances and comments from guests; a Datamancer keyboard sitting on a clean desk, bringing you pleasure every time you use it or look at it.
So what do you think? Is minimalist steampunk a possibility or an intrinsic oxymoron?
Minimalist Kitchen
Creating a minimalist kitchen are like designing other minimalist rooms, we can use small space in all corner of the kitchen to place small furniture or other cooking tools. Maximize the wall to place cabinet for placing small cooking tools, glassware, plate, spoon, etc. We can also maximize the lower space of the table by locating cabinet to place vegetables, or other ingredients.
The Benefits of Minimalist Design
There are a lot of benefits in house remodeling to design a minimalist room design, here are several of them:- Less stressful.Clutter is a form of visual distraction, and everything in our vision pulls at our attention at least a little. The less clutter, the less visual stress we have. A minimalist home is calming.
- More appealing. Think about photos of homes that are cluttered, and photos of minimalist homes. The ones with almost nothing in them except some beautiful furniture, some nice artwork, and a very few pretty decorations, are the ones that appeal to most of us. You can make your home more appealing by making it more minimalist.
- Easier to clean. It’s hard to clean a whole bunch of objects, or to sweep or vacuum around a bunch of furniture. The more stuff you have, the more you have to keep clean, and the more complicated it is to clean around the stuff. Think about how easy it is to clean an empty room compared to one with 50 objects in it. That’s an extreme example, of course, as I wouldn’t recommend you have an empty room, but it’s just to illustrate the difference.
Wine accoutrements for the Steampunk
A collection of objects from all over that would suit your steampunk bar or wine cellar.
More things for the tabletop.
Tell me what you think -- none of this objects would have made the cut for a post on their own, but together I thought they might be interesting enough. If you like it -- or hated it -- let me know in the comment. Thanks!
Wine Settler - impractical yes, but when did that ever stop the desire for a gadget?
Beaker Glass Decanter -- every mad scientist needs something to serve his or her potions in
Globe Wine Server -- Wines of the world, for the steampunk with an explorer bent
Globe Wine Server -- Wines of the world, for the steampunk with an explorer bentMore things for the tabletop.
Tell me what you think -- none of this objects would have made the cut for a post on their own, but together I thought they might be interesting enough. If you like it -- or hated it -- let me know in the comment. Thanks!
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