More Penny Tiles

You liked the floor of the Standard enough that I have to do a follow up post...

Amanda pointed out this Apartment Therapy post with instruction on how to do it yourself. This particular floor used about $35 worth of pennies -- cheap from a materials point of view, if not for labor. Scroll down to a long comment by "teeze" for the how-to.

And Cheetah Velour sent this from the New York Times of a bar covered completely in pennies.

Surprises at CB2

I'm always surprised at the vintage industrial style pieces CB2 -- purveyor of extremely modern style -- offers. Their most recent catalog had a couple that piqued my fancy:

Gear Tealights, $6.95 each

Firefly Pendant Lamp, $199 (But only with Edison bulbs!)


Miner Side Table-Stool, $149
A bit too modern for my taste, but could be used to add some edge to a traditional room with a lot of wood and leather.


A bamboo model of the Chrysler Building in New York, $29.95
I love the idea of architectural models, but the bamboo seems to make this a bit too "light"--both in color and visual weight--for most of my rooms. I'm tempted to get this and spray paint it black.

Killer Robot Designs

Killer Robot Designs makes custom furniture and lighting from reclaimed materials.

The Cluster Bomb Hanging Light, assembled from 16 old lamp fixtures.

Coffee Table from Vintage Samsonite Luggage.

Faux Bookshelves

Love the "walls of books" look, but don't have enough books (or enough room) to pull it off? Here's a clever idea -- paper one or more of your library walls with bookshelf wallpaper.

The owner and designer (Lynda Gardner) says: these photos are from the library which was once a horrible tiny bedroom which barely fit a single bed……it now has a wall filled with real books alongside a wall of Deborah Bowness wallpaper,…this room also has a couple of leather 1930s chairs, a star light handed down as a family heirloom and a cow skin hide….a cosy place to sit opposite an open fire on the opposite wall.

This is from Design*Sponge, and I strongly recommend the entire post featuring the house of Lynda Gardner -- it is incredible in every way.

(quick tip: Do a google search for "bookcase wallpaper" "book wallpaper" and "bookshelf wallpaper" for lots of different styles and price points.)

Interior Design Ideas on Choosing and Arranging Office Furniture Tips

Once you've set up your office furniture, you'll want to monitor how well your home office Interior design ideas are working for you in actual practice. You home office design ideas may have seemed great, but when you go to set up your office at home you might find they really don't work well for you. A few adjustments now will save you grief later. Your work area needs to function efficiently so you can be more productive. Here are several tips on choosing and arranging office furniture:

Start bringing furniture into your office space with similar color of wall, floor and another room's decorations, It's best to start with the larger pieces first so you'll still have the maximum amount of floor space to move them around. As you set up your office and bring in furniture, dust and polish it as needed.

Maximize the space with special shape furniture, here is the sample, a simple home office furniture on the corner of the room.

Bring in your home office equipment and place it where it needs to go in the room. As you place each piece, check to see if it needs to be cleaned, oiled, or otherwise serviced, and that all cords are long enough to reach your outlets or power strips.

Bring in smaller furniture to complete the set up of your office at home, such as lamps, organizers and desktop items. If needed, clean or dust them as you place them in the room.

Etsy Finds: Airship Lamps

RiverOtterWidet is an etsy seller with some inspired lamps. They come with backstories on their use on the Royal Fleet's Airships (or submersibles...)

Glowing Liquid Airship Relic

Blue Airship Tracking Light

The squidbot lamp.

Home Office Design Ideas with Fresh and Unique Design for Workspaces

Create a statement in your office by adding unique interior design elements to the mix. Designing workspaces doesn’t have to be boring or all about practicality. Have fun and bring in fresh design ideas to create a home office ideas that welcomes people into your workspace.

If you've been wondering how to set up your office at home, keep in mind that to help make your home office set up go more smoothly, you'll want to be efficient. You may have all the home office design ideas in the world, but until you actually pull it all together you won't get much work done.

If at all practical, remove any existing furniture and plants from the room or space that you will set up as your home office. If you're converting a closet, remove all clothing and other items from the closet. This will help you start with a blank canvas that you'll fill in with your home office design ideas one step at a time.

If you need some remodeling done to accommodate your home office set up, the next step will be demolition to remove existing partitions, shelving, etc. that are not part of your new home office design ideas.
Install any electical, phone or cable outlets, cabinetry, shelving, and/or wall partitions on your plan - ideally while the space is already empty.

Thoroughly clean and paint, wallpaper, add floor coverings, hang light fixtures, etc. before bringing anything into the new space. Without furniture and equipment to get in your way, this step can be completed much more quickly and easily. However, while you don't want the furniture in the way at this stage of setting up your home office, you'll want to make sure you know exactly where your furniture and equipment will be placed in the room.

Child Development Lab

This is an awesome concept for a nursery -- the execution is a bit too modern for my taste, but I love all the science. Parents Paul and Pam Costa created it for their son Edison (!!).


Backlit lab galssware, exposed edison bulb, and a "formulaic" blackboard.

And a vintage Cray supercomputer for seating!

via Coochicoos

Copper Flooring

Can you tell what this floor is made of?



That's right. Pennies!

How awesome is that? This is the floor of the Standard Grill, in the Standard Hotel in New York. And why does it not surprise me that it's by my favorite designers in the world Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch at Roman and Williams?

via NotCot

Summer House Design, Antique Prefab Wooden House

Uncomprimising, original and respect for the landscape, these are the concept of this unique summer house, an antique prefab house with wooden material. Created and financed by Todd Saunders & Tommie Wilhelmsen, this prefab house bring the natural environment to the house.

Study in Black

Here's a striking black study, courtesy of Apartment Therapy and From House to Home UK. I'm surprised at how good the lighter colored woods look against the dark background. I also suspect that the great natural light is part of what keeps this from feeling oppresive.

Black (and other dark colors) are great choices for rooms that are glimpsed from other rooms -- the dark color draws the eye in, making the whole space look deeper and more layered.

DesignSpotter Creative Work on Lighting System

Lighting is an important system that can easily make the room beautiful, modern home decoration use vest way to make the room looks elegant, one of them by using a lighting system. Here are several collection of creative work from DesignSpotter on lighting system.

A spiral staircase with unusual balustrade. Glass Balusters with an inclined top allow for finger clearance and an ideal fixing point for the stainless steel handrail. The glass treads are supported by rolled interlocking stainless steel bracket welded to the pole.

Designer: Geoffrey Packer (United Kingdom)
Manufacturer: (United Kingdom)

orchid light is a feature pendant / table / floor standing light.
inspired by sensuous orchid flowers, each flower is hand dyed sometimes up to three different times, layering the colours in surprising and unexpected ways. Each light is made to order in 20% any colours you desire!

Designer: marc pascal (Australia)
Manufacturer: marc pascal - m2 products (Australia)
Inspired By: orchid flowers
Material: polycarbonate, stainless steel, Forton
Colours: made to order
Dimension: pendant aprox 110 x 850 x 850mm
Price: AUD 1400

Pile Light is a lamp shade made from polypropylene which utilizes a curved grid structure with identical pieces of polypropylene attached to each 'window'. Peering through the center of the light is quite extraordinary!

Designer: Christopher Tomoya James (Australia)

Pressed Ferns

When was the last time you've pressed plants? Me, that would be 7th grade. Here's a great "how-to" for botanical specimens my sister found on Design*Sponge that made me want to rectify that. The instructions are super easy -- and they would make a great gift. Used "aged" paper, like the example above, for the steampunk naturalist look.

Giorgia Modern Kitchen with Italian Architecture Style

Here are Giorgia kitchen with Italian Architecture style, the kitchens are used modern and minimalist design, Wenge and dull white laminate, The extraordinary designer hood, the bar handles and the lighting shelf with an aluminum edge give a gritty imprint to this wenge and dull white composition. Below the worktop, several large, deep and highly accessorized drawers are there to remind us that in Giorgia there's no beauty without functionality. Several of these modern kitchen were used for kitchen remodeling, here are the details:

Natural oak and wenge laminate, Color contrasts and plays of volumes are the distinctive features of this composition where the brightness of natural oak is enhanced by the mellow shade of wenge. The wall unit solution is extremely original, the "solid" effect created by dark doors and shelves alternates with the "empty" effect created by the light-colored back.

The wenge equipped columns are brightened up by the embedded ovens.

Glossy white and wenge laminate, glossy orange lacquered glass. In this extremely rigorous peninsula solution, the glossy white and wenge acquire personality thanks to the orange glass wall units. The magnificent hood made of steel and glass is a full-fledged design piece rather than just an appliance, contributing to the "essential-chic" look of the kitchen.

Anthracite and dull white laminate, The geometric perfection of the square and its multiples rules this anthracite and dull white composition. Its peculiar handle decorates the surface of the door. The square shape is also present in the two ovens embedded in the equipped columns and in the white wall units above the gray peninsula equipped with very useful baskets.

Glossy sand laminate, glossy anthracite lacquered glass, A refined sand color, blending wonderfully with anthracite grey, fills with light and reflections the minimalist geometry of this spectacular peninsula composition.

Feng Shui Mantra Bed with Canopy

A wonderful bed designed by Mauro Bertame' along Feng Shui principles. The base of the bed is very low (Feng Shui recommendation); and the canopy has soft round contours providing a warm embrace. It is covered in a special textile which mitigates the damaging effects of electromagnetic fields. Available in wenge and teak to fit a 160 x 200cm mattress, or in wenge to fit a 200 x 200cm mattress. Mattress not included. --stylehive--

Italian Curve-Style Modern Kitchen

Imagine your home custom fitted with fine Italian cabinetry, finished with the best accessories and beautifully designed to present and store your kitchen system with ease. Think how comfortable, relaxing and eloquent a new Pedini Kitchen environment, fitted with the best fixtures and appliances will feel at the end of your day. This is the Italian curve-style modern design for kitchen remodeling idea from stylehive:

The bulthaup b3 Minimalism Kitchen remodeling with Multi-functional Wall

This is bulthaup b3 kitchen remodeling, designed with minimalism and multi-functional wall, b3 is the diversity of its solutions and the superlative minimalism of its design. The spectrum includes solid and filigree shapes, floating elements and floor-standing blocks. The range of timeless surfaces stretches from aluminum and paint to the finest wood. The result is a wealth of combination options in which one element always perfectly matches another - a true sign of carefully thought-out design and engineering-inspired construction.

The bulthaup b3 multi-functional wall, for example, liberates it from the planning method dominated by the floor plan and becomes itself the determining factor in the room's architecture. The wall comes alive, both in terms of function and design, and can serve as an esthetic link, merging the kitchen and living area into a single entity.

only authentic materials of the finest quality are used. Their practical use and minimalist design accentuate their superiority. bulthaup b3 makes no secret of its careful manufacturing, evident in terms of both look and feel, for example, in the details of the edges, fronts and interior fittings.

source: www.bulthaup.com

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