2014年11月24日星期一

9 Tips of Bedroom Decoration to Make You a Good Sleep

Among all function space of the home, bedroom needs more attention of us. Busy life makes us stressful and staying up late. Despite we all know the importance of good rest, there still are many people sleep deprivation. Try to decorate your bedroom with some tips to get a better sleep.
1.       Create a space for rest and decompression. As a private space, bedroom should be a harbor of the busy life. Bedroom is not a space for working, eating or watching TV. We would like to build it as a warm harbor.

2.       Think as a baby. We got the inspiration from the hotel. Fluffy duvet, flowing white curtains and neat bedding are necessary. Taking several minutes to make the bed in the morning means we can have a nice sleep at night.

3.       Relax all your organs. We surely want to relax ourselves after a day work. A cup of water with some mint or pieces of lemon will help a lot. In addition, bedding of your favorite texture is necessary. As I see, some lavender incense will be conducive to relax and sleep. Of course, the favor what you love most is the best choice.

4.       Choose a heart-stirring painting which you can see in first sight when you wake up. And you can surely place a big mirror for spatial expansion. Decorate flowers on the bedside table and take some time to put away the dirty clothes to make a neat bedroom. If you have some difficulty to fall asleep, you can listen to some soft music.

5.       Refuse distraction. Make the bedroom keep away from those high-Tec products. TV, phone and computer interfere with sleep greatly. Try to replace them with books and watch whether our sleep condition will be improved.

6.       Change color hue. If your bedroom has always kept in the same color, you can have some changes. Some colors will make you calm and relax. For example, blue and green will keep you in calm; fresh white and lemon yellow will arouse the vitality.

7.       Redesign the hallway and cabinet door. If your sliding cabinet door is not attractive enough and the hallway is not spacious enough, you can replace them with curtains. As curtains take a little space and is soft enough. You will have more choices about the texture and color. It’s easy to take a change. But it will make a big change of overall.

8.       Thorough cleanup. Clear out the needless things from the bedroom. Giving them to charity or placing them in storage room both are good choices. Only leave your favorite things in bedroom, keeping it clear and concise.


9.       Create an atmosphere of holiday. You can add some small elements to make your bedroom a resort. Decorate differently according to different places you want to go. For instance, paste a world map on the wall; put a few books of restoring; use restored lamp and print some postcards of different places you want to go. Thus you can travel without stepping out the door. 

2014年11月3日星期一

Small Apartment Design in Lisbon

This five floors apartment is located in Lisbon close to the Prince Garden, covering an area of 41 m2, designed by Camarim Arquitectos.

This small apartment uses the light steel structure framework. Owning to the narrow space, every floor is designed as the single function space connected with the wood stairs. In addition, there is a board around center run through the whole apartment for light adjustment and ventilation. The exterior wall is made by the three different tiles and pervious to light relief plate, restoring the decoration of the original wall. 



















2014年10月22日星期三

10 Traditional Tasty & Cute Halloween Snacks

As the Halloween is around the corner, have you decided your Halloween menu? If not, take this as a reference.
Various staple food and soup made by pumpkins.
The autumn is a season of good harvest. The pumpkin cannot be omitted. Food made by pumpkin is so various like soups.


Mummy hot dog
This snack originated from the Crescent Dog. Roll the Cannelloni as wrapping the gauze. There is a key point that is to show one end of the hot dog. Then intersperse two yellow eyes. That is the Mummy hot dog.

White ghost
There are kinds of way to make this white ghost. The simplest way is to add two black marble chocolate on the McDonald's cream.

Chocolate cake with a tombstone
RIP means Requiescat in Pace. You will see many cakes with RIP tombstone on.

Eyeball
Though this looks not so authentic, its shape could be better than authentic ones. Mix the dissolved chocolate and cookies and then make it into a ball. Wrap it with chocolate sauce. Finally, add an m&m marble chocolate.

Candy corn
Candy cannot be ignored. It can be used as the decoration of the cakes and cookies. The most authentic candy corn is with three colors (brown; orange and white). The order of colors is also fixed.

Cup cake
Many complicated decorations can be added on the cup cake such as cobweb, tombstone, monster and bat and so on. The main color is puce or orange as well.

Various shapes of cookies
You’d better buy some Halloween cookie templates like bat, ghost and skeleton and so on. Then you will get beautiful cookies.

Caramel apple


Halloween Munch

It is usually given out to the kids for Trick or Treat. 

2014年9月11日星期四

The Gorgeous Transformation of Small Apartment

This small apartment decoration only cost a little money. You may think it’s impossible. How could such a gorgeous apartment built economically. The design use bold and united colors. Coffee, beige, brown, light yellow and green are the main colors. And it was collocated with white and great shaped furniture.
The designer decided to design this space in the modern concise style. Due to the limit space of the house, there needs many storage space. So the designer added some embedded storage cabinet. Moreover, the wallpaper and plaster line were used as surface decoration. It not only completed the style of the room but also improved the function.


About the Home
Household: Agnes Macadam
Area: 70 square meters
Decorative Style: The Modern Concise Style


Design Sketches
  • Living room

The living room is designed much delicate. Modeling sofa set and unique TV set create more storage space for the room. Moreover, the warm color and velvet sofa connect the living room masterly.

  • Bedroom

We can find easily that the space of this bedroom is not big. The simple surrounding ceiling greatly enlarged the space, making it definitely the dream bedroom.

  • Dining room


If you are not told, I believe you cannot find it’s a dining room of small apartment. The designer skillfully combined the hallway and dining room, collocating with the chandelier and decorative photo frame. All of these added some vigor and warmth of the space. 

2014年8月17日星期日

Creative Graffiti Furniture

The popular graffiti art can paint out born free and relaxing pictures casually. Now graffiti extends to furniture. The casual style design will give us a feast on visual, not classical but specific.


The graffiti painter remains its specific visual symbols and aesthetic elements when moving the street art into indoor. However, they adjust the color and the pattern of graffiti, making the color more harmonies with furniture and the image more matching with the interior style.

The big wardrobe is similar with a wall in the shape. Treat the wardrobe as a wall and enjoy to   painting. Art is so simple.

The graffiti table can tell your story greatly. It’s someplace that the master can display imagination and a unique scene at home.

It’s a very traditional sofa. But it looks really fashion after creative graffiti, breaking depressing atmosphere. 

2014年4月29日星期二

How to Choose the Right Curtains

Home Curtains are the most common and necessary home accessory. It can help to shade your window and also decorate your home. If window treatments leave you confused, follow our guide on how to find the right design for you.

Choose the thickness of your fabric based on the amount of light you want in the space — a thick fabric lets less light through than an ultrasheer fabric.

Take measurements. You can easily estimate the right length and width of your window and find curtains that work, but getting a precise measurement for the curtains you're picking out is what makes a home look polished. For the width, measure your window and double or triple it. This method is pretty standard and ensures that curtains or drapes come together in the middle with no gaping. Length, however, will depend on the style of drapes you want.


Choosing the correct style of curtain for a room can begin by considering the type of curtain that will suit a particular room. A more formal or traditional room may be more suited to a Pencil pleat curtain with a more pleated curtain bringing a distinguished look to a room

While purchasing any item, it is very important to look after your budget. A good plan about budget is very important for purchasing curtains. Singapore curtains are special in their nature and they require a huge amount of money for purchasing the curtains. Some costly curtains are sold for several thousands of dollars. So before going to purchase any curtain in Singapore, go to their website and get all details about it. Carry sufficient amount of money along with you to purchase them. Some companies provide facilities to pay the amount in installments also. Get full benefits of such companies.

2014年4月26日星期六

Tips on Buying a Table Lamp

The table lamp is the most common home accessory. It will help to offer us extra light and also decorate our rooms. As table lamps come in all variety of shapes and sizes, you can rest assured you will find one that fits your style and budget. The following tips may help you.

To help you decide on the size of your lamp, consider where you plan to place it. For a narrow or delicate accent table, select a slender lamp. Not only will it be more attractive visually, but safer too, as a bulky lamp on a narrow or unsteady surface could topple over.

A table's height will also dictate your lamp's height. Shorter lamps on look better on higher tables, and taller ones on lower tables.

Consider the lamp's style. A high-tech swing-arm lamp will look out of place on a carved Victorian table, while a faceted crystal-and-shiny-brass table lamp is likely to be jarring on a Shaker or Mission night stand.

Check the recommended wattage. Though you can replace low-wattage light bulbs with higher ones, this can make a fixture too hot and damage your lamp. Be especially careful with fluorescent desk lamps, as high-wattage bulbs can also become hot. To avoid any potential dangers, turn off your desk lamp if it begins to get very warm. Make sure you also move your desk lamp away from papers, curtains and other flammable objects when it's hot.

Choose the shade.A fabric or semiopaque paper shade gives a warm, flattering glow. Near a TV, an opaque shade of any material can minimize glare. In general, drum shades look more modern; conical ones, more traditional. A shade should never extend past a table's perimeter.

2014年4月23日星期三

How to Buy a Comfortable Mattress

We spend our most time on the bed. Good health requires healthy sleep. In order to get best sleep, a comfortable mattress is necessary. Our Mattress Buying Guide will give you tips and advice on how to get the best mattress for your needs.

Take measurements of where the bed will be going. Be sure to take into account the size of the headboard and footboard. Measure doorways and hallways to make sure bed will fit. Standard sizes are:
— Twin 39"x 75"
— Full (also called a double) 54"x 75"
— Queen 60"x 80"
— King 76"x 80"
— California King 72" x 84"

Compare models under the same brand. Because the shape, size and placement of coils can vary from brand to brand, it is better to compare a Serta to a Serta than a Simmons to a Serta.

Pillow tops aren't for everyone. Very light-weight people don't need big thick pillow top mattresses because they don't weigh enough to compress the foam to even touch the underlying coils/support system. On the flip side, larger/heavier people tend to feel more comfortable with a little extra cushion between them and the coils.

Your mattresses should be solid enough to provide support according to your body shape and sleeping pattern. Mattress softness and support goes hands-in-hand: a good mattress should support your entire body and ensure spinal integrity.

Test out mattresses. In order for you to know how well you like a mattress, you must test it out in the store. Search around looking for mattresses that meet your criteria, and then lay on each to see how you like them.

2014年4月18日星期五

Fabric Sofa Care Guide

Fabric sofa is not so easy to care. Here are some care guides for you to keep your fabric sofa in great condition.

Vacuum fabric sofas regularly with an upholstery attachment using low suction.

Use protective arm caps where possible as this is the area most likely to show soiling. Arm caps produced from upholstery fabric should preferably be lined to minimise wear.

If your home is empty during the day it is recommended that you draw curtains blinds to reduce direct sunlight on you sofa for prolonged periods of time. Sunlight WILL fade fabrics but this can be dramatically reduced by avoiding unnecessary exposure.

Organise an annual professional clean by an upholstery cleaner to maintain your sofa's condition.

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2014年4月15日星期二

How to Choose the Best Ottoman

Ottoman is a great furniture piece for living room. The furniture piece is really functional: it offers place to rest our legs as well as offer sitting place. Some ottoman also provides storage space. Follow our tips to get the best ottoman.


Research different style ottomans at your local department stores and online furniture stores. Choose a shape of ottoman that works well with the rest of the room in which the ottoman will be placed. If you have a round area rug or other round featured (such as a clock or round side tables) you may think about choosing an ottoman that is rectangular in design to add contrast in the space.

The purpose will determine the size of the ottoman you choose. While you will need a fairly large one to use as a coffee table, even those used for seating may be either one huge ottoman or a bunch of several small ones, depending on the level of formality of your living room. As you can see, the large ottoman blends in well with the formal living room, whereas the smaller ones add a burst of color and lend a casual appearance to the other living room.


Choose an ottoman that either matches exactly or compliments the furniture in the room. An ottoman should match the seating in a room, but can do so in a variety of ways. For example, a brown couch pairs nicely with a cream ottoman that has brown feet or a brown stripe in the middle. If your seating is a solid color, a complimentary pattern on an ottoman would also look nice and add a different texture to the space.

Consider carefully how you intend to use the ottoman. In some cases, this piece of furniture is used exclusively as a footrest, in which case a padded unit will be best. In other instances, the ottoman may be used as a coffee table, in which case a solid surface will work much better. It is possible to buy a unit that features a flip top; on one side of this top, the unit will be upholstered and padded, while on the other side, the top will be hard and flat. This allows you to use the footrest for comfort as well as functionality.

2014年4月7日星期一

Wood Cabinet Caring Tips

Wood cabinet is really suitable for kitchen. It will add natural beauty to the kitchen. In order to make it use for a long time, here are some tips for you to take good care of it.

Treat your cabinets as you would fine furniture. Areas around the sink, range, dishwasher, oven and baseboards are the most susceptible to excess moisture, the number one enemy of wood. Wipe up spills and water marks as they occur. Avoid draping damp or wet dish towels over the door of the sink base cabinet. Over time, moisture could cause permanent damage.

Kitchen cabinets pick up a lot of grease, dirt and dust, but they are often overlooked while cleaning the kitchen, as it is not easy to notice a build up of dirt on cabinets. Add ½ cup of mild soapy solution to one gallon of water and gently scrub the cabinets with a clean cloth. Rinse and then use a dry cloth to wipe off any excess moisture from the cabinets. Aim to clean kitchen cabinets once every two weeks.

Protect wood cabinets from direct sunlight by installing curtains or blinds on kitchen windows. The sun's rays can cause cabinet finishes to fade.

Once the inside of the cabinets are clear of dirt and crumbs, good organization will help maintain clean kitchen cabinets. Foods that are prone to spilling, such as bags of flour or sugar, can be poured into sealable containers. If there are bugs in the kitchen, keeping opened boxes of food, like crackers or cereals, in sealable plastic bags or containers will help keep the bugs out. Placing similar foods on the same counters can also help in keeping clean kitchen cabinets because it will make it easier to find things without digging through the cabinets.

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2014年4月3日星期四

Tips on Caring Leather Furniture


Leather furniture can look beautiful and age gracefully. It is a big investment. So let’s take care of it. Here are some maintaining tips.

Wipe the leather sofa down regularly with a clean, dry cloth. The basic care routine for leather upholstery is simply wiping the furniture down with a dry cotton cloth. This will remove dust from the leather and keep it looking its best.

For spills, immediately use a dry cloth to blot and let it air-dry. It is important to blot instead of wiping as you want to get all the moisture out instead of spreading it. Try that with fabric too.

Keep the leather away from direct sunlight and the fireplace. Remember that leather was once the skin of an animal and just like too much sun and heat are no good for your skin, they are not all that welcome for leather as well. If your leather sofa set sits close to a sunny window, the use a window treatment. Keep your leather furniture away from the fire place and at a spot that is cooler.
If leather furniture is brand new, protect it right off the bat with a professionally applied leather protector. There are also products available for do-it-yourselfers on the after-market. If the furniture is older, have it cleaned professionally and apply the leather protector. Keep the furniture free of dust and occasionally wipe it with a barely damp cloth.

2014年3月20日星期四

How to Care Fabric Sofa

Though leather sofa is not so easy to care with the leather sofa, fabric sofa is also popular. They make the home décor look warm and cozy. You also can get a large selection of the fabric sofa at furniture stores. Now read on to learn the tips on how to care the fabric sofa.




Use a vacuum cleaner or soft brush to remove surface dust on a weekly basis. Non-removable covers should not be washed or dry-cleaned.

Spot Stains Spot stains need to be treated immediately and the Ink Away spot stain remover will target those small stubborn stains that need extra help to remove. Top tip: Blot any stain or spillage with a paper towel as quickly as possible, before wiping with a damp cloth and using sofa cleaner. Remember that rubbing a stain will make it worse, so clean up those spillages gently and carefully.

Avoid sitting in the same place all the time. Try to alternate were you sit as this will even the wear across your sofa. A good idea is to occasionally change you room layout to encourage you to use other seats of your sofa.  Avoid sitting on the edge of seat cushions as this can cause them to misshape and increases wear.

Avoid Sunlight and Pollutants. Too much sun can damage your upholstery fabric, causing it to fade and even fray. Try to position it so that it doesn’t sit in the sun for extended periods of time. This is especially true for silks.

2014年3月18日星期二

Great Ways to Decorate Your Wall

Wall is a great part of our home. Our wall décor also can be creative and unique. Read on to get these fancy ideas to update your wall.



Search antique shops and flea markets for vintage landscape blueprints that double as wall art. This print, with its soft color palette and faded paper, blends easily with a country gardening motif.



Switch out your artwork frequently with this easy approach. Simply hang a grouping of prints on walls with thumbtacks, which also lends a more casual vibe than standard framed prints.




High-impact decorating on a budget has never been easier. These pieces were made with nothing more than a couple canvases and metal repair tape. To create these shiny DIY works of art, cut the metal repair tape with scissors and adhere in geometric patterns to the canvases. The silver material stands out against cool blue walls and fits in perfectly with the other silver accessories and decor elsewhere in the room.



Create a gallery of frames above a large window or along the soffit above kitchen cabinets. Use matching frames for your collection and fill with favorite snapshots and fun prints. If you have a colorful space, try a collection of black-and-white images. Or if your space leans more neutral, like this breakfast nook, opt for an assortment of colorful artwork.

2014年3月15日星期六

Smart Ideas for Interior Decorating

Spring has comes and it get warmer and warmer. It is time to redecorate your home décor to get a new and fresh look. The newly decorated home décor will also bring you the fresh and new mood. Start your decorating now and create a beautiful, fresh and comfortable home décor. Here are some smart ideas for you.

One of the easiest ways to improve the exterior of your home is to give it some new color. If you have aluminum or wood siding, you can paint the exterior. You can paint your home décor with another color. You also can choose other colored wallpaper to your home.


If you have old, dingy light fixtures outside your home, they give it an old, rundown appearance. By replacing these lights with more modern fixtures, you add a dash of style and class to your exterior.

Adding some attractive landscaping and colorful flowers and plants is a great way to liven up the exterior of your home. Growing a lovely garden is inexpensive and quite satisfying.

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2014年3月13日星期四

Awesome Leather Furniture Appreciations

Leather furniture is very popular in recent years, especially the leather sofa. They are really full of charm and elegance. Leather sofa can offer you luxury and comfortable sitting experience. So if you want to buy sofa, why not consider the leather sofa? Here are carefully selected leather sofa for you.



Have a look at the Caesar Palace Modern Style Leather Corner Sofa(1+3+right chaise). This corner sofa features the beautiful appearance and super environmental protection property. It offers you soft, comfortable and also luxury sitting experience.



The second recommended is the Caesar Palace Modern Leather Corner Sofa(1+3+left chaise). This corner sofa looks the magnificent modern and fashionable. No matter you place it at your office area or home, it will bring you long lasting comfort. Covered by the top grade leather material, it is soft and comfortable.



Do not miss out the Caesar Palace American Style Leather Corner Sofa(1+3+left chaise). This corner sofa is magnificent and pristine. Adopting the top layer leather, it is soft, comfortable and breathable.



The last recommended is the Timiyore Modern Style Leather Single Sofa. This modern sofa is comfortable, magnificent and functional. Adopting the top-grade material, it has a long service time.