The Monte Carlo modern bedroom sets is made of birch veneer. The configuration of the drawers is made like a puzzle. The inside of the drawers is painted like the casing. The drawers are equipped with self closing Quadro system glides. They are dressed with chrome metal handles. The modern platform beds of this collection [...]
How to Create 7: How to Create a Shabby Chic Home
In this final part of this mini-series we’re going to give you some interior design ideas and suggestions on how to create a shabby chic interior design look in your own home. Please don’t be disillusioned by this interior design style, it takes careful consideration and an eye for detail to pull this style of [...]
Bathroom and Kitchen Design: How to Choose Tile and Plan Tile Layouts
Download from the book For Pros, By Pros: Tiling, and jumpstart your next bathroom or kitchen tiling project. The first chapter details how to plan your bathroom-tile project, how to create attractive patterns with tile, and how to use color and texture to get the look you want. In the second chapter you will find [...]
Oak Park weed ordinance much less forgiving than Kalamazoo’s, thanks to work of Tom Small and other Wild Ones
KALAMAZOO It was the talk of the weekend news Friday that city officials in the Detroit suburb of Oak Park warned a homeowner that her nicely tended raised-bed vegetable garden violated city code because it was in her front yard. Posters on Facebook and local blogs were incensed that the woman was charged with [...]
What’s Your Interior Design Style? Eclecticism
This interior design style enables people even on the smallest budgets to create a superb interior to their homes however, there are some basic principles you need to apply to get this style right. The basics: Despite many people’s misconceptions about this interior design style it is not merely a jumble of random items thrown [...]
Remodeling’s Brightening Prospects, Part 5 of 5
Whatever recovery rates prevail for the housing market and overall economy over the next 10 years, remodelers and their suppliers likely won’t see extremes of the sort that characterized the industry since 2000, an analysis prepared by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University shows. Instead, the growth of home improvement spending [...]
Club started when creating a pond didn’t go well
BURTON A botched water pond project led to the formation 13 years ago of the Mid-Michigan Pond and Water Garden Club. I was in tears when I went to Wild Birds Unlimited with my problem, said Darlene Jennings, club founder and board member. Jennings said she wanted to create a pond and water feature at [...]
Igniting Your Imagination 1: Creative Flair
The world of interior design these days is big business, you will often have seen many a TV program that features makeovers, normally to a room but sometimes the whole house. Interior designers have to be very creative and have a flair for the utilisation of space, sometimes in very difficult situations, such as small [...]
A fern by another name still must have a vascular system
Make It Green: ferns Surely few plants are as evocative as ferns. Upon hearing the word, I see a tropical wonderland filled with all sorts of green goodies populating the ground, and filling every possible spot of forest deadfall. They are a mightily adaptable group, too, occupying niches from deep shade with wet soils to [...]
Puzzle Chest
Finding an affordable designer tall chest can be challenging. Monte Carlo line of drawers introduced at Spacify presents a clever puzzle design with ample storage and fits the bill just under $1600. Another similar modern bedroom dresser is Trio 8 designed by noted industrial designer, Rick Lee. Creating an asymmetrical effect with zig zag drawers, [...]