I know it sounds as if I’m describing food, but really, I’m describing this beautiful ivory bedding. It’s fresh, white, and inviting – similar to the creamy goodness of a tub of vanilla ice cream!
The lovely ivory white bedding you see above is made by Kylie, from smooth cotton percale. While I love the textures of the bedding, what I’m loving most is the monochromatic bedrooms that the bedding has been styled in. The modern bedding adds texture and accessorizes the bed, wallpaper, the nightstands – the entire room, really!
Normally I would go for white over ivory, but this doesn’t look like there’s too vast of a difference. However, the ivory bedding mixed with the ivory decor provides a softer look that is still clean, just not as crisp as a bedroom of all bright whites would be.
If you prefer darker colors up against the creamy ivory, Kylie also offers plenty of colorful options. What do you think about ivory bedding? How about a monochromatic bedroom?
Dutch designer Dik Scheepers has created the Sine Cabinet , a cabinet made of oak, PVC, and brass that comes with a story. Most cabinets (and closets, sideboards, drawers, you name it) start out with items relatively in place and with some semblance of order. Over time, they turn into enormous catchalls for anything and everything and end up being messy storage boxes. Prize possessions, and sometimes secrets, are tucked away behind closed doors and only occasionally do they see the light of day, like on the holidays when family is coming over. The idea behind Sine is much similar to that of these storage places, a cabinet that will change over time.
The icon that we have all come to know and love which graces our Google maps to let us know where we are, or where we need to go, has become ubiquitous. Designer Shuchun Hsiao realized this and created the Google Birdhouse Project , an ongoing project to give birds desinations of their own, just like Google maps does for humans. The designer explains, “Birds, have the most real experience of google map. Birds can fly through the city, through streets
When it comes to creating the most relaxing environment inside ones bedroom there is a lot that needs to be accounted for in regards to the furniture such as; colors, shapes, styles, and size. Putting a relaxing and stylish bedroom together takes something that most people look past, traditional bedroom furniture.
Traditional bedroom furniture is more than just the average bedroom set; it is bringing old world charm in and turning it into new world design. There comes a time where not all bedroom sets need to be placed in the same room, sometimes a mixture of one set and another is ideal for many reasons. Mixing and matching different bedrooms sets will give off a more relaxing feel as well as spread ones dollar further.
Before buying bedroom furniture think about these few things. How much furniture do you need? How much space do you have? What color, shape, size, and style do you want? Once you can answer these three questions you are ready to pick out your new bedroom furniture.
Here are two tips about buying bedroom furniture that will surely help you out.
Feel free to buy outside your comfort zone – Most people only buy what they have bought before and this is why style never changes in some households. Spend more than normal, buy a different style such as contemporary bedroom furniture, use different colors; these are all ways to change the style inside your bedroom.
Mix styles not colors – For the longest time mixing colors was very popular but now mixing styles such as traditional and modern or contemporary and antique.
Buying bedroom furniture is a fun experience, just remember, bedroom furniture is like buying a new car, if you don’t love it at the store you won’t love it in your room.
Based in Valencia, Spain, designer Clara del Portillo is well versed in graphic, industrial, and interior design, and her diverse portfolio reflects that but it’s her simple Opot design that really caught my eye. The design holds a plant on an indoor or outdoor wall, giving new and easy ways to decorate that bare space or fence you have in the backyard. Made from a piece of the incredibly durable DuPont Tyvek film and two eyelets, the design easily hangs when the eyelets are matched up.
Korean design duo THE:Zoom is behind this clever series of furniture called Project ZIP:PER that was inspired by, you guessed it, zippers. They took your everyday zipper that’s normally seen sewn into fabric and incorporated the idea of it into these playful pieces of furniture. The stark white color of each piece let’s the quirky form shine through with the illusion that each design is being zipped (or unzipped) up.
Ed Ward is a designer and developer who has worked for clients such as Established & Sons, Habitat, and Mathmos, and also founded All Lovely Stuff . His office works on product design, including sourcing and product development, interior projects, as well as commissions. Since last year, All Lovely Stuff has been developing a collection of objects that offer a smile along with good function, affordably. For this week’s Friday Five , Ward shows us what lovely and functional objects make him smile.
Brighten by Saehee Her is a TV entertainment stand that uses a peg construction to hold adjustable shelving. Made of wood, plywood and aluminium, the system is much more playful than standard tv centers, and it looks fun!
Zurn Design introduced me to their modern wood furniture and decor and I was taken by this atomic-era style lamp . Like a giant sculpture in your room that also features mood lighting. The floor lamp, called No
