Showing posts with label Traditional style. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Traditional style. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Traditional kitchen decorating design ideas 2012 by Gail Drury

Two of Gail Drury's kitchen design showroom displays are national winners. Drury's English pub display recently took second place in the National Kitchen and Bath Association's (NKBA) 2008 Design Competition. A certified master kitchen and bath designer (CMKBD) and president of Drury Design Kitchen & Studio in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, Drury founded her company in 1987 and won her first NKBA kitchen design showroom award in 1998. In all, the studio's portfolio encompasses over 20 NKBA award-winning projects. Download Design Guide and view Drury Design's custom kitchen design projects.

Drury's English pub display mixes antique, modern and commercial influences. Ovation's mahogany cabinetry sets the tone in an "aged bark" stain accented with custom designed mullions and featuring a mix of inset and overlay doors. English pub touches get carried out in heavily paneled soffit, a tin ceiling and antique light fixtures. Variable surface heights add to functionality with a 30" ice bin; 36" work area and 42" bar serving area. Refrigeration is concealed behind built-in antiqued mirror doors with wood mullion accents. A built-in stainless ice chest adds a commercial element.









Friday, September 2, 2011

2012 Living Room Design Styles From HGTV


Mid-Century Modern

Mid-century modern style is characterized by simplicity and natural shapes. It is often emphasized by ample windows, an open floor plan and the idea of bringing the outdoors in.

Asian

Designer Jane Ellison took a unique approach when designing this Asian-style living room. Subtle Oriental elements are represented with the porcelain blue-and-white wares, tatami mats, brass sculptures, bamboo shades and elegant gold sofa upholstery.

Contemporary

Contemporary living rooms feature softened, rounded lines and contain neutral elements with pops of bold color.

Eclectic

If you can't choose one style, go eclectic. It's a mixture of different styles and periods, but pulls the look together through a similar texture, finish, pattern or color.

Mid-Century Modern

The mid-20th century design movement left us with sleek and modern furnishings actively used in homes today. Designer Robin Callan celebrated the rugged limestone focal wall with mid-century modern furnishings and a large piece of artwork that ties in the room's diverse color palette.

Cottage

The 20-foot stone fireplace features warm lighting and stunning display shelves to really set the tone of this cozy cottage-style living room. For an elegant and chic approach to cottage living, designer Shane Inman used a simple neutral and pastel color palette and decorated with minimal accessories, all in a crisp ivory hue.

Country

Rich, vibrant hues and dark wood furnishings emit visual warmth in this country-style living room. Pale yellow walls tone down the bold sofa and reflect the softer shades visible in the area rug's floral design. Rustic decorative stars pull in the country feel in a simple and subtle way. Design by Helen Richardson

Mediterranean

This warm living room exudes true Mediterranean-inspired elegance through its structure and decor. With dramatic interior architectural elements, the living room design is kept simple yet refined with a touch of Old World Spanish flair. Design by Vanessa DeLeon

Modern

Designer Andreas Charalambous created an ultra-modern masterpiece in this two-story urban loft. The living room is especially ideal for entertaining, with two-story atrium windows, an entirely open floor plan and convertible furniture that can transform into sofas, sectionals and interconnected club-style seating. Far from bland, these white walls provide the perfect backdrop to an energetic display of patterns.

Old World

Nothing short of magnificent, this Old World living room pulls in elegant, Italian-inspired design elements to create an over-the-top and illustrious gathering spot. The hand-painted cathedral ceiling and Renaissance-style furnishings make a bold statement, creating a look that will immediately take you back in time. Design by Lori Venners. Architecture by Thom Oppelt. Image courtesy of Gene Northup of Synergy Sotheby's International Realty

Traditional

This well-known design style will instantly make you feel right at home. Designer Linda Woodrum created an elegant yet functional living room with a soothing color palette of ivory, navy and pale blue. Simple, understated furnishings mirror the classic, casual and comfortable elements associated with traditional interiors.

Transitional

This vibrant living room successfully mixes classic traditional details and accessories with contemporary fixtures and hues to create a one-of-a-kind space. Designer Shelly Riehl David used sunny lime and fuchsia as her unique color inspiration. Beyond the color palette, the room's most striking elements are the dramatic floor-to-ceiling lime draperies and the grand carved stone mantelpiece in a contrasting shade of ivory.

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Traditional Living Room Decorating Ideas 2012

Traditional Living Room

Traditional design is comfortable and classic, featuring furnishings that are consistent in style. It may not be an unexpected look, but it's timeless and can still look fresh.

Traditional living room interior is a model room that has a natural concept of the room and have a fresh atmosphere of the room that makes you more relaxed. Traditional living room interior gives you an innovative design work in producing a room that has the best concept. Floors made ??of wood adds to the impression that is so typical in a traditional living room interior. The room will be warm by making a fireplace in traditional living room interior that makes you more relaxed and more relaxed feel in a traditional living room interior. The combination of brown and cream color on the walls in the interior will add to an atmosphere that is more comfortable in a traditional living room interior. A comfortable sofa’s design adds an interesting atmosphere and will make you feel more comfortable in a traditional living room interior.









Monday, August 15, 2011

New Bedroom Window Treatments Ideas 2012 : Traditional Curtains

You can find ideas for elegant curtains and drapes to enhance your  Bedroom decor , I hope you like it . Enjoy !
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Banded Silk Panels 

In a quietly neutral master bedroom, these fixed, banded drapery panels eschew the standard ring-and-rod installation in favor of an innovative combination of grommets and wall-mount hooks. The treatment adds dimension and soft draping to the silk panels, and the flat braid above and below the wide gray band contributes a polished finish, with lined panels that puddle slightly. Because the panels are fixed, natural woven shades do the practical work, discreetly controlling privacy and light.


Formal Silk Drapes 

High ceilings give a space grandeur, but they also can make a room feel uncomfortably cavernous. To give the room more human-scale proportions, add crown molding and painted bands. Here, gold stripes and buttons accent the bands. Formal silk draperies with tightly smocked headers hang on gilded rods at window frame-level.


Valance and Drapery Panels 

A pretty, detailed window treatment adds a special welcome to a guest room. For a bedroom with an old-fashioned feel, a scalloped valance overlies drapery panels sewn from a novelty print with a green background.
The valance and drapery panels attach by rings to an iron rod featuring decorative finials. Greek-key trim stitched to the edges of the panels is an appropriate finishing touch that echoes the classical motifs of the fabric. Tasseled rope tiebacks gently hold the panels in place, creating a soft fullness that works with the romantic feel of the inviting room. Framed art flanks the window, completing the setting.


Bedroom Curtains in a Soft, Soothing Hue

The secret to an inviting guest room is a comfy bed, of course, but ambience matters, too. For a restful retreat, use a soft color throughout and include only one or two bold standouts in the decor. Here, soft green for pleated draperies, walls, furniture, and bedding wraps the room with serenity.


White Drapery Panels

In a bedroom where toile sets the romantic scene, creamy white drapery panels edged in a flat braid enhance the color palette. The goblet-header drapery panels, sewn to white rings, slide easily on the painted white drapery rod. The exposed rod is often a fresher look than a fabric-covered rod or cornice. Simple touches, such as the flat braid, give a neatly finished look to drapery panels. Wood blinds behind the drapery are virtually invisible when pulled up, but block out the light when needed


Curtains with Complimentary Pattern

Fun rooms call for lighthearted walls and window treatments. In a home of classic good taste, this boys' room features a playful interpretation of traditional blue: horizontally striped painted wall finish and drapery panels fabricated from an inventive leaf-print fabric. The panels hang by fabric ties from the exposed rod—a treatment that won't be outgrown too quickly. The folded-fabric border is snappy, elevating a standard treatment into a classic accompaniment suitable for any age.


Iron Curtain Rings

Getting the latest look has never been easier, thanks to innovative products in today's market. In this case, purchased curtain panels are accessorized with iron curtain rings that simply clip to the top of the curtain.


Contemporary Wool Curtains

A contemporary twist on classic American patchwork, wool fabric softens the modern style of a city bedroom. The operable panels—banded in off-white and sewn to chrome rings—slide easily on the unadorned chrome rod. The subtle difference between shades of gray and taupe wool play off the rich brown walls, the neatly tied linen headboard and the white bed linens. The chrome rod echoes that finish on the stylized floor lamp, while three narrow blinds meet the need for privacy.


Toile Curtains

With a slanted ceiling and one window, this 8x13-foot petite guest room in a seaside cottage posed more challenge than charm. To downplay its small size and odd shape, a simple toile pattern featuring seashells was wrapped around the walls and window. Indeed, homeowners hesitant to use a single pattern over and over should consider toile—it's one of the easiest patterns to master with success.

 
Full-length Drapery Panels

Older homes often feature casement windows along the upper section of walls. To lengthen these windows and provide a colorful backdrop to the beds, full-length cotton drapery panels hang over the windows and extend around the corner to the other walls in the room.


Tailored Drapes 

Drapery panels introduce subtle pattern and color in this master bedroom without overwhelming fabrication. Lined and interlined for warmth and graceful posture, the panels graze the neutral carpet; they are sewn rings for a traditional operable treatment
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Striped Silk Curtains 

A stunning silk stripe unifies a guest room, appearing in the high-style window treatment and in the lining for the tie-on bed hangings. To dress the stately French windows, the silk stripe is fabricated into gathered balloon shades; it also hangs as side panels. The shapely finial and decorative rings contribute detailing to the effect. Silk fabric works equally well as the lining for the panels that define iron twin beds. Along with the Aubusson rug and oil portraits, classic fabrications ground the room in a feeling of continental luxury.

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Traditional Kitchen Design Ideas 2012 From Marchi Cucine

The Marchi Group specializes in creating traditional style kitchens that look straight out of a folk tale. These traditional country style kitchens are easy for you to associate with and they somehow seem familiar eventhough you are seeing them for the first time.

Hopefully you get new ideas to beautify your Kitchen in the house. I hope you like it . Enjoy !


ENGLISH MOOD KITCHEN

The brown wash finish is another of the impeccable variations in style of English Mood kitchen furniture. The wood is tinted but the colour allows the natural shades and authentic grain to be visible. The effect is extraordinarily country.
The sink is in stone chips in a pale shade of brick red  a colour that matches enchantingly with the warm hue of the white brown wash finish.
New country elegance revives the use of iron. This composition includes an iron light fitting with fabric shades and a slim chair in rust-coloured iron


ENGLISH MOOD KITCHEN "BIANCO BURRO"

An interior built around the idea of the old fireplace, with two walls built around the oven unit and an extractor hood inserted into the structure, to which it is linked by boiserie panelling and trims. The whole is an exhibition of architecture for interiors.
Solutions to realize the desire to combine practicality with nostalgic beauty: a small regiment of little drawers and an open dresser in the dining area.
The atmosphere of old country mansions, hunting lodges, country cottages, is immediately evident through a small wooden chest on a base with drawers, or wrought iron chairs with woven cane seats.
Columns with English style glazing conceal a pantry or refrigerator. Clever use of boiserie panelling creates new space that is airy, useful and decorative. The stone used for the sink and worktops evokes times gone by and the good things in life.


ENGLISH MOOD KITCHEN

In the English Mood collection an island traces a new path of elegance. Refined style involves every space: the well-equipped cooking hob reveals a taste for true culinary art, the wine cellar area satisfies the delicate palate of wine experts, and in conclusion, the impeccable dining area will delight your guests’ attentive gaze.
All chefs need the support of strategically placed equipment. So here is a cooking unit with two ovens between stainless steel pull-out container drawers, a cooking hob with cast iron grids and fry-top, and a channel equipped with plate drainer, drinking glass drainer, container, bottle holders and knife holder block.
Although the geometry of the table may change from round to square, the geography of the area around the island does not change and remains a sea of certainty. On the horizon of the wall we see the slim dressers that contain our crockery or the columns equipped with all mod cons: wine cellar, water-dispenser with ice maker, coffee machine, multi-function and microwave ovens. Overhead is an extractor hood with ladles hanging on a bar, ready to serve the expert chef.


ENGLISH MOOD KITCHEN

For those who really love cooking, the word “style” has just one meaning: a cosy kitchen for guests, as refined as the host’s or hostess’s recipes, equipped to professional standards. That’s why our English Mood kitchen furniture is integrated by the idea of an island, with new equipment and finishes that reflect modern elegance. In addition to our traditional colours, Butter white, String, Aurora blue, and Milkymint green, there is now Clay, which creates a fashion shade also for the kitchen, and Chalk white for an even fresher, cleaner and luminous ambience.


ENGLISH MOOD KITCHEN

The pale blue brown wah finish expresses a Mediterranean character in look and contents which reveal small but important artifices to make life more comfortable. An example is the double glass door behind the slatted blinds.
In landowners’ homes, on farms, in the farmhouses of a century ago, the original shape of the sink must have been very similar to a bowl standing on a worktop. Today that shape re-appears in marble chip sparkling with fragments of blue stone.
The sophisticated Anglo Saxon taste of English Mood opens up to the wood, perfumes and creativity of Southern Europe. In this way the most inventive solutions are found also for areas with reduced space. Here the sink and cooking hob stand on an open base and the oven finds an unusual collocation between shelves.


The charm of country houses with their colored plastered walls and sloping old terracotta tiled roofs, bring back happy memories and a touch of nostalgia.
For some time we have felt the need to a return to values of times past; the quiet dignity of our grandparents, a love of nature and beauty, often to be found in the simpler things that bring a feeling of harmony inside the home.
Recalling traditional elements, the need to recover the values of times gone by, the wisdom of grandparents passed on with love and affection to new generations: Doralice is a kitchen designed for those who feel the need for the simple things of the past, the delicious flavour of a home-cooked country dish, rediscovering the long-forgotten pleasure of quiet country life


A kitchen designed for those who love to live in harmony with nature, and who appreciate the soothing tranquillity of an interior that transforms daily routine into a place of quiet relaxation.
Inspired by the life-style of the sun-soaked landscapes of the Mediterranean where life seems to still bond so closely with the land and ancient times, the Dhialma line evokes the dazzling brightness of Mediterranean sunlight, like a dream that lingers on after we have woken


The dense green of the Amazon rain forest, the yellow ochre of the Dhakla desert, the bright blue skies of Ireland, and the crimson Moorish details on the houses of Andalusia: these are the inspirations for the unusual color choices for some of the elements in the Incontrada line.