7 visual tricks to make a small room feel larger
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7 visual tricks to make a small room feel larger

Tiny room, tiny furniture? Not so fast. “If you have a small space and a small sofa, tiny table and bitty chair, it’ll look like a dollhouse,” says Kate Watson-Smyth, the British blogger behind Mad About the House and author of the forthcoming small-space design book “Home: The Way We Live Now.”

Instead, be strategic. You might choose the largest mattress size your small boudoir will hold, but pick a soaring headboard to create the illusion of ceiling height, and forgo a footboard. Wall-mounted, bedside sconces will eliminate the need to cram in nightstands and lamps. “The scale becomes key,”

Home Design Software – Design Your House Online
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Home Design Software – Design Your House Online

Easy-to-use home design software that you can use to plan and design rooms in your home or even the entire house. Create floor plans, furnish and decorate, then visualize in 2D & 3D.

Home Design Software – Design Your House Online

RoomSketcher is an easy-to-use tool to create fast visualizable floor plans for remodeling or a new build from scratch.

Christian Moritz

Home owner, Germany

Why Home Designers Think RoomSketcher is The Best Software to Design a Home

Wood and stone surfaces bring “rich texture” to the Primrose Hill House interior
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Wood and stone surfaces bring “rich texture” to the Primrose Hill House interior

Architecture for London has updated a 1960s house in London, creating an open-plan interior filled with natural materials and an improved connection to the rear courtyard garden.

The house is one of two detached properties set in a modernist estate in Primrose Hill that primarily consists of painted brick courtyard houses and small terraces.

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Primrose Hill House was designed by Architecture for London

The new owner asked Architecture for London to transform the interior into a modern layout that is better suited to their lifestyle.

“The house had a very broken plan consisting of lots of small rooms,” the studio’s

LVWA Bookstore / Studio YUDA + Studio NOR
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LVWA Bookstore / Studio YUDA + Studio NOR

LVWA Bookstore / Studio YUDA + Studio NOR

LVWA Bookstore / Studio YUDA + Studio NOR
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  • areas Area of ​​this architecture project Areas :
    600 m²

  • year Completion year of this architecture project

    year :


    2020


  • Photographs

  • Lead Architects :

    Yuchen Guo, Boyuan Jiang

Text description provided by the architects. In 2019, Studio YUDA and Studio NOR were invited by the Shanghai University of Sport and Shanghai Century Publishing (Group) Co., Ltd to design the first sports-themed bookstore in Shanghai, “Lvwa Sports Bookstore”. Facing the base in the original rough state, the

Peek Inside Sarah Paulson’s Cozy Malibu Hideaway
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Peek Inside Sarah Paulson’s Cozy Malibu Hideaway

Sarah Paulson didn’t discover her talent for creating homes with what interior designer Amy Kehoe calls “sophisticated whimsy” until she was in her 40s. As a former New Yorker and an actress who has spent much of her adult life on set, buying and decorating a house wasn’t on her long to-do list. “It felt like too much responsibility. Only grown-ups did that, not me,” says the Emmy Award–winning actress, who stars in the upcoming horror thriller Dust. “I always wanted Manhattan life, an apartment with a doorman, if you were lucky. Owning a home has never held that allure.”

7 Home Decor Faux Fittings That Date Your Interiors, According to Designers
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7 Home Decor Faux Fittings That Date Your Interiors, According to Designers

Some home decor trends have an expiration date. While mid-century modern designs like sleek Eames furniture or Eero Saarinen–designed Womb chairs are back in fashion and selling big, for example, others can make homes pass. Not to mention, a home stuck in the past might actually lose some of its potential resale value. According to Eugene Colberg, principal of Colberg Architecture in Brooklyn, “Updates to a house can maximize value when placing the house on the market,” he says. “Homes are also more enjoyable to live in when they have been updated,” Colberg says.

The usual culprits, like popcorn ceilings

Wine tips for newbies: How to store your wines
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Wine tips for newbies: How to store your wines

Wine tips for newbies: How to store your wines

If you’re a newbie, you may still be determining how to store your wine. A red wine storage cabinet and the like will retain the flavours and aroma of your wines. Furthermore, wine enthusiasts will invest in a dual-temperature wine fridge or any other storage item that will fit their wine storage needs. In addition, there is a wide variety of ways to store your luxury drinks, so choose the correct storage unit that is ideal for you.

Thermoelectric wine cooler

A thermoelectric wine cooler keeps the cool air inside the storage unit, and a fan distributes the cool air …

20 Top Interior Design Trends of 2023, According to Decor Experts
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20 Top Interior Design Trends of 2023, According to Decor Experts

20 Top Interior Design Trends of 2023, According to Decor Experts

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If you’ve been searching for the right opportunity to add more style, vigor and comfort to your space, you’ll appreciate this list. We checked in with professional designers and industry players for their take on the top interior design trends for 2023.

Some of their picks confirm that certain things like: shades of blue, personality-packed rugs fit for maximalists, statement window treatments and high-style marble slabs in kitchens, stand the test of time. After all, a few of these were also highlighted in our feature on the leading design trends for 2022. But other