Making Kids’ Bedroom Suite Cool & Functional

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The world is a colorful and constantly-moving place – so shouldn’t your bedroom be too? The Cromatic collection of kids’ bedroom furniture from Arasanz is a fun exploration of the connections and differences between permanent and movable furniture.

The range of furniture includes bed, storage and desks that can be configured in a number of different ways. All of the furniture is on casters, making it simple to move around into different positions in the room.

The great thing about the Cromatic collection is that it takes up so little space but can be used for a wide variety of activities. As seen in the video above, moving the pieces around is simple enough for kids to handle, and lets them dictate how their own rooms look and function.

Of course, we can imagine problems with kids sharing the same set of furniture in one bedroom. One will want to use the desk while the other, who inhabits the bed directly under the desk, will want to take a nap. Still, it’s hard to imagine a room cooler than these, even for kids who have to share with siblings.

The Best Time of Year to Buy Household Items

ShoppingWho doesn’t love a deal? I loved this article at Realty Times, which recently revealed the best time of year to buy certain household items in order to score the biggest bargains, based on research from AARP and LifeHacker.

January: Furniture, new flooring, and bedding and linens

February: Air conditioners and older model televisions that will soon be moving out for newer models

March: Gardening tools, china, and flatware

April: Vacuum cleaners

May: Barbecue equipment, patio furniture, and home office furniture

June: Tools

July: Kitchen appliances, such as refrigerators and ranges

August: Linens and storage containers

September: Grills and lawn mowers

October: Appliances and clearance patio furniture and outdoor items

November: Electronics, appliances, and tools

December: Televisions, electronics, and small appliances like toasters and blenders

Read more month-to-month breakdown of household discounts at Realty Times.

Creative Typographic Furniture

The Typographic Furniture from TABISSO offers a collection of fancy furniture that is designed as alphabetic letters, words, quotation marks, and punctuation marks. The collection includes chairs and lamps, offering a quirky, fun way to personalize your home decor.

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Kitchen Design – What you need to Know

A helpful insight why Kitchen is the top most priority while re-modelling a home, briefing about the design elements that should be considered before hiring a designer.  50% of home buyers say the kitchen had the most significant impact on their purchasing decision!

Checkout an infographic on Kitchen Design by Primera Interiors.

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Compact & Colorful Kids Room Design Ideas by KIBUC

From infancy to young adulthood, Spanish furniture manufacturerKIBUC keeps kids organized with a series of colorful and clever space-saving bedroom sets that offer different functions as the children grow. Completely customizable in a wide range of colors and finishes, each design offers a place to sleep, storage for clothes and toys, and, for older kids, a study area.

Children’s bedroom sets by KIBUC come in five age ranges: 0-3 years, 3-8 years, 8-12 years, 12-17 years and 17-25 years. The first set deals with the demands of infancy, such as cribs and changing tables, while teen bedrooms offer additional storage and trundle, bunk or transforming beds to accommodate siblings or visitors.

The various designs offer solutions for different personality types, like bedrooms with more storage for books and additional privacy, or setups for more social kids who often entertain friends.

As the kids grow into young adults, the designs become more sophisticated. The 17-25 series ranges from super-compact bedroom sets that could fit into a standard college dorm to entire separate rooms-within-rooms that can be closed off and curtained for a sense of private space. See the entire range, as well as adult furniture for the rest of the home, at KIBUC.com.

Moving? There’s An Easier Way

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Moving is a pain for everyone, but Moveline can make it a little easier. The service already reaches out to movers on your behalf, gathers estimates, and then presents them to you for comparison, but now Moveline assigns you a personal “Move Captain” that streamlines the process from beginning to end.

The service has expanded to over a dozen major metro areas in the US, has more moving companies under their belt, and makes the moving process even easier. When you sign up, the service gives you a dedicated analyst to help streamline your move. Just tell the service where you are, where you’re going, and provide some information about your move to get started. If you want, you can take a short video tour of your apartment or Facetime your analyst to provide them with more information about your move. This way movers don’t have to visit to provide an estimate.

Moveline will then reach out to movers in your area that are all licensed, insured, and approved by the company, get competitive estimates for you to review, and then share them with you—along with ratings and reviews of each company from other users who have moved with them in the past. From there you can pick the one you want to handle your move.

Moveline’s analysts even offer helpful tips to make the moving process itself easier, like estimating the number of boxes you’ll need to buy, whether you should get a storage container. They’ll help you add services you didn’t know you needed, or just offer ways you can beat back the stress that comes with moving across town or across the country.

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7 Superb Designer Kitchen Setups

The main design elements of the household kitchen have remained more or less the same for many decades, but the Philippe Starckcollection from Warendorf are surprisingly fresh and different.

The Starck collection takes kitchen design in a rather unexpected direction. The collection features the combination of kitchen functions with elements of different rooms.

In one design, the kitchen takes on the functionality of a library as well. The inclusion of tall shelves and even a rolling library ladder give the kitchen dual purposes as well as an unusually sophisticated aesthetic.

Another of Starck’s designs includes a rotating tower kitchen which contains everything one needs to have a fully functional kitchen: water, a stove, a fridge and a microwave are all contained in this tower kitchen design, along with plenty of storage space.

The kitchen designs from Starck and Warendorf go to show that even small-space kitchens can be eye-catching and completely functional.

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Home Automation Energy Saving Tips

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Dramatic, Angular Modern Office in Luxury Lake House

Lake-House-Modern-Office-1An angular wood-paneled office with built-in work surfaces and dramatic red lighting is just one standout element of this luxury lake house on Lake Austin

by Bercy Chen Studio. The dark and insular qualities of the office make it feel like a womb-like space for daydreaming and concentration, in stark contrast to the bright openness of the rest of the home.

Like much of the home, the office is lined in Massaranduba Brazilian hardwood. Its most intriguing feature is a niche that seems to extend out into the yard; it holds a mattress and is topped by a skylight with a sliding cover.

Situated on a peninsula within the lake, this tranquil contemporary home boasts a wrap-around reflecting pool and adjacent swimming pool that come right up to the glass walls of the living space, making it seem as if you could step right out into the water. In fact, you can – stepping stones lead from a clear acrylic exterior door to the lawn.

With the wall of glass on the bottom level, a terrace on the second floor, and an angled solarium with a louvered screen that lets in daylight, water and sky are undoubtedly the focus of the home.