Denise Wenacur, Allied ASID, Assoc. IIDA - A young family of five in Westchester, NY needed a place to play games, watch movies, relax with friends, and do homework. With a love of texture, organic shapes, and chocolate - we had some fun with the design details!
The idea of chocolate was the inspiration for faux painted leather walls. It instantly warmed up the large 750-square-foot space and made it cozy.
Sarah Van Arsdale - As we travel around the world in the new year, let's take a look at the color of the skies we fly to our destinations: sky blue. What makes this the perfect color for luxe home decorating?
Blue soothes, calms, and helps you focus: that's why so many airplane cabins are decorated in blue.
That's also the reason blue is often a favorite for decorating a bedroom.
Wired magazine's August 2010 issue gave us the 411 on all the geeky, cool video components available for the home. It helped us sort out the drek from the must-haves. Click here to see their television feature, and read on to check out their five picks for the ultimate home television solution.
Have you ever gone to the movies and thought about the many ways you could improve the experience? Those queues could be eliminated, and so could the attitude of the young kid at the door. It could be cleaner, the food is too expensive, and the only seat left by the time you get there is in the very first row where you strain your neck looking up at the screen. They call that entertainment?
Money magazine's much-fanfared list of Best Places to Live in the U.S. each year positions smaller cities as rivals to find the best places to live according to conditions ranging from jobs to commute time. One of the measurements of quality of life is affordable housing, and according to this year's picks, Deerfield Beach, FL tops the Where Homes are Affordable list.