Sunday, August 22, 2010

White House Interior Design Homewares brand Tine K Home

This white house interior design could easily be characterized as elegant and luxurious interior design. In order to highlight all these stylish beauties, most of walls and wooden floors are painted in pure white. White dominant colors make a room look clean and neat interior and give the impression of luxury, this home belongs to Tine Kjeldsen, owner and designer of homewares brand Tine K Home. Even though there is so much cold colors in the interior it’s still comfy thanks to all wooden objects and other decor elements.



It presents itself as country house, located on Funen island near Odense in Denmark. The cool thing is that there is no sign of black color anywhere, even though it’s usually the main companion of the white. The house even become the main article of Elle Decoration UK in March 2010. "Photos by Birgitta Wolfgang Drejer"

Saturday, August 21, 2010

3D Interior design for Mac

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Contemporary Ranch Style House Remodeling Design



This ranch house totally changed into contemporary modern house. With slope site, this house has spilt level and all corners have outdoors space for daily and party activities. Open plan concept applied continuous form from inside to outside. For the kitchen, aluminum kitchen furniture applied with cheerful colors of appliances. New exterior finishes were chosen to blend the house with the shadowed tree trunks of the surrounding woods and windows and doors were replaced and reconfigured to optimize views to the surrounding landscape. Some walls removed to make bigger space. Interior design fulfill with accent details to cheer up the ambience. Designed by Architecture and Design.



Friday, August 20, 2010

Home Interior Designs

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Hometown Rooftop House Design Ideas

Roof top usually create as garden, but how if you have to have larger living space for optimizing privacy especially in hometown? At this house, rooftop becomes mini village for bedrooms. With blue outdoors colors, building on roof and space for playful activity beside it really enhance house appearance.








Parapet walls with windows surround the new village. Trees, tables, open-air showers and benches are added, optimizing the rooftop life. By finishing all elements with a blue poly-urethane coating a new “heaven” appears. It creates a crown on top of the monument. The addition can be seen as a prototype for a further densification of the old and existing city. It adds a roof life to the city. It explores the costs for the beams, infrastructure, and extra finishes, and it ultimately aims to be lower than the equivalent ground price. Designed by MVRDV.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Last Hurrah of Summer

There's something magical about summer, and although Fall might be my favorite season, I'm never quite ready for Summer to end.  Those lazy summer days I remember from childhood seem to have been replaced by jam-packed hectic days of "to do lists, " work and maintaining a household. 

{My dad on his boat, 1982}

Time seems to fly by more quickly every year.  It really is crazy.  Family time is more important to me now than ever. We're heading down the Corolla (in the Outer Banks, NC) for our vacation next week with a quick detour in High Point today and tomorrow. 

But I cannot wait to hit that beach, even if it is a cloudy stormy day like this one a few years back:
 

I can't wait to READ A BOOK...  FICTION, not a design one.   (well, possibly 1 or 2 design books ;)



Hit the waves...  and maybe actually learn to surf this year.  (I've never attempted... pregnancy, new baby, the usual)



I love Corolla.  My family's been taking me there every August since I was kid and Dave used to go there as a kid too with family friends.  He's from New Jersey and how funny is it that all those years back, we've both been going to the same beach at the same time every year?  We'd all hang out at Tim Buck II, eating icecream and chatting it up with other kids, but we never met.   I also spent a summer working there in college (At Sundog's if you ever go!!) and Dave frequently visited his girlfriend-at-the-time who also worked there that very same summer. Still, we'd never met.  Funny how life works.  ...Now we go every year as a family and plan on continuing the tradition for the rest of our lives. 


Some places just feel like "home" even when you only go once a year. 


So this week, we're going "home..."  I particularly love this moment:


...The first time you hit the beach...  You've just taken the stairs up the dunes and you can hear the waves and smell it and you know you  have the whole week ahead of you to do nothing but be. 

laugh-read-eat-chill

savor these last couple of weeks.



xoxo, Lauren

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Client Dining Room & Framed Fabric Panels

I'm helping a client of mine, Malinda, tweak a few things in her formal red dining room. Malinda and I met  at the accessory-arranging seminar I did at the Pear Tree Cottage last year and we've been working together since. She really enjoys finding special personal pieces for her home and is so great to work with.  She's so encouraing and really has a handle on her style, which tends to be bold, traditional and a tad English.  She's typically drawn towards a mix of patterns and is attracted to guilded accents like the sunburst mirror below and bold colors.  In her dining room, we've kept all of the existing furniture and introduced some accents and were looking to simply freshen it up. 


{Malinda's Dining Room Before}

And now...

{Malinda's Dining Room Now- We layered in more patterns and added framed ikat panels on the walls.  We're planning to add a new chandy & chairs under prints}


{the new velvet curtains}

My favorite part of the dining room is the pair of framed Ikat fabric panels I had made:



They add an almost modern, graphic element to the room.  They're proteced under UV coated glass and I used a linen liner in the frame to add more texture and a white outline around the fabric.  I love the juxtaposition of the fun fresh ikat with the formal guilded frames. 


For now, we have these seagrass chairs for balance under the Ikat frames and I love the natural element they add to the room.  Eventually we'd like to switch them out to something a bit taller and wider. 


Malinda can also keep plants alive!! Isn't her fern gorgeous?:


Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this little makeover and I can't wait to show you more!!  And thanks so much Malinda!!

xoxo, Lauren

Monday, August 16, 2010

Pure Projects #13: Finally Hang it!

 
You might  remember that we "finished" (nothing's ever really done here) Christian's bedroom a while back:




We'd never gotten around to hanging what we'd planned to hang in the blank spot next to his bookcase.  A few months ago I found this cool vintage German educational chart of a fish: 


{I've been very into chartreuse lately and the patina of the chart is just beautiful}

It sat in our basement for a while and finally I got around to hanging it this past weekend:

 

And I love it!!!  (And possibly more importantly, Christian does too...  Remember his fishing lessons?)


Anyway, it was funny how even this small change to Christian's room encouraged us all to hang out in there: 


I love how a change can make you more aware of a room's goodness. 

So, the project for this week is to finally get around to hanging something you've been meaning to hang. (If you haven't procrastinated hanging anything like I have, then this week is a freebie for you! ;)  But, if you have a special piece of artwork you've been meaning to frame and hang, or a group of family photos you've been planning to get up on the wall, go ahead & do it. 

If you want to share your project  and join in for Project # 13, you can link up below.  We'd love to see your project!  (Just make sure to link to the direct post so we can click directly over to it! :)


xoxo, Lauren


Also,  If you're in the area, check out the August issue of Washingtonian Magazine!  Jennifer Sergent included me (along with my friend Jill Sorensen) in an article she did and there's a photo of Christian's bedroom in there!


And, if you didn't enter the Saffron Marigold giveaway, you can enter it out here.
I'm also guest blogging over at my friend Ally's @ From the Right Bank about silhouettes so check it out! :)



Sunday, August 15, 2010

Silhouettes!

I'm guest blogging over at my friend Ally's at From the Right Bank about silhouettes!



Check it out here!
 xoxo, Lauren

Friday, August 13, 2010

Giveaway & Reader Discount from Saffron Marigold!!

It's Friday!!!  wahooo
...I don't do giveaways very often, but I'm so excited to be doing a giveaway with Saffron Marigold!!  As you might remember, I love blockprints & paisley and their patterns are right up my alley:

{love!!!}

There are so many beautiful hand-blocked prints to choose from but here are some of my favorites:

















Archana at Saffron Marigold has offered the winner one of the following:


-1 table runner (18 x 90) 

-2 Cushion Covers ( 17 x 17)

READER DISCOUNT:  Archana has also generously offered all of our readers a 10% discount for linens.  Just place an order and enter "PureStyle" in the comments section at checkout.
To enter for a chance to win the giveaway, click on the left sidebar to become a flollower of Pure Style Home and leave a comment after this post.  If you want an additional entry/ chance to win, you can tweet this post and be sure to let me know in the comments. (I just joined twitter and there's a link for it on the left sidebar...  I'm trying to get the hang of it so let me know if you can find me & I'll follow you too! :)  I'll be picking a winner randomly Wednesday, August 25th & will post the winner by that evening. 

Have a great weekend and I have to leave you with a quick pic of what just happened as I was typing:


parenthood. (in the mouth) hahhahaa i'm dying....


xoxo, Lauren