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DESIGN DILEMMAS: Building the kitchen triangleWicked LocalBy Linda Brigida QUESTION: We recently purchased a new home and the kitchen is our top priority. We are planning to tear out most of it and start fresh. The project will begin as soon as spring arrives and I am starting to look at kitchens ideas now. |
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The makeover magicianTimes LIVEDesigning and decorating a home for a cooking fanatic who collects books, art, music, wine, toys and things for the kitchen. We had to sort out and catalogue everything before we began designing. Once we had an idea of the amount and type of storage ... |
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Drawn to water, couple finds dream home on pier in BaltimoreBaltimore Sun"We weren't sure whether we wanted urban or suburban," said Linda Olsen, a 48-year-old interior decorator. "We looked at a condo in Towson and properties in Homeland and Roland Park." Both agreed they didn't want condo living but loved the idea of ... |
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Designer Airport | Home Away From HomeDesignBuild SourceThe aptly named 'Almost @ home' lounge features interior aspects that have been chosen to most correctly reflect a Finnish, or any, home. This includes a lounge/kitchen area, dining room, bar, office and play space in addition to offering functional ... |
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6 Modern Kitchen TrendsPatch.comContemporary ideas for decorating kitchen appliances, cabinets and walls. Vinyl clings are inexpensive and not permanent. They can be used on stainless steel or mirrored fridge housing to change up your look. Contemporary furniture for modern kitchens ...and more » |
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Celebrity Cookoff (The Finale)Houston Chronicle (blog)We move on to the choosing of the interior decorations. Taylor gets all assertive, and is taking Coolio to school when it comes to selecting decorations. And Coolio doesn't like it. The action then moves to the kitchen, where Coolio starts talking ...and more » |
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30-Year Trip From School to CondosWall Street JournalAfter waiting out the housing slump of the 1990s, Mr. Sung began gradually renovating the school, removing the interior walls between classrooms and decorating the school corridors with marble tile. By 2003, Mr. Sung obtained a certificate of occupancy ...and more » |
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The ultimate budget decoratingWashington PostAs annoying as I may sound, there is a practical method to my madness: I am getting my decorating fix without spending a lot of money. Sometimes I can update the look of an entire room without spending any money at all. |
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Milking it for all it's worthFort Wayne Journal GazetteContemporary country and shabby chic meet in the barn's interior décor. Auctions provided many of the furnishings. Four years of planning and construction went into converting the barn, which the Imels moved into in 1998. Converting a barn into a home ... |
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Interior Decorating Featured Article
Beyond Paint: Decorating Walls With Stencils
02/08/12
by George Stevens
Painting walls in various colors is a quick and easy way to decorate any room in your home. But when you're looking for something a bit more artistic and unique, you might try your hand at stenciling.
Stencils come in a variety of forms: Simple geometric shapes to elaborate scenery. Really good stencils can actually reproduce famous paintings and designs too.
A simple room decoration stencil pattern to start with is borders. Stenciling borders can be done in addition to existing wallpaper, or as a replacement. Stenciled borders can be repeated geometric designs, or more detailed repeating patterns such as vines, flowers or leaves. Borders can also be placed at the top of a wall, the bottom, or in dead center for variating effects and design influences.
Stencils allow you to create friezes as well. This is done simply by starting with a strong contrasting color at the top, and carried downward through gradually fading tints until they are lost in the general color of the wall
There once was a pink and silver room belonging to a young girl, where the salmon-pink walls were deepened in color at the top into almost a tint of vermilion which had in it a trace of green. It was, in fact, an addition of spring green dropped into the vermilion and carelessly stirred, so that it should be mixed but not incorporated. Over this shaded and mixed color for the space of three feet was stencilled a fountain-like pattern in cream-white, the arches of the pattern rilled in with almost a lace-work of design. The whole upper part had an effect like carved alabaster and was indescribably light and graceful.
This is an example of very delicate and truly artistic treatment of stencil-work, and one can easily see how it can be used either in simple or elaborate fashion with great effect.
Irregularly placed floating forms of Persian or Arabic design are often admirably stencilled in color upon a painted wall; but in this case the colors should be varied and not too strong. A group of forms floating away from a window-frame or cornice can be done in two shades of the wall color, one of which is positively darker and one lighter than the ground. If to these two shades some delicately contrasting color is occasionally added the effect is not only pleasing, but belongs to a thoroughly good style.
One seldom tires of a good stencilled wall; probably because it is intrinsic, and not applied in the sense of paper or textiles. It carries an air of permanency which discourages change or experiment, but it may take a bit of practice to do well.
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