Articles Tagged ‘Interior design’

Shoji panel, rather than a room divider

Eastern culture and the elements that characterize their environments have a great influence on interior design and decoration in the West, for example, shoji panels are increasingly used in separation of environments and for other uses, creating sliding doors stay, interior windows and even walls for storage units. The shoji panel itself is a wooden lattice structure into small rectangles symmetrical, there are several woods that can be used from the lighter to the darker, depending on what best compliments the furniture or parquet, filling in this structure rectangles are placed in colored paper, it is a simple set of elegant and easy to combine, so its use is spreading increasingly. In the image of this article we see a proposal Shoji designs, solution to a specific situation in a house is a room decorated in two heights, it takes the bottom of the attic as a storage area and greater order and appearance more aesthetic ends with a custom shoji panel. One advantage of the sho...

Use of concrete for swimming. A friendly material?

Many people do not like exposed concrete finishes, because they consider it a material cold and unwelcoming. They also said that looks like unfinished. These are some of the prejudices about the use of concrete as a finish in interior design. But concrete is a very noble, strong and as can be built in sit, is a very plastic. Practically, the limit is your imagination. This not to mention his other qualities that make it an ideal material. As is its low maintenance, low cost, how easy it is clean, variety of finishes and colors that can be applied and the ease to get there. Its disadvantages are that it is a heavy material and semi-permanent. For that once installed is difficult to move if it is prefabricated. In contrast, if built on site, you probably have to be demolished. There is also the disadvantage that it is a material that gets little prefabricated, so that involves making a small project and hire someone who specializes in the work of this material, as a bricklayer for ...

Throughout history and interior design, bathrooms have occupied an important place in homes. In ancient Rome, these spaces were not only toilets but true meeting places for politicians and philosophers. Currently, the bathroom is no longer a purely functional room, limited to hygiene routine to become an area of privacy and beauty, fit for comfort. The materials used to build and decorate the bathrooms have been diverse: while in the recent past used only decorators and marble tiles, is now frequently used materials such as stainless steel, concrete, acrylic and glass. Although the trends are very different, we can distinguish two aspects in the design and decoration of these important spaces. On the one hand we have the minimalist bathrooms, neutral colors and smooth, simple lines and clear spaces, if this design style is combined with the use of cool colors (purple, lavender, white), you can create an effect of rest and relaxation. A second trend is inclined to the...