Zoning

In my experience, the most successful kitchens I’ve designed have been those where I’ve used the concept of "zoning"..

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Kitchen remodeling:: tips & ideas

When you decide to remodel your kitchen, the three most important elements you should consider are space, time & budget. Only having thought about these should you start thinking about style & d?cor. So don’t get the brochures just yet - first examine these issues. The three elements are correlated but let’s examine them separately - staring with the last..

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Here are the pictures of the parquet floor as it was left by the floor layers. The floor-laying was almost completed. They worked on it for ten days and did a good job. I don’t understand why they decided to leave after ten days of work!

I have found another guy who is coming on Monday and will finish laying the edges.

Then the floor will be sanded at least twice, the gaps between the tiles will have to be filled (the parquet bits are old and some are uneven), then sanded again lightly. This will be followed by two coats of polyurethane varnish.

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Decorating kids rooms

I’ve written many times before about the basic rules of successful interior design - but when it comes to decorating a child’s room, it’s another ball-park. This is the place where you can let your creativity go wild and experimental. This is the room for themes, colors and extremes..

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Being a designer myself, when I hear the label "designer" attached to a product I get excited yet suspicious at the same time. When it comes to rugs - what is difference between a designer rug and a contemporary rug or traditional rug? Is a designer rug actually unique and of better quality - or just more expensive because of its label?

Having searched on the net, it seems that designer rugs either have a famous artist or designer’s name attached to them or have some strong bold patterns to justify the word "design". Indeed some of them look like they have been designed, but rather badly - in fact some of them verge on the edge of vulgarity.

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