Color Effect - In Your Kitchen

Color makes a huge impact on the space it fills. The right shade or texture can make your kitchen look bigger, smaller or even cheerier. Knowing how your color choices will affect your kitchen design can help you develop a color scheme that improves your room’s overall design while also filling it with your favorite hues.

Depending on what you want to accomplish with your space, the colors you choose can help you achieve it. The effects of color can create the illusion of a changed space. Cooler, lighter colors can help make a room feel bigger while warmer and darker colors can make a space smaller or bring a high ceiling down farther.

Similarly, the textures you choose will change the look and feel of your kitchen.  The texture effects of stainless steel with its sleek visual interest will vary from the impact of wood’s natural warmth. Meanwhile, a combination of the two will lead to an entirely different design.

Finally, nothing makes a big impact in your kitchen like bright colors. A splash of orange or turquoise brings a bold look to your design when done right. Discover where the best spots are for your favorite saturated shades.

Texture Effect - In Your Kitchen

Make the Materials you use work for you.

Texture adds contrast and interest to your kitchen surface. Think of texture in both tactile and visual terms. The txture of materials becomes apparent when you feel it. Other have strong patterns or designs that create visual interest. A good design will typically three to four textures in the kitchen.

Here's how some product and materials can add texture to the kitchen

Material	Effect
Laminate and solid surface	Smooth tactile texture; visual interest from decorative patterns
Stone	Smooth surface with visual interest from granules and patina
Wood	Smooth finishes with visual interest from wood grain: maple offers cleanest, less grainy look; cherry has a little more grain; and oak and pine show the most
Tile	Unglazed offers rough tactile texture, while glazed will be smooth; visual interest comes from patterns and cut
Concrete	Generally smooth to the touch but visual interest from pits and discolorations
Stainless steel	Smooth feel with sleek visual interest
Vinyl and linoleum	Smooth surfaces with visual interest from decorative patterns
Architectural details	Both tactile and visual texture from materials such as pressed metal, plaster, exposed brick and concrete, and exposed beams and rafters

Atelier Pfister = Radicals by rock-solid quality

The basic idea behind this design collection is simple: We want to maintain our tradition, passion and quality culture and modernize ourselves continuously. We carry these values together and draw the eye towards zeitgeist. And the thing is clear: quality through radical-solid craftsmanship and durable design that stands out from the rest.

Colorful Offices of Creative Studio 3FS

It’s official- the wall decal is the new mural! These popular graphics are fun, witty, and technically “green” because they are easily applicable and transferable. In our search for creative office spaces, we found the offices of Third Frame Studios to demonstrate just how clever these décor concepts can be. Slovenian firm Zek designed the graphics which are slightly geeky in nature to bring the rooms a focal point by dressing up the vibrant office walls with playful images. Although it is questionable whether all this colorful art is stimulating work productivity, they certainly make it an amusing work environment with each statement!

Cafe Pavilion

The town cemetery in the Eastern part of Düren has taken on the role of a public park. Before, there was nowhere for cemetery visitors to shelter nor for large or small funeral ceremonies to take place. The new cemetery and café pavilion is a space where people can encounter each other when things are out of the ordinary. They can grieve together, exchange memories and look for refuge, which they will find under a multifaceted ceiling landscape.

The architecture of the pavilion unfolds out of a neutral, nondescript, square ground plan. Three closed volumes have been inserted to accommodate the service facilities of the pavilion; they structure the space and divide the ground plan into three areas, without blocking them off from one another. Each of the three areas, which all receive visitors, is characterized by archetypical roof shapes and varying room heights, combining to form one large space. The barrel vault, the mono-pitch roof and the tented roof of the visitor areas together form a manifold, continuous ceiling landscape, which offers refuge and connects the visitor areas to form a flowing unified space; it also provides richly diverse views into the surrounding park. The landscape profile created by these roof shapes can be read on the façade; it connects the individual exterior elevations of the building with one another.

Furniture by Tyler Beauty + Function = Reinier de Jong

GREEN

RED

Donna Karan’s Manhattan Apartment

Everybody knows who Donna Karan is. It’s a woman who built her enormous fashion empire in less than a decade on one extraordinarily simple idea: If she needs a particular item of clothing – a bodysuit, a wrap skirt, a chiffon blouse, a longer jacket – then every other woman needs it, too. Donna Karan’s Manhattan apartment is decorated in Zen style. “New York City inspires and fuels everything I do,” says Donna Karan. Minimal in structural and decorative elements, the space has just enough layered textiles and organic elements to create an inviting space for private or more public and social gatherings. The black and white color palette provides a modern and sleek backdrop for the more personally captured moments selected and learning in clustered frames. I like the simple colors and furniture; it’s a feeling like we are in the East. Serving as resting spot for collected artifacts, sitting mats, or even as a step into the next room – it creates a modern line visual and acts a multifunctional design form.

Skype Offices in Stockholm by PS Arkitektur

The office design is based on the spirit of Skype, how it is a useful and playful tool that connects the world. The in-between shapes of interconnected nodes has given us romboid and triangular shapes that is visible in the flooring and in the design of some of the hard furniture. The playful happy theme in colours and soft furniture comes from the Skype graphics and the Skype cloud logo is reinterpreted as cloud-shaped lighting throughout the office space. The Stockholm office predominately works with audio- and video development and this is manifested in the special made wallpapers with cables, earphones and other devices linked to audio-video technique.

Ecobank, A Multi-Function Workspaces

More From Small Workspace

Beautifull small desk in the corner

Absolutely! Home offices often have the pressure of having to be multi-purpose spaces, so being able to accommodate all those needs in style is not always easy. It’s great to have a place that you look forward to spending time in.

Small a beautiful corner

Colorful of Life

Màu sắc luôn mang đến cho chúng ta cảm nhận thật tuyệt vời trong cuộc sống. Và ảnh hưởng trực tiếp đến cảm xúc của mỗi người chúng ta.
Hãy nhìn xung quanh bạn... Sắc màu cuộc sống.Màu xanh của cây, của bầu trời, của biển cả mênh mông,... Màu vàng của nắng, màu cam của rau quả, đỏ chót của chuồn chuồn ớt, hay như tím ngát của trời hoàng hôn... Và tôi yêu màu nâu của đất. Mỗi ngày chọn cho mình một màu nhé. Cuộc sống của bạn chắc chắn sẽ thú vị hơn rất nhiều.

Monday

Heavy dose of modern minimal - Koen Van Damme

Modern Textures + Cool Office - Ippolito Fleitz Group

Modern. Captured by Simon Devitt

Some very nicely captured interiors by Simon Devitt. I love the low lighting in some of these modern interiors. The home with the green shell chairs mixed with the light wood floors and the bamboo on the exterior, so earthy. Not a whole lot of cute overload on plastolux but the first pic, fawntastic!

The Caulfield House - Bower Architecture

Cafe Đắng

Do You Know - Jorge Zalszupin?

The Polish born Jorge Zalszupin moved to Brazil after World War II, where he found an opportunity to develop his extremely sensual, modern architecture. A desire to rebuild a new post-war world and a wave of development in Brazil proved an ideal time for this creative atmosphere to flourish. Graceful lines, strong use of local woods and a combination of impeccable woodworking and classical detailing mark Zalszupin’s furniture.

Zalzsupin was one of the founders of the brand L’Atelier, a design collective comprised of architects, engineers, craftsmen and a full-scale team of professionals that did everything from researching materials to the finalizing the product. With the birth of the utopic Brasilia during the 1960’s and 1970’s, virtually no public building was left unmarked by the brand’s creations. L’Atelier’s designs stand as benchmarks of modernism to this day.

Studio Toogood - Assemblage 1

Studio Toogood designs, directs and executes interiors and environments from concept through to creation. Offering a full creative direction and interior design service, the Studio’s projects range from the two-dimensional page to the three-dimensional space, and from the real to the conceptual.

Artist Alex Kanevsky

Alex Kanevsky was born in Russia and came to the United States in 1983 with his family. He settled in Philadelphia where he later studied and graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He was honored with many prestigious awards while attending PAFA including the Pearson Memorial Prize for Painting; the Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for Painting; the William Emlen Cresson Memorial Travel Scholarship, which he used for travel in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, France and Russia in 1992; and a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center in 1994. 

Clean white & minimal - JM Architecture

Italy based JM Architecture is at the top of their game when it comes to modern minimal interiors.

Coalesse - Tolleson Design

 office and work space

Coalesse - Tolleson Design

 http://www.tolleson.com

Renowned contract furniture manufacturer Steelcase Group approached Tolleson to collaborate on uniting three legacy companies – Brayton, Metro and Vecta – into a new brand, establishing a much-needed new category. Aptly named Coalesse, the resulting identity defines a new niche through a brand story and experience accessible to a varied audience.

MODERN INTERIOR

Lajos_Geenen/Portfolio 

Lajos_Geenen/Portfolio

photography    KOZO TAKAYAMA  http://www.kozotakayama.jp/profile/ 

What an amazing talent!

 PINO - LIFESTYLE STORE BY BOND

Bark Chair by Creative Affairs

‘BARK’ is a set of chairs that came from the observation of a tree’s section, as a way of expressing the unique relationship between the outside and the inside. What you can immediately see and what truly lays within. This argument led the project to establish this special bond by making a clear division between the elements that form a chair. This partition is done in two groups: skeleton and exoskeleton. The former comprises the inner frame, which is the one that envelops the function of use. Whereas the latter include the most visible parts, which represents the symbolic function of the object that interacts immediately with the user.

Charmes- Valentine 's Day 2011

www.chezcharmes.com

HaNoi, Spring

Happy Birthday To You! - Scorpio nvantruc

Happy Birthday To You

11-1-2011

In new age, i wish you will stronger
and you will to feel happier.

Scorpio

Contact: nvantruc@gmail.com

Ikea TRÄBY Hack - Wood White Modern Credenza

I recently put together a small credenza from the TRÄBY line. We put it in place under our window, right away we noticed that it just blended into our floor. I purchased some high gloss white paint and painted the perimeter with about 8 coats of paint. I think it looks much better. See the results after the jump.

Modern Landscaping by Bernard Trainor + Associates

I need all the cold weather to go away so I can throw down on some landscaping. Bernard Trainor + Associates has an absolutely amazing portfolio full of some of the nicest designs I have seen. They have a great mix of desert and tropical feeling landscapes. More after the jump.