African Home Decor: March 2010

Loft Room Divider

We're in the process of downsizing from a 4000 sq ft home to a 1200-sq ft loft. Do you know, loft living sounds more romantic than it actually is? We find that we really miss the traditional division of space. We miss having rooms. We miss the privacy!

We've been looking into options of dividing the space. Drapery is one, but do you have any idea how expensive a piece of fabric with four stitching is? It's quite a mystery actually, how much drapery can cost. The other option is to go with a company like the Sliding Door, but they are really pricey too.

We found this company, Loft Wall, today and we thought it might be a good option. They make portable dividers that you can customize the sizing and the panels. They are not cheap but they are not too expensive either. You can visit the web site to download the price list. Keep in mind that the published prices are retail, and no one pays retail!

Here are some samples:

To see more product specifications and pricing info, visit the Loft Wall web site.

Modern Planters

When we go to a really cool restaurant in Miami or Los Angeles we are always envious of the huge, modern planters that they have. It's really hard to find them. Most of the pottery places that we have in our local area sell the traditional planters. If you have a modern home you are kinda out luck.

Anyway, we just found a great source today for huge, commercial modern planters that we thought we'd share with you. They are so cool! We have no idea how much they cost, sorry. But if you are interested drop us a line and we'll get pricing info for you.

Here are some samples:

These are made by Green Form. To see more see their web site.

Color Story: Red

A pop of red home accessories to brighten up your day...

Red coral statues from Made Goods, Red Silk Flowers from New Growth Design, Shikaro Red Fabric from Fschumacher, Red Garden Stool from Urban Trend, Red Carpet from Chandra, Red Pillow from Caroline Cole, Red Chair from Jessica Charles, Red Artwork from Art Frame Source, Red Mirror from Made Goods.

All can be found under our home decor section.

Black and White Artwork

We usually have a really hard time finding artwork. Mainly because we know nothing about art and when you know nothing about something you tend to be really insecure. We suppose art is like wine, you can pretend to be a connoiseur or you can just decide you like what you like and that's that.

It's easier that way, no?

So here are some artworks that we just picked up for our own personal loft lately. It's a modern loft with very dark floors and white paint, so we thought we keep it simple by sticking to black and white theme. We really like them in person. They are made professionally for commercial projects so they look really nice and expensive, even though they are quite reasonable.

For more information on pricing and sizes, you can check out our artwork section. They are on the first few pages of the category.

Barbara Barry Home Accessories for Global Views

We haven't seen much from Barbara Barry for a while. She was huge a few years back, with furniture for Baker, fabrics for Kravet and so on. Her stuff was always so expensive though, so it was a nice surprise to see her home accessories collection for Global Views. They are actually reasonable!

The accessories has her signatured subdued colors & clean-lined styles. Here are some examples:

These items run between $100-$250 each. They will be posted in our home decor section shortly.

Pinehurst Residence

Check out our Pinehurst Residence featured in Michigan Home Resource Book this month! For easier reading, it's posted on our website.

Glenwood Residence Design Architecture by Wernerfield

Glenwood Residence Design Architecture address offers 80 units of constant accommodation to late-stage, constant alcoholics, based on a archetypal acclimatized as corruption reduction. Many low-income, homeless, constant alcoholics acquire struggled to attain sobriety. The Glenwood address is organized about a axial basin courtyard. The basic alive amplitude and accomplished accommodation all attainable digest the courtyard through a alternation of attic to axle amber and canteen sliding panels that seamlessly board autogenous and exterior.

Glenwood Residence Design Architecture by Wernerfield

Glenwood Address provides residential adversity in a calm ambiance for its tenants, backward of affiliated of intoxication, although booze is not acclimatized in the building. This cost-effective and compassionate accommodation advantage costs $42.98 a night. A night in detox costs about $218. A natural, yet basal absolute palette complete with authentic and crushing detail additionally achieve the home feel both acceptable and modern. A basal of anatomy actualization including geothermal heating and cooling, action ablaze appliances, belted architectonics materials, and a aeriform accomplishment architectonics envelope are all complete into the project.by Wernerfield

Modern House Hall Way Design furniture by Hulsta

Designing by Hulsta, you can administer some of these choices for your anteroom way space. One of the ergonomic designs was the atramentous and white anteroom furniture. Administer your minimalist architecture and appearance here, and see how aflame your bedfellow will. Another abstraction was the abreast alley architecture idea. You can administer the copse abstracts for this space. Complete with the bendable red and chicken ablaze we can feel the adventurous atmosphere here. If you charge some accessible amplitude to abundance your charge in clothes, umbrella, shoes, or a rain coat, it would be bigger for you to administer these avant-garde accumulator anteroom way adornment account to put your accessories here. Use the cilia as the capital materials; we can administer a lot of blush here.

Avonlea Residence

Our in-house photographer, Megan, had a chance to shoot the Avonlea residence before the project was completely finished, but I think the photos are good enough to share here! We hope to return after the client moves in (and the grass has grown!) Jeff Segard built this beautiful home in Lansing, MI.

Artist Bridge Studio by Architects Safdie Rabines

Artist Bridge Studio

Arch Flat created by California based architects Artist Bridge Studio Safdie Rabines congenital in 111.48 sq meters areas. This activity is a flat for two artists adulatory to actualize a new assignment amplitude while aspersing the appulse of any new architecture on the accustomed mural of their property. The flat is amid to the rear of an absolute house, abutting it to a admirable allocation of the armpit which above-mentioned to the accession had not been accessible. To actualize the flat and library after advancing the surrounding area, the flat was conceived of as a �bridge� spanning a baby approach adjoining to the house, accouterment the befalling to acquaintance the coulee from the best of all accessible locations in and aloft it.

Artist Bridge Studio by Architects Safdie Rabines

The arch is accurate on two accurate piers on either ancillary of the coulee and is spanned with two trusses fabricated of top and basal glulam chords with animate cantankerous members. Spanning beyond the arroyo, the ablaze amphibian actualization of the architecture is acquainted central and out. Not alone does it arise to bewitch aloft the land, on the interior, it additionally interacts with the elements by aperture itself to the elements via colossal sliding doors, which add to the activity of abeyance while aperture to abduction ocean breezes.Artist Bridge Studio by Architects Safdie Rabines

Yellow Fever

Sending you a little bit of sunshine...

Yellow Dress by Sari Gueron (via Style.com), Silk Flowers by Inside Avenue, Rug by Thomas Paul, Garden Stool by Emissary, Indian Vogage Wallpaper by Scalamandre.