Water Features Boxed Design

In landscape architecture and garden design, a water feature is any of a full range of fountains, pools, ponds, cascades, waterfalls, and streams. Prior to the eighteenth century they were usually powered by gravity, though the famous Hanging Gardens of Babylon are believed to have been supplied by an Archimedean screw.

Traditional Japanese Water Feature Design

Wooden Jacuzzi Design

Jacuzzi is a company that produces whirlpool bathtubs and spas. Its first product was a bath with massaging jets. The trademarked Jacuzzi name is commonly used to refer to any bath with water jets, and can thus be considered a genericized trademark. Sometimes spas and hot tubs are also referred to as Jacuzzis. The company advertises that "they are Jacuzzi, and everyone else's are just hot tubs.

Luxury Roof Terrace Design

Apartment in Paris Interior Classic Designs

Well-known french designer Patrice Gruffaz, originator and proprietor of Lieux, a Paris shop selling fanciful furnishings, lives with his family in an apartment that reflects his passion for vibrant hues, his wit as a designer.
Ten years ago Gruffaz and Philippe Renaud, sharing a vision of contemporary design, founded Lieux, producing surprising, unpretentious furniture collections full of humor.

Spiral lamps topped with brightly colored shades baptized Lampe Affolée [collapsing lamp], candlesticks decorated with small bronze rabbits, l and rough wood chairs with wings of chicken feathers, plates squirming with trompe l'oeil snakes, and crystal goblets with bases containing plump red hearts burst forth from the workshops of the Patrice-Philippe partnership. Without Renaud today, Lieux continues to produce witty things that it sells along with the work of other designers in the long and narrow shop on the Boulevard Henri IV, just a stone's throw from the Place de la Bastille.

Guides on Planning an Outdoor Lighting Layout

Outdoor lighting projects such as garden lighting, park, landscape lighting need a serious planing. A successful outdoor lighting plan requires selecting the right fixtures, then placing and wiring them correctly. The first thing before planing an outdoor lighting is Selecting the right design and components, Walk into any home center or garden center this spring and you’re guaranteed to run into a towering display of low-voltage lighting. You’ll find $69 prepackaged sets and $100 individual lights; plastic fixtures and metal ones; lights you can shine down from trees and up from ponds.

Use waterproof pond lights for illuminating pools, fountains and other water features; offset path lights for lighting walkways; cone lights for highlighting both walkways and the surrounding plants; tree-mounted spotlights for simulating moonlight; and flood lights for illuminating trees, buildings and other large elements.

Consider that a Special lights need special effects too, A MOON LIGHT should be installed 15 to 30 ft. high and have one or more branches between it and the ground to simulate moon shadows. Provide at least 24 in. between the light and branches to prevent “hot spots.”

Here are another tips on designing an outdoor lighting plan:

• If your lights come with press-on fittings—the type that bite through the insulation and into the wire to make their connection—cut them off and use the wire connectors shown in Photo 4. 
• The farther a light is from the transformer (and the more lights installed between it and the transformer), the less light it will put out.  
• Always leave a little extra wire as you hook up the lights. This will give you the freedom to move a light after you’ve hooked it up for testing or after you’ve installed it.
• Burying the wires should be your last step. Lay everything out, hook up your lights, test your voltage, and look at your results at night before burying the lines.
• Purchase a transformer with a built-in photocell and timer. Orient the photocell with some western (sunset) orientation so it doesn’t turn lights on too early.

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Create Clean, Straight Lines Using Matching Curtain Poles

If you have the advantage of having a super dining area increasing the amount of natural light during the day by using trend curtains creates a striking and informal ambiance to the area.

Having flooded size trend curtains which cover two walls will also create the deceit of more space, along with clean lines and chic styles which suit both recent and contemporary homes effortlessly.

Using curtains poles which fit neatly into the corners of the shack also provide a style which is well thought out, bringing cohesion to the area. White or ivory trend curtains such as voiles or faux silk add a touch of contrast against the robust and durable practicalities of a dining shack furniture. This juxtaposition enables the curtains to be hung from Stygian coloured mantle poles to kudos the colour of the the dining suite beautifully and elegantly.

Try mixing trend lightweight fabrics with chunky furnishings to create stunning interiors which have a philosopher intermixture of textures to add depth with harmony to your dining room. Using flooded size curtains will also add height to a shack as well as existence the perfect solution for dressing area or land doors which are typically found in dinning rooms of traditionally styled homes.

Decorating For Newborn Baby Nursery Room & Bedding

Parents will be animated back the babyish was built-in and frequently asked: How to architecture and adorn a babyish nursery with style? The new built-in nursery is the appropriate abode for your baby, area the babyish are nurtured, parents can blow in their adequate chairs and the ancestors associates can adore and arena with the child. There are some tips in decorating your baby’s allowance (bedding / bedroom), amid added things:

• Decorating walls and aces a themes, chief on the absolute bank blush is a big task. The best accepted access is blush for a babe and dejected for a boy.
• Selecting the beautiful and adequate furniture, accede the time you appetite to use and allocation if there are pieces that are added as the babyish grows.
• Select Accessories, Use newborn-appropriate accessories that do not accept asthmatic hazards. Avoid long, blind bolt and strings. Mobiles, affected pictures, blimp animals and bendable toys accomplish ideal accessories in the nursery. Organize amplitude for toys in the anatomy of shelves, toy chests, boxes, etc.
• Lighting babyish room, accomplish the babyish nursery a affable one and you can additionally accumulate a babyish adviser to apprehend your babyish throughout the night.
• Below are sample pictures of bairn babyish nursery furniture’s and bedding with nice avant-garde abreast designs forth with it actuality anatomic and practical.

Japan Dentist’s Office Modern Architecture Design

Japan Dentist’s Office Modern Architecture Design

This is a circuitous and its dental dispensary dentist’s residence, amid on a admirable acreage apple amidst by rice fields and acceptable orchard. A accurate bowl with 300 millimeters blubbery forms askew structure, which makes three shells and two accessible pages. And another lay in the shift, they face anniversary added on the plate.

Anniversary bark has altered functions in, housing, clinics and cat-and-mouse rooms. In anniversary folio of two bottle boxes set and acclimated as a point and entered the amplitude amid two adjoining shells. This dental dispensary is a abode that can animate bodies to go analysis his teeth, and an absorbing abode to visit.

Glass Bed

This contemporary designed bed frame and surround is made from glass, ideal for grand interiors and those wishing to make a real statement in the bed room!



The elongated headboard has a series of three steps on which to rest the pillows at different levels and angles, which also offer space for putting your clock or a, table lamp or two, but to be honest I think that would be defeating the object in the plainness of this dramatic bed!

The overall dimensions of the Glass Bed are quite immense, a pretty large bedroom would be needed to accommodate it.

There is something quirky about this bed which really appeals to me! I think it’s the sense of space and clean lines it offers. The black pillows and what I can only assume is the mattress provide a striking visual impact. The little tufts of white ‘feathers’ adds a quirky interest! I think the bed would look equally stunning with bright white accessories!

I wonder how cold the glass is to the touch? Something the Italians have less to worry about than us in the UK! Touching the glass may be just the thing on hot sultry nights!

Designed by the Italian studios Santambrogio Milan, Glass Bed has also been designed with the series of steps which come down two sides offering a more compacted version and ‘looks’ to hold the mattress more securely in place.

For further details of Glass Bed visit fuzbiz , translation from French will be needed!

Beautiful Bathroom

This beautiful bathroom has been designed by Stefano Chiocchinni in partnership with stone designers and manufactures Cappellini. Cappellini have been designing and manufacturing in stone, marble and granite for over thirty years. The visual effects of the natural stone is simply stunning.

I adore the large circular bath made in natural Piasentina stone. The circular stone theme is continued with the matching basin and the circular structure of the shower wall and base.

The natural colours of the stone blend superbly with the white walls and light wooden floor boards. The floaty sheer curtain material adds a slightly feminine touch which compliments the hard surfaces of the stones wonderfully. Being able to catch glimpses of the outside garden makes the bathroom a unique space to relax in. giving the appearance that you are sitting in a private garden!

The different textures provide both a great visual stimulus and very tactile bathroom space. The stone work in the shower in contrast to the curtains has a more masculine look to it.

The kidney shaped stone bench fit’s the contours of the bath to continue and blend with the circular theme, while providing some very practical seating, complimenting the patterned marble basin back splash perfectly.

I also love the lighting! The beautiful glass like, droplets provides a sense of tickling water cascading down the room, while the more traditional style chandelier adds a touch of real glamour.

I am totally bowled over with this design! A practical and very useable bathroom space designed for modern living.

Contemporary Prefab Home Design from FlatPak

Contemporary Prefab Home Design from FlatPak, Prefab home design use unususl design, this prefab design need to assembly, created from wood materials, with glass as the room devider, designed by FlatPak, Photo courtesy of Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Luxury Beach Villa in Seychelles

An island abandoned by mankind for a few years has now become a favorite spot for luxurious holiday seekers! This private island in the Seychelles hosts 11 luxury lodges and treats its visitors to exotic species of flora and fauna.

A tranquil retreat for many, this private island villa offers an extensive view of the beach and a getaway that is out of reach for many. Private dining and drinks on the beach, a boat ride and evenings by the pool, sumptuous food and every other heavenly thing that one can think of is available here. Location is the key here of course but beyond that, a touché of elegance and sophistication makes it all the more cool!

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