Cuisine & Culture the Chinese Family Way
In the fast-paced world of today, where trends come and go, the concept of designing homes for generations is gaining traction. Families are seeking environments that not only cater to their immediate needs but also create spaces that can evolve with time. In this blog, we delve into the art of designing family-focused home interiors that seamlessly blend style, functionality and longevity.
In the world of home decor, luxury often feels like a realm reserved for glossy magazine pages and distant mansions. Yet, the essence of luxury isn’t necessarily about opulence or extravagance, but about creating spaces that evoke emotion, comfort, and personal connection. For many families, home is a sanctuary, a place where memories are woven together.
Oriental-style interiors convey tranquillity and calm. It can be achieved through harmony and balance in our hectic urban lifestyle. But it requires more than simply a few decorations. Rather, you need accuracy, thought, and care to remove undesirable additions.
The Oriental design is a blend of various styles, including Japanese, Chinese, and exotic Indian themes. However, for the majority of people, their culture is often heavily influenced by traditions that were developed in the Far East centuries ago.
Recently, I have used Washi tape to create these amazing geometric designs to update my cupboard doors. In fact, updating the furniture has been on my mind for many months but I had put it off. I finally mustered the courage to work on it and I’m really happy with the result. It is so affordable and the results are amazing.
Considering tables and chairs are the most popular furniture items in your home, there are few seating options as versatile as the bar stool. While they have been traditionally used in your home bar or placed around a kitchen island to maximise space usage, more opportunities are available to utilise these versatile pieces.
The kitchen is, the beating heart of the home, where everyone comes together. It could be siblings baking together or a place where housemates chat, a family of six plus pets having dinner together! It is a homely place where you can be inspired to cook or bake yummy meals for your loved ones. This recent lockdown had me cooking for almost seven days a week! It is definitely a place where we spent the most time together.
Kitchen is one of the most crucial and frequently used parts of a home. Even minor mistakes in design can backfire and lead to the loss of money and time. Before designing one should carefully plan each detail to avoid the stress later on.
Whether you are designing a traditional or modern style kitchen, there are several mistakes commonly observed in kitchen designs. These include poor utilization of space, choosing poor quality items, ignoring work triangles etc.
Decorating and designing your child’s bedroom can be tricky. For one thing, they could easily turn around not long after it is done and have completely different interests. How do you get around this and how exactly can you decorate their room in the first places. Let’s take a look, shall we?
3 creative ways to improve your bathroom for cheap
Remodeling projects are exciting. They bring out your creative side and get you to come up with ideas on how to improve your home. Although a major concern is the amount that you have to spend, you can remodel and redesign even while on a budget. The bathroom, for example, is one of the rooms that you can improve without spending much.
2017 Trends for Architecture and Design
Interior design changes frequently and new trends come into popularity. Many people may follow interior design just as they follow fashion, often updating their home to reflect the upcoming trends. To keep your home as up to date as possible, or simply impress your guests with the latest designs, you might be interested in the anticipated trends of 2017 for architecture and design. PCL Internorm bring you the predicted aspects of interior design that you’re going to see a lot of in the next few months.
If you were given a choice, who would not want to design your own swimsuit? Both of my children were so excited to get to pick what they wanted for their swimming costumes from Surania website.
This is my first time I’ve come across the concept of design your own swimwear and I think it’s a great idea. It is great to have the opportunity to wear something custom made so that there is less chances for us to be wearing the same swimwear at the swimming pool or beach.
At Surania, you have a wide range of styles to choose from which adapt perfectly to your body, your desires and your tastes. It allowing you to design your own bikini or swimsuit to your tastes and to manufacture the garments to your measurements. You can choose bikini, tankini, beach wear, mens wear and kids wear too!
Baseball cakelet is a recipe I found on Cupcake Envy by Amy Eilert published by Tuttle Publishing. She is a self-taught cake designer whose love of baking and working with her hands found a perfect outlet in cake making. She founded Cupcake Envy in Wake Forest, North Carolina in 2006. In this book, it showcases a range of her cleverly single-serving cakelets that resemble a stylish party dress, a desktop humidor, a cheery coffee cup, an adorable baby bottle, a wicked voodoo doll, a stylish purse and even a baseball!
This half term, we have been doing all sorts of activities at home including painting, reading and cooking. We even designed our own t-shirt! Both of my children have previously enjoyed designing their own cards, posters and all sorts but had not yet designed their own t-shirt. This is their first time and mine too!
We have received this t-shirt design kit from buytshirtsonline.co.uk. Inside this kit, it comes with Fruit of the Loom t-shirts, fabric pens, and iron-on heat transfers of Spider-Man and Disney Princess.
Mr C and I always love to watch Grand Designs presented by Kevin McCloud on Channel 4. We like to dream about how we are going to transform and equip our house with lots of gadgets!
Grand Designs has been exhibiting for years now and we never had a chance to go. We were so pleased that British Gas kindly gave us and one of my blog readers tickets to go to see the exhibition. As we had never been before, we didn’t quite know what to expect for the exhibition.
We arrived there quite late and it was really busy with massive amounts of people inside the exhibition halls. There were split into different categories like garden, innovation, kitchen, building etc. The first thing that caught my eyes were kitchen! We had a look at all the different brands of kitchen appliances and worktops. I always dream of having a well equipped kitchen with the latest gadgets. Well, for now, I can only dream as it is outside our budget to redo a kitchen!
The Jewel Starter Set is the perfect set for new Aqua beaders. It comes with simple templates to follow and it lets you create all kinds of creatures and objects. Aqua beads are small plastic beads which can be used to make pictures and then you use water to fuse them together to make the design in 2D or 3D.
