Modern dining room tables, for example, will highlight mere lines These are the traditional ways that dining furniture may come but in the modern setting, things could be quite different. For example, you can find furniture with unusually shaped legs, bases or tabletops with artistic etched designs. Some dining furniture come with elaborate engravings or etchings in them. Typically, a dining table would usually be weighty especially in the base or leg part, thus, making the whole dining set quite bulky.
While this is not absolute, this is how things go for the most part in the modern furniture industry. These days, dining furniture can go to extremes of either plain black or plain white. Classic furniture would usually emphasize the grain of the wood which is finished with medium to dark shades. There have been some major changes even in the treatment of wood, along with the finishing and the resulting textures. Comparing traditional and modern dining sets will lead one to discover that the differences don’t only lie in design.
This is where great home memories are built and when it comes to making these memories more special, you can count on fine dining furniture. There’s probably no other place in the home where you could get everyone to share the day’s events, crack jokes and make life just sweeter for having all these special people around. The traditions and values we’ve held on through the years couldn’t come move alive than in the dining room where the whole family gathers for some nice food and great conversations.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Happy Memorial Day
I wanted to say a very special and sincere thank you to all the men and women who have served or are serving our country. Your bravery and selflessness are an example to all.
Happy Memorial Day, I hope everyone out there is having a relaxing day!!!
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Sunday, May 30, 2010
Quiet Time

I know there a lot of people out there who are sick or are taking care of sick loved ones. Sometimes I don't know which one is worse. If you don't mind please say a prayer for my Mom as she continues to care for my Grandmother. It is a very special thing to be able to take care of a dying/sick a parent, but heart breaking and relentlessly tiring at the same time. I know several of you reading this know what that is like.
Also, I would just like to say thank you for all the comments and e-mails to last weeks Quiet
Time. Your comments mean more to me than I could ever express. While praying about
what the Lord is asking from me a song a popped into my head. I thought I would share the
lyrics:
Here I Am Lord
I, the Lord of sea and sky
I have heard my people cry
All who dwell in dark and sin
My hand will save.
I who made the stars and night
I will make the darkness bright
Who will bear my light to them
Whom shall I send?
Here I am Lord
Is it I Lord?
I have heard you calling in the night
I will go Lord
If you lead me
I will hold your people in my heart.
I the Lord of snow and rain
I have borne my people's pain
I have wept for love of them
They turn away.
I will break their hearts of stone
Fill their hearts with love alone
I will speak my word to them
Whom shall I send?
Here I am Lord
Is it I Lord?
I have heard you calling in the night
I will go Lord
If you lead me
I will hold your people in my heart.
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Modern and Natural Outdoor Kitchens and Baths Design
Outdoor kitchens and baths have made their way to being a spotlight trend. Outdoor kitchens are very popular, and are especially useful in summer to keep extra heat out of the house. Outdoor baths are a little slower taking off, especially in the US, as we tend to be a bit conservative. However, if you live in a more rural area (i.e. NOT in a neighborhood), these intimate retreats can be very sensual or relaxing escape.
Outdoor kitchens are wonderful for entertaining, and can add value to your home. Simple outdoor kitchens can consist of a counter top, sink, prep area, shelf storage, and a grill. High-end outdoor kitchens can consist of weather resistant cabinetry, stainless steel appliances (sometimes including wine storage), sinks, pizza ovens, steamers, fryers, the whole nine yards!
A tropical paradise and a soothing tub full of fragrant flowers can be intoxicating. This outdoor bath provides privacy as well as a view, but should there be any onlookers at the beach, the window can be closed with a solid panel.
Outdoor spaces are wonderful, but take care to contact a qualified contractor and designer before you start into your project. As mentioned above, drainage, ventilation, electrical, and plumbing issues must be addressed in order to make your dream space function the way you envision it to, and as city codes mandate it to.
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Outdoor Design
Modern Architecture of Elegant Pool House Design
This pavilion for entertaining and changing is an addition to the existing house with a pool. It has modern design from natural materials and provides everything owners could possible need while they relaxing near the pool. The wall and roof planes are pushed/pulled apart and made translucent to create a sense of air and light. The house is separated for public and private spaces. The private space is for changing and taking shower while the public one for cooking and taking a snack or just sitting near the pool hidden from the sun. Most materials which were used are close to natural ones so the house blends with surroundings without any problems.
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Pool House Design
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Modern Sustainable Architecture Home Design with Style Elegant and Luxury Interior Design Ideas
Modern and Elegant Decor Ideas
All sorts of vases, decorative bowls and other containers are the best helpers of the designer. Interior can be easily animated with beautiful flowers in decorative pots. Just remember watering them regularly. And a large decorative flower could symbolize the "tree of life" in your modern home and create a unique atmosphere of tranquility and happiness.
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Modern and Elegant Decor Ideas
Modern Seaside Cottage Homes on the Sweden's Stockholm Archipelago
A wrap up Sauna facilities and the needs of this modern seaside cottage homes. A comfortable, cozy home style suited to socialize in groups and just relax. The main house is open to the sea, while the bedrooms and more private bathroom, overlooking a remote page set by the old oak tree and rock. Located in Sweden Stockholm Archipelago, Island House by WRB Architects is a cool beach house designed to complement the settings of the beautiful waterfront. A sheltered timber deck allows for all weather outdoor entertaining, while also inviting natural home in the extensive use of natural wood to finish the floors, walls and ceilings. Holidays in this simple house offers a different design cottage style is marked by a panoramic sea life from outer space and the same glass-covered interior.
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Modern Interior Decoration Ideas
New Modern Kitchen Designs by Effeti - new Segno & Sinuosa Kitchens
These modern kitchens by Effeti will renew your appetite for hot trends – from their contemporary lines to their saturated hue, these two new designs are what’s really cooking in the kitchen in 2010. The Segno kitchen features a modern, minimalist look with streamlined cabinets and handles, seamless countertops and furniture melding into a combined eating-entertaining-living space. A simple white finish gives these cabinets unlimited longevity, and to get your color fix you can paint your walls the “it” shade of the season. But if you’re teetering on the edge of a color dive, the Sinuosa kitchen looks as stunning in vivid yellow as in its cool, contemporary counterpart of pure white, illustrating the versatility of this modern collection. Taking that one step further, this customizable, flexible kitchen design can be angled at 45 degrees, so its configurations can take many twists and turns. Both kitchens are by designer Giancarlo Vegni. For more information visit Effeti.
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New Modern Kitchen Designs
Friday, May 28, 2010
Go Figure.
We've worked so tirelessly to get the inside of our house feeling good and now all we want to do is go outside.
Summer's here (ok, maybe not really, but it totally feels like it) and it's time to break out the sprinkler for the little guys to play in!! I found this awesome vintage (I think) set of black iron outdoor patio furniture this week at Lucketts and I can't wait to bring it home in our truck today!! It's really not at all like this one from High Society below (it has much straighter lines) but its' the first thing I thought of (and my husband too-- poor guy has an awesome memory & I've been filling his head with decorating!!) when I saw the set.
It has kind of a modern retro-chic feeling that will work really well with the exterior of our {not-so-pretty}70s house. Here's a photo of it when we first moved in last year. (below) Enough good things haven't been done to it yet to warrant an "after" picture. (But we have moved the neon playset into a less conspicuous area until we can get the wooden one we're after, and the tree debris & drain pipe are gone.)
...The back and sides of our house are still beigey/ "nude" (I love to say that about our house... it cracks me up) while the front is now a rich gray. (Still?? Yes, still.)
{My little fern hanging on for dear life}
... I know the neighbors much just love us... but hopefully they won't think we're as worthless as we look once we paint the sides & back of the house as SOON as Dave off of work for the summer. (High school English teacher :) I can't wait!! (Both for summer vacation and a fully-painted house.)
Anyway, the patio set is kind of a combination of these (in black iron) but doesn't have pillows that we can use:
{vintage set}
{image from Maas Brothers recoating... It has a simlar 'X' back but with a large "O" in the center which is almost exactly the same as the caged lantern in our front entry. (see photo of entry a few pics up)}
{Crate & Barrel via Hooked on Houses... It has similar straight, spare lines but it's black. }
I LOVE its size (a massive 3-seater sofa, a chair and a chaise!!) and it has awesome lines, but the paint is peeling off and of course we need to have cushions made. I can't get the High Society cushions off of my mind but might go with a solid fabric and do pillows. (I wouldn't be going pink out there... but possibly an enlarged "grandma" floral... I'm also thinking about orange as I love it with the gray on the house...)
We've also got plans to work on the shed/ playhouse this weekend...
Below is a photo of the ceiling all primed & ready for paint...
I set up a Facebook Page for Pure Style Home last night & posted a couple more pics of the shed as it is now. I'm not quite sure how to really work facebook yet but hopefully I'll get the hang of it. I'm thinking I will post little updates & progress on projects there. Not as exciting as "voila" before & afters but I know some of you like to see behind-the-scenes & "progress" pictures.
Hope you have a happy Memorial Day weekend & get a dip in a pool!!! If you have some time, check out the new facebook page & send me some thought/tips/ideas!! (I'm so slooooow with computers/ technology!!) I'd love to know what you'd like to see on there.
xoxo,
lauren
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