Home decorating is often seen as a necessity however, it should be an exciting experience. There are so many home decorating styles to choose from, so many colors, such a selection of furniture and accessories. Having to renovate or change your home decor should be a period of refreshing. The whole point in redecorating, whether necessity or not, is to improve your space in order to make it feel new and create an atmosphere that makes you happy.
Deciding on a home decorating theme may be difficult since there are so many great ones to choose from. Browsing online home decorating catalogues may help you to make up your mind regarding what’s best for your space. Online home decorating catalogues are quite convenient because they don’t require you to leave your home. Without stepping outside of your house, you can browse for hours, numerous online home decorating catalogues.
Because there are so many online decorating catalogues, you might want to narrow the search. If you’re looking for a particular item such as furniture, there are online home decorating catalogues which specialize in furniture only. If you are looking for accessories for a particular theme such as contemporary or French country, there are online home decorating catalogues that specifically deal with accessories for your home. There are catalogues for flooring, lighting, paint and any item you might choose to use in your home decorating project. The Internet provides a world-wide shopping center. Access to home decorating catalogues from all over the world gives you a selection that no department store could offer.
Picking items from online home decorating catalogues will provide you an opportunity to find unique items for your home. A great example of the benefits of online home decorating catalogues from other parts of the world is, using Tuscan design for your decorating project. Because this is a theme that is derived from the cultural heritage of Italy, finding accessories or even fabric to fit the Tuscan theme may compel you to shop from an online home decorating catalogue from Italy. If you live in North America, chances are you aren’t going to hop on a plane, go to Italy and shop for accessories and fabric. The online shopping option allows you to have the things you want for your home without going out and searching. With buy direct online shopping, it’s as simple as finding the articles you want, whether a pair of silver candlesticks or a terracotta jug, using various forms of payment, you can order these items and have them shipped to you from anywhere in the world.
Deciding on a home decorating theme may be difficult since there are so many great ones to choose from. Browsing online home decorating catalogues may help you to make up your mind regarding what’s best for your space. Online home decorating catalogues are quite convenient because they don’t require you to leave your home. Without stepping outside of your house, you can browse for hours, numerous online home decorating catalogues.
Because there are so many online decorating catalogues, you might want to narrow the search. If you’re looking for a particular item such as furniture, there are online home decorating catalogues which specialize in furniture only. If you are looking for accessories for a particular theme such as contemporary or French country, there are online home decorating catalogues that specifically deal with accessories for your home. There are catalogues for flooring, lighting, paint and any item you might choose to use in your home decorating project. The Internet provides a world-wide shopping center. Access to home decorating catalogues from all over the world gives you a selection that no department store could offer.
Picking items from online home decorating catalogues will provide you an opportunity to find unique items for your home. A great example of the benefits of online home decorating catalogues from other parts of the world is, using Tuscan design for your decorating project. Because this is a theme that is derived from the cultural heritage of Italy, finding accessories or even fabric to fit the Tuscan theme may compel you to shop from an online home decorating catalogue from Italy. If you live in North America, chances are you aren’t going to hop on a plane, go to Italy and shop for accessories and fabric. The online shopping option allows you to have the things you want for your home without going out and searching. With buy direct online shopping, it’s as simple as finding the articles you want, whether a pair of silver candlesticks or a terracotta jug, using various forms of payment, you can order these items and have them shipped to you from anywhere in the world.
During its 75th Anniversary year, the Museum of Science and Industry has created a functioning, three-story modular and sustainable “green” home in its own backyard to showcase the ways, big and small, that people can make eco-friendly living a part of their lives.
The home, which was designed by Michelle Kaufmann Designs-TM and built by All American Homes TM is the basis for the original Museum of Science and Industry exhibit Smart Home:Green + Wired, Powered by Com Ed and Warmed by Peoples Gas, which is open from May 8, 2008 through Jan. 4, 2009.
This marks the first time that a museum has built a fully functioning exhibit home of this kind on its grounds. And, in addition to that designation, after a comprehensive review of the home’s plans, materials and design in relation to the City of Chicago’s Chicago Green Homes Program, the Smart Home has also been named “Chicago’s greenest home.”
Celebrating exciting new directions in sustainable living and spectacular, environmentally-friendly technology, Smart Home: Green + Wired offers guests guided tours of the 2,500-square-foot home and grounds, located in a park on the east side of the Museum. Within the home, guests are able to view the latest innovations in reusable resources; smart energy consumption; and clean, healthy-living environments in a contemporary setting.
Smart Technology
With the help of key participant Wired magazine, the home will incorporate “smart” technologies, with a focus on energy efficiency, making greener choices and homeowner awareness. A home-automation system automates heat, lighting and window coverings to reduce energy consumption. The motorized skylight in the ceiling opens when detectors sense a cool breeze (saving air conditioning) and digital electronics in the plants send voicemail when they need water. When the doorbell rings, a touchscreen reveals a wireless video feed from the front entry. An energy monitoring system will track electricity and water usage on a real-time basis, giving homeowners a direct way to see the resources they’re consuming by the day or week.
Smart Home Interior
The interior architecture, which is inviting, sophisticated and family-friendly, demonstrates the use of natural light, open spaces, energy-efficient heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems and energy-efficient building components to maximize a healthy-living environment. The materials chosen-from the windows to the fixtures to the counters and floors-tell a compelling story of sustainable architecture and eco-friendly design. Guests learn how storm water runoff can be used for landscape irrigation; how toilets can be equipped to use waste water from the shower and bath; how spray-in foam insulation can create a completely sealed building, resulting in better air quality, a quieter home and greater energy efficiency; how recycled glass bottles can create beautiful bathroom tile-and much more.
The interior also includes unique furniture and accessories, including a couch covered in fabric made from recycled t-shirts, an ash wood dining table made with wood from a fallen tree, an organic mohair rug with a backing made from
recycled coffee bean bags, whimsical chandeliers that recycle old colored light bulbs and mid-century dining chairs found in a resale shop (a great way to recycle).
Landscape, Green Roof and Garage
The Museum of Science and Industry collaborated with Jacobs/Ryan Associates Landscape Architects, the University of Illinois Extension and Open lands to develop a native and sustainable site landscape for the Smart Home. Using organic materials and environment-replenishing concepts such as composting and collection of rainwater, a team from the University of Illinois Extension Horticulture, Environmental and Green Educators have created beautiful gardens around the house, alive with plants native to this area. Starting in the garden, guests explore the possibilities of a sustainable vegetable garden, rain gardens and other vegetation-how it can be used for food, indoor climate control and water recycling and conservation.
The home’s tour concludes on the roof, which is covered by a green-roof garden as well as photovoltaic film, which will harvest daylight and provide much of the home’s electrical energy. Rooftop gardens not only act as a source of cooling in the summer and insulation in the winter, but also absorb precipitation, which reduces storm water runoff, which can be reused for landscape irrigation. In the exhibit, guests explore the process of building a garden, along with its many environmental benefits.
The Smart Home garage is a multi-purpose space. In addition to housing vehicles, it can also be used as a movie room,
or offer other flexible uses in the future, when families of the future may not own two cars. The garage houses the latest in low-emission and energy-efficient vehicles, a Honda Civic Hybrid, which was awarded 2006 World Car of the Year “greenest car.”
During its 75th Anniversary year, the Museum of Science and Industry has created a functioning, three-story modular and sustainable “green” home in its own backyard to showcase the ways, big and small, that people can make eco-friendly living a part of their lives.
This marks the first time that a museum has built a fully functioning exhibit home of this kind on its grounds. And, in addition to that designation, after a comprehensive review of the home’s plans, materials and design in relation to the City of Chicago’s Chicago Green Homes Program, the Smart Home has also been named “Chicago’s greenest home.”
Celebrating exciting new directions in sustainable living and spectacular, environmentally-friendly technology, Smart Home: Green + Wired offers guests guided tours of the 2,500-square-foot home and grounds, located in a park on the east side of the Museum. Within the home, guests are able to view the latest innovations in reusable resources; smart energy consumption; and clean, healthy-living environments in a contemporary setting.
Smart Technology
With the help of key participant Wired magazine, the home will incorporate “smart” technologies, with a focus on energy efficiency, making greener choices and homeowner awareness. A home-automation system automates heat, lighting and window coverings to reduce energy consumption. The motorized skylight in the ceiling opens when detectors sense a cool breeze (saving air conditioning) and digital electronics in the plants send voicemail when they need water. When the doorbell rings, a touchscreen reveals a wireless video feed from the front entry. An energy monitoring system will track electricity and water usage on a real-time basis, giving homeowners a direct way to see the resources they’re consuming by the day or week.
Smart Home Interior
The interior architecture, which is inviting, sophisticated and family-friendly, demonstrates the use of natural light, open spaces, energy-efficient heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems and energy-efficient building components to maximize a healthy-living environment. The materials chosen-from the windows to the fixtures to the counters and floors-tell a compelling story of sustainable architecture and eco-friendly design. Guests learn how storm water runoff can be used for landscape irrigation; how toilets can be equipped to use waste water from the shower and bath; how spray-in foam insulation can create a completely sealed building, resulting in better air quality, a quieter home and greater energy efficiency; how recycled glass bottles can create beautiful bathroom tile-and much more.
The interior also includes unique furniture and accessories, including a couch covered in fabric made from recycled t-shirts, an ash wood dining table made with wood from a fallen tree, an organic mohair rug with a backing made from
recycled coffee bean bags, whimsical chandeliers that recycle old colored light bulbs and mid-century dining chairs found in a resale shop (a great way to recycle).
Landscape, Green Roof and Garage
The Museum of Science and Industry collaborated with Jacobs/Ryan Associates Landscape Architects, the University of Illinois Extension and Open lands to develop a native and sustainable site landscape for the Smart Home. Using organic materials and environment-replenishing concepts such as composting and collection of rainwater, a team from the University of Illinois Extension Horticulture, Environmental and Green Educators have created beautiful gardens around the house, alive with plants native to this area. Starting in the garden, guests explore the possibilities of a sustainable vegetable garden, rain gardens and other vegetation-how it can be used for food, indoor climate control and water recycling and conservation.
The home’s tour concludes on the roof, which is covered by a green-roof garden as well as photovoltaic film, which will harvest daylight and provide much of the home’s electrical energy. Rooftop gardens not only act as a source of cooling in the summer and insulation in the winter, but also absorb precipitation, which reduces storm water runoff, which can be reused for landscape irrigation. In the exhibit, guests explore the process of building a garden, along with its many environmental benefits.
The Smart Home garage is a multi-purpose space. In addition to housing vehicles, it can also be used as a movie room,
or offer other flexible uses in the future, when families of the future may not own two cars. The garage houses the latest in low-emission and energy-efficient vehicles, a Honda Civic Hybrid, which was awarded 2006 World Car of the Year “greenest car.”
If you live in urban areas or in buildings with roofs that are less taken care of, it’s time you see these beautiful works. This is the work of designers based in London My Landscapes, about a beautiful roof garden. Although I have posted previously about Fresh Garden On The Roof Designs but these designs also can be applied on a roof. The psychological and environmental benefits of roof gardens are numerous. Gardening can be help decrease heating, calming and relaxing, which in turn decreases the incidence of stress-related illnesses. It’s also beneficial to the environment, particularly in urban areas. In addition, a roof garden can improve the aesthetic quality of a building. Even in a small roof space, where space is a premium, you can create a beautiful garden paradise usual for summer dining and relaxing.
Christmas 2010 for Office Decorations
Christmas in office is great idea on decorating office for the Christmas 2010 celebrations. Christmas office decorations happen to be fun for everyone. There are some useful ideas for Christmas office decorations. Christmas office decorations are not easy tasks but if projected with proper plans can turn up to be an exciting grand event. Choose Christmas office decorating ideas that are easy to set up or install. An office organization will look best with Christmas office decorations. However, you can still, in many cases, use Christmas lights to decorate your office. A multi-colored light bulb cover includes a transparent casing adapted to receive a light bulb therein and having a wall surface ideas for Christmas office. Christmas centerpieces adored with flowers and seasonal decorations can be placed at the center of the office tables. Flower bouquets can be placed at the corners of the walls and the colors of the season should get a reflection in the Christmas office decorations.
Beautiful and Unique Blueand Christmas 2010
Great Red Candles home decor Christmas 2010
Color scheme Candles Christmas 2010s Table
Candles Stuff Christmas 2010 party
Modern Home Decorating Candles for Your Christmas 2010
This beautiful and unique at modern home decorating candles for your Christmas 2010, this perfect for filling the interior decorating of your home with the family on Christmas vacation. Add Christmas spirit to every room in your home add candles, glitter, bows, and greenery all Christmas Ideas and a beautiful Christmas table. With some preparation and planning your home will be beautiful. Plan your Christmas party decor around a theme or a seasonal color scheme.
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