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Contemporary Wood Desks designed for bedroom

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:54:09 +0000

How to design Contemporary Wood Desks for bedroom. One so often hears the complaint, “I could not possibly set out alone to furnish a room! I don’t know anything about periods. Why, a Louis XVI chair and an Empire chair are quite the same to me. Then the question of antiques and reproductions—why any one could mislead me!”

If you have absolutely no interest in the arranging or rearranging of your rooms, house or houses, of course, leave it to a decorator and give your attention to whatever does interest you. On the other hand, as with bridge, if you really want to play the game, you can learn it. The first rule is to determine the actual use to which you intend putting the room. Is it to be a bedroom merely, or a combination of bedroom and boudoir? Is it to be a formal reception-room, or a living-room? Is it to be a family library, or a man’s study? If it is a small flat, do you aim at absolute comfort, artistically achieved, or do you aim at formality at the expense of comfort?

If you lean toward both comfort and formality, and own a country house and a city abode, there will be no difficulty in solving the problem. Formality may be left to the town house or flat, while during week-ends, holidays and summers you can revel in supreme comfort.

Every man or woman is capable of creating comfort. It is a question of those deep chairs with wide seats and backs, soft springs, thick, downy cushions, of tables and bookcases conveniently placed, lights where you want them, beds to the individual taste,—double, single, or twins!

The getting together of a period room, one period or periods in combination, is difficult, especially if you are entirely ignorant of the subject. However, here is your cue. Let us suppose you need, or want, a desk—an antique desk. Go about from one dealer to the other until you find the very piece you have dreamed of; one that gives pleasure to you, as well as to the dealer. Then take an experienced friend to look at it. If you have every reason to suppose that the desk is genuine, buy it. Next, read up on the furniture of the particular period to which your desk belongs, in as serious a manner as you do when you buy a prize dog at the show. Now you have made an intelligent beginning as a collector. Reading informs you, but you must buy old furniture to be educated on that subject. Be eternally on the lookout; the really good pieces, veritable antiques, are rare; most of them are in museums, in private collections or in the hands of the most expensive dealers. I refer to those unique pieces, many of them signed by the maker and in perfect condition because during all their existence they have been jealously preserved, often by the very family and in the very house for which they were made. Our chances for picking up antiques are reduced to pieces which on account of reversed circumstances have been turned out of house and home, and, as with human wanderers, much jolting about has told upon them. Most of these are fortified in various directions, but they are treasures all the same, and have a beauty value in line colour and workmanship and a wonderful fitness for the purposes for which they were intended.

“Surely we are many men of many minds!”

Bedroom Pine Furniture Sets Planning

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:39:52 +0000

Bedroom Pine Furniture Sets Planning. Two designs for day-beds which are done in colours to suit the scheme of any room.

These beds are fitted with box springs and a luxurious mattress of feathers or down, covered with silk or chintz, coverlet and cushions of similar material, in colours harmonising with beds. If desired, these lounges can be made higher from the floor.

The most attractive cheap bureau is one ordered “in the plain” from the factory, and painted like the bed. If you would entirely remove the factory look, have the mirror taken off the bureau and hang it on the wall over what, by your operation, has become a chest of drawers. If you want a long mirror in your rooms, the cheapest variety is mirror glass, fastened to the back of doors with picture moulding to match woodwork. This is also the cheapest variety of over-mantel mirrors. We have seen it used with great success, let into walls of narrow halls and bedrooms and framed with a dull-gold moulding in the style of room.

Two Styles of Day-beds

For chairs, use the straight wooden ones which are made to match the bureau, and paint them like the bed and bureau.

For comfortable arm-chairs, wicker ones with chintz-covered pads for seat and back are best for the price, and these can also be painted.

Cheap tables, which match the bureau, when painted will do nicely as a small writing-table or a night-table for water, clock, book, etc.

If the floors are new and of hard wood, wax them and use a square of plain velvet carpet in a dark tone of your dominant colour. Or if economy is your aim, use attractive rag rugs which are very cheap and will wash.

If your floors are old and you intend using a large velvet square, paint the edges of the floor white, or some pale shade to match the colour of the walls. Or, use filling all over the floor. If you cannot afford either and must use small rugs, stain or paint your floors a dark colour, to be practical, and use only necessary rugs; that is, one before bed, bureau and fireplace.

Sofas are always expensive. That is one reason for advising that beds be treated like “day-beds.”

Wall papers, at ten cents a roll, come in charming colours and designs, and with a few cheap French coloured prints, framed in passepartout, your room is attractive at once.

If your prints are black and white use broad passepartout in same colour as the wall paper, only a tone deeper. If you use favourite photographs, suppress all margins and frame with narrow black passepartout.

For curtains use one of the sixty-or seventy-cent chintzes which come in attractive designs and colours, or what is still cheaper, sun-proof material, fifty inches wide (from $1.10 to $1.50 a yard), and split it in half for curtains, edging them with a narrow fringe of a contrasting colour which appears in the chintz of chair-pads. Another variety of cheap curtains is heavy cream scrim with straps (for looping back) and valance of chintz. These come cheaper than all chintz curtains and are very effective, suggesting the now popular and expensive combination of plain toned taffetas combined with chintz.

Use for sash curtains plain scrim or marquesette.

Let your lamps be made of inexpensive one-toned pottery vases, choosing for these still another colour which appears in the chintz. The lamp shades can be made of a pretty near-silk, in a plain colour, with a fringe made up of one, two or three of the colours in the chintz.

If you happen to have your heart set on deep rose walls and your bedroom furniture is mahogany, find a chintz with rose and French blue, and then cover your arm-chair pads and bed with chintz, but make your curtains of blue sun-proof material, having a narrow fringe of rose, and use a deep rose carpet, or rugs, or if preferred, a dull brown carpet to harmonise with the furniture. A plain red Wilton carpet will dye an artistic deep mulberry brown. They are often bought in the red and dyed to get this shade of brown.

For attractive cheap dining-room furniture, buy simple shapes, unfinished, and have the table, sideboard and chairs painted dark or light, as you prefer.

In your dining-room and halls, if the house is old and floors bad, and economy necessary, use a solid dark linoleum, either deep blue or red, and have it waxed, as an economical measure as well as to improve its appearance.

In a small home, where no great formality is observed, well chosen doilies may be used on all occasions, instead of table cloths. By this expedient you suppress one large item on the laundry bill, the care of the doilies in such cases falling to the waitress.

To make comfortable, convenient and therefore livable, a part of a house, formerly an attic, or an extension with small rooms and low ceilings, seems to be the special province of a certain type of mind, which works best when there is a tax on the imagination.

When reclaiming attic rooms, one of the problems is how to get wall space, especially if there are dormer windows and very slanting ceilings. One way, is to place a dressing table in the dormer, under windows, covering the sides of the dormer recess with mirror glass, edged with narrow moulding. The dressing-table is not stationary, therefore it can be easily moved by a maid, when the rooms are cleaned.

Modern children’s furniture At School

admin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:24:57 +0000

How to design Modern children furniture At School. The “Children’s House” is the environment which is offered to the child that he may be given the opportunity of developing his activities. This kind of school is not of a fixed type, but may vary according to the financial resources at disposal and to the opportunities afforded by the environment. It ought to be a real house; that is to say, a set of rooms with a garden of 10 which the children are the masters. A garden which contains shelters is ideal, because the children can play or sleep under them, and can also bring their tables out to work or dine. In this way they may live almost entirely in the open air, and are protected at the same time from rain and sun.

The central and principal room of the building, often also the only room at the disposal of the children, is the room for “intellectual work.” To this central room can be added other smaller rooms according to the means and opportunities of the place: for example, a bathroom, a dining-room, a little parlor or common-room, a room for manual work, a gymnasium and rest-room.

The special characteristic of the equipment of these houses is that it is adapted for children and not adults. They contain not only didactic material specially fitted for the intellectual development of the child, but also a complete equipment for the management of the miniature family. The furniture is light so that the children can move it about, and it is painted in some light color so that the children can wash it with soap and water. There are low tables of various 11 sizes and shapes––square, rectangular and round, large and small. The rectangular shape is the most common as two or more children can work at it together. The seats are small wooden chairs, but there are also small wicker armchairs and sofas.

Fig. 1.––Cupboard with Apparatus.

In the working-room there are two indispensable pieces of furniture. One of these is a very long cupboard with large doors. (Fig. 1.) It is very low so that a small child can set on the top of it small objects such as mats, flowers, etc. Inside this cupboard is kept the didactic material which is the common property of all the children.

The other is a chest of drawers containing two or three columns of little drawers, each of which has a bright handle (or a handle of some color to contrast with the background), and a small card with a name upon it. Every child has his own drawer, in which to put things belonging to him.

Round the walls of the room are fixed blackboards at a low level, so that the children can write or draw on them, and pleasing, artistic pictures, which are changed from time to time as circumstances direct. The pictures represent 12 children, families, landscapes, flowers and fruit, and more often Biblical and historical incidents. Ornamental plants and flowering plants ought always to be placed in the room where the children are at work.

Another part of the working-room’s equipment is seen in the pieces of carpet of various colors––red, blue, pink, green and brown. The children spread these rugs upon the floor, sit upon them and work there with the didactic material. A room of this kind is larger than the customary class-rooms, not only because the little tables and separate chairs take up more space, but also because a large part of the floor must be free for the children to spread their rugs and work upon them.

In the sitting-room, or “club-room,” a kind of parlor in which the children amuse themselves by conversation, games, or music, etc., the furnishings should be especially tasteful. Little tables of different sizes, little armchairs and sofas should be placed here and there. Many brackets of all kinds and sizes, upon which may be put statuettes, artistic vases or framed photographs, should adorn the walls; and, above all, each child should have a little flower-pot, in which he may 13 sow the seed of some indoor plant, to tend and cultivate it as it grows. On the tables of this sitting-room should be placed large albums of colored pictures, and also games of patience, or various geometric solids, with which the children can play at pleasure, constructing figures, etc. A piano, or, better, other musical instruments, possibly harps of small dimensions, made especially for children, completes the equipment. In this “club-room” the teacher may sometimes entertain the children with stories, which will attract a circle of interested listeners.

The furniture of the dining-room consists, in addition to the tables, of low cupboards accessible to all the children, who can themselves put in their place and take away the crockery, spoons, knives and forks, table-cloth and napkins. The plates are always of china, and the tumblers and water-bottles of glass. Knives are always included in the table equipment.

The Dressing-room. Here each child has his own little cupboard or shelf. In the middle of the room there are very simple washstands, consisting of tables, on each of which stand a small basin, soap and nail-brush. Against the 14 wall stand little sinks with water-taps. Here the children may draw and pour away their water. There is no limit to the equipment of the “Children’s Houses” because the children themselves do everything. They sweep the rooms, dust and wash the furniture, polish the brasses, lay and clear away the table, wash up, sweep and roll up the rugs, wash a few little clothes, and cook eggs. As regards their personal toilet, the children know how to dress and undress themselves. They hang their clothes on little hooks, placed very low so as to be within reach of a little child, or else they fold up such articles of clothing, as their little serving-aprons, of which they take great care, and lay them inside a cupboard kept for the household linen.

In short, where the manufacture of toys has been brought to such a point of complication and perfection that children have at their disposal entire dolls’ houses, complete wardrobes for the dressing and undressing of dolls, kitchens where they can pretend to cook, toy animals as nearly lifelike as possible, this method seeks to give all 15 this to the child in reality––making him an actor in a living scene.

Fig 2.––The Montessori Paedometer.

My pedometer forms part of the equipment of a “Children’s House.” After various modifications I have now reduced this instrument to a very practical form. (Fig. 2.)

The purpose of the pedometer, as its name shows, is to measure the children. It consists of a wide rectangular board, forming the base, from the center of which rise two wooden posts held together at the top by a narrow flat piece of metal. To each post is connected a horizontal metal rod––the indicator––which runs up and down by means of a casing, also of metal. This metal casing is made in one piece with the indicator, to the end of which is fixed an india-rubber ball. On one side, that is to say, behind one of the two tall vertical wooden posts, there is a small seat, also of wood. The two tall wooden posts are graduated. The post to which the seat is fixed is graduated from the surface of the seat to the top, whilst the other is graduated from the wooden board at the base to the top, i.e. to a height of 1.5 16 meters. On the side containing the seat the height of the child seated is measured, on the other side the child’s full stature. The practical value of this instrument lies in the possibility of measuring two children at the same time, and in the fact that the children themselves cooperate in taking the measurements. In fact, they learn to take off their shoes and to place themselves in the correct position on the pedometer. They find no difficulty in raising and lowering the metal indicators, which are held so firmly in place by means of the metal casing that they cannot deviate from their horizontal position even when used by inexpert hands. Moreover they run extremely easily, so that very little strength is required to move them. The little india-rubber balls prevent the children from hurting themselves should they inadvertently knock their heads against the metal indicator.

The children are very fond of the pedometer. “Shall we measure ourselves?” is one of the proposals which they make most willingly and with the greatest likelihood of finding many of their companions to join them. They also take great care of the pedometer, dusting it, and polishing 17 its metal parts. All the surfaces of the pedometer are so smooth and well polished that they invite the care that is taken of them, and by their appearance when finished fully repay the trouble taken.

The pedometer represents the scientific part of the method, because it has reference to the anthropological and psychological study made of the children, each of whom has his own biographical record. This biographical record follows the history of the child’s development according to the observations which it is possible to make by the application of my method. This subject is dealt with at length in my other books. A series of cinematograph pictures has been taken of the pedometer at a moment when the children are being measured. They are seen coming of their own accord, even the very smallest, to take their places at the instrument.

Traditional Dining Room Furniture Sets

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:28:28 +0000

How to design Traditional Dining Room Furniture Sets. Design relaxed dining atmosphere is necessary to enable the owners to relax while eating. Not only in the house, the outside area can be processed to create that impression. The dining room is often a family’s favorite places.

This is where family members often tell each other and exchange ideas, solve family problems. Therefore, the atmosphere comfortable and relaxed atmosphere is absolutely necessary for intimate family be awakened.

To that end, the supporting environment necessary to build an atmosphere so relaxed and comfortable impression can be fulfilled. However, the dining room layout and equipment depends on the atmosphere that the owner wanted to build houses. If the impression will be made is an informal atmosphere, then make the dining room table attached to the pantry.

In addition to the room’s atmosphere, when designing the dining room should be adjusted to the extent, location and lifestyle that are available daily. Usually the space created to meet a capacity of between 2-6 people. In the dining room located in the pantry and kitchen combined with usually only takes 2-3 people. Meanwhile, for which is located on the terrace or beside the swimming pool, it usually will be able to accommodate 4-8 people.

If nature is temporary or Non-transferable utility, better use of furniture which is light and easily moved or folded. For furniture that is used outdoors, use a chair in the form of a cube-shaped stone materials as well as chair of the wooden planks or logs. To pad the poles, could use concrete materials for outdoor areas. Can also be mixed concrete follows an inverted U-shaped desk.

For the selection of furniture that would like to use, practical tips to do based on the room. Is the room an indoor, semi-outdoor or outdoor. In this regard, note the selection of the top table or top of his table. In the dining room which is not too wide but has a lot of family members, use the dining table that can lengthen worth considering. However, avoid using many-legged table.

For a room that is not too large, better choose the dining chair that is not too high. This will make it look small room. While the legs using a simple form with a little carving profile.

In some residences, the dining room is usually connected with other spaces as part of a multifunctional space, for example, joined with the family room or kitchen and pantry. This can be done with appropriate color selection and matching. However, it does not mean to be the same color and matching. Thus, the selection of the selected color is dark, contrasting with the color of the light-colored walls and white.

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How To Analyze A Room Before You Redecorate part II

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If only some of the old furnishings are to be kept and new ones bought
to supplement these, the thing to keep in mind is that our choice when
buying is limited by the possibilities of the old possessions. In such a
case we advise first manipulating the old. When you have done all that
can be done with them along the lines suggested (amputating inartistic
ornaments with a saw? reframing simply the ornate mirrors on
bureaus, and painting disfigured or discordant woods) go out and buy
the new pieces of furniture, but select things which are related, in
shape and general character, to the old pieces.

If you are using hangings with flowered or large figured designs are
you also covering some of the furniture with stripes? This should not
be done? at any rate, not by the beginner, especially if the materials
show several colors.

The reader can see that what we aim at getting into a room is an
effect of simplicity and restfulness. Begin your efforts at decoration by
having only the pieces of furniture you need in a room and not too
many colors* Keep all your colors bright or all subdued? do not mix
shades? a wrong shade of a color is like a false note in music. This is
what having your “values” right when arranging a color scheme
means.

Is your room full of little ornaments and the framed photographs of
many friends? If so take all of these small things (possibly souvenirs of
your travels) and intimate photographs out of the now crowded room
and use only a very few of each at one time. Intimate photographs
belong in intimate rooms and if you will keep them all together, say on
the top of your bookshelves, you will be surprised how the
arrangement improves the appearance of your room, It establishes
order at once.

Have you restful spaces between your pieces of furniture and are there
some small tables with nothing on them, awaiting the unexpected
need, as a vase of flowers, cigarettes, tea or afterdinner coffee cup?
Remember that in any room, which is attractive simple or elaborate
restful spaces, and one or two small, empty tables are necessities. In
music the rests have as much value as the notes. It is so in
decoration.

Is that impression of confusion one feels on entering your room due to
the fact that your rugs are put down at different angles? Let them
follow the lines of your walls. Is the design in carpets or rugs too
pronounced? It should not be so. In the average home plain carpets or
very inconspicuously figured rugs, which are in harmony with the color
scheme, are the things to choose. Keep all of the rugs in one room
similar in coloring.

Are the lighting fixtures, frames of pictures and of mirrors in keeping
with style of your furniture! They should be. How about the pictures
themselves! Are they appropriate for the room in which you have hung
them! Are they good of their kind? Have you been careful about
keeping similar subjects on one wall!

Harmony in house furnishing is not difficult to understand, and if you
never violate this principle when furnishing, your home will be
beautiful whether its furnishings cost the lowest price possible or a
fortune. You can see yourself that if you make the mistake of putting
into an inexpensively furnished room some wonderful antique, inlaid
desk or rare table, suited to a room of quite different character, you
will utterly ruin your “picture,” upset the law of harmony, and, in a
sense, the rare object will be thrown away, while your charming
“creation” in the shape of a simple (and beautiful) room fails to count
as intelligent decoration.

When you are beginning at the foundation and furnishing with entirely
new things, your problems are fewer. But they exist. Don’t make the
mistake of thinking that decorating (even with endless money and
time) can be successful if one starts in without a plan of action.
Where are you going to live? how are you going to live as to service,
etc.? have you both men and women, old and young, in your
household? can you gratify the tastes of all and at the same time make
your house furnishing give the impression of harmony? These are
some of the questions to ponder.

If you really know what you want in decoration the battle is half won.
Work with the rules of this new game before you, and after your first
room is completed you will know by heart the first principles of house
furnishing.