Nov 22, 2009

Resolution of 2009 Popular New Trend in Wall Decoration III – Soft Wall Package


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Trend III with Soft Wall Package: Living in Cloth



When the author entered into a prototype room of the home furnishings MALL, I found myself as if entered into a world wrapped into fabrics, it is so soft and quiet.

"The feeling what we want is just this - use soft cloth to wrap hard walls, and a type of warm and serene feelings thus produced”. Said the designer to the author with smile, “This approach of wall disposing is called soft-wall package, on the surface are fabrics, while inside linings are sponge, that is to use fabrics and sponge wrapped walls, and any type of fabric is applicable.

Due to its excellent performance of sound-absorbing, the soft-package wall are general be used on backdrop walls of TV in the living room, bedroom or audio-visual room, but in most occasions you can not use it in a large area.


In general, walls decorated with flexible packaging cloth are simple, generous, as well as features of soft colors, looked warm and splendid, with angular edges and continuous symmetry, which could giving you soft and relax feelings, it is very comfortable.

Cleaning tips: can be cleaned with spray cleaner.

Nov 10, 2009

Resolution of 2009 Popular New Trend in Wall Decoration II - Textured Brick

Trend II with Textured Brick: Zipper can also on the Wall



 If you are still young and meet the fashion trend well, the same time has enough courage to accept fresh and personal elements, you may wish to try textured bricks in a small area.

Textured brick is a type of high-density ceramic tile with unique modeling and imitated leather texture, whose surface was made to imitated leather texture with special mould. The decorating style intend to rather wild and cool, and are more suitable to modern style home decorating, and are mainly used in the decorating of TV walls, bathroom or study walls.



On the wall cover with textured brick displayed by the designer, the author was surprised to find that the wall with leather quality and texture, as well sewing threads, close-ups and polishing edges, on its central area, there is an imitated copper zipper! 

No wonder the designer was emphasized all along that "fans" of textured brick should be a fashion bird, or else it is really difficult to take it back to your home.


Textured brick is a new member in the porcelain tile group, which is a symbol of fashion and trends, and people who favorite with leather products can achieve a warm, comfortable and soft dream in the home decorating.

Textured bricks featured with novel design, well-made, delicate handcraft, which could restore the sewing art of leather products truly, together with its pure glazed color, so the natural texture of leather were returned to a natural textural quality, and looked very artistic and attractive, so this type of wall decorating material can not only applied to bathroom in large area, but also to all wall space of bedroom, studies, balcony and even kitchen.

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* Original post: Resolution of 2009 Popular New Trend in Wall Decoration II - Textured Brick

Oct 19, 2009

Resolution of 2009 Popular New Trend in Wall Decoration I - Wood Fiber Wallpaper

Wall decoration is the impression builder of the whole cubic space, which can render the space atmosphere effectively, and to create a unique and distinctive impression to the interior space.




Once we referred wall decoration, inertia of thinking will always make us concern to three things: paint, wallpaper and color painting.

So in 2009, what kind of new coatings is in fashion for the wall decorating?

Trend I with Wood Fiber: Wallpapers Made of Sawdust

Can sawdust also be posted on the wall? The answer is: Yes, and the results were pretty good. This is a new term of wall decoration especially popular in this year - wood fiber. According to the introduction of designer, as the visual effects of wood fiber is outstanding, colors bright, simple and generous, wide variety of colors and easy to match with furniture, so there is a very wide application to its suited style, now this kind of wall decoration were mainly used for walls of TV backdrop, bedroom or study to do modeling decoration, but it is not suitable for large-scale use.


As it is called wood fiber, actually it was pressed with wood fiber, wood pulp, cotton fiber and a small amount of quartz, because containing quartz, which makes it shiny, but in fact it is a member of the wallpaper family".

With the designer's guide, the author came to a light yellow wall covered with wood fiber, and found it is really shiny, and rich in texture. Reach to touch it, felt very rough, and looked closely, there are many tiny cavities on its surface, which shown in granular and uneven.


"Does such a wall easy to care for and maintain? Do those cavities inside it will not conceal dust?" the author asked. "Of course it is easy to care for and maintain, you can use a horizontal filter of vacuum cleaner to clean it directly” said the designer, “and it is also very simple to install this type of wallpaper, you only need to do some basic processing on the original latex paint wall” On another side, "wood fiber can also be repaired and overall moved, but pay attention to avoid knocking and bumps”.


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How to Furnish a Beautiful Hallway?

Hallway is an area at the door entrance, which is not designed to produce convenience to the guests to take off clothing as well as change shoes and hang hats, more importantly, it is the first scenery people seen before entered the room, though it is small in size, but play an extremely important role to the style of the whole room. And the most effective way to beautify the hallway is to decorate it with furniture and home decorations. 

At first, the design of the vestibule should be based on the room type and home decorating style, it could be made into arc-shaped, strip shaped as well as rectangular shape, and material scope can contained wood, glass, stainless steel, stone and so on. 

Generally the hallway made of stainless steel and glass materials are more closely tied to the simple modern style home furnishings, while hallways made of stone material and wooden boards will more suited to countryside style home furnishings.


As regard to home furnishings and home decoration, small tables are very suitable to place in a hallway, whose desktop is not need wide, and can stand lean to the wall, above which, to hang a mirror or a selected painting, plus matched with a pair of decorative wall lamps, the effect is be quite good. 

If the hallway area is large enough, an arc-shaped wall table will be a good choice, which will even bring your home more luxurious temperament. If you pay more attention to the practical function of the hallway, the simplest way is to display a group of vertical clothes hangers, and there are many novel design clothes hangers are takes up much less space, but also can provide some storage space for things, with them you can store each pieces of things at the door entrance and incorporate them altogether; another choice is to place a big size oblique triangle or converted trapezoidal shaped cabinet in it, which can store a lot of things and at the same time seemed small and exquisite.

 As respect to home decorations, you can use fabric furnishings, lighting and green plants to decorate. You can place an exotic printed cloth or an antique desk flag on the wall or tabletop.
Lightings as small spotlights, tube-shaped lights, strip lights, wall lamps, neon lights and other items of lightings can irradiate the hallway very bright, at the same time make the environmental space looked more elegant. If the vestibule size is not much large, you should notice not use too much lightings in it, and two or three pieces is appropriate. 

 Make use of the wall face and countertop behind the door, put several potted foliage plants, for example, chrysanthemums, primrose, etc., which can bring the hallway a bit of vitality, but should noticed that the placed plants should not hinder sights of guests as well as not impede the access.

May 14, 2009

Changing Your Sofa Covers Artful to Add Bright Colors to the Living Room

The living days are trivial and the long. When we entered the same room day after day, the living turned into dull once you felt your home become to have nothing good or unusual to say, you should paused and think about, is there something need to change?




At this stage it is a good time for face changes, if the living room in your home still maintained with thick moods of winter, you may through fabric craft to cater the beautiful days in early summer, among which the most thing can replaced easily the sofa case. Wear new clothes to the sofa, so that the living room will get a new look, thus good moods with followed you naturally.

The Living Room Can be Erotic, Too.

Many smart housewives had prepared two set of sofa cases when they purchased sofas, one is warm colored and used in spring and summer, and the other cool colored and used in winter and autumn, so that not only the using time of the sofa case could be extended, but also you can enjoyed different home living space in different seasons. 


Of course, the color of sofa case you choose should matched with the design color of your interior home decoration. IKEA designers had suggested that before you purchased the sofa case, you may consider the color should suit to the whole style of your home design, in addition, you may choose same styled cushion case and chair case and so on for your living room…



As now is in early summer, you can use fresh colored sofa cases, thus to reflect passions in spring. For example, you may select fabric sofa cases with light beige, light green or light blue, which could bring much spring airs to your living room, while choose sofa cases with cool colors printed with small flowers, a type of spring flowers in full bloom feelings could be built…

At the same time of changes taken placed in sofas, you may change the sofa cushions too and make them suit with your new sofa, if the wall color in your home is shallow, or there’s a large space in your living room, you may choose sofa cases with bright and fresh colored patterns of big flowers or block plaids…In case of your wall color is more heavy, or the home space is limited, choosing light colored sofa cases will make your home more elegant…

Three Tips Teach you Choose Right Sofa Covers




At present, there are many types of fabric as cotton, linen and flannel material to made sofa covers, among which, the cotton fabric was been used mostly in the market, when you began to choose a type of sofa cover, you should touch the material firstly, and the fabric handled fine, soft and thick is the best; 


Secondly, patterns on good sofa covers are lively and natural, as well as soft and uniformed colors.. Thirdly, ignite thrums of the fabric with a lighter, good sofa covers can be burned into ash and have no scorched flavor…

Advantages of natural line fabric are they are cool in summer and warm in winter, which belong to high grade material, as well as can be washed fully after removing the padding or lining, but as linen fabric featured with a high score of shrinkage, you’d best make it clear that whether the fabric had been immerged into water for a long time and has done a deal with pre-shrinking.

Sofa covers made of flannel material are more expensive, while they have better gloss and felt soft, comfortable. When you decided to buy, you should touched them by hand firstly, and good flannel materials have silk-like fine textures…

May 5, 2009

Hand Paintings on Walls - A New Visual Impact for You

Featured with environment friendly, personalized characteristics, the hand paintings on wall become more and more popular and welcomed by people in nowadays, and have lead a new trend of home living fashion.

Hand-paintings on wall give people who lived in a space that same and narrow a new mode to release and show their personalities…at the same time bring lively airs on those cool walls, dull furniture and prim space, thus make them refreshing and more vibrant…






I am the master of my space! This is my home, I’d like to print my own marks on!




A cute giraffe drawn on the door of baby room, it not only a home decoration, but also a lifelike measure for your baby, as well as environment friendly and easy to be wiped away!




The world hide in hand paintings on wall, is a world beautiful but far away, it exists outside from the real life, those quietly days passed through silently like a water flow, in a trance, as if there is another home life just went through on the wall beside us…