Using Mirrors Smartly, Create 'Larger Space' in a Small Home (up)

Home is the haven of dream, own a warm home is everyone's dream, even if it is small.

How to decorate your small home, thus make your small house seemed not very small? Here I’d like to recommend a media star, which can help you to create a large space and smiling when sitting in the house, this media star is, Mirror, no matter new or old one.

Tip 1. Install Mirrors within a Narrow Aisle.



 Laying mirrors on one side of the whole wall to create a mirror wall in the narrow aisle, taking advantage of the reflection effects of mirrors to enlarge the space doubly.

Tip 2. Setting Flaky Mirrors in the Locker Room.



Installing a large piece of mirror as a pier glass specially in the locker room, the rest mirrors can be laid with different shapes (wide or narrow) thus to highlight the decorative effect.

Important Attention: Do either Do not settle mirrors in your bedrooms, no matter from the psychology point of view or in the view of Feng Shui theory, mirrors in bedroom will cause bad influence on the hosts.

Tip 3. Making a Mirror Wall aside the Dining Table.



Placing a mirror aside to the dining table in your home, delicate flowers and tableware reflected in the mirror, you can see a vague outline of a more beautiful and warmer small home.

Tip 4. Creating a Mirror Roof at the Entrance.




Creating a mirror roof at the entrance of your home, matched with beautiful wall lamps, then the luster reflected by the mirror roof will make your home shiny much!

Tip 5. Install Mirrors on Doors of Cabinet or Bar Counter



Here you can use old mirrors wholly, you can install a whole piece of mirror on the door, or you may cut the mirror into several pieces them assemble them on the doors of cabinet, both of the two ways have its own style.
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Choose Color Furniture to Create a Vibrant Living Room in This Autumn

Color furniture is a major highlight prevailing in this year, as autumn is also a vibrant season suitable for a variety of colors mix and match together, so if you want to create a vibrant as well as full of stylish living room in the autumn, even if your house is not very spacious, but as long as to choose a few pieces of color furniture, you will make the living room in your home become more fashionable and outstanding, and become a fashion and bright headquarter.

As white is the keynote of the above whole space, a red single seat on the left, companied with red cushions make the whole space live up.

Colorful Polyresin Clothes Stand, Very Fashionable as well as Full of Zest (Available from Euro-Home)

As color furniture become a major highlight prevailing in this year, the designers applied colors with furniture design to the extreme, with covers of color, home furnishings also become more personalized and more amusing.

Red Seat, definitely a highlight in the living room（Available from Lotos Come Home)

Colorful Woven Rattan Chair, Dynamic and Full of Vitality. (Available from IKEA)

Polyresin Table Lamp, with practical use as well as a beautiful ornament. (Available from Kartell)

Blue Reclining Chair (Available from Roche-Bobois)

SERRALUNGA Egg-Shaped Umbrella Stand (Available from VITA)

Color Glass Table (Available from Roche-Bobois)

Additionally, with unique eye-catching visual effect, color furniture can break the space oppression, and enlarge the space room to a certain extent. You may be freely to place a few pieces of color furniture in your living room, for they are really eye-catching.

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Two Schemes Make Your Gazebo More Enchanting!

If there is a gazebo in your home, how would you design and make use it?

Arrange your own outdoor space with your favorite way, enjoy the sunshine, and to experience unexpected comfort and coziness.

Scheme A: Gay Casino



Rebuild your gazebo into an entertainment room, in where grow some of your favorite potted plants, there is nothing more pleasant than chatting or relaxing or having a nap there.

Seats: The steel rocking chair with knitting feel and a dual-use of lying and sitting beauty couch that never get you tired, hand-made armchair made of birch wood emitting enchanting natural flavor. When choosing seat cushions, aside from for beauty purpose, you’d best choose them made of waterproof materials.

Cushions: Outdoor furniture needs comfortable seats ultimately, in addition to lively and bright colors, functions of abrasive resistance and rainproof are all keys to selection.

Striped cushions with bright colors will bring you pleasant psychological feelings, yellow green, orange-red with flowers and green leaves in the gazebo also set each other off beautifully.


Scheme B: Lively Dining Room



Move the dining room outdoor to enjoy delicious foods! With a piece of tablecloth dotted with flowers, exquisite tableware as well as flourished flowers and plants to create a romantic space and mood.

Flowers and Plants: Flouring potted plants can ease the atmosphere in the gazebo, which is helpful for relaxing mood. You may grow ivy in the flower containers aside the gazebo, their extended branches connected which the garden scenery; You may also placing several basil as well as other vanilla plants in the gazebo, they are natural condiments that can be reserved for a gathering dinner.

Carpet: You may choose waterproof carpet made of pure wool for outdoor use, which will be comfortable and the same time good with quality. If it were smeared you may spray polypropylene detergent to clean it, or leave it to professional cleaning staff.

Tablecloth: Select a piece of table cloth decorated with magnificent large flowers can create a type of warm ambience of pastoral, make the whole gazebo full of enchanting flavors. If you are not able to buy a satisfied one, you may DIY such a tablecloth with special fabric.

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DIY Pastoral Style Cushions, Cool Down Your Living Room in Summer

In the white Korean pastoral style, classical pure white cushions will often been choose to be the best match, adorned with romantic lace or flouncing edgings. However, in such a white space, they will be seemed to be too cool.



Two small patches of rose pattern, soft and beautiful pink will add a brush of bright color in the piece of pure white, at the same time full of sweet and romantic feelings.

Delicate lace edgings just like an antique photo frame, encircling two patches in it, just like two elegant decorative paintings hang on the wall, simple but beautiful.



Placing simple linen striped cushions in the room, they will be looked fresh and elegant. But in a pastoral style home, they will looked too rigid and lack smart sweet feelings.

Use four patches fabric with different patterns of plaids and dotted flowers, composed a large patch of four-frame pattern, so the front face of the cushion become rich in pastoral flavor and warm quality. Pristine floral and plaid patterns have unique sense of countryside, which will not destroy the natural flavors of pastoral style.



Elegant black and white plaid cushion, with pastoral style pristine quality and plain elegant style feeling, but if the cushion been done soft and loose, it will lost it original sense as a strict lady.

Therefore, make a pumpkin shaped depression in the center of cushion, then fixed with a white fabric button, thus make the cushion become more ‘concave and convex’, and show its unique sense of elegance and liveliness.

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Five Proposals with Childlike Mind for Home Furnishings

Think about how long you have not enjoyed such happy time just like the time you spent in your childhood, perhaps it’s the pressure of life undone it. Home is the place to relax minds at the same time perform yourself, just get back your heart with childlike fun, with fabric furnishings, furniture, small furnishings full of childlike fun to active your childlike charms and show magic power of home.


One. Applied with Smart Fabric Furnishings, Rendering Happy Hour

Fabric itself has a strong sense of beauty, always plays an important role in home decorating and home furnishings, fabric furnishings, cushions full of childlike fun presented themselves timely will be easily render the childlike style, and bring you happy mood.

Two. Candy Colored Home Furnishings, Bring you a Cozy Fairy Tale World

Colorful candy colors will always attract attention of children, when candy colors mixed with furniture into one, it will make you fall in love at the first sight, calling us back to sweet childhood years!












 
 Three. Childlike Ornaments, Small Decorations Create Big Fun



Not to refuse growing up, just want to live happier, as well as make the mood become more cartoon. Place one or two small childlike ornaments at a certain corner in the home, can make the home full of sweet and sincere happy air.
Four. Childish Tableware & Kitchenware, Build a Happy Life in the Kitchen

After a busy day, when back home you maybe have to continue busy in the kitchen, just to eliminate hunger. Now open your imagination, change for a number of interesting and colorful bowls and dishes in the kitchen, to build a fairy-tale kitchen space, thus make the time for preparing meals become funny and interesting.





 

Five. With Eyes of a Kid, Create a Small Colorful World

People living in cites are dream of getting headiness and innocence they owned in their childhood back, at the same time, each family has children is also wish to create a colorful, safe and thoughtful children room with eyes of a kid.

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Air Pineapple (Tillandsia) – Plant Curtain, Have You Ever Seen?

Have you ever seen such a beautiful curtain? Do you know the curtain is a living thing? It can grow, can blossom out. Most importantly, it can absorb bad airs such as form aldehyde, toluene, nicotine contained in the atmosphere, at the same time release oxygen, purify your living environment.

Recently I hang a Tillandsia curtain in my living room, which has replaced the window screen curtain, and it is different with common curtains made of fabric, the tillandsia curtain bring me more closely feelings as well as tensions full of life, you will observe subtle changes occurred on it everyday and you breathing with it together.



The curtain can produce overhanging impression just as a waterfall, bring cool air to the hot summer. . .It can not only block hot lights from the balcony, but also covers messy of clothes on the line in the balcony.

Tillandsia curtain can not only worked as a practical utility, it also can acted as a viewable artwork, and it is very suitable for a interior decoration.

What this kind of plant is? It is called tillandsia, also"Air Pineapple” in Chinese.The most welcomed advantages of tillandsia curtain is it do not need too diligent care, as long as there is air, it can grows very well, and in dry hot season, you only need to spray more water to it.


Air pineapple has no roots, each stem you grow will survive easily, and it breathes depends on scales on leaves and has strong vitality.

Air pineapple is very hardy in winter and can live with conditions of temperatures of 10 degrees below zero centigrade. Now you know air pineapple is really a type of votive plant and very suitable for growing by lazy people, it always pay out and never request. So, do you like the plant – air pineapple?

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