"Love Books, Love Forest" - 2011 Creative Green Bookshelves

“To speak one hundred times is no better than done it once”, environmental protection is not a thing that only done for speak --- in order to promote China’s green publication, to protect forest resources, the organization “Greenpeace China” launched an activity themed with “Love Books, Love Forest”.

Nowadays, the “Greenpeace” invited the well-known product designer Mr. Yang Mingjie to start a cross-border cooperation and created several pieces of bookstands and other creative products that embodies the environmental protection idea, thus to invoke people’s perception to save the forest with these creative designs.

“Planting Trees” Bookshelf (Created by Designer Mr. Yang Mingjie and his Design Team)

The "Tree Planting" Bookshelf created by Mr. Yang Mingjie and his design team was made from thick cardboard, the overall shape is just like a tree trunk, the image conveyed the concept of "using of recycled paper = trees planting".

Books on the shelf are all published on recycled paper, while the creative product, compared with y-town book recycling program. The “y-town” recycling program also was launched in 2008, the program's core idea is to develop products using local recycled materials, as well as to advocate the environmental awareness of secondary use of daily-use products, recycling and saving resources.

Equation Bookshelf

Interesting and useful ideas: Settle the books and articles with priority order. Books in parentheses have the highest priority, followed in brackets, braces minimum.

Folding Bookshelf

Is said to be made of cherry wood which is both hard and lightweight, each piece of wood can be put up, put down as well as rotate 90 degrees, thus has derived from a variety of display methods.

Glass Bookshelf

Using this bookshelf you will bound to fall into a habit of take lightly to put lightly.

Classical Bookshelf

I’m be impelled to say that it is a perfect combination of classical and modern style.

Hanging Bookshelf

Personally I do not think it is a successful design. Only simple imitation on functions does not make sense.

Module Bookshelf

Clapboards and shelves in each layer of the bookshelf can be combined and placed freely, so the book storing place can be customized flexibly. But as if it is no big deal.

 Multifunction Bookshelf

Very good idea, it is good on space saving as well as very beautiful. Dad reading the newspaper while his son do his homework on the other side, and the mother peeling apples besides, what’s warm picture, you feel very happy even think of such a scenery.

 The Bookshelf called “Bookshelf”

Although the bookshelf can not taking many books, but placing it on the corner, it is also a good piece of home furnishings.

* Original post: "Love Books, Love Forest" - 2011 Creative Green Bookshelves

Select a Festive Red Wallpaper for the New Year (II)

Guide: Red, as we all know it is generally means warm, prosperous and festive, when the New Year of 2011 is coming, how can we ignore the home decorated in red? Now let’s select a festive red wallpaper to decorate a wall in our home, and let’s the red wallpaper help us to create a lively and energetic atmosphere in the New Year of Rabbit.
 

Red Flower Pattern Wallpaper

The wallpaper with red flower pattern, which has not too much stress, to be outstanding beautiful is its sole purpose

Charming Mauve Wallpaper
 

It is very bold to use contrasting colors in the living room， but this charming mauve wallpaper respond to the eye-catching lemon yellow sofa makes the living room very bright.

 Pink Flower Wallpaper

The wall capped with pink flowers wallpaper, that makes the living room full of romantic moods, at the same time, decorate the furniture with bright pink cotton textiles, delivering your emotions through blooming flowers, an bring bright moods as well as romantic atmosphere.
 

Lemon yellow Flower Pattern Wallpaper
 

The lemon yellow flower wallpaper is the visual center of gravity, matched with bright red wall dado line and pink wall dados, which is a type of exaggerated and bold color combination, used in the black and white and grey space can make it more colorful, stylish and more energetic.

 Wallpaper carpeted with pink and bluge floral patterns

The wallpaper carpeted with pink and sky-blue floral pattern makes the small corner full of lovely sense of quietness, and at the same time produce innocent and wonderful imagination. The dull style wood chair painted in sky-blue and hanging ornaments placed at corners casually, indicates a type of casual and natural attitude of the owner.
 

The contrast of sky-blue and vermeil matched harmoniously, and highlights the sweet and lovely temperament of the space.

* Original post: Select a Festive Red Wallpaper for the New Year (II)

Select a Festive Red Wallpaper for the New Year (I)

Guide: Red, as we all know it is generally means warm, prosperous and festive, when the New Year of 2011 is coming, how can we ignore the home decorated in red? Now let’s select a festive red wallpaper to decorate a wall in our home, and let’s the red wallpaper help us to create a lively and energetic atmosphere in the New Year of Rabbit.

Red wallpaper + red chandelier, they make the living room very festive.

Red wallpaper, which implies a good fortune in 2011, and the same time make the living room showing a festival atmosphere in the New Year. The red wallpaper matched with a simple style white sofa, thus adding a little smart and fashionable sense to the home space.

Three-dimensional Cardboard Red Wallpaper

Three-dimensional red wallpaper, which was formed by pieces of small square cardboards, and it is easy to paste and combine them together, as well as very environmentally friendly, use the hands yourself with the paper relievo you can make the wall in your home show a new look.

Rosered Pattern Wallpaper

Rosered has a relatively higher brightness, itself can produce sweet and relaxed feelings for people living around, using such a colored wallpaper is the best choice to open a good fortune for the home space.

But at the same time, you must be careful with the match of wallpaper and furniture, if you use the rosered wallpaper with different patterns in a large area, you should select the furniture with rather simple patterns and compact shapes.

Red Floral Cluster Wallpaper

The floral cluster pattern is implies the meaning of "reunion, and the red floral cluster patterned wallpaper can not only take you good fortune, but also carries the best wishes for the family reunion.

Peony pattern Wallpaper

Peony pattern wallpaper may decorate a very elegant and gorgeous effect of space perfectly. Matching with cushions in the same patterns of flower shape, thus to increase the perfectness level in the details, so the home space will turn to particular luxurious.

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* Original post: Select a Festive Red Wallpaper for the New Year (I)

This Christmas, You Needs an Unique Decorative Light to Express your Passion

As the Christmas season is coming, you need some unique Christmas lighting to ignite the passion, no matter string lights, snowflake lights or elk light, it is necessary to take one to your home.



Here I’d like to recommend 9 patterns of Christmas decorative lighting to you, so with them let's create enchanting expressions for your Christmas home furnishing and home decorating together!

Christmas Elk Antler Chandelier

This unique elk antler chandeliers are custom built with care and the utmost attention to detail.

Small Red Turret Shaped Christmas Lamps

Small red turret design Christmas lights, it’s best place several ones in your home.

Round Red Christmas Light

Star Shaped Christmas Lights

Christmas String Lights

Pine Cone shaped Christmas Lights

Snowflake Design Christmas Light

Christmas Candlesticks

Christmas candlesticks are necessary, too. At all time candlesticks are used to add chic ambience for the space environment, during the fun-filled Christmas they can show extraordinary charms.

No matter where you are, living in a small shabby house or a large spacious mansion, you need only a few special magic decorative lighting, then your home become wonderful and enchanting at the Christmas Eve.

* Original post: This Christmas, You Needs an Unique Decorative Light to Express your Passion

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

In my previous article on this blog, we talked about how to use mirrors smartly, thus to creat a more 'spacious' home, even the house you owned is very small....because home is the haven of dreams, owning a warm home is everyone's dream, even if it is small.

Tip 6. Geometric mirror screen






To make a geometric mirror screen, and create it into lattice shapes, so the mirror is beautiful and the same time functionalas containers.

Tip 7. A mirror frame in different style can bring out different feelings



A mirror frame in different style can bring out different feelings. In fact, here several mirrors we introduced you can apply with old mirrors and DIY it yourself. Here in the picture the mirror was created out with ropes.

Tip 8. DIY Wall decorations with Mirrors



As wall sticker become a fashion of wall, you can do the wall decoration with mirrors yourself easily.

Here in the picture the mirror frame is decorated with wall stickers in Chinese paper-cut style.


Tip 9. DIY with broken mirrors



Let’s continue to talk about old mirrors, if you prefer to DIY, even the broken pieces of a mirror can also been used to create a work of art!

Tip 10. Decorate desktop with old mirror



A whole piece of old mirror in a rather complete condition can be affixed to the desktop directly, if you place a crystal table lamp or an antique candelabra on the table, with such a radiant look, the visual effect will be better! How? Try it quickly!

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* Original post: Using Mirrors Smartly, Create 'Larger Space' in a Small Home (down)

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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* Original post: Using Mirrors Smartly, Create 'Larger Space' in a Small Home (up)