Home Improvement

Geodes and Agates Create Unique Fireplace Screen

June 25th, 2011

Everyone wants a house with a fireplace, but that yawning hole in the wall can look a tad boring when its not being used. Try a decorative fireplace screen to spruce up the hearth.

There are lots of designs out there, and you can spend a little or a fortune. This unique geode-and-agate screen is sure to catch your guests eyes.

The Pietra Santa Fire Screen is from Philip Nimmo Ironworks. Available in custom sizes, finishes, and styles, the designer piece is sure to dress up any hearth. Since each one is individually made, youll know youre getting a one-of-a-kind original.

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Boa Constrictor Cookers – The Ribbon by Enzo Kocak is an Innovating Coiling Hotplate (TrendHunter.com)

June 24th, 2011

People have, for too long, been left with appliances like microwaves and ovens to heat their meals, when the Ribbon by Enzo Kocak is so much more efficient.

Its taken a log time for designers to begin realizing gadgets that improve upon the abilities of such conventional cooking contraptions, and I must say, that this concept hotplate project is particularly brilliant. A semi-finalist entry in the Electrolux Design Lab 2011 competition, this curling strip stove can be effortlessly wound around the outside of pots, bowls, mugs and more.

When the black side of the band faces in, the dish will be heated up, but by furling the belt in the reverse fashion, the vessel will be rendered cooler. The Ribbon by Enzo Kocak incorporates intuitive function buttons at one end of the strap so that your meal can be warmed to perfection.

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Inexpensive make over tips for your home

June 22nd, 2011

Are you bored of seeing the same colour and arrangement of your house day in day out? Then just take a break and do some little things that can give your home a new look.

Find out places where you can use natural light to get a spacious, positive and eco-friendly look. Try to use old curtains, linens or other fabric items to décor. You may put a vase in a corner, frame some old photographs or paintings. For the kids’ room you can hand paint few corners, make a 3D chart and use unwanted stuffs to make toys and use them as wall hangings.

If painting is out of the question then paint single walls in combination to bring a variation or a part with a bold colour. Go

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Digestion-Inspired Dinnerware – Eating Objects by Ahmad Fakhry Rethink Food Preparation (TrendHunter.com)

June 13th, 2011

Without much insight into the design of Eating Objects by Ahmad Fakhry, one can still gather some ideas that the project wishes to explore.

The ceramic tableware set incorporates some reinterpreted items one may be accustomed to seeing within the kitchen cupboards, and some others that look curiously unidentifiable. Besides cups, a pitcher, a vase and a tray, the arrangement includes couple of square dishes with perforated lids. A syringe and a baster allow for sauces to be sucked in and applied in various ways and patterns through the holes in the plate tops.

The entire setup is a peculiar one, exploring the concepts of molecular gastronomy and the experience of eating food. Eating Objects by Ahmad Fakhry looks to be an even more powerful project when several place settings are laid out down the length of a dining room table.

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